Author: Norman Robinson
The big cats of the savannahs are nature's ferocity in feline form. They move with sinew, grace, and purpose as if each step was a conquest. Another graceful cat predator is Marvel's popular Black Panther. The public can't get enough of him in the form...
The comic book hunt has one common thread of experience for collectors, investors, and speculators alike. Everyone has at one time or another during a sale day, back issue bargain, or just buying books from a buddy come across comics that are ubiquitous. They are almost as...
The story of Iron Man is one of the most distinctive in Marvel. Not because of his Iron Man suit, micro missiles, targeting computer, repulsor rays, or the powerful Arc Reactor inches from his heart. Those are all trey-cool but are nowhere...
Many fantastic and wonderous things came out of the 60s. Some of the most interesting 60s innovations were: the first computer game (Space Wars), BASIC computer language, the compact disc, the first handheld calculator, the period piece in every movie about the 60s, the Lava Lamp, and...
Three months wiser and the collectibles market is still thriving and for that matter so is the stock market. Investments are important in times of economic stress, primarily as a security blanket for those with limited means. The Depression was a long time ago, but the people...
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier are an interesting team-up. Both rely on technology to do their thing. Though Winter Soldier is supposed to be a Cap clone as far as physical abilities go. The Falcon is simply a normal combat soldier. The word combat should be...
Spider-Man has collectability like no other Marvel comic save perhaps the Fantastic Four. Every student in elementary school I have ever talked to knows who Spider-Man is (I was a teacher at one time). Doctor Strange not so much, Iron Man (if...
The 2017 comic book The Old Guard #1 has recently been put in the line up for none other than, Netflix. This story has a long-running series (no pun intended) written into its very DNA. We should see this on Netflix...
Who penciled and inked the"the greatest superheroes of World War II?" The same artist created "blockbusting battle issues!" What artist has been drawing since the Golden Age and making Nazi villains pay for their treacherous ways? Well, there is one guy...
We are about two months into this thing (the pandemic) and some cities are showing signs of a downward slope of infections. Others, not so much and many are talking turning the economy on, kind of a "full steam ahead" Captain Bligh approach. In my experience in...
