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Much of the industry talk today has been about digital comics, triggered in large part by retailers boycotting Dark Horse due to their digital policy, and

What is it with Marvel and red-headed mutants? Jean Grey almost destroyed the universe and ate the asparagus people, the Scarlet Witch went all nutty and

As Rich reported on Friday, retailer outrage over Dark Horse's day-and-date digital policy that some retailers were refusing to carry Dark Horse beyond

Last night was once again a huge auction night on ComicConnect.com, with key Silver Age comics making up the majority of sales, but headlined by one of

Rebecca Lewis writes for Bleeding Cool. The Muppets couldn't beat the worldwide phenomenon that is The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part One on the big

After starting off the evening with a heavy focus on Marvel’s Bronze Age, with titles like Marvel Premiere and the previously discussed Marvel Spotlight,

Comic Connect's mega-auction event rolls on with its third night of sales coming in, and once again there are quite a few key comics involved. Here are

We covered  Thursday’s early Comic Connect auctions last night, but as bedtime rolled in on the East Coast, there was plenty of action still to come,

After last night’s gigantic Action Comics #1 sale, followed by some pretty nice Golden and Silver Age keys, it would be real easy to think that things

Watching the coverage of the latest NCAA pedophilia scandal, this time at Syracuse, while working on some Spider-Man back issue prices had me thinking

Wednesday morning, there were a few auctions I spotlighted outside of the obvious Action Comics #1 to watch for Wednesday night. Here’s how those comics

Marvel calls it, “Redefining power and responsibility,” but for many in the comic community it’s another return to the worst of the 1990s. The Scarlet

By the end of the day today, one of the most impressive Superman collections assembled in one auction will close, with the highlight being an much

When DC took the reins of the top slot on the sales charts for the first time in years due to the launch of the New 52, they also took over the back issue

Two weeks ago, we talked about Occupy Wall Street with Ann Nocenti, longtime comic writer and editor who had taken a long hiatus from comics but is

With news circulating around the Net about the apparent demise of Wizard World Digital, with a blog replacing it, this seemed like a good time to give a

This week, the focus is on the Golden Age, where we had quite a few interesting sales this past week to report in our look at sales from the week of

In two completely unrelated blog posts today, Kieron Gillen and Jim Shooter looked at the issue of accessibility in comics today. First up, Gillen, from

It was the little comic that could, DC’s equivalent of Spider-Girl, coming back multiple times when cancellation came calling. Manhunter had the critical

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. - W.C. Fields In my time with Wizard as price guide/Market Watch editor and occasional feature

John Byrne, on the death of Guardian, from his website earlier this evening: Of course, you all know the story of how Marvel somehow managed to keep Mac's

This February, Dark Horse Presents will kick off a brand-new feature, Amala’s Blade, from writer Steve Horton and artist Michael Dialynas. I had a chance

That’s the question that headlines the front page of the Dixonverse, Chuck Dixon’s online home.  According to the site, “Chuck Dixon is recognized across

As part of a larger interview on her upcoming work on Green Arrow, and a larger look at her career as a while, I had the opportunity to ask Ann Nocenti

Although the move towards returning Vertigo characters once a part of the DC Universe back to the DCU proper began before the New 52, with the return of

Welcome to the first of what I plan to be a weekly look at the blue chip stocks of the comic industry, looking at the budget-busting Golden, Silver, and

Mark Allen Haverty writes, As mentioned in my article two days ago about Curt Swan, I owned a comic shop in Vermont, which was open from July 1993 through

Mark Allen Haverty writes for Bleeding Cool; So much of the early history of the X-Men was rooted in politics. Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto were

Mark Allen Haverty writes for Bleeding Cool; “We need to create a personality for you.” That’s the email I received from Rich yesterday, in discussing

As the theme song of one of America’s greatest television programs goes, “you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have, the