Just back from the inaugural Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, where in promoting my own work I got to meet Jim Shooter, there to promote the new Gold Key heroes line of comics for Dark Horse. Shooter is a key figure in comics history, having tenures in various capacities with DC, Valiant, Defiant, Broadway, and, … Read more
Very busy of late — thoughts of getting Star Trek circulation history notes on the site to coincide with the film release ran into time constraints. There isn’t much to be found in the Statements of Ownership, anyway, except for the single year in the late 1990s when Marvel had obtained the license for the … Read more
Having posted a piece on Watchmen’s original sales rankings in 1986-87, comments on The Beat led me to do some follow-up research into when the comics actually hit the stands. For this, I turned to Comics Buyer’s Guide‘s “Comics in Your Future” column, beginning with issue #654 (cover dated May 30, 1986). “Future” was the … Read more
Watchmen is one of the most reprinted comics series in history — but where did Watchmen rank at the time it came out, in its original comic book form? As mentioned when posting Neil Dorsett‘s essay on Watchmen and Film Techniques a few days back, the number of public inquiries about the series has, as … Read more
Forbes has an article on bubbles in collecting hobbies — certainly recalling what I used to see in my years at Krause Publications, where with our magazines in various collecting fields we were able to follow the speculator craze from sportscards, to comics, to Magic cards, to Beanie Babies, to action figures, to Pokémon cards … Read more