vintage comics Archives

History is important to us in comics; the history of our creators and publishers, the history of our characters – and I think that's very likely to carry over to the history of the format itself as we continue moving into the digital age. In fact, some very interesting things have happened to the value of[...]

Marc Swayze, early comic book artist and writer for Fawcett Publications, died yesterday at the age of 99, according to the Monroe News-Star. Swayze

With the world's best collection of Silver Age Marvels up for grabs, a great group of Golden Age books from the Empire Comics Collection also available,

 Case in point at the moment is Heritage's current Signature auction, which contains the world's best collection of Silver Age Marvel comics, and an astounding collection of original art from owner Marty Shamus — headlined by Todd McFarlane's Spider-Man #1 cover, with informed original art collectors now openly talking about the idea that this cover[...]

Batman #10 reintroduces a relatively minor character to the modern Bat-mythos, one that I personally never expected to see again, in a very major way. Said character does have a pedigree in the DCU, albeit a very short one, so now that I've gotten some buffer to prevent accidental spoiling out of the way, I can get down to business. You want to know more about this person? Well, here we go:

The vintage collecting community has been salivating this morning as word has spread that Doug Schmell of pedigreecomics.com, widely known as one of the

Over the past few months, we've talked quite a bit here about how key first comic book appearances of Avengers team members have been going for record

It's an Avengers world these days, and not only are they here to help save it, but also to help put the market for Avengers-related vintage comics into overdrive   Bleeding Cool has told you about quite a few eye-popping record sales over the past year related to Avengers team members first appearances — such[...]

This one doesn't come along in grades above unrestored CGC 5.0 too often, and pre-Robin Detectives are the beach front property of vintage comics in virtually any grade, contrary to what they think on Comic Book Men. Here are all of today's sales in a handy table, ranked by price I'll do some updated analysis in[...]

The past year has been a good one for The Avengers and all of the team's members — particularly when it comes to vintage comics sales The lastest record to fall is for the first appearance of Thor in Journey Into Mystery #83  A CGC 9.4 copy of the comic was sold by Pedigree Comics[...]

In 1977, comic book dealer Chuck Rozanski unearthed the most important comic book collection that the world will ever know. 18,000 comics from the late

After starting off the evening with a heavy focus on Marvel’s Bronze Age, with titles like Marvel Premiere and the previously discussed Marvel Spotlight,

Comic Connect's mega-auction event rolls on with its third night of sales coming in, and once again there are quite a few key comics involved. Here are

We covered  Thursday’s early Comic Connect auctions last night, but as bedtime rolled in on the East Coast, there was plenty of action still to come,

It has become the most famous individual copy of any comic book in the world.  And now, the Nicolas Cage copy of Action Comics #1, graded CGC 9.0 and the

 The previous record of $1,500,000 was set in March 2010 by an Action Comics #1 8.5. Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that the best-cgc-graded copy of the world's most sought-after comic was about to come to auction when we laid out the back story of what has probably become the world's most famous[...]

Fan anticipation for the May 2012 debut of The Avengers film has already been building for months, and here's the latest sign that the popularity of

 As Bartholomew notes, "The reason I believe the 27 was missing is that he initially bought comics here and there and had picked up a Detective #23 then a #26.  There was not much fanfare for Batman since no one really knew who or what he was.  He must have missed issue #27, and picked[...]

Considering the cost of comics today and their ever-fluctuating price points, page counts, and formats, it's hard to imagine a hike of two pennies causing

We've mentioned high-end comic book auction house Comic Connect a number of times on BC, primarily because there have been four comic books in the world

The vintage comics scene has been buzzing for the past several days about word that a very high grade copy of Action Comic #1 — stolen from Nicolas Cage's home in 2000 and recovered by Los Angeles police this April from a San Fernando Valley storage locker — would soon come up for auction from[...]

A copy of Captain America Comics #1 CGC 9.2 sold at auction last night at comicconnect.com for a record $343,000 -- the highest price ever paid for a copy

Vintage comic collectors have had this week circled on their calendars ever since it was learned that the golden age collection of an 85 year old original

An Action Comics #1 CGC 6.5 has sold this week for $625,000 at Comiclink.  I almost stuck a Volume 1 in that title, but you can insert your own Action 1's

I love it when an old comic becomes a new key. Anybody can tell you that Vengeance of Bane #1 is the first appearance of Bane, but what about this John

 I'm a fiend for a lot of vintage comics, but a nice, white FF #1 with no Marvel chipping will always be one of my favorites. A Fantastic Four #1 CGC 9.4 has just been sold by Metropolis Collectibles for $300,000  The 1961 comic book by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee marked the beginning of[...]

And as vintage comics sales expert Rob Larsen has noted in research he has in progress, the collection contains examples for a particularly impressive number of the top Marvel and DC Silver Age keys such as Adventure Comics #247 (first Legion of Super-Heroes), Showcase #4 (first Barry Allen Flash), Showcase #22 (first Hal Jordan[...]

A Showcase #4 CGC 9.2 has just sold via comicconnect.com and esquirecomics.com for $100,000.  The comic is the first appearance of the Barry Allen

An X-Men #1 CGC 9.6 has recently changed hands in a private sale for $200,000, a new record for this issue.  The 1963 comic by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

The race to assemble a set of Silver Age Marvel keys is on in earnest this year among vintage Marvel collectors as films like Captain America and Thor are