Welcome back to Hammer Drops! This week’s topic is comic book movies, how they’re adapting much more recent material, and how that changes key issues. The upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder, set to feature Jane Foster as Thor in live action, will be our focus. Speaking of which, have you bought your tickets yet? They…
Welcome back to Pure Speculation! The first episode of Ms. Marvel debuts in just two days, so we’ll get straight to the point: Chris thinks that Kamala Khan will be the wielder of the fabled Marvel Comics artifact The Quantum Bands on the new show. Why? Read on! What Are The Quantum Bands? Technically, what…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Every week, Back to the Past stops to give you a closer look at the cool stuff coming through our doors. Today, we’re sticking the gorgeous key issue collection we introduced you to last week. It comes to auction the weekend of May 21st, so until then we’re…
If you’ve been following our social media or our newsletter, you’ve probably heard us crow about Roy Thomas. No, not the Marvel guy, the local artist! He does wonderful mixed-media pieces of pop culture icons ranging from American astronauts to Bugs Bunny to The Incredible Hulk and all points in between. We are excited to…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Each week, Back to the Past uses these pages to heap appreciation on the stuff that comes through our doors. This week’s example is a real doozy, something that is pure Michigan. It’s a set of Rochester Adams High School yearbooks from 1973 to 1976. Why are those…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! This week, we continue fueling the hype train for our new Pokemon collection by looking back at one of the strangest fast food premiums ever made. That’s right, this week we’re talking about the Golden Pokemon Cards offered by Burger King in 1999. What Exactly is a “Fast…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! This week, we’re pausing to look at the near future of what we’ve got at Back to the Past. We are proud to be handling a real honey of a Pokemon card collection. Some pieces from it have already begun appearing in our Popshop Live broadcasts, with more…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Every Monday, Back to the Past pauses to enjoy something from our warehouse of collectible wonders! This week, we’re looking at some stuff that super collectible but, somewhat unusually for us, not vintage. *gasp* What? We are the one and only licensed affiliate retailer in the state of…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Every Monday, your pals at Back to the Past stop to consider the greater place that our dusty treasures occupy in America’s cultural landscape. This week, we are looking at a set of adult collectible action figures based on a children’s cartoon that was only just barely off…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! This is a weekly dive into the history of the fabulous collectible treasures we sell every day, be they public service announcement comic books or pieces of NASA equipment. We apologize to any readers with coulrophobia, as this week’s subject is a 1948 Bozo The Clown lamp! Bozo:…