Pop Culture Collecting

Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn Although it never truly lived up to its potential or even the company's own hype, Martin Goodman's ill-fated Atlas line of comic books from ...

Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn From June 2, 1940 to October 5, 1952, Will Eisner's The Spirit appeared in a comic-book-size insert in local newspapers around the country.  Noted ...

Pop Culture Continues to Shine Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn Many different facets of pop culture continue to shine in the public's eyes, including original comic book art, game-worn ...

Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn Just a matter of weeks ago, New York-based ComicConnect.com sold a CGC-certified 4.0 copy of Detective Comics #27 for $475,000. In that grade, the ...

Comic Character Collectibles By J.C.Vaughn The cinematic successes of the X-Men franchise for Twentieth Century Fox, then the Spider-Man franchise from director Sam Raimi for Sony, and the Batman franchise ...

Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn The success of Marvel Studios cinematic universe has certainly shifted the general public's awareness of many previously lesser known character comic characters in the ...

Batman #1 Sets New Record Comic Book Characters and Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn The ups and downs and more importantly the uncertainty of the mainstream economy persist. When there’s good ...

Casper Gets Friends, Batman Lines Up Records, LucasArts Remembered By J.C. Vaughn Harvey Comics Get Two Chances to Shine In a pop culture world in which the superheroes seem to ...

Lots of Activity at Geppi's Entertainment Museum by J.C. Vaughn GEM's Milestones Exhibit Wraps February 28 Originally slated to end April 30, 2014 and extended twice, Geppi's Entertainment Museum's (GEM) ...

Making The Grade: The Importance of Third Party Grading in Comics By J.C. Vaughn “Accurate grading of comic books has never been more important because the stakes have never been ...

Seemingly Unrelated to Record Prices, Cosplay Booms By J.C. Vaughn For those who report on the comic book and original comic art markets, and pop culture collectibles in general, it’s ...

Another Action Comics #1 Record? By J.C. Vaughn Action Comics #1 on eBay? By the time our next issue rolls around, we’ll know the results of one of the more ...

Artist Shawn Martinbrough to Appear at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum By J.C. Vaughn As part of the widely lauded exhibit Milestones: African Americans in Comics, Pop Culture and Beyond, which runs ...

Batman at 75, Other Characters Celebrating Anniversaries, Too Comic Book Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn Geppi’s Entertainment Museum is, of course, dedicated to the celebration of popular culture, and this is ...

May is Really Big for Pop Culture By J.C. Vaughn Some months have a lot of pop culture to digest and May is certainly one of the biggest in that ...

Captain America Wins Again, and Again By J.C. Vaughn Captain America: The Winter Solider has scored another hit for Marvel Studios with a first weekend domestic take of $95,023,721 and ...

Rare Superman Cover Art, High Grade Comics Sell Big The comic character component of the pop culture marketplace documented by Geppi’s Entertainment Museum continues to report record prices. By J.C ...

Spider-Man Collection Sells, Zombies Return to GEM By J.C. Vaughn Amazing Spider-Man Collection Sells at Pedigree Comics A CGC-certified Apparent 9.2 copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 featuring the origin and ...

Hake’s Continues to Score Comic Art, Ant-Man Sells Big Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn Even with the holiday season and the subsequent deep freeze much of the country experiences, ...

FELDSTEIN: The MAD Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein By J.C. Vaughn Grant Geissman is a man who successful wears many creative hats. He’s an highly praised jazz musician ...

Original Comic Art Commands Continued Attention Original comic book and comic strip art continues to present a compelling story in the world of vintage, rare, pop culture collectibles, witnessed by ...

What’s Old Is New Again: Captain America and Comic Book Reboots By J.C. Vaughn It happens in movies, television and cartoons. And it definitely happens in comic books. Someone in ...

Alex Raymond and the Definitive Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim By J.C. Vaughn Sometimes one wonders. Do today’s newspaper editors and comic strip syndicate people ever look at the past ...

Forgotten and Unknown Star Trek By J.C. Vaughn With Star Trek Into Darkness in movie theaters and recent record prices paid for Star Trek TV props, it seems like a ...

Preservation & Storage… And, of course, Zombies By J.C. Vaughn One of the frequent topics of concern at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum – as it would be for any institution or ...