The Back to the Past CGC graded selection continues to expand with these titles now in stock in the showroom, listed with their slabbed grades: Amazing Spider-Man #135 9.0 (2nd Punisher) Amazing Spider-Man #238 (1st Hobgoblin) 9.0 incomplete (tattoos missing) Amazing Spider-Man #289 9.6 Amazing Spider-Man #294 9.4 Amazing Spider-Man #295 9.8 Amazing Spider-Man #298…
DetailsI Will Tell You #91: Top Ten Moments of 2013 Let’s be perfectly clear about one thing, before you go any further: this column is the latest and yet another best-of-2013 list, but being a somewhat personal one, I can at least say that you haven’t read a list like this anywhere else on the…
DetailsGreetings and Happy Holidays to my friends and blog/column followers. I’m taking a short break during the Christmas season, i.e. two weeks, but I’ll be back the second week of the New Year with another new RETRO REVIEW, to be followed with a new Fabulous Find the very next week! So please stay tuned. I…
DetailsFabulous Find It’s time for another Fabulous Find, and this week I bring you something that even I don’t have in my own personal collection! And what is this collectable, you ask? It’s the 1963 Ben Cooper Spider-Man Costume! 1963: Marvelmania (Well Not Quite) Well, back in the Fall of 1963, things at Marvel Comics were still…
DetailsI Will Tell You #90: A Christmas Tale; or, Santa Claus and Superman Hang Out and Do Shots at The North Pole “Never have I ever . . . eaten 4 billion cookies in one night.” The older, heavier man ever so slightly wrinkled his brow upon hearing this sentence, stroking his long…
DetailsGreetings fellow comic fans! And happy Friday the thirteenth! This week I’ve unearthed a more recent comic book for my RETRO REVIEW column. It’s from Image Comics, released under their short-lived Cliffhanger banner … Battle Chasers # 1, cover dated April 1998! This first issue features a very nice wrap-a-round cover by creator Joe Madureira (or…
DetailsFabulous Find Welcome back to another Fabulous Find! This week I’ve brought to light the convention program book from the 1976 Marvel Comic Book Convention, held in New York City, entitled; Marvel-Con ’76! This was one of the last small cons before cons became a really big deal. Quickly comic book conventions went from small…
DetailsStitches is a 2012 British/Irish horror film that falls into the slasher subgenre. It was written and directed by Conor McMahon. It stars comedian Ross Noble and Tommy Knight. Entertainment On a Budget I few weeks back I popped in a DVD and decided not to skip past the previews. Nothing really caught my eye,…
DetailsRETRO REVIEW Happy day after Thanksgiving, or as they say in the retail trade, Black Friday! This week’s RETRO REVIEW is from DC Comics. The book in question is … Rip Hunter — Time Master # 18, cover dated February 1964. The original Rip Hunter series ran twenty-nine (29) issues, so this one is about two-thirds through…
DetailsWe’re winding down 2013 with just a few more auction sessions guaranteed to put some heat in your hearth! December 10th @6 PM Eastern – ONLINE ONLY Comics and Autographs Auction This session is online only – join us via Proxibid. A sweet and saucy collection of comic books ranging from the Silver age to current…
DetailsI Will Tell You #89: Top Five Reasons to be Thankful for Comics As Thanksgiving approaches, we all have many things to be thankful for, although amidst the business of our daily chores and various challenges we face, we don’t always realize it. While we scramble trying to cope with the stresses of our jobs,…
DetailsWe don’t normally do product endorsements, but in this case we found one so darned useful that we wanted to pass it along. There’s two things every comic book fan needs to know on a regular basis: What’s coming out this week, and are there any sales or other events going on at the local…
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