Review: Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #1 Facsimile Edition
Remember when it was a big deal that Fantastic Four #1, originally selling for ten cents, sold for a whopping $30? Return with us to the earliest days of comic collecting.
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Ed Catto: It’s A Bat, Bat, Bat, Bat, Bat World
I’m a big fan of Batman. Always have been. Just this past weekend my wonderful Great Aunt Margaret reminded me that I proudly wore a bat-cape as a young boy. Don’t worry, I think I outgrew that by the time I was 22. These days, I let my Batman fan-ness show through with things like…
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Ed Catto: Craig Yoe Gets Super Weird
Last week we discussed three books that each took a whimsical look at the sillier side of superheroes. This week, we take a deeper dive with Craig Yoe and his latest book Super Weird Heroes. Craig is a prolific author and/or creator with a fanboy streak a mile wide. His impressive books range the gamut…
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Ed Catto: Trick or Treat For Comics
For the umpteenth year in a row, we’ll be giving out comics instead of candy for Halloween today. We’re typically met with a mixture of surprise and delight… by both kids and their parents. Returning families call us “the comic book house” and tell us that they remember this tradition from last year. The occasional…
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Ed Catto: Respect – for the Presidents and for Geek Culture
As a kid, I had book called Our Country’s Presidents by Frank Burt Freidal. It was an important looking book published by the National Geographic Society. This heavy tome devoted a few pages to each president along with a handful of gorgeous, colorful pictures. In retrospect, the model they used was a precursor to today’s…
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Ed Catto: Paul Gulacy – More than just the Master of Kung Fu
2016 is looking to be a big year for Paul Gulacy, with the long-awaited reprinting of his groundbreaking Master of Kung Fu series and as a guest of Honor at the San Diego Comic-Con. But in some ways every year is a big year for Paul. HeâÃÂÃÂs a tireless workhorse who is always creating and…
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Ed Catto: Read ‘em on the Beach – I Dare Ya!
Pop Culture, especially that unique Pop Culture flavor of comics and graphic novels, validates itself with massive box office wins (Avengers: Age of Ultron is the 4th best performing movie ever), television triumphs (The Walking Dead, Gotham and The Flash are amongst the most watched shows on their respective networks) and licensing successes. When even…
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Ed Catto: The Spirit of 76… minus 1
Back in 1976 I loved comics (big surprise) but I didn’t really know who Will Eisner was. I didn’t know who The Spirit was either. But I still kind of got the gag on the cover of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide that year. As you may know, this annual publication has a long…
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Something Else To Vote On: Best Overstreet Guide Covers
http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?articleID=131671 The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide was first published in 1970, with a second printing required later that same year. Beginning with the fourth edition, published in 1974, the Guide began featuring original art on its covers. As they’re getting ready to reveal the covers for The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #43, they’re…
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ComicMix Radio: What’s That Comic Worth?
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…
