Publishers all over do marketing. Advertising with slick little gimmicks that are intended to push sales up. But the comic book companies have for a very long time (at least as long as I’ve been collecting) been doing some pretty underhanded schemes. Looking back on the last twenty some odd year’s worth of books, they [...]
For many years we dealt with knowing the best stories and heroes were in comics and that they deserved movies made about them, but the powers that be said, “That’ll never sell in the box office.” Now we have a new problem, they have found the characters that we old school comic book geeks know [...]
It’s been a long while since I posted about anything at all, but this one has been back burnered for far to long… So okay now, I’ve dug around in some old boxes and lo’ and behold have found a 1st issue print of ‘Captain Spectacular and the Stupendous Force!’ Wow, it has passed all [...]
All right, so you know how to look at a comic and decide what condition it is. Now how do we keep the new, off-the-shelf comics in great shape?
Part 1 of a broad overview of comic book collecting, including: conditions of comics and how to appraise them, protection and care, and finally a look at the market – where to buy/sell.
DC & Marvel are both guilty of marketing madness throughout their history. Most of their big stories are just one more in a series of attacks meant to force the readers to buy all the tons of crud they have loaded the stands with. I implore you, DON’T DO IT!!!
