Author: Ryan Kirksey
Typically, we as collectors view Silver Age key comics as solid, low-risk investments. They are the blue-chip stocks we can count on to maximize a return on investment, and in the worst of all scenarios, they at least hold value over time. Well, I don't...
With the overwhelming success of Marvel as not just a comic book company, but as an overall entertainment Juggernaut, it's hard to imagine a time when they were just a mediocre, struggling player in the comics industry. But in the early 1960s, Marvel - run by Stan...
[caption id="attachment_22411" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo taken from Yelp[/caption] I will never forget the third day that I was in my new favorite local comic shop. I had recently switched comic stores after a long time. Up until then, I had frequented a comic shop near my...
I recently came across an article over at comicbook.com from several years ago that ranked, based on the author's opinions, the 75 most iconic panels in Marvel Comics history. Inspired by this subjective exercise, I thought I would look at my own choices for five...
Assuming our country and government haven't completely collapsed over the next few weeks, those tax refund checks should continue to roll in and our long winter of comic-buying discontent will hopefully be over. In the coming months with fears stabilizing and perhaps subsiding, money should be...
There are some long-running comic book pairings that just make sense. Some of them are friendly or romantic like Spider-Man and Mary Jane, Wanda and Vision, or Captain America and Bucky. Others are more adversarial: the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom, Dr. Strange and Fin Fang Foom,...
Over the last 60 years, Marvel Comics has employed some of the most fascinating and famous artists in comic's history. Often known simply by one name (Kirby, Ditko, McFarlane), these giants of the industry created, styled, and presented some of the most notable heroes of the...
Ask the average comic book fan what comes to mind when you mention Tales to Astonish, and one of a few common answers will probably follow. The classic Marvel series, which had a life span (January 1959 to March 1968) basically mirrored the Silver Age,...
There is plenty of talk and speculation right now, including from yours truly, as to who the next on-screen villain will be for the MCU Spider-Man. Will it be Kraven? Scorpion? Doctor Octopus? The complete roster of the Sinister Six? An entire symbiote army? The possibilities seem...
With the overwhelming success of the MCU's venture into major crossover events such as Civil War and Infinity War (Infinity Gauntlet in the 1991 comic miniseries), the smart bet is for the MCU to continue to inundate us with these popular character crossover events with their short-...
