Author: Norman Robinson
Hold onto your lightsabers folks, you about to enter a world that defies all logic: movie collectibles. There are few movie franchises as big as Star Wars. It has continued to have a huge impact on our pop culture over the past 40 years. The genre spawned...
The Alex Ross Timeless covers are a treat of the Modern Age. This week the Silver Surfer (Ross cover) has achieved the number two rank for recent popular books. In Fantastic Four Antithesis #2, the Silver Surfer "leads the Fantastic Four in a mad...
It is rare when a relatively new superhero "shoots the moon." But such is the case with Cindy Moon, a.k.a. Silk. Created by Dan Slott, this Korean-American superhero is birthed in the Amazing Spider-Man #4 "Original Sin" storyline with art by Humberto Ramos. This eventually led to...
The Bronze Age has been surging over the last two years. Horror comics, superhero comics, and even fantasy comics have all blown up. However, investors, collectors, and speculators get flooded by everything else in the marketplace. Often they overlook or forget these once-hot comic books. This might...
The Modern Age seems to stretch on forever, even if you remove the Copper Age from the equation. This amorphous age seems to continue to grow. This is the one age I don't entirely trust as a collector or an investor. I do believe as a...
As anyone who has written me knows, I will almost always respond in time if the message is polite and professional. I have gathered a long post I had with an antique dealer and his opinion of demographics, antiques, and the market for comics. These were his...
Yep, the Punisher stands out in Marvel and DC Comics as the ultimate vigilante. This month he has taken the top spot number one of the Bronze Age's most popular comics with the Amazing Spider-Man #129. Why is the Punisher still popular all these years later? What...
This seems to be an age-old question in our comic book community. Which is better to buy: raw comics or slabbed? After reading the Blogger Dome blog covering this same topic, I decided to throw my hat in the ring and write a...
Welcome back to the Blogger Dome! Here, bloggers will argue different topics involving the comic book market and industry. This will be a combination of the Big Bang Theory meets the WWE. Smack talk mixed with comic book debates. Bloggers going at each other to amuse and...
The Amazing Spider-Man is the headliner and underpinning character of the Marvel Universe. It is rare to see huge Silver Age keys in the top most popular comics for this week. But, none-the-less, that is exactly what happened to Amazing Spider-Man's #1 as it mounted the top-tier...
