Kickstart This: Sammie the Comic Book Man
In all honesty, I feel strange even writing this article. Talking Comics has been gracious enough to give myself and my fellow comic book enthusiast an avenue to be creative….
Author: Sammie Cassell
Life long collector (minus some high school/college years). Also a horror, Star Wars and cooking fan
The Haunted Mansion #1 Review
Over the years (my kids are 25 & 23), we’ve been to Disney World in Orlando a dozen times or so. We know the older rides by heart. Tommorowland, Space Mountain,….
The Resurrection of Purge
In 1993,Roosevelt Pitt Jr. published the comic book Purge through ANIA (the association of black comic book publishers). Purge became one of the unsung heroes of the 90’s indie comic book….
Tales of a Collector: Collecting Comics in the New Environment
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the big 2, their pricing, and the damage that it is doing to the industry that we all love. But how is the climate….
LCS Spotlight: Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find
Hey everyone, today I want to shine a light on a LCS here in North Carolina Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find 1957 E. 7th st Charlotte NC Located in a….
Tales of a Collector:Con collecting 101
As a companion to my previous piece about Heroescon, I thought I would write a piece on collecting at conventions. Here’s my theory on collecting at shows. If it’s a….
Tales of a Collector:Special Heroescon 2015 edition
Hey everyone, i wanted to give you a delayed but hopefully informative synopsis of Heroescon in Charlotte NC. This was the first time I volunteered to work a con, and….
Tales of a Collector:The First Completed Run
Everyone who collects comics has their favorite character. For those who have read my precious columns, follow me on Twitter, FB, or on the Talking Comics forums, you’ll probably ascertain….
Tales of a Collector:What Makes a Collection Valuable
. Moms! Moms make a collection valuable. What Sammie? How does mom make my collection valuable? Well, after several years of accumulating a small collection, I got older. Not everyone….
Tales of a Collector:The First Hunt
When I was 7 years old, my mom started buying me Classics Illustrated. Not the comic version, but the “pocket sized” version, which was marketed for boys to carry around….