Category: Golden Age
All these seven-figure comic sales have me thinking; if you had $1 million to invest in one comic, which would it be? Go ahead and sing the BareNaked Ladies song. “If I had a million dollars (if I had a million dollars)/I’d...
Welcome to Part 2 of the comic book grading experiment. In Part One, CGC President Matt Nelson provided insight on the grading process and books that should be targeted by first-time graders. The information on pressing; census numbers; and other comic book characteristics was...
I’m happy to be back again bringing you the latest quarterly installment of Undervalued Comics in 2022. Books that, in this high-priced and news-sensitive market, actually seem to hold strong future value potential. If you missed any of the previous iterations of Undervalued Comics, you can ...
Hello, and welcome back to our new weekly column where we’ll take a look at a few undervalued or overlooked comics from one of each of four comic book eras – Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, and Copper Age – all in an attempt to find...
When the issue number for an Action Comics #1 is fetching $7k, you know things have gotten out of hand. If you kept track of the single pages being sold, you’d have seen it coming years ago.
If you've been following my work for a while, you no doubt know I've been writing about various Archie titles for a few years now. Archie Comics have been a staple in teen humor comics, and despite some follies, they have remained an independently...
The records continue to fall in 2022, and a Superman #1 put the world on notice with an astronomical sale. It’s not often that Action Comics #1,
It has been the auction to end all auctions at Heritage with historic keys breaking records left and right, but none have created the buzz like the $3 million for Cap’s first appearance. The thing is, it wasn’t the only seven-figure sale this week.
One of the more interesting periods in the American comic scene is the pulp era, which roughly ran from 1896 to the mid-1950s. These stories laid the groundwork for today's comic books, and they also introduced a number of heroes in the process. These heroes include Buck...
"Pre-Code Horror: an unregulated era from the late 40s to the early 50s before the industry was forced to self-censor with the Comics Code Authority."
