Category: Golden Age
The height of popularity for crime comics was the mid-twentieth century, from around 1948 till circa 1954. These dates correspond to the Golden Age period of comic book collecting and it’s no surprise that the peak of the Golden Age saw a rise in popularity of...
1936 to 1946 was the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the United States. This period overlaps with the Golden Age of comics and, not surprisingly, one of the most popular genres of Golden Age comics is the Sci-Fi comic. The first exclusively science fiction comic...
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...
April and May have been busy months for collectors looking to scoop up Golden Age treasures. Although Marvel is king of the Silver Age and modern comics, it’s hard to beat DC comics when it comes to Golden Age sales. The current top four sales of...
Golden Age comics are starting to receive some serious attention again. Many collectors are realizing that they make very good long term investments. Many have also noted how Golden Age comics regularly sell in auctions for far above Overstreet guide prices. Unfortunately a lot of stories...
Few people have heard of the Bruns Publications Inc. hero called Wonder Man. There’s a reason for that. In 1939 Wonder Man was ruled to be a copyright infringement of DC’s Superman by the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals. This was the first...
Published by Fiction House from 1940 to 1953, Planet Comics was one of the first science fiction comic books. The first issue of Planet Comics (cover dated January 1940) was, in fact, the first ever comic to solely publish science fiction as content cover to cover....
Early pre-code horror comics are valuable, and the reason for their lasting appeal is, no doubt, because the writers and artists who created them had the freedom to present tales that could disturb without having to self-censor. They inevitably brought forth macabre themes filled with occult...
If you happen to own any Golden Age crime comics then you owe a small debt of gratitude to Doctor Fredric Wertham. If you know who that is, and if you’re also a comic book lover, at this point you might think: “That makes no sense....