Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where Back to the Past shares tips from our many, many years of hard-earned collectibles experience! Today, we’re tackling a topic that’s come to some prominence in the last year: having collectibles graded. The Current Events The heights of the Coronavirus pandemic last year lead to a lot of people…
DetailsIf you love 50’s & 60’s collectibles, then you’re going to love our “Rockin’ Around the Clock: 50’s & 60’s Cards and Comics” auction happening in person in our showroom and streaming online via Proxibid on Saturday, October 2nd at 6PM (eastern time)! All the cards in this session are from an original owner collection who…
DetailsThe Launch of the Star Hawks Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we here at Back to the Past wax poetic about our wares. This week, we’re looking once more to our eBay store and the 2004 complete collection of the short-lived Star Hawks comic strip from Hermes Press we recently sold from…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past identify and delve into the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection. 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 to them by…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops, where Back to the Past’s experts try to explain the super complicated world of buying and selling collectibles using examples of collectibles we’ve bought and/or sold. This week, we’re examining the slippery definition of “Key Issue” using the VG copy of Batman #251 that sold for $425 in our May…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool. & Collected, where we take a moment to appreciate the stories that make the stuff we handle every day so dang cool. This week, we’re looking at a Very Good copy of Aquaman #35, the first appearance of Black Manta, from a recent auction session. Comic Debut, Cartoon Creation Black…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past identify and delve into the obscure characters our custom action figure collection. 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 to them by major…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops, where the experts at Back to the Past illustrate their decades of collectibles knowledge using examples from our auctions. This week, we’re looking to our April Twenty-Fourth and our May Fifteenth sessions – both featured fairly well-preserved copies of Incredible Hulk #181, but the latter auction’s specimen was coverless. How…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we here at Back to the Past stop and smell the roses AKA nerd out on the cool stuff we deal with day in and day out. This week, we’re looking at two CGC graded comics that recently passed through out doors: Spawn #174-175, the first and…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero, our weekly dip into our collection of custom action figures! A lone superfan spent years repainting, resculpting, sewing capes, and generally altering dozens of action figures to capture the likenesses of the most obscure characters in all of comicdom. We were so taken with his life’s work that we bought…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops, where we discuss what realized prices mean in the wider context of collectibles dealing. Today, we’re looking at Lot #212 from our June twelfth auction session, a NM run of Adam: The Blue Marvel #2-5 that sold for $325. Why did a near complete mini-series starring a character you’ve likely…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where the collectibles experts at Back to the Past stop to smell the roses and wax lyrical about the cool stuff we sell. This week’s piece is a 2007 promotional poster sent to comic shops by Dark Horse Comics for their then-upcoming mini-series The Umbrella Academy. A Surprise…
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