I firmly believe that in any situation, when you’re trying to make the best deal for yourself, you have to use all of the resources that are available to you – including the borderline flirtations...
Category: Remembrance of Comics Past
Before there was Spider Island , there was Maximum Carnage, a major Spidey-centric Marvel crossover “event” from the 1990s. Split into 14-parts and featuring prominent guest appearances from the likes of Captain America, Venom, Morbius...
My Amazing Spider-Man collection has gone through numerous fits and starts over the years. When I was younger, I didn’t have the attention span to be fixated on one specific comic book series or character...
I’ve always taken pride in my memory. I can think back to something that happened in my life 15 or 20 years ago and recount a number of mundane details, like the expressions on people’s...
My inability to negotiate is the stuff of legends. And let me tell you, that’s not something as a collector I should go about touting, but it’s true. When I was a little kid, my...
Amazing Spider-Man #219 was published in August 1981, which means this month this issue is celebrating a milestone 30 th anniversary. I know this because, in addition to knowing basic math, today is my 30...
As Chasing Amazing concludes its first ever theme week, I’ve been asking myself why am I still drawn to Venom more than 20 years after seeing him in a comic book for the first time....
Only in the world of collecting could something be considered “Good” but not actually look as good as the more non-specific qualifier “Fine.” But if you’re going to collect comic books, you need to know...
I have stories, reflections and memories about nearly all of the Spider-Man comic books in my collection, but in order to add proper context to these “Remembrance” posts, I think I need to write about...
I’ve been emotionally connected to newspapers for as long as I can remember. Going back to those silly little essays you’d have to write in elementary school about what you wanted to be when you...