Hey there comic book fans! Are you tired of driving all over creation to find that last back issue your run needs? Does the rising price of convention admission hurt your bottom line? Do you hate dealing with sketchy re-sellers on social media marketplaces? Your friends at Back to the Past definitely understand those frustrations,…
For decades, basically everybody who could read read the newspaper. It was the best way to stay up to date and informed-in-detail about events of the day – politics, sports, movie reviews, etc. Most of these ended up in the trash (or later recycling), but some folks curated a collection. Usually, these were for major…
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 collectibles experts. That’s why you come to us! And that expertise means we through around collectibles terms that are commonplace to us, but maybe not to the average person trying to figure out what to do with their collection. This article is gonna serve as a glossary…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops! This weekly column raids the brains of Back to the Past’s staff every Wednesday and shares their voluminous collectibles knowledge with you, the enterprising do-it-yourselfer. This week continues out recent series on industry terms of art with “Offset Binding”. More broadly, we’ll tackle the topic of how manufacturer errors can…