Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! This week, we are highlighting an item coming to the auction block and its seasonal relevance. Specifically, we’re looking at Lot #121, The Marvelous Land of Oz treasury edition. It is one of the many nifty comics coming to auction this week, but the most seasonally appropriate. Why?…
Start your December off right with this 200 lot session of Silver to Modern Age Comic Books, die-cast toys based on the world of Pixar’s Cars, Batman toys & collectibles, Funko’s infinitely collectible Pop! vinyl figures, and vintage vinyl records. This session, naturally, includes a seasonally appropriate selection of comic specials, Batman collectibles, and Christmas…
Are scares not your bag? Did looking at our Halloween-themed auction give you nightmares? Is the most horrifying movie you wanna watch “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”? Then this is the auction for you! This session has 300 lots worth of Silver to Modern Age superhero comics, die-cast vehicles (mostly based on Disney’s Cars universe),…
Welcome to Hammer Drops, where we discuss the how’s and why’s of interesting or unexpected prices we are seeing for items sold in our auctions! This week, we’re looking at Lots 65 & 67 from our May 16th session. The Lots Both lots were copies of Sabrina The Teenage Witch #1 from 1971, the inaugural issue…
It’s Friday, so It’s time for a new RETRO REVIEW. And I’m excited to bring you a fun comic book from the late, lamented publisher, Comico. It’s dated December 1988, per the indicia, and the comic in question is; Gumby’s Winter Fun Special # 1. The comic is written by Steve Purcell and the artwork…
I Will Tell You #99: Top 5 Comic Characters Who Should Be Thankful Anyone who knows me personally, or has at least read some of my past columns over the years, has often heard me say, “You don’t have to be good if you’re lucky,” frequently amended with another statement, “You don’t have to…
I Will Tell You #98: Every Day is Halloween It was a dark time, kids. There was an era in history known as The Dark Ages. In the days before comic fans ever dared dream that not one, but several superhero movies would make it to the big screen; and that these films would not…
I Will Tell You #95: Motor City Comic Con 2014 The Motor City Comic Con celebrates its 25th anniversary starting this Friday, May 16, for its annual three-day pop culture convention at its usual home inside the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan. For the first time, the show is occupying the entirety of the…
I Will Tell You #94: C2E2 2014 The fifth annual Chicago Entertainment & Comic Expo (C2E2) opened Friday, April 25 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, occupying the convention center’s south building for the first time after setting up shop in the venue’s other three buildings over the course of the past four years. The large…
I Will Tell You #89: Top Five Reasons to be Thankful for Comics As Thanksgiving approaches, we all have many things to be thankful for, although amidst the business of our daily chores and various challenges we face, we don’t always realize it. While we scramble trying to cope with the stresses of our jobs,…