The Most Expensive Comic Book Almost Ever

Man, yesterday was shaping up to be so awesome: At around 2 pm, the GCD crew showed up at the offices of Metropolis Collectibles and ComicConnect.com—dealers in Gold, Silver and Bronze Age comics and art. Their tiny offices sit on the...

Who is the "Anonymous Buyer?"

Kevin Smith: 9-to-2Joss Whedon: 8-to-1 Howard Stern: 9-to-1 Jerry Seinfeld: 10-to-1 Shaquille O'Neal: 12-to-1 Nicholas Cage: 15-to-1 J.J. Abrams: 18-to-1 Paul Allen: 25-to-1 George Lucas: 30-to-1

‘I’ll Bid $300,000 For Batman!’

Grab your money bags and write a number on a ping pong paddle—you’re going to an auction!

Snake Charmer

Did Destro and Cobra Commander have a sleepover? Because it looks like someone got a makeover!

COMICS 2.0

Certain things are simply made for each other—peanut butter and jelly, popcorn and melted butter, exotic dancers and the music of AC/DC. Add comic books and the Sony PSP to that list of perfect pairings: You can now enjoy hundreds of...

Don’t Mess With Hitman Monkey

You know what the comic book industry is sorely lacking these days? Monkeys with guns. Answering our prayers is Marvel’s newest sensation, Hitman Monkey, a highly-trained Japanese macaque assassin who would give the Punisher a run for his...

… And a Poltergeist in a Pear Tree

Ebenezer Scrooge was right—Christmas can be a real drag, what with fighting the crowds at the mall, holiday party hangovers and crappy gifts. We might be jaded, but if we were kept up all night by ghosts nagging us about the true meaning...

Astonish Me, X-Men!

While flipping through a comic book, there have no doubt been times when you’ve thought, “Wow, it would really be cool if these pictures started moving and I could hear the characters talk!” Um, yeah, that’s called animation. You should...

Stan The Man

If you’re a comic book fan, meeting the creator of such masterpieces as Spider-Man, the X-Men and Fantastic Four is a moment you never forget. We wanted to approach it from the other side, so we asked Stan Lee about three encounters he...

The One Comic That Joss Whedon Reads

In Joss Whedon we trust—his "Season Eight" of the comic book version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer has been nothing short of transcendent. So we asked the writer extraordinaire, "What comics do you still find the time to read in your...