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…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we stop to look deeper into the cool stuff we at Back to the Past deal with every day. Today we turn our eyes to our eBay store and this nifty 1997 Kenner Toys Trailer VHS tape and the last days of the King of the Action…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we look at the history behind the cool stuff we sell here at Back to the Past. Everybody knows that Marvel is owned today by Disney and have, as such, positioned themselves as the kings of the summer blockbuster and streaming TV. In the 1990s, however, they…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, wherein we’re taking a look at some Playboy Magazine items that have passed through our doors of late. Specifically, we’re looking at the articles and comic strips – not the naked ladies – and explaining why they set a higher bar of quality than other famous men’s mags…