Archive for the Comic Book Basics Category


Comic Book Sales Highlights from the Don and Maggie Thompson Collection

Heritage Auctions recently sold several high grade comics from the Don and Maggie Thompson collection.  Don and Maggie were instrumental in starting the Comic Buyer’s Guide.  Don passed away several years ago and Maggie kept working on the guide and several other projects.  I ran into her a few years ago at the San Diego […]

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Atlas Comics Resource

Atlas Comics (not to be confused with Atlas/Seaboard) is the company that spanned the time between Martin Goodman’s Timely Comics and the more familiar Marvel Comics. Timely’s last comics was Captain America Comics #75 (Feb. 1950). The familiar 1950’s Atlas Globe then appeared and this was the overarching corporate entity for Goodman’s comic book publishing […]

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Jack Kirby Documentary Video

Jack Kirby is one of the most important and famous artists in the history of comic books.  Along with Stan Lee he is responsible for most of the Marvel Comics foundation that still thrives today. His original art is highly coveted today, and in the video below you can learn more about this comic book […]

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