Tag Archives: vintage comics

The Action Comics #1 Found In The Wall Of An Old House Sells For $175,000

No way we could let the week of release of Man of Steel pass without a story of the sale of an Action Comics #1, could we?  You all remember this one from a few weeks back — a copy …

$135,000 (So Far) For An Action Comics #1 Found In A $10,100 House…

Remodeler finds comic book worth over $100K in wall at Elbow Lake house is the headline. amid old newspapers used to insulate a wall of a fixer-upper he was gutting in Elbow Lake, Minn Action Comics #1 is the comic. …

Retailers, Watch Out For Southern Gentlemen Cleaning Out Estates

A retailer writes; I just received an e-mail from someone claiming to have a Key Golden Age comic that they “found this cleaning out a estate in Virginia after the tenants passed”. The comic is slabbed, and a quick price …

BC Mag #4: Vintage Paper Chase

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Mark Seifert & William Christensen There’s nothing a vintage comic collector likes better than to see an obscure old comic given new importance by a film or tv show. It’s all well and good when …

Desperately Seeking Gary Dahlberg’s Letter

One curious collector called Michael writes; I just picked up a couple of vintage Marvel ‘holy grails’ this past week: a 1965 Merry Marvel Marching Society Fan Club kit and a coveted Marvel No-Prize -from 1968. When I brought them …

Rocket Raccoon Hits The Afterburners: First Appearance In Marvel Preview #7 Sells For Record $2000

As we’ve mentioned both here and in the pages of Bleeding Cool Magazine, it’s no secret that first and key appearances of Guardians of the Galaxy characters have been hot back issue sellers since the Guardians of the Galaxy film …

Who’s Got A Spare Half Million For A Detective Comics #27?

Coming to Heritage Auctions — a copy of the first appearance of Batman, Detective Comics #27 in 6.5 CGC condition. Could get half a million, slated to be auctioned off on February 21st, it already has a bid close to …

BC Mag #2: Vintage Paper Chase

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Mark Seifert & William A. Christensen Every year around this time, we get the urge to look at some holiday-themed vintage comic covers and are always amazed to rediscover how much DC Comics liked to …

SHAZAM: First Appearance Of Captain Marvel In Whiz Comics #2 (#1) CGC 9.0 Sells For Record $281,001

The highest CGC-graded copy of Whiz Comics #2 (#1) CGC 9.0 has just sold for $281,001 at high-end comics & collectables auction house Comic Connect.  The February 1940 cover-dated comic book from publisher Fawcett includes a 13 page story by …

BC Mag #1: The Vintage Paper Chase

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by William A. Christensen & Mark Seifert. But a comic from the 1930s is a very different thing than an early issue of Newsweek or any other vintage magazine (though many vintage magazines can be quite …

Mary Marvel Co-Creator, Captain Marvel Artist & Writer Marc Swayze Dies At Age 99

Marc Swayze, early comic book artist and writer for Fawcett Publications, died yesterday at the age of 99, according to the Monroe News-Star. Swayze worked on numerous titles for Fawcett, including Captain Marvel Adventures, Whiz Comics, and Wow Comics.  He …

Highest Graded Copy Of X-Men #1 Goes For Record $492,937.50

With the world’s best collection of Silver Age Marvels up for grabs, a great group of Golden Age books from the Empire Comics Collection also available, and Marty Shamus’s collection of key 1990s art including the Todd McFarlane cover of …

Building An Empire: From Flea Market Dealer To Helping Sell A Million Dollar Comic – Four Decades Of Empire Comics

Longtime BC readers will know that I’m a dedicated comics auction nerd. And it’s an interesting time to be one of those.  Case in point at the moment is Heritage’s current Signature auction, which contains the world’s best collection of …

SPOILERS: The History Behind Batman #10

Batman #10 reintroduces a relatively minor character to the modern Bat-mythos, one that I personally never expected to see again, in a very major way. Said character does have a pedigree in the DCU, albeit a very short one, so now that I’ve gotten some buffer to prevent accidental spoiling out of the way, I can get down to business. You want to know more about this person? Well, here we go:

For Sale: The World’s Best Collection Of Silver Age Marvel Comics

The vintage collecting community has been salivating this morning as word has spread that Doug Schmell of pedigreecomics.com, widely known as one of the most avid collectors of high-grade Silver Age Marvel comics in the world, is selling his painstakingly-assembled …

The Dark Knight Rises, And Rises: Batman #1 CGC 9.2 Sells For Record $850,000

Over the past few months, we’ve talked quite a bit here about how key first comic book appearances of Avengers team members have been going for record prices — less than 2 weeks ago, Bleeding Cool told you about a …