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50th Issue Spectacular Starring FreeKluckIt’s hard to believe that I have been writing Forgotten Silver for nearly five years. I have tried to stick to a monthly format, but there have...
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Next Year’s PricesMy first true comic con buying was most likely in 1984, as a young buck I remember setting up with a con with a small table to sell stuff I had...
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Walt’s Comic Con BluesThis week Chris tries figure out why Walt isn’t doing any comic cons this year. Chris pokes, he prods, he reasons, he makes tons of good...
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Back to BasicsSneaky Chris Owen pulled a fast one on me for this week’s Comic Culture podcast. We had picked a topic for the show and as we were getting...
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ConnoisseursHow is June here already? I have plans to leave my warehouse by the end of this year. When I made the decision back in December, I imagined...
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One More SleepApologies, I’ll post for tomorrow morning. I was going to use the long weekend as an excuse when I remembered our long weekend was last...
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Pep RallyThis week Chris and Walt hold a big pep rally for comic book collecting. The boys brought their positive attitudes and sunny dispositions with...
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Game OnTgjgj Our Canadiana action on eBay is officially on and the boys that worked hard at getting everything up and active would be mad at me if I...
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Collecting ArtistsThis week Chris and Walt talk about how to collect artists. Do you stay with comics or add portfolios, artist editions, prints, original art?...
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Road TripCanadiana Auction update. Back in 1980 three young Canadians drove down to the Marvel offices in New York to pitch an idea they had for...
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Spring CleaningWelcome back to another edition of Forgotten Silver. As regular readers know, I did not publish a new column last month. East Coast Toys and...
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Kinda BlueThis past Saturday was Free Comic Book Day: I hope everyone was able to make it out to their local comic shop (LCS) to help support them and to...
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Drug TestingThis week Chris tries once more to… Stump the Chump. How will Walt fare this time? Considering his perfect score the last time maybe we...
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Hosers Unite! The Canadiana AuctionWe’ll be posting our regular show this coming Friday morning. Today we’d like to post a special time-sensitive PSA insert Comic...
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Peak KirbyLast week I tackled this huge pile of 12-cent Fantastic Four comics destined for our weekly eBay auction. I had fun seeing all those great Jack...
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Post Covid BluesChris and Walt are back with a vengeance, tackling the tough questions around what to do with all those investment comics we’ve bought up...
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Say UncleOur old chum Chris Owen popped by for a drink yesterday and we got to chatting a bit about comics and the dilemma facing the people that bought...
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High FloorsA guy brought in some rag copies of some pretty good Silver and Bronze age books and I did what any sane shopkeep should do: I bought them up....
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A Jury Of My PeersSidetracked again, this time by Orthodox Easter. Well, maybe not by the day but most certainly by my weakness of trying to be a good guest. My...
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Weather RelatedWe’ve picked our date for our annual eBay Canadiana Auction: it will go live Friday, May 19th and finish up Monday, May 29th. This will be...
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It’s What’s Inside That CountsAs I was gathering thoughts for this week’s post I realized the post was going to be, as all the past posts were, a celebration of...
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Auction FocusI’ve talked to a few people that attended the Toronto Comic Con this past weekend and they allsaid the show was super busy. This is the...
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SpringWhen the missus and I were dating way back when she mentioned she liked Vivaldi so I went out and bought her a Vivaldi Four Seasons CD. She...
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Jim Somerville’s MaelstromThe original Aircel comics from the mid-to-late 1980s are some of the best-known from the Canadian Silver Age. Barry Blair’s titles Samurai and...
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That’s So YesterdayA couple of weeks ago I was stressing about a box coming back from CGC. On shipment tracking, it was showing “delayed” for days and I...
