Trading card collectors get excited! CGC announced recently that they are launching CGC Trading Cards, a division to authenticate, grade and encapsulate Pokémon TCG and Magic: The Gathering cards. CGC has assembled a team of expert trading card graders who, as collectors and players themselves, care deeply...
Like walking in a Brookstone and your eyes just wander all over the place, there are now more variants of Modern comics than ever all fighting for our limited attention and pocketbooks. Here we will weed through that and feature a few that are rising in popularity....
The Robin King may be stealing the Death Metal spotlight, but the Batman Who Laughs is still DC's crown jewel, and his early appearances are only getting hotter. The Batman Who Laughs Sooner or later, we'll see a Dark Nights: Metal adaptation. After the epic...
The first appearance of Richard Dragon was in Kung-Fu Fighter #1. It is also the first appearance of Benjamin Turner who later becomes Bronze Tiger. In addition to these two character keys, this book is also the first in the Kung-Fu Fighter series. But...
Another week of big-time movers on GoCollect's Hottest Comics list. Let's speculate some of the biggest movers! GoCollect's Hottest Comics Every week, GoCollect updates its Hottest Comics page. Here, you can see the most active graded comics that...
You have waited long enough! Time for a new list of Blue Ocean books! These are some books that were hot but now have cooled off due to collectors focusing on other books. So while everyone else is jumping on Ultimate Fallout #4, which don't get me...
Dark Nights: Death Metal #2 needs to be on your pull list, and here's why. A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS The Batman Who Laughs is dead...at least for now (after all, death doesn't mean much in the world of superheroes). SPOILER In...
Could Emma Frost be a power player in the MCU when the X-Men finally arrive? Time to revisit her key issues. A NEW X-MEN FOR A NEW ERA There's nothing like X-Men speculation. The longer Marvel Studios waits to unveil the official plan, the more the excitement...
In 1971 references to the mysterious Mr. Kline had appeared in over one-third of the superhero comics published by Marvel! In more recent times that would equate to the type of hype crossover events like Civil War, Secret Invasion or Empyre would generate. Despite this push, Mr....
One of the biggest issues about being a collector is keeping tabs on all of your books. For example, if I asked you to name every book in your collection could you? Unless you only have a few books, the answer is no. So how as collectors...
Time for some love for one of the most underrated and complex characters yet to grace the silver screen, "The Multiple Man" Jamie Madrox. WHO IS MULTIPLE MAN? Jamie Madrox, aka Multiple Man, can clone himself with an impact to his head. It also means he...
Comic investment is just another type of investment. No different than stocks, real estate, and gold. How should a comic investor think about the trading of comics? Comic Investment Investments are really about the value you place on your future. Some live in the...
Will Logan's arrival as Wolverine in the MCU herald the coming of the X-Men? Maybe not, and the clues are there. I have speculated that instead of James Howlett using the Wolverine moniker in the MCU, Marvel Studios could be teasing the arrival of Patch in...
Bishop has been involved in a number of X-Men theories in recent months, and the market values for his first appearances are seeing a boom because of it. BISHOP SPECULATION There's a lot to speculate on when it comes to the X-Men family of characters. We have...
With the Grunge era on top, very few thought about the Foo Fighters and future bands to come later. The 90s were rife with Nirvana and other band's tunes. With the Grunge era on top, very few thought about the...
Did you jump on the Omega Red bandwagon? You'll wish you had when you see the current values. OMEGA RED KEY ISSUES X-MEN #4 (1991) Even...
Could the Red Death make his live-action debut in 2022's The Flash? Time to stock up on Batman: The Red Death #1. With all the attention on alternate versions of Batman, it is easy to forget that the star of 2022's Flash movie is, well, the...
Why is Ultimate Fallout #4 so darned popular now? For years it has just hung out. You might refer to an early post I did last year that warned Ultimate Fallout #4 was a solid investment or speculation depending on the time horizon and to pick a...
Thank you fellow GC writer Ryan Kirksey for asking the question, "What Should We Do With Comics Depicting Racism?" I'd like to offer an answer. Censorship of Comics Depicting Racism As Americans, a lot of us see censorship as the most dangerous threat to...
There is investment potential for those Secret Invasion keys, particularly anything connected to the New Avengers. Since Endgame wrapped up the first era of the MCU, we've been wondering where the Avengers franchise is heading. Iron Man, Captain America, and Black Widow are gone. Thor...
