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    News and Articles on Comic Book Collecting



    Rocket Man's back at Blaisdell Jan. 6  Nov 19, 2009
    6 million comic book collection. Cage's attorney didn't immediately return a call seeking comment. (Honolulu Advertiser)

    Nicolas Cage being sued  Nov 19, 2009
    8-million comic book collection. However, following a "string of hit films", the 45-year-old actor started splashing out again and "set off on a spending binge of epic proportions" and by July 2008 Cage owned 15 homes including two castles, four yachts, a Gulfstream jet, millions worth of jewellery and art, and an island in the Bahamas. (iAfrica.com)

    Bogus burglary  Oct 9, 2009
    On Oct. 31, 2006, the 36-year-old Fisher told Nampa Police Department her home had been burglarized and she was missing two televisions, a computer, a computer printer, 600 in cash, a digital camera and a comic book collection. A day later, Fisher contacted her insurer, State Farm Insurance, and claimed additional items had been stolen, including two diamond wedding sets. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)

    Top 10 Best Micro-budget Independen...  Aug 2, 2009
    To finance the film, he maxed out credit cards, sold off his comic book collection and borrowed money from his parents. Also, the convenience store in the film was the actual store Smith worked at. (Suite101.com)

    Spidey's 600th is in stores today  Jul 22, 2009
    A big hunk of Mark Giannopulos' 10,000-plus comic book collection features the adventures of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. He plans to add one more to the number today with the release of the 600th issue of "Amazing Spider-Man.". (Fresno Bee)

    Frameline favorites  Jun 16, 2009
    A teenage boy who crams his home with fish tanks develops a crush on a dancer in a gay bar and sells his comic book collection to pay for an overnight tryst. The boy follows the hustler into his own gritty world, but just as different species of fish cannot survive in the same tank, the two teenagers cannot adapt to each other's very different worlds. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Comics bull market  Apr 12, 2009
    Under my arm, a big box with DISTILLED BOURBON WHISKEY printed on the side carried the cream of my comic book collection, rescued years ago from the damp of my mother's basement and subsequently stashed amid a drift of footwear at the bottom of my closet. I had come to last weekend's Albany Comic Con to put them out to market. (Albany Times Union)

    Teaching comics with a straight face  Mar 13, 2009
    Don't sell your comic book collection yet - they could be your next text book. SHEENA GOODYEAR. (Globe and Mail)

    Comic books led man into a life of reading, education (3)  Mar 2, 2009
    Elwood Thompson pulls out some of his comic book collection, which is stored on shelves covering an entire wall of a home office. RICK CHASE / Courier Staff Photographer ~ADVERTISING~ | | | | | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:00 PM CST Comic books led man into a life of reading, education By ANDREW WIND, Courier Staff Writer WATERLOO --- The boxes full of comic books line a shelf that takes up an entire wall. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)

    Lost and found  Feb 24, 2009
    Among the possession Hawk and his family lost was much of his 1960s vintage comic book collection. Although he hadn t collected for years, Hawk said he had about 1,500 comic books, mostly from the 1960s, he collected as a child and young man. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)




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