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Captain America No. 1 kept in a cardboard box for 80 years sells for $716,750

The Merrimack Valley Collection is a legendary comic book collection in which someone bought comics off the rack and stored them in a cardboard box for almost 80 years. Heritage Au...

The Beat Digest 10/13/26: ERNIE BUSHMILLER play premieres

Classic Comic Compendium: BATMAN – THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS turns 40

As Batman - The Dark Knight Returns turns 40, The Beat's classic comic compendium column reflects on the classic work.

This Controversial DC Hero’s Golden Age First Appearance Makes an Incredibly Rare Near-Mint Auction Appearance With a Ma...

DC‘s Golden Age, lasting from 1938 to 1956, introduced many of its most enduring super-heroes and villains. This Golden Age was kicked off by the almost-mythical Action Comics #1,...

Classic Comic Compendium: JOE THE BARBARIAN will inspire you to explore the worlds inside

Joe the Barbarian occupies the same space as something like The Filth and Annihilator, but approaches it from a different angle.

The Beat Digest 09/15/26: CONCRETE back in print

Marvel’s 300K success story and Taschen compact editions

Marvel has some good stuff going on, including three bestselling comics and an affordable line of reprints from Taschen

These Vintage Marvel Super Heroes Trading Cards Are Hilarious, But Their Price Is No Joke

Golden and Silver Age comics showedcased superheroes in their most glorious avatars. The costumes during those ages are often how we still picture heroes in out minds even after al...

Studio Chikara’s PUBLIC DOMAIN FUNNIES COMICS #1 features fair-use fun

5 ’90s Comic Masterworks We Should Talk About More

Image Courtesy of Image Comics The 1990s are the most bipolar decade in comic history. On the one hand, there were some of the biggest successes in the history of the industry, wi...

Collectors Have Chased This Flash Comic For Decades, And Now A Rare Copy Is Up For Auction

For decades, “comic books” and “super-heroes” have been synonymous. But for a few years in the 1950s, the super-hero genre looked like a fad of the previous decade, soon to be rele...

Weird Love / The Marvels

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The Value Of This Captain America Original Artwork Is So High Because Someone At Marvel Wanted To Save Money

There’s something really satisfying about a good double page comic book splash. When executed properly, they drive the impact of a pivotal moment in the narrative and bring to life...

Comic Spotlight: Uncanny X-Men #281 Is Flawed Yet Underrated

Uncanny X-Men is going through something of a renaissance, with writer Gail Simone taking the book back to its character-heavy, soap opera roots. Once upon a time, it was the bests...

A Bizarre Giveaway Doubles the Value of This Classic Spider-Man Villain’s First Appearance

More than almost any other Marvel super-hero, Spider-Man emerged fully-formed. In the first decade of Spider-Man stories, Stan Lee and artists Steve Ditko and John Romita introduce...

Classic Comic Compendium: LITTLE MONSTERS, an odd tale of vampire children after the apocalypse

Little Monsters is another great collaboration between Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, this one with orphans and vampires.

R. Sikoryak's latest word-for-word comics adaptation of America's foundational documents

R. Sikoryak is a cartooning mimic of incredible ability, drawing in the style of any other cartoonist with absolute precision. Boing Boing has written about his previous projects t...

A 1950 Crime Comic That Surprisingly Introduced a Horror Icon Sold for a Lot More Than You Would Ever Expect

Courtesy of Cinerama Releasing Everyone seems to be doing crossovers now, whether it is characters from one TV show turning up in another, movies bringing previously unconnected u...

22 Years Later, DC’s Greatest Silver Age Revival Still Deserves to Be Called a Classic

DC Comics has 87 years of history under its belt. The various eras of the publisher have helped shape the superhero into what it is today. While you can’t have any of it without th...

The Marvel Rundown: MARVEL GOLD ‘76 is mashup magic

Marvel celebrates a cavalcade of 50th anniversaries in Marvel Gold '76, which pits Bullseye against cosmic heroes Nova, Star-Lord, and...

The Beat Digest 09/22/26: Grønbekk reunites with RED SONJA

Street Craft / Fantastic, Amazing, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir

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Mad Cave Brings three more Comixology Originals to print in 2027

NYCC ‘26: Retro Golden Age big swings for 30 years of Oni Press

New projects featuring old (very old) characters...