Category: Comic Collecting 101
Every once in a while I take stock of my collection and inevitably ask myself this question: Does my comic collection actually have value? A scary question after the significant amount of time, effort, and money that has been invested in our collecting habits. Collecting and...
In about a month and a half (on July 16, 2019), the new official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (2019-2020) will be released. The Overstreet Price Guide [OCPG], currently on its 49th Volume, was at one time an indispensable tool for the comic collecting hobby. The...
Interest in secondary key comics has been growing in popularity over the last several years. The secondary key hierarchy starts with the first (full) appearance being top-dog, the cameo (usually just one panel), the origin story, and then further down the list second and even third appearances....
The ‘Golden Age’ of comics is one of the widest ranging eras in terms of years covered (spanning from 1938 until the mid-1950s); it was also one of the most diverse in terms of the number and kinds of genres and sub-genres published. The Golden Age...
New collectors tend to have the same question: where do I start? With so many key issues on the market, it can be overwhelming. But there's an easy answer because the cornerstone of any solid collection is silver-age Spider-Man. I’ll preface by saying...
There have been months...nay...years of speculation about what may be next after the Avengers finally deal with Thanos. Apparently the only threat that is more deadly than Thanos is...Thanos from a few years ago (woo?). Don't we deserve to know what, or who, the next perilous...
A freedom fighter from a post-apocalyptic future, the grim warrior known as Killraven is a Marvel fan favorite and the star of the ‘War of the Worlds’ saga originally adapted by Neil Adams and Gerry Conway in Amazing Adventures vol. 2, issues #18-39 (from May 1973...
End Game has arrived to a hulk-like smashing of box office records and some quality tying up of loose ends in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). However, now the real speculation begins. Things got a bit of a shake up and nobody knows where it will all...
The Eternals #1 has seen enormous surges in sales prices since the news leaked that Marvel was considering making it the basis of an all-out cosmically themed 'Phase Four' movie. In the meantime, and with periodic surges and dips, the returns on this Jack Kirby Bronze...
So what happens when a book is hyped as the next big thing and seems all set to get its own movie/TV series, but then doesn’t and instead looks like it might get cancelled? We have an example of this very scenario with the recent cancellation...
