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Support Your Comics: The 5 Best Acid-Free Comic Book Backing Boards

You must protect your comic books in the same way that a homeowner protects their home. In the same way that elements or pests can destroy a home, they also destroy comic books. Many comic book collectors are woefully unaware of how delicate comic book paper is. Comic book paper…

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6 Large Tablets for Reading Digital Comics

It’s hard for traditionalist comic book readers to accept digital comics. There is just something impersonal and detached, for an old-school comic book reader anyway, about reading a digital comic instead of holding one with your hands. But no one can stop the march of digital progress. There are just…

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Protect Your Comics Like a Pro: The 8 Best Comic Book Top Loaders for Serious Collectors

What are comic book loaders? Also known as top loaders or toploaders, these are rigid plastic sleeves with an open top. They add an extra layer of security and protection to your comic books after you sleeve and board them.

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7 Affordable, Starter Drawing Tablets for New Comic Artists

Pen and paper have nearly become obsolete due to the advances in digital art technologies. There are so many new digital art tools out there for artists to use. A digital drawing tablet will give you an edge over traditional artists in many professional fields. However, digital art tablets can…

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6 Best BCW Comic Book Supplies

BCW, a renowned collectibles, memorabilia, and comic book supplies company based in Middletown, Indiana, has been serving customers since 1981. With a global customer base exceeding 100,000, BCW is widely recognized for its high-quality protection solutions. While collectors use BCW products to safeguard magazines, vinyl records, and trading cards, the…

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6 Greatest Stories Featuring Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force

The X-Men made their debut in 1963. Most modern fans are unaware that the original 1960s run of X-Men comics, while very influential now, but not popular in its time. The comic was ultimately a failure until the series had a creative relaunch in 1975 with Giant-Sized X-Men #1. Jean…

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The 8 Greatest 1980s X-Men Stories

As the young kids say, 1980s X-Men stories were a different vibe. You had to be there. The original 1963 X-Men comics found their inspiration from the 1960s Civil Rights era. They got canceled but were revitalized in 1975 with Giant-Sized X-Men #1. They then found a narrative groove in…

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10 Odd and Entertaining Comic Book Character Team Ups

Sometimes comic book companies will publish odd character team-ups that don’t make sense but might make money. For example, Marvel and DC will publish two comics featuring Deadpool and Batman in September and November 2025. As a traditionalist comic book fan, it does not make much sense to me. Still,…

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PFA Review: Black Science Omnibus

I highly recommend that you watch the 1945 horror film Dead of Knight. It has a creepy circular plot device. Architect Walter Craig arrives at a mansion and greets several guests. Each guest tells a story about nightmares. Craig remembers each person from his own nightmares, even though he has…

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Forgotten Comic Epics: Rick Remender’s Uncanny X-Force

The Grandfather Paradox is a thought experiment about time travel and paradoxes. It was the plot point of the first Back II The Future film. If you went back in time and killed your grandfather, you would erase yourself from your family’s timeline. So, how could you do this if…

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The 7 Best Ultimate Comics From Marvel You Must Read Now

Marvel has been publishing Ultimate Universe comics since 2000. The point of the Ultimates line was to reintroduce traditional superheroes with complex, canonical storylines that go back decades in a new, modern setting for new readers. Comic book storylines can go back decades. So, the editorial mindset was to make…

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Most Valuable Comic Books of the 1990s

The comic book movie boom of the past decade will create a new generation of comic book readers and investors. Investment takes time. Still, comic book film hype has caused the value of some 1990s comic books to rise in value due to the announcement of upcoming films. Most of…

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Most Valuable Comic Books of the 1980s

The most valuable comic books of the 1980s were published in the middle of two crucial ages for comic books. Those would be the second half of the Bronze Age and the dawn of the Modern Age.

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Silver Age Icons: The Most Valuable Comic Books of the 1960s

Some of the most valuable comic books of the 1960s were the inspirations for the billion-dollar comic book movies we all love now. This was the Silver Age of comic books. Comic book characters like Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers made their debut during this era.

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Preserve Every Page: 7 Best Comic Book Sleeves for Your Collection

Comic books require constant protection. They fade and disintegrate when exposed to sunlight. If you throw raw comic books into a long box, they will fade and disintegrate over time naturally. That is why products like the best comic book sleeves and boards were created.

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4 Best Home Safes to Protect Valuable Comic Books

If you own valuable comic books worth hundreds, thousands, or more, then you should consider buying the best home safes for comic books. Protective insurance is the price you must pay to own valuable, collectible, and materialistic items.

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A Comic Worth Slabbing is Worth Locking: 7 Best Large Safes to Protect Comics

In October 2023, a resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, inherited a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15. This rare 1962 comic book marks the first appearance of Spider-Man. With a CGC grade of 4.0, it could fetch around $35,000. In contrast, a near-pristine copy of the same issue sold for a staggering…

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From Chaos to Collector’s Paradise: The 5 Best Comic Book Storage Boxes and Bins

When I was a kid, a house-wide flood once soaked cardboard storage boxes full of my favorite comic books. It’s an incident that I still remember today. It was a hard life lesson. That incident taught me to take better care of my comic books and to organize them properly.…

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Tablets to Read Comic Books (Updated For 2026)

I grew up in an era where comic books were supposed to be held in your hands, placed on a flat surface, and enthusiastically read. Comic books were created to be aesthetically appreciated. But that is probably an outdated way of thinking now. Modern comic book fans are more likely…

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7 More Comic Book Sleeves You Should Use

When I was a kid, protecting comic books was the furthest thing from my mind. It is a self-defeating mindset to have if you love comic books. Comic books depreciate in physical and potential investment value due to exposure to the elements. You should be aware of every option available…

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12 Must-Read Batman Comic Books for Every Fan

We just got our new Superman film, but it may be a while before we get a new Batman film. Still, Batman is one of the most popular comic book characters ever created. Batman comic books usually sell more than Superman comics. With all due respect to the Man of…

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My Thunderbolts Review: A Bad Sign for the MCU’s Future

As of this posting, the Thunderbolts* have barely made $381 million globally. Jump in the thread and tell me that is a success, please; then, also admit that Captain America: Brave New World is also a hit, since it made $415 million. Since the MCU retitled the film New Avengers,…

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The Overlooked Brilliance of Blue Marvel

2023’s The Marvels was a bad film. However, there was one rumor at the time that made me desperately hope for an unannounced supporting superhero role in the film. Online fans at the time said Blue Marvel might appear. That did not happen. Blue Marvel is one of the most…

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The 8 Most Legendary Black Panther Stories

The success of MCU Black Panther is a lot like that of MCU Iron Man, if you think about it. People have short memory spans, but no one knew who Iron Man was before 2008. Most filmgoers had no idea who Black Panther was before his 2016 introduction in Captain…

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10 Reasons Why Black Comic Characters Are Rising To The Top

In 2025, the world is craving representation, and not for its own sake. For almost a century, the template for a superhero was a white male or a white person in general. That was not a happy accident; that template was the result of race politics. (More on that later.)…

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