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[5 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 3 views]
Comics Auction Breaks Guinness World Record

Press Release – March 3, 2010 – $1-million-plus Batman comic leads Guinness World Record-breaking $5.6 million comics auction at Heritage
Record sale tops the “Nicolas Cage” auction of 2002
DALLAS, TX – The world paid rapt attention to Heritage Auctions, and to the soaring market for fine comic books and choice original art, in the last two weeks of February as the company staged back-to-back record setting auctions – Signature® Illustration Art on Feb. 18 ($4.5 million+) and Signature® Vintage Comics and Comic Art on Feb. 25 ($5.6 million).
This biggest story to …

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[1 Mar 2010 | One Comment | 2 views]
Comic Collectors Are Making Millions

Last month we saw that 2 comic titles making more than $2M in auctions. Earlier it was Action Comics No. 1, which features the first appearance of Superman, sold online for a record-breaking $1m. The 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 with cover showing superhero lifting car sets record for comic book sale. The issue has a cover featuring Superman lifting a car and it originally cost 10 cents.
Well, everyone though it was a record, but three days later a 1939 comic book in which Batman makes his debut, …

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[18 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 13 views]
The Mighty Avengers #26 – 29

As I said earlier in Chasing Ghosts. I will stop reviewing back issues and catch up with the latest issues and only review the latest one. Well, I did. I just finish reading #26 till #29 and I am not going to do a review.
So, what will you get this time? Just the covers. All pack in plastic bags with backing boards and ready to be put into the box.

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[29 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 55 views]
Mighty Avengers #25 – Mighty/Fantastic: The Baxter Job Part 1

Jocasta was forced to cut the PymPocket lab free from reality in order to get away from the forces of HAMMER. They are now untethered from reality. Although there are other doors from them to access Earth, those doors are fading fast.It is only a matter of time until the Avengers are trapped in a sideway parallel universe forever.
Henry Pym is really pissed off and the only way to get it back ‘online’, he needs Bill Foster’s Dimensional Wave Inducer, which is in the hand of Dr. Reed Richards …

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[28 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 124 views]
Apple Launches iPad, But It Is Currently Not Suitable For Marvel Digital Comics

Yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage once again to make a new product announcement. After months long rumors, finally he unveils Apple tablet – iPad.

Wednesday’s announcement of the Apple iPad may have much of the comic book industry excited about its impact on the industry, but Marvel is a little more cautious, particularly since the device isn’t Flash-enabled. “It’s not going to support our digital comics subscription service as it is,” said Ira Rubenstein, executive vice president of Marvel’s Global Digital Media Group, referring to Marvel’s current online …