Comic book buff selling rare copy of Batman No. 1

info@kaastor.com — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0100

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A longtime Alaska comic book buff is selling one of the gems in his vast collection, a rare copy of Batman No. 1 published 70 years ago.

Mike Wheat of Fairbanks has put the 1940 comic book on the auction block through Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries, where it's expected to fetch more than $40,000. Online bids already have climbed to $35,000 for the book, believed to be one of fewer than 300 still in existence.

Superman’s debut comic sells for $1 million

info@kaastor.com — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0100

NEW YORK — A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $1 million, smashing a record set just last year.

The issue sold Monday morning is a 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books. It features Superman lifting a car on its cover and [...]

GREAT BLOG ENTRIES ABOUT MAGAZINE COLLECTORS

info@kaastor.com — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Dear Magazine collectors. We found these great blog entries about Old Magazines we want to share with you:

Mad Magazine Collector Doug Gilford Interview

Doug Gilford, a floor-covering store owner from Gresham, Oregon, has been running his Mad Cover Site for ten years. We talked about the joy of Mad Magazine and his passion for collecting.

When did you start collecting Mad? [...]

32,500+ Magazines in the Database

info@kaastor.com — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Two months ago we had about 15,000 magazines in the database. Today we have more than doubled this number, surpassing the 32,500 mark. We are counting on the user community to add more magazine issues and are also looking for people and contributors with a more active role (such as moderating and having the ability to flag magazines as draft or released).

As stated previously, our objective is to reach the 50,000 mark by the end of the year.

The Kaastor team.

Pulp Magazine Collectors wanted!

info@kaastor.com — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100

You may have noted how the Kaastor database has been growing lately, in particular when it comes to Pulp, Action and Western magazines. With 20K+ magazines in the database, and a couple of thousand pulp covers gracing the site, a little history is warranted...

The name "pulp" comes from the cheap wood pulp paper on which these magazines were printed. Frank A. Munsey pioneered the format in 1896 with The Argosy. Magazines printed on better paper and usually offerin [...]

Contribute to Kaastor!

info@kaastor.com — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Kaastor is a community-built database of magazines. Registered members are able to insert and update information about magazine categories, issues covers.

There are two types of forms where members can enter new data:
Categories ('MAD', 'Colliers' or 'Rolling Stone') Magazines ('MAD #0110', 'Colliers 1907-04' or 'Rolling Stone #1001' )
Let's say you own an issue of Rolling Stone that currently doesn't exist in the Kaastor database. You will enter a 'new maga [...]

15,000+ Magazines in the database

info@kaastor.com — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

We are a small but growing community, starting to build the de-facto online archive of magazines and covers. We are pulling information from multiple sources and trying to make sure the information for each magazine is accurate. Obviously this is just a start, but we are counting on the user community to add more magazine issues. We are currently at more than 15,000 issues.
Our objective is to reach 50,000 by the end of the year.

If you want [...]

Welcome to the first online community-built database of Magazines.

info@kaastor.com — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Welcome to the first online community-built database of Magazines.
Our mission is to build the largest magazine archive in the world.
What Is Kaastor?

Picture a giant online archive of magazines. Kaastor is the portal that enables this vision. We are a community-built database with information on magazines, covers, release dates and other interesting magazine information.

We do not pretend to be a thorough database (for starters we don't publish the actual [...]

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