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Action Comics #1 Breaks Two Other Records

April 26th, 2010 4 Comments

Hey everyone! I know I’m a little late on getting this to everyone – and I’m sure you’ve already heard – but another comic book has broke two previous records. Action Comics #1 sold for $1.5 million dollars! This particular issue was owned by a private collector and was found tucked inside of an old [...]

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Moving Comic Book Collecting To New Host

March 27th, 2010 1 Comment

Update on site move (3-30-2010 – midnight) Well, I had to make sure the Name Servers were pointed to my new hosting server before giving an update. Everything went pretty well all in all and the site is now live (if you are reading this you are seeing it on the new server). The next [...]

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Can Batman Truly Beat Superman? It seems…

February 28th, 2010 1 Comment

he can in the case of Detective Comics #27 (first appearance of Batman) which sold for a little over a million dollars ($1,075,000 to be exact) through Heritage Auctions on February 24, 2010. According to Heritage, there is no copy graded higher than an 8.0 CGC universal grade and herein lies the point, higher grades [...]

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My Search For A High Grade X-Men 88 – Enter Frankenstein

October 14th, 2009 1 Comment

Let me give you a little prelude to this story. I was searching ebay a couple of weeks back and came across an X-Men comic that caught my eye – and from the time I saw it I wanted to find me a nice high-grade copy of it. Oh, probably somewhere in the F-VF+ arena. [...]

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Montage of Spider-Man Villains

September 23rd, 2009 2 Comments

Some time ago I put an image up of spider mans villains. Well, I came across another one when I was browsing Google images. I really like this montage of villains and how it was all laid out in box-style. Take a look here: (Click the image to enlarge) What villain would you say sticks [...]

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