Hot on the heels of the first comic book to fetch one million dollars, an 8.0 CGC graded copy of Detective Comics #27 featuring the first appearance of Batman brings $1,075,000 at auction! Who says Superman is better than Batman! This book was purchased by a collector 40 years ago for $100 and was beautifully [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
Appearance on CGS Episode 794 – The Early Days of DC Comics
Needless to say, I had a great time appearing on Episode 794 of Comic Geek Speak to discuss the early days of DC Comics. We discuss the period from 1935 through approximately 1947. These were the formative years of the company and the great characters they published. Thanks to the guys at CGS for inviting [...]
Action Comics #1 Sells for One Million Dollars!
Action Comics #1 (June 1938) is really “golden” with an 8.0 CGC graded copy selling for $1 million today at the auction site, ComicConnect.com. This beautiful copy of Action Comics #1 featuring the first appearance of Superman was a part of the Kansas City pedigree collection, the oldest pedigree collection known to exist, and one [...]
The Bat-Bobsled
I was watching the Men’s Two-Man Bobsled event from the 2010 Winter Olympics tonight and thought the USA’s black bobsled would be very cool as a “Bat-Bobsled” with its black paint and fins. I then remembered the original Bat-Bobsled as it appeared in the Golden Age of comic books. Yep, in the winter of 1945, [...]
75 Years of DC Comics!
DC Comics is 75 years old this month! Without DC there would be no Superman, Batman or many other superheroes that have become so ingrained in popular culture. Following is my tribute to 75 years of DC Comics as written for the 2010 Vintage DC Comics Calendar. In February 1935, Major Malcom Wheeler-Nicholson created National [...]