American Legacy Comics & Collectibles

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Is it time to think about selling your old comic collection? At American Legacy Comics, we offer free appraisals and pay top dollar for well curated collections.

With over 30 years of experience in buying comics, our team of friendly professionals can come to you and help you understand the condition and value of your childhood comic book or funny book collection.

We handle entire estates and have bought collections of over 100,000 comics at a time – no collection is too big or too small.

We are now buying collections from the 1940’s – 1970’s
Don’t let your collection collect dust – contact us at (817) 678-6700 or send us a message and let us help you turn your old collection into cash today!

07/31/2021

Anyone know what major DC character was first introduced in Detective Comics #225 (November, 1955)?
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_225

The Martian Manhunter!

"Batman: "If I Were Batman"":Three men take the place of Batman while the real Caped Crusader is away, as part of an "If I Were Batman" contest run by the Gotham Gazette, and gangsters attempting to break John Larrow out of jail intend to capitalize on the occasi Detective Comics #225 is an issue of...

07/31/2021

The Flash first graced the pages of comic books in 1940, where Jay Garrick was overcome by "hard water fumes" which transformed him into the fastest man alive. That is some seriously strong water!

The Flash is a superhero legacy with a long and complicated history. He has appeared both in comics and various forms of other media, including several television series' both animated and live-action. The original character known as "The Flash" was Jay Garrick, introduced during the "Golden Age" of...

07/31/2021

Fun fact - did you know that the original Superman from the 1930's was depicted as a villain and not a hero? And he was bald!

Superman is DC's first super-hero and one of the most popular and most iconic heroes, both in and out of universe. 1 History 1.1 Origins 1.2 Golden Age (1938–1955) 1.3 Silver Age (1955–1971) 1.4 Bronze Age (1971–1985) 1.5 Crisis on Infinite Earths 1.6 Dark Age (1986–2000) 1.7 Mercury Age (20...

07/31/2021

What was the first G.I. Joe comic ever published? Hint - it wasn't #1! When Ziff-Davis publications would create a new series, they had a habit of starting at #10! This was the legitimate 1st G.I. Joe coimc ever produced!

No recent wiki edits to this page. Despite the number on this issue saying it is # 10 it is really the first issue of the Ziff-Davis comic G. I. Joe. Ziff-Davis had the habit of starting new magazines at number 10 (or sometimes 2 or 6 and even from time to time at #1) which was common enough at that...

07/30/2021

The original G.I. Joe action figures from the 1960's were literally Ken dolls with a scar on their faces. The scar was the only patentable part of the doll.

The evolution of the All American Hero from artist's mannequin to action figure

07/30/2021

Fun fact - Captain America was originally published under Timely Publications and NOT Marvel Comics.

Timely Comics is the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics.[1]