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18 total comics including the super-hot Tales of Suspense 52 & 53 in reader grade condition and Marvel Fanfare 10, 11, 12 & 13. Perfect way to collect keys in one fell swoop. Opening bid is only 99 cents plus applicable taxes and shipping charges. Click here to see the full listing. Thanks for looking and hopefully bidding!

In the mid to late 90s I collected near complete runs of most Marvel titles from the early 60s thru the mid 80s. I was actually reading them so I mostly bought reader grade copies and the only issues I didn't buy were the ones reprinted in cover to cover Marvel Milestone Editions. About five years ago, every time a Marvel movie or TV show was released, I began selling off that collection on ebay. Why? To finance my own comic book company! And this month that company just made its debut in Previews with The Heroes Union #1 by Roger Stern, Ron Frenz & Sal Buscema. I know most of you don't care about that, but here's a link to the Previews page for those who are curious to see what I wasted all those profits on. I still have mostly complete runs of Hulk (including 2-6), Sgt Fury, Tales of Suspense, Fantastic Four and thankfully, Darkhawk which I'm sure I'll cash in eventually when the MCU gets to those places. But here's the heart of what I've sold off to finance my publishing dream: Tales to Astonish 27, 35- to the last Giant-Man issue Amazing Adventures 1-6 Avengers 2, 3 5-400 Daredevil 1-200 (sold to coincide with the Netflix show) still have the Echo issues though JIM - 83-125, 126-300 (sold during Thor Ragnarok) Spider-Man 2, 4-400 (sold during Homecoming) X-Men 2-67 most issues from 94-200 (sold during Days of Future Past) Strange Tales 110- 167 (sold during the Dr. Strange movie) I bought them all way before the movie boom plus they were mostly reader copies so I have no regrets about selling most of them though I definitely parted with my complete Eternals run prematurely. Based on the trailer I actually think that movie will be a dud but I still sold way too soon. And the only thing that will make me feel better is if you all pre-order The Heroes Union #1! So that's my non-sob story. Anybody else ever felt compelled to sell their collection for a GOOD reason. What did you sell and why?

Opening bid of 99 cents for most Byrne keys all in one huge lot - including two copies of issue 1. Click Here to see the 99 cent listing!

Here's the link for this 99 cent opening bid auction on ebay: 1st Legion of Monsters in Marvel Premiere is here! And check out my other 99 cent Marvel and DC Bronze Age auctions on ebay by clicking here!

Last few days to bid on 1st Silk and all of Spider-Verse arc on ebay Click here for Silk's 1st and Spider-Verse all in one lot!

It seems likely that the comic book publishing landscape will look very different one year from now. Marvel's publishing success is dependent on non-returnable single issues feeding their book trade and digital direct-to-consumer subscriptions via their own platform. That's three sources of revenue for the same content. DC uses a less successful version of Marvel's model and the rest of the industry follows suit with diminishing results. So how does the industry respond if the direct market, built on independent retailers who pay rent and hourly wages on top of their non-returnable inventory, is devastated to the point of collapse? A lot of people have argued that Marvel needs to cut back their line (though not due to a pandemic) but that means a lot of people lose their jobs. How many monthly titles can Marvel and DC reasonably maintain? Does some version of newsstand distribution re-emerge? Do they switch to digital only with print on demand? Will their corporate bosses even consider the Marvel & DC comic book divisions to be worth maintaining? What will this all mean for indie comics? Thoughts? www.sitcomics.net

50 different items in the lot including the complete six issue storyline that ends in issue 59. Click here to see it on ebay!

Final hours for all these lots and most are still super cheap. Check them out!

Here's a selection of some fairly large comic book lots, all with opening bids of just 99 cents plus shipping. A lot of Charlton titles including Ditko Captain Atom and horror comics. Also in this assortment of auctions is a lot of DC New Teen Titans comics including a Mark Jewelers copy of DC Comics Presents 26. Check them out by clicking here!

Here's a great lot of key X-men Bronze Age issues including a low-grade copy of Giant Size X-Men 1 and Days of Future Past - OPening bid of 99 cents. Click here to see the listing.

Ends in less than 24 hours! Click the initial post to see all the great Master of Kung Fu books in this lot.

Nice lot of keys from Shang Chi's early days as well as newsstand versions of Marvel Tails 1 and several Peter Porkers. Click here to see them on ebay.

I love the feedback. Thank you! Artist actually added the text and I really liked it. I publish mainstream super-hero books for families to read together including many 8-13 year olds who aren't as aware that some terms are less fresh than others. And it's familiar enough to parents who can explain it without having to google it. You'd have to try the individual comics to see if they're for you. They're available in print but are currently free to read on ComiXology Unlimited as seen here.

Thanks to everybody who weighed in on which covers to use. Here's the official color cover for Startup Binge Book #3 on sale July 31st, 2019. (pencils Ron Frenz, inks by Sal Buscema, colors by Glenn Whitmore). The website for all the other issues is here.

