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1990's Comics

....or, Staring At Creases...and I don't mean the ones that have grown around my eyes... A few years back I quietly embarked on a comic collecting quest that is somewhat ridiculous, and somewhat maniacal. Many people have laughed at this and many others have just looked at me like I have a hole in my head. I'm getting used to those responses now, and frankly put now find them amusing. Here's the quick-and-dirty of it: I've started an autobiographical collection. I'm looking at a certai
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Really, I deserved that look?...

...or... the REAL value of your local comic shop.... You know, like many of us I have worked hard to get where I am in my life and I have a little cash to spend every now and then to buy myself something that I want. Comics full this guilty pleasure for me and has done so for the last 20-some-odd years (and yes, I am ageing myself with that comment). I'm OK with this, my family is OK with this, and that is all that matters. So earlier this week I sat down and set out a list of the top 4 "m
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Buy a business or buy comics...

...Or....Is my memory really that bad??? Evidently, Yes. 9 months ago I made the ingenious decision to leave my nice little job as a cog in a giant corporate machine (and yes you can freely conjure up images of Metropolis here if you want), and I bought into a 40-year-old professional service business. Is it phenomenally exciting for most of you to hear this? No. But it was exciting to me so, tough ta-ta's! As a result of this decision though all my cash was gone. Meaning no comics. Tha
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Why I'm only buying modern raw books from now on...

...or, I can now re-afirm: I do need glasses. This year for my coupon books I decided to send in some key issues that I had been scouring the Toronto Convention scene for over the last two years: Tarzan #207, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #134, and Forever People #1. These are specific comics that I went to these shows looking for the best condition book at the show and I paid the bucks for the best condition. In each case I went to each booth asking for the particular issues and then did a
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Tarzan a Go-Go!

Toronto ComicCon is weeks away and can you guess what I'm hunting for? Well after some time in digging through the old boxes for low grade early Dell Tarzan Comics I've decided to take the time and money and buy back some of the DC Tarzans. I had a few of these from waaaaaayyyy back, but you can only imagine the drawing I doodled into these things as a kid, so now I need to buy them all again. Curse me and my comic destroying ways in my youth! I wonder why people don't see value in the art
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If A The Dollar Bin Hunter I need to be, then so I shall be!

Sometimes you need to go with your gut.... You know, there really were two under-sung hero's of the comic publishers that came and went in the early 1990's. The first one was Valiant, but we all know and remember what happened to them (and thankfully they are now starting up again). The second one is a little company that I miss dearly called Malibu Comics. Malibu was a great little publishing house that was coming out with some good original materials (as well as their fair share of bl
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Well, I must need glasses...

Again with the three day's of shipping from Florida to Ontario-they're some kinds of Sorcerers! Seriously; I'm perplexed. The first time I thought it was a fluke, but again the CGC pull this off. When I ship in Canada I cannot guarantee that type of turnaround time door to door-how do they do it? (I'm not complaining by any means) Amazing Spiderman 129 is back in my hands after dropping it off at the Wizard ComicCon in Toronto-8.5 grade (which is fair). I'm just dumbfounded as to how the
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The Long Voyage Home...that wasn't....

Well after a 90+ business day wait I am pleased to say that the "birth of Wolverine comics" have retuned to their home country: Canada. Sending items down into the US is often a wondrous process as items coming back are subject to all sorts of import shenanigans, so when I sent my Incredible Hulk 180 and 181 down for grading it was with heavy heart that I let these boys go. I waited and watched eagerly on the status and waited and waited and waited-then one day it happened-"Shipped/Safe."
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It's only a matter of time before we see Prime and Mantra back in print now....

Where's my Bloodshot and Ninjak Copies?!? After much ado, Valiant is finally putting their proprietary characters back in print. All I can say is that it's about time! For those of us who watched as the characters were destroyed systematically through a rather unappreciated acquisition and change of management/direction, I certainly hope this turns out to be a nice return to the pre-unity days when all was edgy and new. Now all that remains is for the "ultraverse" to do the same, then onc
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Wizard World Toronto Comiccon 2012-Done and Done!

Great time, but where's the selection of slabbed comics? Well I'm back here at home a little cash-poor and a little comic-rich after a trundle through Wizard World Toronto Comic-Con. My overall feedback is two-fold: 1) If you were looking for unslabbed comics it was a great time to find some really obscure stuff, and 2) If you were there to do a quick addition to your CGC collection you were pretty much out of luck. I went into this convention looking for some early Korak and Tarzan issue
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