Category: Comics

A copy of Spider-Man’s first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 with a rating of 9.6 sold Tuesday to the tune of $1.1 million. That ranks it’s sale as the second highest amount for a comic sale on record. I gotta say, it must be nice to have that kind of money to invest in a comic. I’ll settle for just reading a reprint and having that on my shelf.

Just one year after selling the comic book with the first appearance of Superman for $1.5 million, the people at ComicConnect.com have done it again, this time with the world’s most famous webhead.

Spider-Man’s first appearance in “Amazing Fantasy” #15 was sold to an anonymous buyer on Tuesday to the tune of $1.1 million. In a press release, ComicConnect.com – an online collectibles marketplace – ranked it as the world’s second most valuable comic book, after the aforementioned “Action Comics” #1, with Superman.

The auction site had previously sold “Detective Comics” #27, where Batman first appeared, for $1.0755 million back in February of 2010. Before last year, sought-after comics like this would never sell for seven figures.

Stephen Fishler, the CEO of ComicConnect.com, said that this sale of “Amazing Fantasy” #15 is a record for the Silver Age of comics from the late 1950s and early 1960s. “The sale of this book crushed all previous records. Up until today’s $1.1 million sale, the record sales price of a comic book from this era was $250,000.”

Fishler first acquired the book 25 years ago, and sold it for $2,500. He later acquired and sold it again for $140,000 in 2000. Fishler also created a widely-accepted grading scale in the years since (driving the prices of highly graded comics skyward), and this book is ranked as a 9.6 out of 10.

“The buyer of this amazing comic wanted to own the very best,” said ComicConnect.com partner Vincent Zuzolo. “The Amazing Fantasy #15 – 9.6 is the definition of the very best.”

Source: CNN

PunisherMax #10 finally hits shelves tomorrow after a huge wait. Issue 9 came out back in August and I myself was starting to wonder if it was ever coming back. Thankfully that day has come. Hack Slash finally gets a monthly title starting tomorrow and it looks like I have some serious reading to do tomorrow night.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #654
BATGIRL #18
BATMAN AND ROBIN #20
BIRDS OF PREY #9
CARNAGE #3
DC COMICS PRESENTS GREEN LANTERN FEAR ITSELF #1
DC UNIVERSE LEGACIES #9
FLASH #9
GREEN HORNET #13
GREEN LANTERN EMERALD WARRIORS #7
HACK SLASH ONGOING #1
JUSTICE LEAGUE GENERATION LOST #19
KNIGHT & SQUIRE #5
OSBORN #3
PUNISHERMAX #10
RED ROBIN #20
STAN LEE STARBORN #3
SUPERMAN #708
THUNDER AGENTS #4
TITANS #32
WALKING DEAD #81
WOLVERINE #1000
WOLVERINE #5.1

One of my favorite bi-weekly titles is out today… Brightest Day!! I have to say that having Brightest Day and Generation Lost coming out every other week has been great. Both series will be soon be coming to an end but looking at all the upcoming Flashpoint releases I should be grateful. One limited series at long last finishes today, Time Masters: Vanishing Point. This series should have finished alongside of the Return of Bruce Wayne but both ran late. Speaking of late… Batman Odyssey is never on time.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #653
AZRAEL #17
BATMAN BEYOND #2
BATMAN ODYSSEY #6
BRIGHTEST DAY #19
DAKEN DARK WOLVERINE #5
DC UNIVERSE: ONLINE LEGENDS #1
GOTHAM CITY SIRENS #19
HELLBOY SLEEPING & DEAD #2
IZOMBIE #10
KEVIN SMITH KATO ANNUAL #1
SECRET SIX #30
SPIDER-GIRL #3
SUPERBOY #4
SUPERMAN 80 PAGE GIANT 2011 #1
TIME MASTERS VANISHING POINT #6
WOLVERINE BEST THERE IS #3

Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert and Sandra Hope are creating an epic five issue series, one with a scope so big and ambitious that there will be fifteen mini series expanding on the events, along with several important one shots.

