Category: Golden Age
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...
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...
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