With the growing popularity of comic books in the mainstream, just about everyone has a comic reader on their gift list these days. And the question, however, is what do you get them? There are definite staple books you will always hear people mention the likes of The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke, Watchmen, Maus and so on, which can make it difficult for you to find something...
Superman’s first comic is likely to command $2-3 million By the end of summer, a rare copy of Action Comics #1 featuring Superman’s first appearance will change hands. The valuable comic is going up for auction on eBay where it will almost certainly fetch around $2 million, if not considerably more. Even though it sold for a mere 10 cents way back in 1938, it’s estimated that only 50 to...
For the first time since 1986, Marvel will resume publishing comics based on the Star Wars universe in 2015. From 1977 to 1986 Marvel published 107 issues of the Star Wars comics with all of them being original stories except for adaptations of the original film and The Empire Strikes Back. (Return of the Jedi was published as its own min-series) While some miscellaneous books were...
Comics fans are a diverse group. You've got your graphic novel and comic book traditionalists, with their shelves or boxes of print copies. Then there are the tech-savvy fanatics who are trying to suss out the cool, but ultimately frustrating experience of tablet-based mobile consumption. (C'mon, Marvel and DC. Get your act together already!) Sometimes, you even come across a hybrid — ...
DC Comics is aiming to make sure that you can find its comics pretty much anywhere you look for them on an e-reader. If you've wanted to pick up some DC Comics, but didn't want to download the Comixology or DC apps, you have been limited to just the collected graphic novels offered in various e-bookstores. All of that is about to change, however, and you will now be able to pick up...