Last Friday they announced fourteen mini series’ titles based on this year’s Flash based event titled Flashpoint. It seems that the story is based around the Reverse Flash changing some key moments in DC’s history so things don’t happen the way that they did. Here’s a list of the announced titles:

Whatever Happened to Gotham City?

FLASHPOINT: BATMAN KNIGHT OF VENGEANCE #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: DEADMAN AND THE FLYING GRAYSONS #1-#3

Whatever Happened to the World’s Greatest Super Villains?

FLASHPOINT: CITIZEN COLD #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: DEATHSTROKE & THE CURSE OF THE RAVAGER #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: THE OUTSIDER #1-#3

Whatever Happened to the Aliens?

FLASHPOINT: ABIN SUR THE GREEN LANTERN #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: PROJECT: SUPERMAN #1-#3

Whatever Happened to Science & Magic?

FLASHPOINT: FRANKENSTEIN & THE CREATURES OF THE UNKNOWN #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: SECRET SEVEN #1-#3

Whatever Happened to Europe?

FLASHPOINT: EMPEROR AQUAMAN #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: WONDER WOMAN AND THE FURIES #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: LOIS LANE AND THE RESISTANCE #1-#3

Everything You Know Will Change in a Flash

FLASHPOINT: KID FLASH LOST #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: THE WORLD OF FLASHPOINT #1-#3

Source: DC Universe: The Source

Another week and more great reading on the way. At last the final set of Blackest Night Action Figures is released. Up next is the Brightest Day sets starting this summer. I have to say that reading about Lex Luthor the past number of month’s in Action Comics has been great. I’m really looking forward to issue 900. As most comic readers know, this week also marks the death of a member of the Fantastic Four. I don’t get FF monthly but I have to get this one. I’ll actually pick up the 4 issues leading into it if I can.

ACTION COMICS #897
AMERICAN VAMPIRE #11
DETECTIVE COMICS #873
DEADPOOL #32
FANTASTIC FOUR #587
GREEN ARROW #8
JUSTICE LEAGUE: GENERATION LOST #18
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #47
KEVIN SMITH KATO #7
SHAZAM! #1
STAN LEE TRAVELER #3
TEEN TITANS #91
UNCANNY X-FORCE #4
WONDER WOMAN #606
X-23 #5
X-MEN #7

Other:
DC DIRECT – BLACKEST NIGHT: SERIES 8 (ALL)
DC HEROES ALL-STAR DEATHSTROKE ACTION FIGURE

Do you like reading comics? Do you like old school wrestling? If you answered yes to either or both of these questions then you have to check out SLAM-A-RAMA by Halifax’s own Dave Howlett. Available for purchase at Strange Adventures this coming Wednesday!

Here’s a write-up from the comic’s website to give you a little idea of what the comic is all about:

An online graphic novel set during the gaudy glory days of 1980s professional wrestling, SLAM-A-RAMA chronicles the events of the greatest night in sports entertainment history. Over the course of one fateful evening, a diverse cast of characters–some at the top of their game, others on the downward slope of their careers–will be tested by bone-crushing battles within the ring, as well as the harrowing personal dramas that await them backstage.

Source: SLAM-A-RAMA

Below… the list of this weeks releases that I’ll be picking up. I’m hoping Wolverine gets better and hoping for a good mini between Wolverine/Jubilee. Wolverine is the only one I’m thinking about dropping at the moment out of these.

UPDATE: Not thinking about dropping Wolverine anymore. That issue totally kept it on my list.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #652
BATMAN #706
BATMAN: STREETS OF GOTHAM #19
BRIGHTEST DAY #18
DC COMICS PRESENTS: THE ATOM
DEADPOOL MAX #4
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #56
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #53
POWER GIRL #20
SCARLET #4
STAN LEE SOLDIER ZERO #4
SUPERMAN/BATMAN #80
SUPERIOR #4
WOVERINE #5
WOLVERINE & JUBILEE #1