Come and join us for our Halloween celebration on Thursday, October 25th! Starting at 5PM and continuing until 7PM (or tentatively later, if the party is still jumping), we’ve got a gourd full of Fall fun happening, including: Face-painting for the kids Classic monster movies up on the big screen A $50.00 gift certificate for…
DetailsAvengers vs. X-Men has reached its conclusion, leaving the intrepid Cyclops rotting in a cell. A fitting result for the leader of the X-Men? Sean Pigeon offers a few examples of AVX justice from the Avengers side, like Scarlet Witch and Namor, and questions the outcome in this video segment that all Avengers and X-Men…
DetailsWelcome back to another RETRO REVIEW and happy Friday! This week I’ve dug out The Trouble With Girls # 1. It’s from Malibu Comics and is cover dated August 1987. The comic is black and white with a cover cover drawn by Tim Hamilton. The story is entitled; “Meeting Girls” and it is created and written by…
DetailsWelcome back to another Fabulous Finds (# 5)! This week I’m featuring one of my all time, personal, favorite, fabulous finds, The 1967 or 1968 Marx Marvel Super Hero Express Train. I’ve heard that this is considered the Holy Grail of Marvel Collectibles. According to the 2007 Marvel Silver Age Collectibles book by J. Ballman, it…
DetailsSean Pigeon becomes a fan of sex robots after reading Casanova, by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba! He’ll tell you all about it in this quick video review of Casanova Book 1-3.
DetailsThis week’s RETRO REVIEW looks at DC Comics’ Doom Patrol # 104, cover dated June 1966. It features a rare wedding in a comic book, between two comic book characters. But it didn’t make the headlines like the marriage of Reed and Sue (Storm) Richards or Peter (Spider-Man) Parker & Mary Jane Watson over at…
DetailsHi, Greg Turner here, with Back To The Past Pop Culture TV, and I’d like to talk to you about those, by gone days, when the only thing featuring Marvel super-heroes were the comic books themselves. Or at least that was so until 1966 and 1967, when Lancer Books published six “Collector’s Albums”, reprinting some…
DetailsWe’ve had several requests for a hammer-down price list from the September 15th coin auction, so here you go! Stay tuned for our next Coin and Collectibles Auction coming up on November 3rd – catalog to be released shortly. Lot # Description Sold For 1 Partial Lincoln Cent Book/Set 1090-1972. $75.00 2 1958 Proof Set…
DetailsThis week we’re looking at another cool Silver Age comic; Daredevil # 43 from Marvel Comics. It is cover dated August 1968, so it likely was on the comic spinner racks at the beginning of the summer of that year. The great cover, by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott, jumps out at you and grabs your immediate attention!…
DetailsI love the character Cyclops. I’ve never in all my years reading comics ever understood why people thought he was a boring character. Especially X-Men fans who feel that way, when the final page of the X-Universe is written it’ll be from Scott Summers perspective. He was Xavier’s first X-Man, and I would assume that…
DetailsUPDATE: Check the videos newly added at the end of this article. You say you love comic book and paper auctions? You swoon over amazing vintage coin auctions? You dig military and sports collectibles in your auctions, too? We’ve got the cure for what ails you in our Fall Collectibles Auction: More than 1600 lots…
DetailsHappy Friday all! The weekend has arrived and also another edition of Greg Turner’s Fabulous Finds! This week I’ve dug into my basement wonderland and uncovered issue number five (5) of Jim Steranko’s Comixscene! It’s cover dated July – August 1973, and I purchased it at the 1974 Detroit Triple Fan Fair from Jim Steranko, himself! It’s the…
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