Stuff we like…

Fanboy Tees

80sTees

Visit the Future That Never Was

McFarlane Spidey 313 Original Cover Art on eBay!

With about a day left in the auction as we post this, the current high bid is about $57,000. Wouldn’t be surprise if it topped $100,000 when it’s all said and done.

Per the seller’s auction description, “I was in the comic art, and toy collectable business for 35 years, and it is my opinion, based on empirical evidence of the number of people showing up to conventions, that Todd Mcfarlane is the single most popular comic artist ever (with all due respect to Jack Kirby, God bless him).”

And Todd actually posted about this auction on his Facebook, “HOW 2 MAKE MONEY: Sold a Spidey cover I did years ago for about $700. It’s now on EBAY for over $55,000! Guess I should have asked $800.”

The Hobbit

Yep, years before anyone knew who Peter Jackson was, Eclipse Comics published a beautiful three issue (squarebound “prestige format”) adaptation in 1989, by Chuck Dixon and David Wenzel…

More info / resources:

David Wenzel’s official site is here, and we highly recommend it…

…and if you’re looking for back issues of the original series, definitely inquire at your local comic shop. And yeah, there’s also a collected edition!

List of Comic News Magazine and Price Guides

Comics Scene was published by Starlog, and focused on comic book TV and movie adaptations. Scan courtesy of milehighcomics.com

Okay, here we’ve compiled a list of Comic News Magazines and Price Guides that were in existence at any point during the Copper Age of Comics (1984 – 1991) Did we miss anything? Please let us know!

Amazing Heroes

Comics Buyer’s Guide

Comics Collector

Comics Feature

Comics Interview

Comics Journal

Comics Scene

Comic Shop News

Comics Value Monthly

DC Direct Currents

Four Color Magazine

Marvel Age

Overstreet’s Price Guide

Overstreet’s Price Update

Overstreet’s Price Bulletin

Wizard

Steve Winwood – “Back in the High Life Again”

Beautiful song from his 1986 album, and yes, that’s James Taylor on backing vocals…

Akira House Ad, 1988

Batman: The Cult House Ad, 1988

New site layout!

We’ve (finally) upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, and now tinkering with themes, CSS, etc. So, in the weeks to come you may see some continual evolution of the site, but in doing so, we’ll keep our focus on readability and ease of navigation…

Aerosmith – “Janie’s Got a Gun”

One of the most notable Copper Age era music videos, that would propel David Fincher to a highly successful film career…