Category: Key Issues
Many people like to emphasize the social allegory aspect of the X-men stories. The Marvel mutants, we are told, were a metaphor for the burgeoning civil rights movement, with mutants standing as symbols for unfairly treated minorities in society. We know the X-Men will eventually make...
April is around the corner and a good time to check some of my New Year's picks and see if any of them are panning out. I reviewed three character first appearances or first series: Spawn, Carnage, and Wolverine. These were the strong possibilities of becoming 2019...
In the past year, values for Amazing Spider-Man #39 have been on the rise, but no one seems to be talking about it. What makes that issue special? It’s the first issue drawn by John Romita, Sr. Silver age...
Suddenly everyone is a Taskmaster fan. Thanks to the recent Black Widow movie news, prices for Avengers #196 are soaring to record highs in only days. Marvel Studios can light up the collectors market like nothing else....
For the longtime X-Men fans, the series may have originated in the silver age, but it wasn't until the bronze age that the team was truly born. These keys from the 1970s are the backbone of any solid X-Men collection, and they're only going to be more popular when the mutants crash the MCU party....
As the market watches for the X-Men keys to enter into their own solar system, let's take a closer look at the five best-selling X-Men comics from the silver age. 1. X-MEN #1 It's no surprise that the debut issue of X-Men...
Everyone knows DC and Marvel, and for some people Image or perhaps IDW comics might complete their set of ‘comics worth buying’. When you think of older companies, however, maybe you think of Charlton or Goldkey – both now defunct- but there were many other comic...
The latest trailer is out for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. I don't know if this movie is going to be a classic or a classic waste of time. But it has packed into it some of the best actors and actresses in the last twenty years....
The Punisher series was recently canceled on Netflix. It was simply a tour de force. The acting was solid, the story was good, but the action sequences were nothing short of awesome. Still, the series got the ax. The impact on the Punisher comics has been like...
Once upon a time there was a space-policeman named Hal Jordan. Hal was a good guy - a ‘straight arrow’ you might say and brave as they come. He had a power ring and orders to protect the Earth in the name of the blue-skinned Guardians...
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