Welcome back to My Hero! Each week, Back to the Past uses this column to tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops! Every Wednesday, Back to the Past Collectibles shares some of its wisdom accumulated across thirty years selling collectibles. This week, we’re looking at how shipping factors into the world of collectibles selling. If you’re going to sell online, you are going to be shipping stuff out. It’s unavoidable and the…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Each week, Back to the Past examines the wider significance of the stuff we handle every day – the very things that make them cool! This week is the penultimate entry in our examination of a comic collection that comes to auction May 19 through our live auction…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero! Each week, Back to the Past uses this column to tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops! Each week, Back to the Past gives you insight into the world of collectibles sales using our thirty-plus years of experience. This week, we’re sticking with comic books and looking at the effect variant covers have on value. That includes successive printings, retailer exclusives, and A/B covers. The Early Days…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Each week, Back to the Past delves into the history and individual significance of the cool collectible stuff we handle every day. This week, we continue to highlight CGC graded comics coming to auction the weekend of May 21st by looking at Fantastic Four #48. What’s so special…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero! Each week, Back to the Past uses this column to tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops! Each week, Back to the Past dives into the reasons why collectibles realize the prices they do. This week is one of our more esoteric topics, as we turn our eyes to original artwork. Whether it be convention sketches, paintings, comic pages, Roy Thomas’ work in our gallery, or a…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Every Monday, Back to the Past stops to gush about the cool stuff we see every day (or at least one item in particular). Today, as with the past few weeks, we continue to highlight comics from our upcoming May 21st comic auctions! Actually, a three night event…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero! Each week, Back to the Past uses this column to tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops! This weekly column raids the brains of Back to the Past’s staff every Wednesday and shares their voluminous collectibles knowledge with you, the enterprising do-it-yourselfer. This week continues out recent series on industry terms of art with “Offset Binding”. More broadly, we’ll tackle the topic of how manufacturer errors can…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Each week, we here at Back to the Past pause to give you some insight into the cool stuff we handle each day. We’re working with a boffo Silver and Bronze Age Comic collection right now, so that’s what we’re focusing on. If these weekly teases are tantalizing…
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