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I was catching up on the day's trailer releases just now, when I spotted something that made me do a double take, quickly followed by a reflexive cringe

Vintage comics seller and auction house ComicConnect just announced that the sale of the Incredible Hulk #1 CGC 9.2 Northland copy for $375,000 earlier this month That's a new record for this key 1962 Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and featuring the first appearance of one of Marvel's best-known characters. The sale eclipses the previous[...]

You want to share them. When William Christensen told me about seeing the new CGC Holder — and was genuinely pretty excited about it, which caught my attention because that guy has been collecting vintage comics since about age 6 and is not an easy person to impress — well, I was intrigued, sure… but I still had[...]

I don't get much of a chance to write these days, but some things are just too good to keep secret for long. I’m the biggest vintage comic book geek you

 No decent scan or photo of the Church copy — widely considered the most valuable comic in existence —  has ever been made public on the internet, though the few knowledgeable individuals who have seen it claim it is undoubtedly the best copy known to exist. The new record-holding Action Comics #1 CGC 9.0 was purchased from the[...]

There continues to be a great deal of debate over where this comic auction will end up when it closes on Sunday night, but one thing's for sure -- it will

I suspect some of you are going to get tired of me posting about this one between now and August 24.  Apologies in advance, but trust me, I've shown great

As regular Bleeding Cool readers will know, we've celebrated a number of important 75th anniversaries in recent times.  Superman's 75th anniversary was in

DC Comics has proclaimed July 23 Batman Day, but it looks like Superman is about to steal just a little bit of that spotlight, at least as far as vintage

Even for a vintage comics market in which six-figure sales have become increasingly more frequent, this one stands out: vintage comics seller and auction house ComicConnect has just sold an Incredible Hulk #1 CGC 9.2 for $320,000  That's a new record for this key 1962 Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and[...]

When we flagged Marvel Super-Heroes #18 for your attention in the Vintage Paper section of Bleeding Cool Magazine #1 in fall 2012, the top sale of any

 As Bleeding Cool also told you in 2010, the iconic Golden Age cover to Superman #14 reached $402,000 without meeting its auction reserve. Of course, the highest price ever paid for a piece of American comic book art from any era remains the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #328 by Todd McFarlane, which sold for $675,250 in[...]

You could see this one coming over the past few months.  With widespread belief that DC/WB is building towards making the Justice League a more mainstream

Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Fall 1939. Actually one of two copies of Superman #2 in 9.2, though most would agree that this has notably better eye appeal

Just a few months shy of 50 years ago now, Marvel reintroduced its most popular Golden Age character to a new audience in issue #4 of its

How hot is Thanos?  When we posted about the $9000 sale of a CGC 9.8 Iron Man #55 earlier this month, I fully expected that record to stand through at

When we flagged this auction for your attention a couple weeks ago, I was expecting a strong result -- but this sale has re-written the record book for

There's been a lot of talk among collectors over the past week about the strong selection in the just-opened Comiclink focused auction -- and bidding has

A copy of Iron Man #55 CGC 9.8 white pages has just sold for $9000 at comic book consignment and auction site Comiclink, a record for this issue by a

A strong yet interesting result that brings some closure to what is one of the strangest stories ever in the history of the vintage comics market — rivaling even the storied history of the Nic Cage Action Comics #1 theft and recovery for intrigue and drama. You see, this comic previously sold for $850,000 in a[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article excerpt by Mark Seifert & William A. Christensen “One” isn’t the loneliest number when it comes to comic book collecting.

No way we could let the week of release of Man of Steel pass without a story of the sale of an Action Comics #1, could we?  You all remember this one from

Remodeler finds comic book worth over $100K in wall at Elbow Lake house is the headline. amid old newspapers used to insulate a wall of a fixer-upper he

A retailer writes; I just received an e-mail from someone claiming to have a Key Golden Age comic that they "found this cleaning out a estate in Virginia

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Mark Seifert & William Christensen There’s nothing a vintage comic collector likes better than to see an obscure old

One curious collector called Michael writes; I just picked up a couple of vintage Marvel ‘holy grails’ this past week: a 1965 Merry Marvel Marching

As we've mentioned both here and in the pages of Bleeding Cool Magazine, it's no secret that first and key appearances of Guardians of the Galaxy

Coming to Heritage Auctions -- a copy of the first appearance of Batman, Detective Comics #27 in 6.5 CGC condition. Could get half a million, slated to be

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Mark Seifert & William A. Christensen Every year around this time, we get the urge to look at some holiday-themed

The highest CGC-graded copy of Whiz Comics #2 (#1) CGC 9.0 has just sold for $281,001 at high-end comics & collectables auction house Comic Connect.