Happy 2025!
We are STILL SELLING COMICS!
It’s hard to believe it’s almost five years since the retail part
of AABC closed!
We are still selling early comics on eBay weekly
(seller AMGIROUX)
and through mail order.
And we still have hundreds of thousands of comics
to sell, so feel free to email us with your
want list:Alan @AllAboutComics.com
It Came From the Back Room #23
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed, this amounts to a two-year project. This week, we’re doing miscellaneous Marvel and DC “I” books, and, as always, discount copies are available on the rack near my corner by the west end of the store: Identity Crisis This was one of DC’s first attempts to make its mainstream superhero comics more “adult,” almost seven years ago now, and they got a lot … Continue reading
Memorial Day $1.00 SALE!
$1.00 Memorial Day Comic SALE, this Monday, May 30th 10 am to 4 pm! Over 30,000 Marvel and DC comics from our warehouse, mostly in VF/NM, from the last 30 years, for only $1.00 each! You will find some killer deals in these boxes, many of which haven’t seen the light of day in 20 to 30 years! Come in for other specials and deals as well! Bring your list, and have fun perusing this incredible back stock for only $1.00 each! Continue reading
Fresh Eyes on Old Books #23
Round two! I am rolling right through these things! Dr. Strange #179 from 1969 Ditko! Within the first page they let you know that this is a reprint. I think it’s a lot more fun when Stan Lee would actually call people out for being late and then force a reprint down the readers throats. This is your fairly generic old-school Ditko Dr. Strange story. The one thing that’s always worth noting about Ditko is how much he (at least seems) to have enjoyed drawing the backgrounds of the Astral Plane. It’s like Stan Lee’s “script” said “screw with reality, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazing Spider-man, Carl Barks, Disney, Dr. Strange, Uncle Scrooge
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The Latest and (Mostly) Greatest #23
All right folks, amidst packing for a California trip, watching way too much of The Shield, and playing too many video games, I’ve taken time out of my busy schedule to get these reviews to you. You’re welcome! Let’s do this! My Top 5 (5 Best Comics of the Week) Tiny Titans #40 Writer/Artist: Art Baltazar and Franco So here’s the deal. The current Teen Titans series isn’t very good, and it’s almost reached 100 issues. This series has only 40% of that right now and probably 40 times as much quality. This is the kind of comic that you … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpha Flight, Batman, Booster Gold, Darkwing Duck, Deadpool, Hellblazer, Heroes for Hire, Iron Man, Outsiders, Rocketeer, Thunderbolts, Tiny Titans, Uncanny X-force, X-factor
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #196
Hellboy: Being Human #1 (of 1) — Writer: Mike Mignola; Art: Richard Corben A Hellboy story by the Mignola/Corben team is always cause for celebration, and this one-shot is no exception: it doesn’t have the over-the-top backwoods craziness of their The Crooked Man, from a few years ago, but there’s enough Southern gothic atmosphere, with crumbling mansions and various decayed corpses (as an old woman, scorned and unjustly institutionalized, enacts occult revenge against long-dead adversaries) to remind everyone of why Corben’s always had such a fine reputation for horror work — and to show that, even in his seventies, he … Continue reading
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Tagged Avengers, Batman, Chaykin, Flashpoint, Geoff Johns, grant Morrison, Hellboy, Mike Mignola, Punisher, Richard Corben, Spider-man, X-men
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