Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Every Monday, your pals at Back to the Past stop to consider the greater place that our dusty treasures occupy in America’s cultural landscape. This week, we are looking at a set of adult collectible action figures based on a children’s cartoon that was only just barely off…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Every Monday, we stop to truly appreciate the cool collectibles items we handle every day and/or consider them in their proper cultural context. Today tends more towards the latter, where we’re looking at how a department store holiday giveaway fits into the larger trend of Santa Claus battling…
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…
The Launch of the Star Hawks Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we here at Back to the Past wax poetic about our wares. This week, we’re looking once more to our eBay store and the 2004 complete collection of the short-lived Star Hawks comic strip from Hermes Press we recently sold from…
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 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 Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we look back into the history of the cool stuff we see on the daily. Today, we’re looking at the Piggy Cook toy from our eBay store, an electronic toy from the 1950s that represents a proud legacy of Japanese toy making. Our Yonezawa Toys Piggy Cook…
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…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we stop to learn a bit of the backstory behind the cool collectibles we sell. Today sees us taking a step away from our usual pop cultural comfort zone by looking at Pickle Castors, a type of antique item that just came into the shop. Chris said…
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…