Author: Norman Robinson
Daredevil has been one of my favorite super-heroes ever since Frank Miller re-imagined this character in the 1980's. He gave us Stick, The Hand, and the Electra drama. Overnight this character went from humdrum to whoa-helo! I have been a fan ever since. Over the last three...
To paraphrase Musashi in the Book of Five Rings, “timing is crucial, in art, carpentry, diplomacy, literature, and most especially war.” This ancient samurai had the right idea but little did he know he was actually talking about comic book speculation in the 21st Century....
What is the deal with this book? Constantly surging to number one and yet in mint condition is only worth $36! That would barely pay for the cost to CGC this issue. In Amazing Spider-Man, #798 Dan Slott (writer) created an interesting amalgam villain the combination of...
The Silver Age is like the S&P 500 Index. Everyone owns some of it, everyone makes a little money each year and more importantly everyone feels safe buying it. The top characters are Black Panther, Silver Surfer, and Iron Man; these three titans of the Silver Age...
The Bronze Age is alive and well for comics right now. Of all the comic ages this is my favorite. Why? Simply, because it is the age of comics I grew up with. The Bronze Age had artists like John Buscema, Sal Buscema, Neal Adams, Boris Vallejo,...
Venom hits a triple in September with the top three most popular comic books. Is this the ascendancy of the Modern Age of comics? After all, the nearest Bronze Age comic MS. Marvel #1 ranks only sixth most popular comic on GoCollect and the Silver Age is...
The Swamp Thing prices have been on the rise over the last year, or so, since Bernie Wrightson's unfortunate death. Fortunately for us, we have his run on Swamp Thing to remember him by and still enjoy his art and surreal horror comics that show what a...
Yesterday, I went to see Venom and it was definitely a Sony production. Prior to the movie, the previews were great and among them, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse Trailer (2018) which stood out. Not only was the trailer for the animation good, but I was actually kind...
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles garnered an incredible amount of interest and media hype back in the 1980’s. We had turtle lunch boxes, turtle Halloween masks, turtle t-shirts, some turtle animation shows and of course turtle comic books. The most famous of these is the...
The top Golden Age book this month is Mystery Tales #15. Created by Russ Heath, and Dick Ayers with a host of other artists and edited by none other than Stan Lee. This book and in fact the series is moving on the top ten Golden Age...
