If you want information on an upcoming movie, what do you do? These days, that information is pretty easy to find – even if Wikipedia or IMDB are lacking, most films have an official website with all the information you need. But in the pre-Internet era, and still to an extent today, that information had…
Movie posters are one of the most popular forms of art to display in your home! Meant to promote movies to potential viewers, the right movie poster can become an iconic image in its own right. Being iconic means that there are a lot of mass-produced reproductions of them. What’s the difference between originals and…
Autograph collecting is the one of the oldest and most common forms of collecting. In fact, the auctioning of autographs dates back about two hundred years! But the market on autographs can be quite fickle, even compared to other major collectibles. Here are some things to consider when building, handling, or selling an autograph collection.…
We here at Back to the Past are pleased as punch to have a copy of Fantastic Four #1 coming to auction this weekend! While the Fantastic Four have been a lil out-of-focus in the Marvel Studios era, they are poised to get their due pretty soon. Which is good, because the Marvel Cinematic Universe…
If you’re anything like us, you’re a sucker for those annual superhero holiday specials! The DCU Holiday Bash, Ant-Man’s Big Christmas, they’re superhero adventures that inspire warm holiday feelings. To keep that feeling going, we’ve curated this list of our favorite superhero Christmas episodes! Even if you don’t celebrate that particular holiday, we think you’ll…
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever hits theaters this week! In addition to introducing Marvel Comics mainstay Namor to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it will put the supporting cast from the first movie into the spotlight. Chief among them will be General Okoye and the Dora Milaje, the ultra-badass and all-female royal guard of Wakanda. To honor…
Comic books have dabbled in the horror genre since the very beginning. Hollywood has adapted comics since the 40s. Put those two facts together and you get a proud history of comic book horror movies! Here’s our top five comic book horror movies that you should watch before Halloween passes (or any other time of…
Hey there, fan boys and fan girls! Comic conventions, or comic con for short, have been around for a very long time and their popularity is at an all-time high! Starting off in hotel ballrooms and church basements (smaller shows are still there, in fact), they’ve grown in size to take up full convention centers…
Who is the Werewolf by night? By: Tyler Foster Werewolf by night is one of Marvel’s lesser-known properties in pop culture. Although you are not likely to see this nocturnal lycanthrope stand side by side with the avengers anytime soon, werewolf by night is slated to make an MCU debut in the near future. But…
In honor Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, now airing on Amazon Prime, Back to the Past is highlighting the most powerful rings from around pop culture every Friday! This week, we look to the toyetic world of Saturday morning cartoons and examine the rings from Captain Planet and the Planeteers! Origins These rings…