Author: Norman Robinson
The Bronze Age was a time of change across media. You had a new generation of movie directors coming on the scene, TVs we’re getting bigger and more vivid, and the Internet was in its infancy. Comic collecting was also just starting to gain...
Graded slabs have taken charge of the market recently, with an enormous cost uptick to raw comics. There has been a silent ongoing battle for the soul of comic collectors and investors everywhere. That battle quite simply is between purists who collect only raw comics and...
Everyone loves to read a comic where the villain has Machiavellian plans to destroy the hero. We refer to these villains as masterminds, a type of villain rarely satisfied with a duke it out approach. These arch-criminals deserve their time under the speculative lamp. Certainly of...
Are the Modern, Bronze and Silver Age comic books still profitable in today's turbulent economy? The state of affairs is rough, oil is getting hammered, the Dow has lost a third of its value, and a pandemic has flatlined the two largest state economies in the United...
During the Golden Age crime stories in comics were hugely popular back in the 50s. It was the era of Dragnet and Perry Mason. Theses stories were tales of good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, society vs. the sociopath. However, this was before the days...
The other night I watched John Wayne in True Grit (Western). He played Federal Marshall Rooster Cogburn a tough as nails lawman. At the climax of the movie, he puts the reins of his horse in his mouth, charges his opponents, and with Winchester rifle and...
Morbius is a true refugee from the 70s, not quite evil, not quite good, totally becomes an anti-hero. In this time of crisis, with a virus on the prowl, the concept of a vampiric scientist with a rare blood disease doesn't seem too far off...
John Constantine is a superhero like no other. He is a drinker, a smoker, pessimistic, anti-social, and has tried suicide as an alternative to therapy. Yep, this is one of the original bad boys of the DC Universe. Most comic book fans...
"The mutants are coming, the mutants are coming!" No, I am not writing about the cherished X-Men. According to several media posts, there appears to be an attempt to quantify the mutant existence in the MCU with villains. These characters will flesh out the existence of mutants...
The latest Black Widow trailer to drop does some serious justice for the Taskmaster, Black Widow, and even Red Guardian. Now we have looked at this with several different articles but usually only for the initial first appearance. Is there value to be had flipping cameos? ...
