As I was growing up, my heroes were not only found inside the pages of a full-color magazines. In addition to characters like Spider-Man, Captain America and the Fantastic Four, I also collected a different...
Category: Remembrance of Comics Past
Love and marriage is on the mind today as I’m in Atlanta, GA, celebrating the wedding of two of my best friends. So I thought for today’s reminisce, I would share a story about a...
As a collector with a very narrow focus on one specific title, I’m constantly seeking the best deal available. But oftentimes, I get subjected to the whims of the marketplace. If an issue of Amazing...
Like most of my earliest comic book purchases , I picked up a copy of ASM 300 when it first came out at the local corner candy/tobacco shop in my hometown of East Rockaway, NY....
This coming weekend in New York City there’s the Big Apple Comic Con “Spring Edition,” one of the city’s biggest gatherings of all things comic books and nerd culture. On paper, the event probably sounds...
They say you always remember your first, and for comic book collectors, there’s nothing more important than an issue featuring a character’s first appearance. Amazing Spider-Man #41 was my first first – in this case...
One of the great struggles I’ve always had to deal with throughout my lifetime of collecting was separating myself from the popular stereotype of a comic book collector. Whenever I mention to someone who’s a...
In my hometown of East Rockaway, NY, at the corner of Atlantic and Centre avenues, was a candy/cigarette/general store we called "Jack's." I don't know where that name came from. There was never a sign...
It was probably a year or so before the first Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst was released when my then-girlfriend, now wife and I were at my parents' house on a Saturday...
Something I'd like to do with some regularity around here is to highlight specific issues of Amazing Spider-Man which I own and give you some background and insight about when and how I obtained them....