As a new collector of comic books, you are just beginning to learn what it takes to build a valuable comic book collection. Especially if you are trying to find Gold or Silver Age comic books, there are some important questions that will help you develop the skills necessary for building your vintage collection without […]
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Before Watchmen Nite Owl #1 Review “No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.” It’s quickly being established that the “Before Watchmen” series is going for broke. I have yet to read one that’s bad, let alone just decent. Nite Owl #1 hit store shelves today, and with 3 more stories still incoming, I can’t imagine
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Before Watchmen: Comedian #1 Review “Smile” “Before Watchmen” has done a fantastic job showing you the Silk Spectre and Minutemen, but has it prepared you for the Comedian? Which is truly an unfair question to ask since nothing can prepare you for Eddie Blake. But instead of seeing a rage filled psychopath you find a
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Often while I am ringing someone up at Cosmic Comics in Las Vegas I am frequently asked “Hey, what are you currently reading?” considering I often ask the same thing of customers I generally have one or two titles in mind to suggest: Batman & Robin is always my first pick seeing how I love Damien
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Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1 Review “Mean Goodbye” The second of the much awaited “Before Watchmen” series has arrived. Silk Spectre #1 hit store shelves after Minutemen #1, a tough act to follow. It’s not fair to compare the two, but everyone knows they will be. Silk Spectre #1 isn’t about the Sally Jupiter “Silk
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Welcome to the first installment of JOLLY JIM’S JIBBER JABBER: The Beginning of the Silver Age of Comics! THE SILVER AGE So what was the beginning of the Silver Age of comics? I first heard the term Silver Age of Comics in late 1965. I was living in southern California and there had been of
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Minutemen #1 Review “Chapter One: Eight Minutes” It’s been a little over two decades since the legendary Watchman hit store shelves and shook the comic book world from the ground up. Now DC has the difficult task of following up a comic book that was thought could never be followed, or even matched for that
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Why Dr. Manhattan Wears No Pants Guess what? With the new Watchmen comics coming out, the door is also open for another Watchmen sequel now! I’ll explain why, and at the end, I answer the biggest question everybody kept asking me about the first movie (yeah, that “no pants” thing in the title). The first
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Injustice Gods Among Us Announcement Trailer This past Thursday, Gamespot debuted the announcement trailer for Injustice: Gods Among Us, a new fighting game from DC Comics and NetherRealm Studios, the creators of the Mortal Kombat franchise. Here’s the official Description from the InjusticeGame YouTube Channel: “What if our greatest heroes became our greatest threat? Injustice: Gods
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I realize this specific topic has been run into the ground… be it both the positive and the negative responses to DC’s new reboot of Harley Quinn, everyone’s favorite crazy-in-love villainess; however, now that I have the platform to do so I am going to throw in my two-cents on the topic. Harley isn’t exactly
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The Ravagers #1 Review “Children of Destiny” In DC’s newest “New 52“, Dr. Fairchild helps many of the Teen Titans escape the prison and scientific lab, N.O.W.H.E.R.E. Unfortunately escape came at a price with many of the teens losing their lives in the process. Because of Fairchild’s earlier involvement with experiments on the teens, with
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Batman Incorporated #1 Review Part One: Demon Star “In the eye of the Leviathan” Something strange is going on in Batman Incorporated, as if the #1 on the cover means nothing to the story. I’m hoping that later issues of this “New 52” will answer a lot of question Batman Incorporated has surfaced. In Batman
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