More than 70 Marvel Comics’ scheduled for release in November, December, January, and February are being delayed by up to eight weeks due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the comic book industry.
Has a comic book character ever realized they were… eh, a comic book character? It is called “breaking the fourth wall” and it occurs in comic books to great effect. Here are a few notable instances where a comic book character realized they were not real.
The 1950’s were the heyday of McCarthyism and like many other forms of entertainment, comic books came to be viewed as a threat. The industry’s reaction to the threat would kick off an entirely new era – the Silver Age of Comics.
Prior to comic books as we know them, off-the-wall fiction appeared in a format called The Pulps. Around 1892, stories were printed in cheap paper magazines (hence the name, Pulps). They contained fantastical storylines and pictures and are universally considered to be the precursor to the comic books that appeared during the Golden Age of…
Action Comics #1 marks the first appearance of Superman. It was published in 1938 and sold for $.10 cents. Yesterday, a copy of the iconic issue sold for $3.25 million dollars.
Batman No. 27, published in 1939, is notable for its first appearance of Batman. A “fine/very fine 7.0” graded copy of the issue has sold for $1.5 million in another auction from Heritage Auctions.
Words like variants, trade dress, exclusives, and virgin variants have a unique meaning in the pop culture collectible arena. For people just getting into collectibles, it can be really confusing.
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