Update: The auction for this Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5 has resumed today due to a website glitch at auction close. See update for details. Update 2: With the auction now final, the hammer price on the sale of this Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5 is $2,052,000. Original post continues below: An Action Comics #1 […]
There's always something special about this time of year: the snow is mostly gone, it's a little bit warmer, and of course there's the NCAA men's basketball tournament. A 16 seed beat a 1 seed this year! And if you don't know what that means, that's okay, because I never thought I'd see it in […]
If you've ever visited this site to stare in amazement at a nice high grade copy of Wonder Woman #1 or Superman #2 and wondered how they became known as the best-graded copies, or wondered exactly what the difference was between this particular copy of Action Comics #1 and this other copy of Action Comics […]
Rich Johnston's "Walking Around" convention posts have become a comic con tradition at Bleeding Cool. A quick way to get an initial impression of a convention and its surroundings — such as Thought Bubble today, or Brighton ICE Comics Expo in June — Rich's walk-arounds are simple and effective. It's almost like you're there… without having […]
The comic book community and fans and pros everywhere are celebrating the life, creations, and memory of one of its most important creators today. Jack Kirby, born on August 28th, 1917, would have been 100 years old on this day. Kirby died in 1992, but to say that his memory lives on might be the […]
An All Star Comics #8 graded CGC 9.4 has just sold on ebay for a record $936,223.00. The December 1941 comic book contains the origin and first appearance of Wonder Woman by Willam Moulton Marston and H.G. Peter. This CGC 9.4 copy is the sole highest graded copy of this issue ever graded by CGC, […]
From a collector's standpoint, one of the best parts of any major convention is walking around the booths of vintage comics dealers and checking out what they've got. It's not something that always gets the coverage it deserves amidst the spectacle of a show like the San Diego Comic-Con, and that's too bad. Even if […]
July 8, 2017 is the 70th Anniversary of the infamous event that helped ignite the UFO craze — A United States Air Force balloon crash near Roswell, New Mexico which became a center of "flying disc" reports, conspiracy theories, and even FBI Investigations. The events surrounding Roswell itself are relatively well known, but what's far […]
Vintage comic book collecting can sometimes be considered as a sort of futures market for the success of a given character or property. This is most apparent when it comes to the run-up towards a new film. The higher the anticipation, the higher that prices go. If the film is then successful upon release, prices […]
Before DC was home to Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman, they were National Comics. And they printed funny comics and heroic (before the idea of the Superman was a thing) comics, but no matter how you look at it, this is one of the most important comics in the comic world. New Fun #1 is […]
Whenever I think about people I know who are very serious collectors — people who really put the work in to find what they want — I think of Indiana Jones. It's a franchise largely about the lengths people will go to unearth hidden treasures, after all. And also about how knowledge is power in […]
The Jon Berk original art and comic book collection auction closes this week in five live sessions, happening each night this week at Comic Connect, 7pm to 12am EDT. It's one of the most important collections of rare vintage comic books and art ever assembled, and the kind of event that collectors will be talking […]
Mile High Comics is the largest back issue seller of comic books in the USA by far. So when a hailstorm burst through their warehouses in Monday, it was not going to be a pretty site. Comics and water do not mix. In a scene reminiscent of the opening episode of Misfits, extra large, extra […]
I bought this for cheap on a whim recently, because the image is so interesting, but it turned out to be far more fascinating than I thought it might be. This is Auguste Henri Jacob — "Jacob the Zouave" (as I understand it, meaning, a member of the French colonial light infantry corps, known for […]
There's nothing I like to post about more than the anniversary of a golden age comic book character, and here's one that's deserving of more attention: today, April 25, is the 76th anniversary of the sort-of first appearance of Hawkgirl in All-Star Comics #5, which hit the newsstand this day in 1941. I say "sort of" […]
If you've ever visited this site to stare in amazement at a nice high grade copy of Wonder Woman #1 or Superman #2 and wondered how they became known as the best-graded copies, or wondered exactly what the difference was between this particular copy of Action Comics #1 and this other copy of Action Comics […]
If you've ever visited this site to stare in amazement at a nice high grade copy of Wonder Woman #1 or Superman #2 and wondered how they became known as the best-graded copies, or wondered exactly what the difference was between this particular copy of Action Comics #1 and this other copy of Action Comics […]
Late February through March is always an interesting time of year for vintage comic book sales. Major auction season for the year has gotten underway after a bit of a post-Christmas nap, and collectors are starting to look past their taxes and get back to the hunt in earnest. There are always some chart-busting sales during […]
If you've ever visited this site to stare in amazement at a nice high grade copy of Wonder Woman #1 or Superman #2 and wondered how they became known as the best-graded copies, or wondered exactly what the difference was between this particular copy of Action Comics #1 and this other copy of Action Comics […]
Vintage comic and art auction and consignment site ComicLink has just announced that they've sold a Superman #1 CGC 5.5 for $507,500, the highest price ever paid for a copy of Superman #1 in any condition. The landmark DC Comics publication collects the Superman stories by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster which first appeared in […]
