Welcome back to My Hero! Each week, Back to the Past uses this column to tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Each week, Back to the Past examines the wider significance of the stuff we handle every day – the very things that make them cool! This week is the penultimate entry in our examination of a comic collection that comes to auction May 19 through our live auction…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! In this column, we act as your tour guide to the wonderful items we handle every day. This week’s find is a Captain America’s Sentinels of Liberty reproduction pin from Planet Studios. Produced in 1990, this pin was limited to 2500 pieces. It is based on the pin…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we’re breaking from the usual format and hitting you with something akin to one of Greg Turner’s old Retro Reviews or my old 1 out of 5 reviews. We’re looking at Lot #143 from our December 26 auction session, a copy of the Public Service Announcement comic…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where the experts at Back to the Past share our hard-earned experience with you! Today, we’re looking at a few lots from recent auctions that all have one thing in common: they were free giveaways when they were released. Star Wars Tales FCBD Edition Lot of (59)$1,200 The Lots I…
Welcome back to My Hero, where we admire custom action figures of the comic characters who escaped the notice of Kenner & Toy Biz back in the day! Today, we’re looking at a work-for-hire villain who got his start battling a demonic Spirit of Vengeance – the aquakinetic Water Wizard. Our hand-painted Water Wizard. At…
Welcome back to My Hero, where I tell you the story behind the weird and wonderful characters in our Custom Action Figure Collection. Today, we’re looking at a Marvel villain who only exists thanks to retcons, a version of the Red Skull whose main enemies are an outright fascist in a Captain America suit and…
Marvel’s universe was born during the Cold War era, and the tensions that permeated that era gave rise to a lot of Marvel characters – most of them antagonist to the company’s predominantly American heroes. For today’s installment of My Hero, we’re looking to the very end of the Cold War to discuss one such…
What’s The Story? Soldier Supreme, AKA the magically enhanced 4-F volunteer Stephen Rogers, is attacked in his Sanctum Sanctorum by Madame Hel! Perplexed by this development, as he was introduced to her as the girlfriend of his ally Iron Hammer (AKA Stark Odinson), Rogers quickly figures out that heroes all over Warp World are under…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today, in honor of Avengers: Endgame, we are talking about What If? #55-56: “What If the Avengers lost Operation: Galactic Storm”. How’s It Different? This is a For Want of a Nail story, spinning out of the Avengers crossover “Operation: Galactic Storm”. Named for the then-recent first…