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 Tagged ‘Batman’
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, [...]
Golden Age Reprint Round Up – Marvel and DC Classics & WWII Paper Drives
Just in time for your last minute Christmas shopping, Marvel and DC have published two first class Golden Age reprint volumes. Last week, Marvel presented Marvel Masterworks, Golden Age Sub-Mariner Volume 3. This hardback edition features the entire contents of some rarely reprinted Sub-Mariner stories from the WWII era. In this volume you’ll find the [...]
Golden Age Reprint Roundup – Great Christmas Gifts!
Over the past few months there have been several new collected editions featuring Golden Age reprints. These would make great Christmas gifts for your favorite Golden Age fan! Marvel has continued with their popular Masterworks series featuring Atlas Comics reprints. Their latest offering is Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Menace, volume 1. This “ghastly” volume features reprints [...]
The Clock Strikes Twice – A Batman & Robin Swipe
I enjoyed reading Pat’s recent post at the Silver Age Blog about Batman’s swipe of Blackhawk. That got me thinking about an earlier swipe where the Silver Age Batman swipes a story from the Golden Age Robin the Boy Wonder. Although I covered this story way back in the Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast [...]