Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe

The first day's sessions of the 2021 April 1 – 4 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction at Heritage Auctions set a number of records. One of the highlights that interests me the most is the $111,000 paid for a copy of More Fun Comics #73 CGC 7.5 — the highest price ever paid for […]

As we mentioned in a recent post about the $250,000 sale of a Daredevil #1 CGC 9.8, 2021 has been a banner year for the vintage comics market in the early going, and ComicConnect has recently booked a number of other noteworthy sales of key issues including Batman #1, More Fun Comics #73, (the first […]

A scientist gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time during a military bomb test. Instead of killing him, the radiation blast transforms the man into a being of unimaginable power. Sounds like a lot of Marvel superhero origins in general, and the creation story of the Incredible Hulk in particular.  But over […]

Doctor Doom might just be my favorite Marvel Comics character ever. There's something about his genius combined with his irrational view of himself and the world that makes Victor Von Doom endlessly fascinating. First appearing in Fantastic Four #5 (cover-dated July 1961) Doom's origin and rise to rule in his country Latvia was detailed at […]

As WonderCon@Home 2021 draws to a close this weekend, Comic-Con International has announced its intention to return to an in-person event for the first time since 2019 with a three-day show over Thanksgiving weekend, November 26-28, 2021 at the San Diego Convention Center.  As the press release below implies, there's still uncertainty here in regards […]

Most comic book fans today are familiar with J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, who first appeared in Detective Comics #225 (cover-dated November 1955) and has gone on to become a major DC Comics character. But fewer people realize that J'onn J'onzz was not the first Martian Manhunter to debut at DC Comics.  He was preceded […]