Category: Artist Spotlight
How many Stan Lee signed comics do you have in your collection? If you don't have one, there are plenty for sale, but with so many in circulation, do they still hold their values? It’s been over a year since Stan Lee’s...
As collectors, we need to understand what we are collecting. Let's take a look at one of the first seeds that spawned our hobby. In addition to writing up my thoughts on upcoming key issues, I'd like to explore a little bit of the...
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...
Adam Hughes once said, “A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it.” It appears that a great cover not only garners more readers but also has...
A master of his craft, Bill Sienkiewcz was the cover artist of the 1980s. From Elektra to Moon Knight, his surreal art defied the norms of the era, but it was his New Mutants run that cemented his legacy. This is not an investment or speculation post,...
“Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn.” Sure, Todd McFarlane has drawn many iconic covers for characters such as Spider-Man, Venom, or Wolverine, but it was his early Batman work where he really made his name. Here we examine the market for a few of...
Carmine Infantino’s dynamic art is to DC what Jack Kirby’s powerful drawings were to Marvel: trendsetting and unforgettable. Infantino's design work on the Silver Age Flash comic is so iconic, that it still stands as the definitive representation...
If you know me at all, you understand that Daredevil and I are lifelong friends. I have been a fan of the character for as long as I can remember, as I have always known there was something unique to the Man Without Fear that drew me...
“It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighborhood. But that opened a Pandora's Box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' and turned Daredevil into a crime comic.” – Frank...
When I think of Marvel Comics in the late 1960s and early seventies, I think of one artist more than any other. That artist’s name is John Buscema. Buscema started out as something of a ‘Jack Kirby clone’, more due to the business model of Silver...
