As someone who started reading Amazing Spider-Man comic books 296 issues (and 25 years) after they debuted, I've always come to understand Peter Parker/Spidey’s origin story in a roundabout way. Given some of the expected...
Category: Remembrance of Comics Past
People who have read or heard me talk to them about comic books and specifically my Amazing Spider-Man collection have described me with a number of adjectives – most of them positive: “passionate,” “dedicated” and...
August 2012 is officially the 50 th Anniversary mark for the birth of my favorite comic book character, Spider-Man. In a perfect world, I would have planned something more celebratory for Chasing Amazing this month,...
Looking back at when I was considerably younger and how I interpreted “value” is a fascinating exercise. I’ve mentioned in past posts that my first true hobby was collecting baseball cards. While opening packs upon...
At different points in my life, I’ve often contemplated if I was born in the right year. That’s because my tastes in pop culture have never really been in-tune with the rest of my generation....
Going back to when I was a little kid, my parents were gratuitous gift givers. Before I go any further, let me preface this post by saying this is not something I had an issue...
People will say timing is everything. Yet sometimes using the power of 20-20 hindsight, timing doesn’t always seem to add up and make sense. Take the story – or better put, non-story – of my...
While there are a number of things about the universe I don’t pretend to understand, one specific item that has confounded me for years was the seemingly exorbitant price for certain copies of volume II...
With Easter weekend upon us, I’m thinking back to a time in my life when I sacrificed my comic book collection – sort of – in the spirit of Lent. Naturally, this grand spiritual gesture...
I often wonder what my comic book collection would look like if I was conducting the bulk of my chase in an era without the Internet. I know collector communities have existed seemingly since the...