Comic Book Collecting

Going online is an effective way to track down those hard-to-find comic books you need to complete your collection. To buy comic books online, you'll probably need to set up a PayPal account, and...

The San Jose Super-Con is a comic convention held once a year. Although it is relatively small, it offers many of the attributes of larger conventions, including appearances by comic artists and...

For many people, the comics page is the first place in the newspaper to go. So collecting comic strips just comes naturally. And with several strips re-released in collection books, collecting...

It's easy to start up a collection, but where and how do you start? Especially about manga and anime, you have an intrest in it, it's just where to begin.

Popeye the Sailor, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, made his debut on January 17, 1929, as a comic book character. He went on to star in numerous cartoons, starting in the 1930s and continuing...

Little Annie Fanny was started by one of the legends of twentieth century cartooning, Harvey Kurtzman. After leaving Mad Magazine, which he created for EC Comics, Kurtzman met up with Hugh Hefner,...

Cartoons are a venue for artists to relate their humorous interpretation of the world around them. Cartoons can be funny or vicious and cover the political or social mores of society at large....

Comic book conventions draw large crowds. Not only are they havens for comic book lovers, the also frequently include collectible toys, science fiction paraphernalia and even celebrity guests. It...

Collecting comic books isn't just kid stuff anymore. A copy of Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman, sold for 10 cents in 1938. Today it could bring $1 million. Windfalls like that...