Motor City Comic Con & The Night of the Living Auction!

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 ones. UPDATE: We have our booth number! We will be in Booth #532 giving special B2TP stickers and cut-out zombie masks to promote our next live auction event. We will also be bringing our exclusive Critical Role merchandise and some other collectible goodies to sell on a first come, first serve basis – so don’t tarry!

October 23rd is The Night of the Living Auction!

Calling all ghouls, ghosts, and collectors! Back to the Past Collectibles is hosting a live Halloween auction event with both in-showroom attendance and streaming online Saturday, October 23^rd. This one is sure to delight and fright with a spookily good assortment of horror and Halloween items. The in-house festivities begin at 4pm, and the auction begins at 6pm. Stop by for Halloween treats, food, fun, and high-quality collectibles that are dying to be bid on!

City of the Living Dead #1 (1952)

Horror Comics!

The first spooky kind of collectible coming to auction is Golden to Modern Age horror comics. This includes great reads lik:

Strange Tales #169, 1st appearance of Marvel’s Brother Voodoo!
1955’s Crime Illustrated #1 from E.C. Comics!
Runs, sets, and keys starring macabre heroes like Ghost Rider, Werewolf By Night, Swamp Thing, Man-Thing, Dr. Strange, Dracula, Vampirella, Man-Wolf, The Living Mummy, Morbius, and even Batman!
A comic book adaptation of the Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Classics Illustrated #26, adapting Mary Shelley’s iconic horror novel Frankenstein.
Bronze Age horror anthologies like Black Magic, Ghostly Haunts, Where Monsters Dwell, The Witching Hour, Creatures On The Loose, Crypt of Shadows, and many more!

Movie Posters & Lobby Cards!

Next up, we’ve got movie posters and lobby cards from both sides of the hazy line between horror and science fiction. This includes classic films like:

Ghostbusters
Creepshow
The Day The Earth Stood Still
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Alien
The Shining
Predator
A whole slew of American International Pictures releases like The Oblong Box, Scream and Scream Again, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, and many more!

Toys, Model Kits, and Collectibles

Bride of Frankenstein Spinature by Waxwork Records.

Not interested in paper? Want something you can hold in your hands? We’ve got that to with items like:

A Back to the Past-exclusive cowboy Herman Munster action figure!
A 1964 Addams Family Thing bank!
Waxwork Records Spinatures featuring the Universal Monsters and the many masked figures of the Halloween franchise!
Vintage model kits based on Godzilla, Star Trek, and Space: 1999!
Vintage puzzles based on Space: 1999, The Black Hole, and Alien!
Halloween masks based on Frankenstein, Batman, Uncle Creepy, and more!