Our October 23rd auction session, which will happen LIVE in the showroom and online, is Halloween themed! It includes plenty of vintage vinyl records that will provide the perfect atmosphere for your Halloween shindigs the following weekend. For this week’s Consigned, Cool, and Collected, we’re spotlighting some of our favorites! Elvira Presents Vinyl Macabre: Oldies…
Hey there, collectors and dealers! Your pals at Back to the Past are here to announce our next two live events. We’re Heading to Motor City Comic Con! We are going to be at Motor City Comic Con October 15-17! We’re super excited to see some old friends and meet a whole bunch of new…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where we are following up on last week’s lesson about why you won’t be able to retire on VHS tapes with some specific guidance on where there is value in your home media collection. To do that, we’re looking at Lot #91 from our August Fourth auction session. It’s a…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we dive into the deeper background of the collectible goodies we carry here at Back to the Past. Today, the Fugitoid collector figure we’ve got up on eBay – sketched on and signed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird – has lead us to reflect…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where we here at Back to the Past Collectibles use our vast experience to help guide you through the pitfalls of maximizing your collection’s value. Today, we’re looking to the news instead of a recent auction: I was checking my personal email account the other day and saw a clickbait…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we here at Back to the Past shine a spotlight on the collectible items we handle! Today, we’re breaking for our usual format of looking to our web stores and looking at an item that was available only in our showroom: an eight-inch ceramic Astro Boy bank!…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where we look at realized prices to glean lessons about the business side of collecting cool stuff. And this is the second part of a crossover with our sister column Consigned, Cool, & Collected examining the unlikely relationship between recent hit series The Mandalorian and some nearly forty year old…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we look more deeply into the background of the stuff sold by Back to the Past! Today, we’re looking at Star Wars #68, a key issue from the original Marvel series that made its way into our January 16th auction session. This is also Part One of…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where we expound upon what we’ve learned in our thirty plus years in the collectibles racket, using recent auctions for illustration and examples. Today, we’re looking at few recent lots of modern Horror Comics that sold at auction for between $45-65 a piece. Lot 14 from December 9, sold for…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where your pals at Back to the Past pause to really appreciate the cool stuff we work with every day. Today has us looking at two items we’ve recently handled featuring Batman villain Roxy Rocket, her first appearance in Batman Adventures Annual #1 and her first action figure…