Saturday, December 5th – Celebrity Autographs & Signed Photos, Vintage Comics & Magazines! @6PM Eastern This auction session is both in the showroom and online – join us in person or live via Proxibid. Oh no! It’s the last of the once seemingly bottomless Charles Devine autograph collection, but we’ve saved some of the best for this final…
DetailsWelcome back for another edition of my RETRO REVIEW column. This week it’s time to pull a Marvel Comic book from out of the vault. So after digging around for a while, I’ve unearthed; Kull The Destroyer # 11, cover dated November 1973. The Kull comic book had been around since 1971 when the first issue…
DetailsWelcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where we’re celebrating Christmas all month long! We’re kicking off our month of Yuletide schlock with the 1964 classic Santa Claus Conquers The Martians! What’s The Plot? The children of Mars are enraptured by Earth’s television broadcasts, using them to escape their tightly controlled lives.…
DetailsWelcome back true believers. This week it’s time for a new Fabulous Find. And since I’ve just recently completed my set of the 1966 Marvel Donruss Super Heroes card set, I thought that this would be the perfect time to shine the spotlight on them. This set of cards is the very first set of…
DetailsWelcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where this week we’re taking part in a holiday tradition: Turkey Day! The Genesis Imagine if you will being stuck across the state from your family on Thanksgiving, because you work retail and Thanksgiving’s becoming more about shopping than turkey. You need to find a…
DetailsThis week, I’m looking at an independent comic book for my RETRO REVIEW. So digging around in that section of my comic vault, I’ve pulled out another little known (maybe) comic book. That book; Megaton # 1 from Megaton Comics of Elgin, Illinois. Gary S Carlson is listed as the editor and publisher. The comic sold…
DetailsWelcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where Hollywood can’t hide its past. This week, we’re bringing the month of megacheese 80’s studio flicks to a close with 1986’s Soul Man. What’s The Plot? When a rich white student (C. Thomas Howell) gets cut off financially by his parents just after getting…
DetailsIt’s another Fabulous Friday, therefore, it’s time for a new Fabulous Find. This week I’d like to talk about the second volume of the fanzine known as: The Art Of Neal Adams Volume Two. This, like Volume One, was published by Sal Quartuccio, and it is dated 1977. Like the first volume that I featured…
DetailsWelcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where well-made bad movies are just as fun as poorly made bad movies. This week, we’re watching the very first movie Mike Nelson riffed for RiffTrax, a movie described by Roger Ebert as leaving “reality so far behind that you have to accept it on…
DetailsGreetings to all my fellow comic book fans, be it here, at the Back To The Past website, or those that follow me on Facebook or Twitter. It is time, once again, to take a look at a DC Comics comic book. Therefore, this week, I’ve pulled out from the DC vault, a comic that…
DetailsWelcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where we’re examining big budget megacheese this month. To that end, we’re watching 1989’s dubiously family friendly family film, The Wizard. What’s The Plot? A 13 year old boy (Fred Savage) sneaks his apparently autistic nine year old brother out of a mental institution and…
DetailsWednesday, November 11th – Estate Comics Preview Featuring a Plethora of First Appearances! @6PM Eastern This auction session is both in the showroom and online – join us in person or live via Proxibid. Here’s a taste of our Saturday Comic Book Estate auction, including all the lots too numerous to fit into Saturday. But do not overlook…
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