Category: Nostalgia

GoCollect & The Overstreet Price Guide: A Collector's Journey

The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide has been the definitive dictionary for comic book values for over 50 years.  However, GoCollect's online price guide is based on current sales and transactions.  How should a novice collector use these two powerful tools to evaluate their collection? The Good...

Top 5 Most Expensive Base Set Unlimited Pokémon Cards

Base Set Unlimited Pokémon cards are the most common form of cards found in older  Pokémon collections. These cards are identifiable by the drop-shadow to the right of each main card image, in addition to the absence...

Sneaky Moves #6 Strong Run of Bob Hope Comics?

 "I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there." Bob Hope's quote can certainly apply to comic collecting and speculation!  Sneaky Moves #6 reminds me a lot of Regie's great episode "Who's buying these?"  Bob Hope is all over...

Top 5 Most Expensive 1st Edition Gym Heroes Pokémon Cards

The Gym Heroes set marks the first time Pokémon were attached to a specific trainer, just as in the manga and television show. Prior to this set, Pokémon cards depicted each in their "wild" form, not captured yet in a Poké ball by a trainer....

Kraven is Coming, Is Calypso? Should you look for ASM #209?

When I recently wrote about the possibility of Vermin as a supporting character in the recently announced Kraven movie, it also occurred to me that there is a good chance of a big-screen appearance by Kraven's longtime partner and Torment antagonist,...

Five Smart Nintendo Video Game Investment Ideas

The original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was a monster. Its 8-bit graphics blew the previous generations out of the water. It also signaled the resurgence of video games after the crash of 1983 and the success of the NES cemented Nintendo as a video...

Pokémon: Top 3 Most Expensive 1st Edition Fossil Set Cards

Fossil is the third trading card set released by Pokémon in the final months of 1999. This set completed all of the first 100 Pokémon as the Base Set and Jungle sets did not have cards for all of them. This set famously printed all of...

The 3 Best Marvel & DC Spy Characters to Invest In

Black turtlenecks and shoulder holsters are not the only things that these spy characters have in common; they all have key books with the opportunity of appreciation if we see a renewed interest in the genre that is Espionage! If you read my last...

Are First Cover Appearances Undervalued?

Why has Incredible Hulk #181 always been a key Bronze Age book, while Wolverine's (controversial) first appearance/first cameo, Incredible Hulk #180, has lagged behind? The cover of course! Let's take a look at first cover appearances and why they matter. Or...

What Were They Thinking (WWTT)? Head Scratching Covers #3

I keep thinking of the immortal words of Prince's "Purple Rain," when thinking about this post's WWTT covers,  "Honey I know I know, I know times are changing, it's time we all reach out for something new, I know that means you too."  These WWTT covers have...