Alan Harper

Every few weeks, we point out a few key Modern Age comics that are moving up or down the sales charts. Modern books are uniquely positioned to have characters make the leap to movies…

Over the past two weeks, Spawn #1 (1992) has held down the top-selling book position. The Copper Age of comics is generally considered to be the twenty years between the mid-1980s and…

Every few weeks, we point out a few key Modern-Era comics that are moving up or down the sales charts. This week, it is hard to look at any sales data and…

X-Men #1 is flying out the door and is one of the top Copper Age comic sellers of the past 10 days.  The Copper Age of comics is generally considered to be…

Every few weeks we point out a few key Modern-Era comics that are moving up or down the sales charts. Most of this episode’s top moving books have one thing in common…

The Copper Age of comics is generally considered to be the twenty years between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s.  There are a lot of amazing comics in this span of time…

5Every few weeks we point out a few key Modern Era comics that are moving up or down the sales charts.  Perhaps the most important thing to note this week is that…

You thought you were too old to think about Hasbro, the ubiquitous toy and game maker?  Think again!  The owner of Magic The Gathering, Peppa Pig, and just about every board game…

Golden Age crime and horror comics feature some incredibly gripping covers. But what is the story behind them? What went on behind the scenes of their creation? Let’s take a look at…

The Bronze Age of comics stretches through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s.  If you came into collecting in these years you probably have a stack of Avengers comics (and Fantastic Four…

After a recent video from The Film Theorists, it got us thinking. They brought up a pretty viable theory about Knull. Let’s dive in a bit.

In honor of Veteran’s Day, we’re looking at some impactful books for the DC era of mighty war books. For years, war tales have told tales of larger-than-life figures as they make…

If you haven’t heard of Something is Killing the Children, well, then you must have been living under a rock. The series has exploded since it debuted in 2019, but what’s in…

How do we figure out what comics are good investments? Amazing Spider-Man #300? It’s a buy. Incredible Hulk #181? Grab it. Strange Academy #1? Definitely. These are all Key Investments in the…

Drugs have played a critical role in several character arcs.  But we are not talking about the classic experimental drugs that have played a role in the origins of several superheroes, such…

If you’ve sent in a comic to have it graded, you probably know the feeling of thinking that your book should have been graded higher. What happens when you resubmit after cleaning…

I actually like the whole King in Black storyline, and I’m not a huge Venom fan.  Knull, the Lord of the Abyss, the god and creator of the Symbiotes, has arrived at…