Category: Investment Speculation
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 first appearance of any major Marvel character is usually the most sought after key book. But what about the second appearance is it worth anything? Further, will the second appearance hold value? Frank Castle a.k.a. The Punisher has seen a huge runup in his first appearance...
The recent Guardians of the Galaxy 3 rumors have propelled sales for early Adam Warlock appearances. As any Warlock fan will know, there are five must-have keys, but you need to act fast as the prices are escalating. Not surprisingly, the issues...
Have you been collecting the True Believers and facsimile edition reprints? You should because some issues have already cracked the triple digits. For many of collectors, the True Believers reprints offered a chance to own some of Marvel’s “holy grails” that most...
Most villains simply act as foils in both the comics and the comic based movies. A villain in a film, as in a comic script, is usually a one and done affair. The trick to speculating about villain centered books, therefore, is getting ahead of the...
Bernard Albert Wrightson was an American comic book artist known for Swamp Thing and art for a novel about Frankenstein. He had many other credits to his name, though mostly horror hence his nickname "Master of the Macabre." His terrifying treatment of the genre is a great...
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...
The story of Icarus is one of overreach that can be applied throughout life. Icarus was given wings by his father Daedalus to escape to Sicily. He was warned not to soar too high into the heavens. Icarus did not heed his father's warning. He flew close...
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame’ were both successful adaptations of the 1990s Marvel crossover event The Infinity Gauntlet. After Endgame and the opening up of the multiverse, as well as the introduction of a general shake-up in the whole MCU, this allows us to speculate about...
