What I love about ComicSeeker.com is that the entire world of comic books is available to you from one website. To find your old comic book, you simply enter it into our search box above and view your results.
However, once in a while I get questions about how to find old comic books out in [...]
Posted under Comic Books, Golden Age, Marvel, Old Comics, Searching, Silver Age by admin 23.10.2009
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With the recent announcement that America’s favorite teenager, Archie Andews, would soon be engaged to Betty or Veronica, we thought that it would be interesting for you to learn the first appearance of Archie.
Archie first appeared in Pep Comics #22 in December 1941. With multiple stories in each issue, Pep Comics was considered an anthology [...]
Posted under Comic Books, Golden Age, Old Comics by admin 05.06.2009
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I woke up at 5:15AM Friday to make a 7:45AM flight to SFO. I made it to the airport with time to spare. I flew United and the terminal at SFO has a nice display of “Space Pop Culture” from the 1950’s. Since I was in no rush, I browsed most of the exhibit which [...]
Posted under Artists, Comic Books, Dealers, Golden Age, Modern Age, Old Comics by admin 04.03.2009
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For a long time now, old and rare comic books have not been cheap. When you take a look at the blue chips of the comic book market, they can be downright pricey. Rob, over at It’s All Just Comics, maintains a list of comic books that are valued at $100,000 or more. I thought [...]
Posted under CGC, Comic Books, Golden Age, Old Comics, Prices and Values, Rare Comics, Silver Age by ComicSeeker 03.02.2009
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Comic books celebrate people, events and things. Today, happens to be Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. His life was chronicled in a 10 cent comic book in 1956, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story.
This comic book was published in 1956 by Fellowship of Reconciliation. It was short, even by today’s [...]
Posted under Comic Books, Golden Age, Old Comics, Rare Comics by admin 19.01.2009
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Since I’ve received some comments on the last post about the value of restored comic books, I have received some comments that I thought would be helpful for readers.
First, clarification on what is comic book restoration. There are many different points of view on what constitutes restoration and what is conservation of a comic book. [...]
Posted under Comic Book Restoration, Comic Books, Old Comics, Rare Comics by admin 05.01.2009
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The comic book collecting community has taken an obvious stance when it comes to pricing restored comic books. Generally, a restored comic book is valued between one-fourth and one-half of the value of the same book, in the same condition, but unrestored.
This trend is only about 6-8 years old, since the advent of CGC encapsulation [...]
Posted under Comic Book Restoration, Comic Books, Old Comics, Prices and Values by admin 29.12.2008
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The Spirit movie is now out in theatres. It’s been out since Christmas, but I have not yet had a chance to see it. Unfortunately, the reviews are not that great.
However, The Spirit comics are timeless classics and well worth reading. The spirit was created by Will Eisner and was initially published as a Sunday [...]
Posted under Artists, DC, Golden Age, Movies, Old Comics by admin 28.12.2008
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There are countless Disney comic books, both rare and commonly available, with Christmas themes. Disney did publish a few very specific Christmas titled comic books.
The following is the first issue of Walt Disney’s Christmas Parade published by Dell Comics in 1949. This 132 page comic book from the Golden Age was penciled by Walt Kelly. [...]
Posted under Comic Books, Golden Age, Old Comics, Rare Comics by admin 20.12.2008
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I was thinking of doing a series of posts to highlight Christmas Comic Books from the Golden Age, Silver Age to the Present. So, I took a quick look at the Grand Comics Database and was amazed to find 77 comic book titles with Christmas in the title.
That count does not include comic books of [...]
Posted under Comic Books, Golden Age, Old Comics by admin 17.12.2008
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