The census-topping Action Comics #1 CGC 9.0, once owned by Nicolas Cage, has just sold for an all-time record $15 Million, Metropolis/ComicConnect has announced.
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Co-founder and Creative director of Bleeding Cool parent company Avatar Press since 1996. Bleeding Cool Managing Editor, tech and data wrangler, and has been with Bleeding Cool since its 2009 beginnings. Wrote extensively about the comic book industry for Wizard Magazine 1992-1996. At Avatar Press, has helped publish works by Alan Moore, George R.R. Martin, Garth Ennis, and others. Vintage paper collector, advisor to the Overstreet Price Guide Update 1991-1995.
Die Hard fans have long pondered the similarity between the name of Silent Night composer Franz Gruber and the name of Die Hard antagonist Hans Gruber.
The first teaser and poster for Avengers: Doomsday have been officially released, along with a brief comment from the Russo Brothers.
A superhero created by Bill Everett and his mom Grace, Amazing Man starred in a series that has become a favorite of Golden Age collectors.
"Accidentally endowed with the strength and buoyancy of an eagle", Exciting Comics #22 is the first appearance of the American Eagle by Kin Platt.
The second highest graded copy to hit the auction block in over a decade, Matt Baker's Cinderella Love #25 is one of the world's most sought after romance comics.
Created by the "powders of patriotism" at Boston Commons in 1941, The Sentinel debuted in Centaur's Liberty Scouts Comics #3.
Jack Binder evokes the Shudder Pulp era for the Captain Battle cover of Silver Streak Comics #15.
Keen Detective #20 features an iconic Frank Thomas cover for his character The Eye, plus superscience from the Masked Marvel and Dean Denton.
Blue Ribbon Comics is the debut comic book title from MLJ Magazines, and Rang-A-Tang the Wonder Dog was its first star.
MLJ mainstay Harry Shorten's Zip Comics #33 cover depicts the U.S. Army nurses who became known as the Angels of Battaan.
Charles Nicholas and future Marvel legend Sol Brodsky deliver a war-era saga directly inspired by the Operation Pastorius saboteurs earlier that year.
The Black Cat made her debut in Pocket Comics #1 by Alfred Harvey and Al Gabriel, and the featured covers by Joe Simon and Bob Powell.
Shield-Wizard Comics #11 is a stand-out horror cover of this unique MLJ Magazines series by underappreciated artist Clem Weisbecker.
With a Lou Fine cover and story featuring The Flame, Wonderworld Comics #6 also features a story inspired by the Rescue of the USS Squalus.
Publisher Lev Gleason had high hopes for the inclusion of The Saint in his flagship comic book title Silver Streak Comics.
In Startling Comics #16, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's January 6, 1942 State of the Union sets the stage for cover mayhem and Fighting Yank drama.
Fox Feature's Samson was a superhero based on the biblical figure of the same name, and like his namesake, his hair was the key to his power.
Mysterious publishing switches, a missing issue, and a spin-off all contribute to the twists and turns of the Captain Battle saga.
Amazing Mystery Funnies V2 #11 features an underappreciated cover story inspired by a historic moment in science and pop-culture history.
Despite his legal conflicts with DC Comics, Victor Fox's Wonderworld Comics title became a historically important title of the Golden Age.
America's Best Comics #18 has a stand-out Alex Schomburg cover, and a story about the foundational moment of the Atomic Age on the inside
In a Slam-Bang Comics origin that has elements similar to Captain Marvel, an aged magician gave a man power "beyond all ordinary mortals."
Blue Ribbon Comics is the debut comic book title from MLJ Magazines, and Rang-A-Tang the Wonder Dog was its first star.
All-New Comics #4 (Harvey, 1943) contains a science fiction story "Poison in the Universe" based on real WWII history.
Richard E. Hughes and Jon L. Brummer gave Standard/Better/Nedor character Fighting Yank a supernatural origin in Startling Comics #10.
Magno the Magnetic Man was the underappreciated star of Ace Periodicals' long-running Super-Mystery Comics title.
Sort of a patriotic force of nature, Captain Courageous appeared when needed to defend Democracy in the rare Banner Comics series.
A funny thing happened to the Black Hood on his way out of the Golden Age. He was unmasked, and decided to keep fighting crime anyway.
In Top-Notch Comics #1, the Wizard foils a Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor -- two years before such an event occurred in real history.