In 2004, action fans were introduced to a brand new style of stunt work, an acrobatic, athletic style called parkour. One of its creators, David Belle, showed off his stuff in [[[District 13]]], which benefited from being written and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Pierre Morel. Set in the near future of 2010,…
Didn’t take long now, did it? A whopping three days after Action Comics #1 took in a cool $1,000,000, the Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas reported to Comic Riffs that a copy of Detective Comics #27 sold for $1,075,500 last night. #27 you say? Why not #1? Well folks, don’t we all know that issue…
We’ve all had that argument with our mothers, haven’t we? “Why do you keep all those old comics in your bedroom?” …“Duh, mom, cause they’ll be worth tons of money one day, geez!”. And your mother, frugal as she is, looks at her collection of porcelain cat figurines, and laments. “They better be!” Well, sleep…
Warning: We’re discussing Irredeemable #10, out in stores this week, and we’re probably going to spoil a minor plot point. You might want to read it first before you go any further. Based on part of Irredeemable #10, I can tell that Mark Waid read Action Comics #442 at a very impressionable age– specifically “The Midnight…
It’s going to be an exciting year for the Man of Steel: Superman group editor Matt Idelson, writers Geoff Johns (Adventure Comics, Superman: Secret Origins), Greg Rucka (Action Comics), James Robinson (Superman), Sterling Gates (Supergirl), and Renato Guedes (Superman) discussed what the future holds for the current New Krypton status quo and answered fan questions….
A copy of Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman, was bought at auction for $121,000 on Friday, after 33 bids. The CGC 2.5 book was sold through ComicConnect.com and its parent site, Metropolis Collectibles. Back in March, ComicConnect sold a 6.0 graded copy for $317,200, pictured to the right. At $121,000, it…
One of the details in the story of Action Comics #1 sells for $317,200 was that the person selling the book found it in a second-hand store in the early 1950s when he was nine years old, and bought it for 35 cents. Obviously, he’s the current all-time champ in the single issue category, with…
A copy of Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman, was bought at auction for $317,200 on Friday, after 88 prior bids. The CGC FN: 6.0 book was sold through ComicConnect.com and its parent site, Metropolis Collectibles. There are two neat extra tidbits to this story, according to the AP story: The winning…
Best selling graphic novelist Jeff Kinney has another Wimpy Kid book set for release right after the New Year, and hopefully more to follow, but don’t look for The Kid to age too much. we’ll explain that today, plus: A new Pixar trailer this weekend An original Avengers story already set for Free Comic Book…
It’s been over a year since we last saw The Defuser win all the chips on Stan Lee’s Who Wants To Be A Super Hero. So is he still flying high? He swings in to share the holiday with us, plus: Wizard kicks off The Best of 2008 Dynamite fills in the Battlestar gaps Topps…
DC Executive Editor Dan DiDio told Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times that he’s really excited by the titles coming out these next few weeks that wrap up long-running events including Final Crisis and Batman R.I.P. “We did Countdown to Final Crisis and Final Crisis itself so this has been a long story for…
With tongue in cheek, Kevin Smith pokes fun at when we can expect the next two issues of this week’s Batman mini series, plus: Guillermo DelToro fills us in on the Hellboy DVD extras Get your checkbook – BSG props for sale A Beatles Rock Band? All that and more – but only when you…
