Graded cards are considered to be the gold standard in trading card collector circles. Grading your cards is the only way to ensure best market value. Why? Let your pals at Back to the Past explain! Trading Cards Are Fragile, Graded Cards Are Not Trading cards, particularly older ones, are not printed on the highest…
DetailsMarch is Women’s History Month and Back to the Past is celebrating by looking back on the longest-running comic book leading ladies of all time! We’ve got someone from Marvel, someone from DC (you can probably guess who), and a duo from the oldest independent publisher still in the game. Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat Who’s…
DetailsHey there comic book fans! Are you tired of driving all over creation to find that last back issue your run needs? Does the rising price of convention admission hurt your bottom line? Do you hate dealing with sketchy re-sellers on social media marketplaces? Your friends at Back to the Past definitely understand those frustrations,…
DetailsWe’ve been handling a boffo collection of mint-in-box toys lately, and it got us wondering: what are the biggest toy brands running? We went looking and found some answers! LEGO For nearly a decade, the humble Danish building block toy has been the biggest toy brand in the entire world. It’s not hard to see…
DetailsAs Black History Month comes to a close, we’re gonna look at key issues in Black comic book history! Who was the first Black superhero? The first Black-lead comic series? Firs Black Justice Leaguer? Read on! Who’s The First Black Superhero? Marvel’s Black Panther, who debuted in April 1966’s Fantastic Four #52! As fans of…
DetailsHere’s a hypothetical: you have two boxes of 90s era baseball trading cards. One is a factory sealed case of packs, 24 packs of six cards each. No part of this box has been opened to the air since it left the factory decades ago. The other is a plain white storage box containing 144…
DetailsThere are thousands upon thousands of action figures out there. Heck, Star Wars alone could easily fill several rooms floor-to-ceiling without any doubles. This raises the question: what kind of action figures are worth money? The full answer is incredibly complex, but one short answer is “ones not sold in stores”. The Vintage: Mail Away Action…
DetailsFor decades, basically everybody who could read read the newspaper. It was the best way to stay up to date and informed-in-detail about events of the day – politics, sports, movie reviews, etc. Most of these ended up in the trash (or later recycling), but some folks curated a collection. Usually, these were for major…
DetailsIf you want information on an upcoming movie, what do you do? These days, that information is pretty easy to find – even if Wikipedia or IMDB are lacking, most films have an official website with all the information you need. But in the pre-Internet era, and still to an extent today, that information had…
DetailsMovie posters are one of the most popular forms of art to display in your home! Meant to promote movies to potential viewers, the right movie poster can become an iconic image in its own right. Being iconic means that there are a lot of mass-produced reproductions of them. What’s the difference between originals and…
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