The post-war economic boom implied by such moves on the part of comic book and periodical publishers was felt across most industries in the United States by 1946. "With the war finally over, American ...

"A market of some twenty odd publishers getting out over a hundred different magazines using nearly 2,000,000 words of copy a month is big time," explained an October, 1941 Writer's Digest article ...

If you head down to the basement of Chicago Comics, past the endless rows of back issues and vintage titles waiting to be priced, you’ll find 15 white boxes. They contain a pretty standard collection ...

For over 50 years, Christine Farrell quietly amassed comics across a wide spectrum of artists and genres. The Burlington, Vermont native owned a popular local comic shop in the city, named Earth Prime ...

Christine Farrell was one of the only people in the world to collect every DC comic ever published. Her collection is being auctioned this week. In the early 2000s, Vermont resident Christine Farrell ...

EAST LANSING, MI — Say you’re an academic researching the Golden Age of Comics and want to peruse some of the earliest iterations of the medium. Or maybe you’re a hobbyist, just looking to fulfill a ...

Shelves and tables full of comics sit inside Earth Prime Comics in Burlington, which Christine Farrell opened in the early 1980s. Christine Farrell started reading comic books when she was a kid, and ...

Many times, comic book collectors are only interested in building a collection for bragging rights or to hopefully one day make money off of the collectibles. However, there are other times when a ...

The collection includes such highly valuable, sought after Golden Age comic books as Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #27, Sensation Comics #1, Superman #1 and Batman #1. It also includes certain ...

Steven Galbraith, curator at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection, has watched comics take on a new role at RIT. Shani Avni, the Ismar David Assistant Curator, created the wall wrap with covers from the ...