I picked up this bootleg figure a couple of weeks ago. It’s just so wrong that it’s right. I have a newfound love of foreign toys produced beyond the reaches of our fine American legal system. Hey Rich, I bet you don’t have one of these in your Super Powers collection! 😉
Earliest Superman cover art known to exist is up for bid at Heritage Auctions
The earliest Superman cover art known to exist – Fred Guardineer’s thrilling visage of the Man of Steel from Action Comics #15 – may bring $200,000+ in Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 20-22 Vintage Comics Signature® Auction in New York. The rare work joins nearly 1,200 lots, including two Silver Age milestones: Amazing Fantasy #15 – the first appearance of Spider-Man – in 9.0 grade by […]
Collecting pop culture icons
I collect a lot of things. No, it’s true, I have more toys and comics than any grown man should, but the longer that I collect, the more willing I am to cut down the fluff and focus on the really good items. This is the natural progression of being a collector — there is […]
Superman: 75 years captured in two minutes
To celebrate Superman’s 75th anniversary, Zack Snyder and Bruce Timm assembled this awesome short film that covers all those years in a single bound. Check it out…
Martin Ansin’s Man of Steel poster is… Super!
It really isn’t fair how artists such as Martin Ansin have been allotted so much talent. Save some for the rest of us, would you? For the last few years, Ansin has been one of my favorite poster artists, and his Man of Steel print is absolutely breathtaking… A while back, Mondo released this poster a little differently […]
My most epic yard sale finds (yet)
If you’re new around these parts, you might not be aware that I am a pretty hardcore yard sale plunderer. For the last few years, I have posted here on Cool & Collected, the items I have bought at yard sales, and since this week’s League topic is all about yard sale finds, I thought it […]