Welcome 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…
DetailsThe Whizzer, as seen in the My Hero Collection. Welcome 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…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops, where we are following up on last week’s lesson about why you won’t be able to retire on VHS tapes with some specific guidance on where there is value in your home media collection. To do that, we’re looking at Lot #91 from our August Fourth auction session. It’s a…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we dive into the deeper background of the collectible goodies we carry here at Back to the Past. Today, the Fugitoid collector figure we’ve got up on eBay – sketched on and signed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird – has lead us to reflect…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero, our weekly dip into the world of customized action figures! A lone superfan spent years repainting, rescultping, 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 here at Back to the Past Collectibles use our vast experience to help guide you through the pitfalls of maximizing your collection’s value. Today, we’re looking to the news instead of a recent auction: I was checking my personal email account the other day and saw a clickbait…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we take a moment to appreciate the cool stuff that passes through our doors every day. Today, we’re looking at lot numbers one-hundred-and-thirteen and two-hundred-and-thirty-two from our Saturday May Eighth auction session: Very Good copies of Amazing Adventures #11 & #14! Rescues From Comic Book Limbo Amazing…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero, our weekly dip into the collection of the same name! A lone superfan spent years repainting, rescultping, 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 Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we here at Back to the Past shine a spotlight on the collectible items we handle! Today, we’re breaking for our usual format of looking to our web stores and looking at an item that was available only in our showroom: an eight-inch ceramic Astro Boy bank!…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops, where we here at Back to the Past explain the whys and wherefores of realized prices! Today’s lot comes to us from our February 20th auction session, and is a box of various and sundry modern Star Wars action figure accessories. It included lightsabers, blasters, missiles, backpacks, Jedi robes, anything…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero, our weekly dip into the collection of the same name! A lone superfan spent years repainting, rescultping, 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 look at realized prices to glean lessons about the business side of collecting cool stuff. And this is the second part of a crossover with our sister column Consigned, Cool, & Collected examining the unlikely relationship between recent hit series The Mandalorian and some nearly forty year old…
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