Archive for the Comic Book Basics Category


Superheroes in Court! Lawyers, Law and Comic Books Video by Mark Zaid of Esquire Comics

Mark Zaid of Esquire Comics presented a fantastic lecture for any fan of comic book history at the Yale Law School.  You can watch the video below. Mark gives some basic history of how the modern comic book came to be, how trademarks and copyrights were secured and much more.  The lecture was titled “Superheroes […]

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Iron Man 55 Values Falling

After the impressive upswing in Iron Man 55 (first Thanos) sales prices, it appears the party may be over. The Avengers movie stoked the hype on this book, but a look at actual sales, giving us a realistic marketplace value, the data is in and it doesn’t look good. In early 2012 this comic in […]

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X-men 141 Values on Fire

On the heels of the X-men Days of Future Past movie announcement, X-men comics associated with the storyline are on fire! I’ve been watching issue of X-men 141 (one of my all-time favorite X-men covers) and the values of this book over the last few weeks have been nothing but amazing. X-men #141 in CGC […]

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