Because we can never have too many copies of Action Comics #1… the real one, no offense to Grant Morrison. Michael Rorrer said his great aunt once mentioned having comic books she would one day give him and his brother, but it was a passing remark made when they were boys and still into superheroes….
It’s that time again… here are the preview materials for DC Comics releases for May 2012. As you can see, DC is clearly getting excited about the imminent arrival of The Dark Knight Rises with new movie statues showing Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale, and Tom Hardy, the return of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s Batman…
This is just heartbreaking: Mike Meyer, 48, of Granite City, has been on Social Security for a mental disability since age 23. To supplement that, he has worked part time at a McDonald’s in Collinsville since 1996. He lives alone in a humble, two-bedroom home with his dogs: Krypto and Dyno. Just about every room…
A lot to go over, including a whole lot of second issues and a hardcover collection of all of last month’s #1 issues. So let’s get to it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8TNkeHk3Fo In the year 2000, American McGee’s Alice took the story of Alice in Wonderland and turned it on it’s already twisted head. As a sequel of sorts to the books, the game opens with an accidental fire destroying Alice’s home in Victorian London, in which her parents and sister die. Alice then attempts to…
This is a longbox full of random comics. Your local comic book store has tons of them– various stuff he’s picked up and hasn’t filed yet, or overstock that he couldn’t sell, or low grade books, what have you. My father used to go to Port Comics, a little store off of exit 64 of…
If you were looking for that little special something for your own bridge recreation, here’s your chance. The Las Vegas Sun reports that unneeded, unwanted and/or unnecessary items and effects from the old “Star Trek Experience” at the Las Vegas Hilton are being put up for sale this Saturday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at a…
When I was on the comp list at DC, I found myself in a very strange position– I was actually getting comics that I had no desire to keep. Didn’t want to bag them, read through them and disliked them, and I actually got to the point where I would actually tear them up in…
Well, let’s take a look at the numbers: How do you purchase your comics and merchandise? 1. Comic store/comic retailer 69.23% 2. Bookstore 10.99% 3. Directly from the distributor (Diamond) 2.20% 4. Do not purchase comics 1.10% 5. Some other way (various people included buying from Amazon, borrowing from the library,…
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…
So there you are, shopping on eBay and it seems like a good price for that lot of cool comics. But what are they really worth? Isn’t everything “rare” and “hard to find”? Now we point you in the right direction to check up to the minute prices online free, plus: Time Tunnel comics again…
Comics have long been a haven for collectors, that niche of consumers who’ll drop six figures on an old Disney issue or a near-mint of a Golden Age superhero. As comics are becoming less of a disposable form of entertainment, the issues are increasingly common. So individual issues are no longer a hot commodity. I…
