Speculator Corner Archives

Remember, all these comics were given away for free on Saturday. For free. And there have been tens and tens and in some cases hundreds of thousands of

What is it with Marvel and DC's differing definition of the word omnibus? Take these new additions ready to test the strength of your comic shelf

So you want to get all 37 Free Comic Book Day comics but don't live near a comic shop? How much will it cost you to get a set? $65 apparently. That's if

With copies of the Savage Dragon #145 Wondercon variant featuring Barack Obama taking down Osama Bin Laden settling down at around $75 (when they were

Last night at the Dodgem Logic show (and a lot more on that to come later) , Tony from Knockabout was selling a number of copies of a variety of Alan

It was a Wondercon variant cover from a couple of years ago. But the cover image of President Barack Obama knocking down Osama Bin Laden holding the US

It seems that being a communist Anti-American homosexual superhero (according to Fox News commentators) pays. Action Comics #900, the standard edition,

From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I wonder if we'll get a Bluewater biographical comic.

Earlier this week we pointed out that the DC Comics Presents: Legion Of Superheroes: Legion Of The Damned 100 Page Spectacular #1 (breathe in) reprinting

Gaws bless Prince William and Kate Middleton/soon-to-be Princess Catherine! Kate & William: A Very Public Love Story by me, Gary Erskine and Mike

Currently James Peaty is the writer of Supergirl after Nick Spencer's abortive half issue run on the title, which he blames on a clash with editorial that

On Saturday, a copy of Butcher Baker The Righteous Maker #1 by Joe Casey and Mike Huddleston from Image Comics sold for $26 on eBay, three days after it

At WonderCon this week, there were a few hundred copies of Nonplayer by Nate Simpson for sale, ahead of this Wednesday's release. They sold fast, one per

Captain America #290, by JM DeMatteis, Ron Frenz and Steve Leialoha with a cover by John Byrne from 1983 has the first appearance of the character Mother

Nonplayer, the new upcoming comic by Nate Simpson from Image, received a spate of publicity before the Final Order Cutoff date for retailers to place

Here are seventeen recently published comic books that are currently breaking the $50 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase variant

Last Friday, March the 11th, it was announced that Lionel Wigram had optioned Jeff Smith's sci-fi comic Rasl as a movie from Warner Bros. And eBay

This is a preview of the upcoming Image comic book, Nonplayer by Nate Simpson. Pages posted to his DeviantArt page and embedded in this handy dandy flash

They are all new comics from Image. They have all sold out. They are all going to second print. But which is the new Chew? And which is the Dead Walking?

Here are eight recently published comic books that are currently breaking the $100 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase variant

Here are six recently published comic books that are currently breaking the $200 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase variant covers,

It was a year ago that we saw the Great Amazon Glitch, as our collective hopes of getting $100 Madman hardcovers for $14 were raised. Most of those orders

Speculating on the big boys can be a tricky proposition. With high five figure and occasionally six figure print run, international distribution into all

Joe Gualtieri writes for Bleeding Cool; Usually, when people write columns about comics not collected in trade paperbacks, they look at series that

A pencil recreation by Jack Kirby of his cover to Amazing Fantasy #15 featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man has hit eBay for $60,000, from seller

The Comics Journal has changed from a monthly title to a more occasional massive volume. And issue 301, 624 pages in length is charged at a very

Just as last week was a week for reading comics about dead people, this week is all about warring planets. Literally the planets. Axe Cop (just reviewed)

Could this be a record breaker? Bleeding Cool has learned that one of the most iconic splash pages in comics of the nineteen-eighties, will be going on

Oh... here we go. The three volume slipcased set of Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, from Fantagraphics with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and

When Diamond lost the UK shipment for Image book Halcyon #2, no one really noticed. Not until #3 came along anyway. Diamond didn't even bother to tell