Category: Golden Age
"You stole my car, and you killed my dog!" – John Wick/Keanu Reeves For many, a beloved pet can be as important, if not more than, a key family member. Like us, superheroes also have pets; granted a bit more colorful. While the...
[caption id="attachment_11739" align="alignleft" width="229"] Superman #25, the second most actively sold Golden Age book right now.[/caption] Golden Age comics are increasingly gaining the attention of collectors. Many have realized that there’s a huge untapped potential for these comics as investments; others simply like the Golden Age for the...
While there are many great Golden Age era artists who were masters of evocative and scintillating cover art; when it comes to pre-code covers that make an impact, one artist who immediately springs to mind is L. B. Cole. Lately Cole’s art has been seeing...
Who would win in a fight between Batman and Iron Man? One has the better suit. One is more formidable without the suit. Or how about, who would win in a fight between the Hulk and Superman? A long history of pitting the heroes of DC...
Selected issues from Wings Comics, the aviation anthology title from Fiction House, has been selling for very high prices lately. In this post I’ll take a look at the Wings comic and speculate about what’s driving collector appeal for these books. From around 1940 to...
The sale of a series of Frazetta oil paintings, first ‘Death Dealer 6’, for an impressive $1.79 million dollars, followed by ‘Egyptian Queen’ recently selling for a staggering, and world record breaking, 5.4 million dollar price tag (see here and here) – only solidifies...
This post continues the content of risqué covers begun for my entry the previous day (Risqué Covers from Yesteryear). There I was looking at Golden Age covers that pushed the limits of good taste and featured risqué themes. In this post, controversial superhero covers. ...
A pronounced collecting niche, especially among collectors of Golden Age era comics, is the risqué cover. Scantily clad women, bondage scenes and other salacious themes and situations depicted in comics, often tend to draw premium prices at auctions and on fixed price sales. What famous artists...
The theme of this post is atomic bomb explosion scenes on comic book covers [see Atomic Comics (Part I)]. My focus is on Golden Age titles, and in this continuation I'll take a look at some cold war covers. The end of World War II...
The Atomic age began on July 16, 1945. On that date, as a result of the wartime Manhattan Project, the first nuclear bomb was detonated at the Trinity nuclear test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Nothing would be the same after that…not even comics. 1945...