It seems like every month there are 100 new creator-owned titles to replace the 100 old creator-owned titles that disappear, never to be heard from again. Obviously, every creator owned series is different but when a creator-owned series debuts from Image, Aftershock, Dark Horse or the other non-Marvel/DC/Valiant publishers, who usually makes the decision to pull the plug? Do the creators ask/try/beg to keep the thing going but they are told they can't? If so, by whom? Or do the creators bail after seeing sales numbers? If the creator truly does own it and went to all that trouble over months and even years to get their passion project made, why not find another publisher to keep it going before giving up? Without knowing what's really happening, it seems more and more as though creator owned series are more like intellectual property lottery tickets. If there's no TV option after a year, tear up the lottery ticket and go create another lottery ticket. I get the allure of selling TV rights, but it's hard to convince a network that a comic has TV potential when it didn't have enough juice to go past one or two story arcs as comics. If Kirkman had bailed after 12 issues of Walking Dead, the TV thing may have never even happened. So in the creator owned world, who is the person who says, "cancelled"? www.sitcomics.net

No spoilers but the coffee is explained in the story.

Here's Ron's fully penciled version of the chosen cover that'll be on sale in 2019

So I have the best kind of problem. I publish a line of comics called Sitcomics and I asked Ron Frenz (Spider-Man, Thor, etc) to do a cover for me for the upcoming issue (#3.2) of a series called Startup, featuring interiors by Craig Rousseau. The chapter introduces a new, all-business assassin named Pinstripes who wears a 3-piece suit of armor and carries around a coffee mug that says "World's Greatest Assassin". Pinstripes cover dialogue is an homage to They Live. Pinstripes will say: Startup, I have come here to drink coffee and eliminate you. And this helmet doesn't have a hole for coffee. As you see, Ron sends me both of these roughs to choose from but I can only pick one. I love them both but I'm leaning toward one over the other and I wondered if any of you can pitch in your two cents by voting for the one you're more likely to pick up off the rack. You're welcome to explain your reasons but you don't have to. So which one do you prefer? "Rooftop" or "Office"

Over 100 Atlas/Marvel Western Silver and Bronze Age comics for sale. Sold in lots of about a dozen each. Opening bid is only 99 cents on every lot and I am happy to combine shipping to save you as much money as possible (shipping charges suck!) To see all these great old Marvel Western comics up for auction on ebay: Click right here! You'll also find a few other cool items like a nice big lot of Richie Rich reader copies and a hardcover Rebirth Flash Graphic novel. All opening bids are 99 cents plus shipping.

Thanks for both the link and the info! It is pretty cool to see that my comics have been graded. I can visualize that CGC grader staring at each page, scouring it for flaws and defects. Good thing they don’t actually READ the comic because they’d find plenty. (I kid.)

Okay, I'm guessing this one doesn't come up often. Is there a record of what comics have been slabbed that can be accessed by people who don't slab their own comics? I'm a longtime collector who recently started publishing my own comics (They're called Sitcomics and here's the link to prove it) for the past few years with artists like Ron Frenz, Sal Buscema, Al Milgrom, Craig Rousseau, Jeff Shultz and Tom Richmond and soon with writers Roger Stern and Todd Dezago. I'm selling all my Silver Age and Bronze comics to pay to publish them. I'm selling lots of nice keys but I've never slabbed a single comic and I probably never will. But I'd be fascinated to find out if any of the comics I publish have been slabbed? The titles are The Blue Baron (2 issues), Super 'Suckers (4 issues), Startup (2 issues), Telepathetic (1 issue) and Z-People (1 issue). Is there any way I can find out if any of them have been slabbed?

10 LOTS CONTAINING EVERY HANK PYM/ANT MAN/GIANT-MAN AND WASP STORY IN TALES TO ASTONISH, INCLUDING TTA 27, 35, 44 & 57. TONS OF FANTASTIC DITKO BACK-UP STORIES AS WELL AS DITKO'S SHORT BUT AMAZING HULK RUN! CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL TEN LOTS!

From Tales to Astonish 27 and 35 all the way to 69! Reader grade copies of every Tales to Astonish appearance of Hank Pym, Ant-Man, Wasp and Giant Man! Plus Marvel Premiere 47 and 48 featuring the first appearances of Scott Lang as Ant-Man! Tales to Astonish 27, 35 & 36 all in one lot! Click here to see all the ebay lots currently up for auction! Hit me up with questions if you have any. I'm using all the money raised from the sale of these auctions to pay for the next wave of Sitcomics (Click here for more information on Sitcomics)

Bleeding Cool's retailer meeting article suggests that the Squadron Sinister / Squadron Supreme figure into Marvel's plans after Secret Wars. Besides Avengers 85, what are the key Silver Age books for those characters?