Marvel Studios’ latest blockbuster, Deadpool & Wolverine, opens this weekend! The highly anticipated flick teams the Merc With A Mouth up with The Best There is and sends them on a mission to save the multiverse. It comes fifteen years after the two last tangled on the big screen. But why these two? Why are…
There’s a general rule in collecting: older is better. Age and value don’t perfectly correlate, but older items have a higher likelihood of being sought after. Mainly because the oldest items predate a robust collector’s market and high-quality specimens are rare. In terms of comic books, the “Modern Age” (around 1986 to Present, depending on…
How was your Fourth of July weekend? The holiday got us thinking about independence, specifically independent comics! Without further ado, here are the top four most successful independent comics heroes! 4) The Crow Created by Detroit’s own James W. O’Barr, The Crow is probably the most successful character on this list with the fewest appearances.…
Batman is one of the most popular (and profitable) superhero characters on the planet. People who’ve never read a comic book know him. And most of those people know that his sidekick is Robin, The Boy Wonder, thanks to decades of movies and TV shows featuring the Dynamic Duo. But what they don’t know is…
Great Caesar’s Ghost, new photos from the set of James Gunn’s Superman film hit the internet yesterday! Coming courtesy of Cleveland.com, they gave us our first look at Edi Gathegi as Mr. Terrific. We love the costume, he looks like he stepped straight out of the pages of JSA. But if you found yourself wondering…
This weekend’s auction features the first issue of both Creepy and Eerie, the vanguard of the black and white comic magazine revolution! These are super cool pieces of comic history, but ones that newer fans might not be familiar with. Let your pals at Back to the Past explain why magazines like this came about…
In the fictional world of the Transformers, both the Autobots and the Decepticons come from the robotic alien planet Cybertron. In real life, Transformers are simultaneously originally Japanese and All-American. How is that? Let Back To The Past explain! If you’re looking for some vintage Transformers toys, you will want to check out our June…
A nifty collection of 80s era action figures closes this weekend on HiBid! One gem of that session comes from Remco’s 1982 The Saga of Crystar, Crystal Warrior line. The lot features the Crystal Castle playset, villains Zardath and Moltar, and Crystar himself! Like so many 80s toy lines, Crystar had a Marvel Comics tie-in.…
Did you grow up watching DuckTales? If you’re a little older, you probably grew up reading the adventures of Donald Duck and family in comic books. Either way, the man most responsible for those childhood memories isn’t Walt Disney. No, Donald Ducks iconic nephews and stingy Uncle Scrooge were the creations of “The Good Ducks…
If you’re a collector of trading cards, comic books, novels, movie posters, et al, you’ll probably run into the name “Boris Vallejo” at some point. Moreover, you’ll probably run into it as a selling point, a reason why you should give this comic or poster some extra attention. So who the heck is he? Let…