Mike Sterling, Comics Guy
@mikester.bsky.social
Owner of sterlingsilvercomics.com, blogger at progressiveruin.com, Mike Sterling-er at http://mikesterling.com
37+ years in the comics biz! (I used to work for other stores, now I have my own shop!)
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37+ years in the comics biz! (I used to work for other stores, now I have my own shop!)
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Bigots are dumb
he/him
How I look reading your posts
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
How I look reading your posts
Every time I poke through the Promotional section of the price guide, I see something new I want...and this time it's BOBBY GETS HEP, a 1946 giveaway for Bell Telephone.
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Every time I poke through the Promotional section of the price guide, I see something new I want...and this time it's BOBBY GETS HEP, a 1946 giveaway for Bell Telephone.
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
hey, I'm still doing a blog, that's weird just on its own
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
hey, I'm still doing a blog, that's weird just on its own
![A 2017 tweet of mine from The Bad Place:
"Surely THIS will take down Trump...!"
[Trump ascends into Heaven, bathed in a golden light]
"DANG IT"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hrvfqacrd5mtlkqtuhnia53t/bafkreif6xywi2keyup2knrhswqmdxcsx777zfsunldeot5t2upkj3r2fia@jpeg)
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
What better way to celebrate my store's anniversary than with "Pee Wee" & "Fingers" on the turntable?
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
What better way to celebrate my store's anniversary than with "Pee Wee" & "Fingers" on the turntable?
Apparently I'd only posted these pics on Xwitter, since I can't find them on my site...the original art for Jane Foster's first appearance as Thor from that long-ago issue of WHAT IF? by Don Glut and Rick Hoberg, that a customer of mine bought directly from the artist way back when.
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Apparently I'd only posted these pics on Xwitter, since I can't find them on my site...the original art for Jane Foster's first appearance as Thor from that long-ago issue of WHAT IF? by Don Glut and Rick Hoberg, that a customer of mine bought directly from the artist way back when.
There was one a few years ago from Boom! Studios, BILL AND TED'S MOST EXCELLENT COMIC BOOK ARCHIVE, though I think it leaves out the one issue *not* by Dorkin. Seems to be currently unavailable, but there are probably copies out there somewhere!
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
There was one a few years ago from Boom! Studios, BILL AND TED'S MOST EXCELLENT COMIC BOOK ARCHIVE, though I think it leaves out the one issue *not* by Dorkin. Seems to be currently unavailable, but there are probably copies out there somewhere!
At the shop I used to work at, about 20 years ago we got in someone's investment collection that had tons of copies of various comics...including 69 copies of TIME BANDITS #1! We had MORE than plenty for everyone!
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
At the shop I used to work at, about 20 years ago we got in someone's investment collection that had tons of copies of various comics...including 69 copies of TIME BANDITS #1! We had MORE than plenty for everyone!
Poking through an issue of Marvel's CRAZY Magazine and hoo boy they really tried to have their own Don Martin.
Those sound effects are *very* Martin-esque.
Those sound effects are *very* Martin-esque.
October 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Poking through an issue of Marvel's CRAZY Magazine and hoo boy they really tried to have their own Don Martin.
Those sound effects are *very* Martin-esque.
Those sound effects are *very* Martin-esque.
What's it like inside your head?
![Ffom Adventure Comics #41 (August 1939) by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster...one pilot is saying "Once again, we'll release my deadly undetectable gas within the clouds over the city, when th' temperature lowers itself sufficiently the compound will break up, releasing the deadly gas to begin it's [sic] work of destruction!" to which the other pilot replies "PRETTY SLICK!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hrvfqacrd5mtlkqtuhnia53t/bafkreibdtpzwf5n46gn43ufaherank4wxaajgjglfain7ykpitkz2cvd4u@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
What's it like inside your head?
If you're flipping through your copies of Marvel's 1970s in-house fan magazine, it's Foomscrolling.
October 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If you're flipping through your copies of Marvel's 1970s in-house fan magazine, it's Foomscrolling.
They did something similar for DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #4. (I don't know if something similar came out for RONIN #6, another very late release.)
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
They did something similar for DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #4. (I don't know if something similar came out for RONIN #6, another very late release.)
Also, going back to the first post in this thread: DC actually put out a little promo poster for retailers to put up, telling all their customers CAMELOT 3000 #12 finally came out.
October 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Also, going back to the first post in this thread: DC actually put out a little promo poster for retailers to put up, telling all their customers CAMELOT 3000 #12 finally came out.
Who is solving the Louvre robbery?
October 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Who is solving the Louvre robbery?
"Oh, hey, it's the first issue of Walt Disney's OLD YELLER comic book!"
"um...why...why isn't there a second issue"
"um...why...why isn't there a second issue"
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"Oh, hey, it's the first issue of Walt Disney's OLD YELLER comic book!"
"um...why...why isn't there a second issue"
"um...why...why isn't there a second issue"
Okay, so THE LAST JEDI and what else
October 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Okay, so THE LAST JEDI and what else
Without saying Frank Miller's THE SPIRIT (2008), name a good movie.
October 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Without saying Frank Miller's THE SPIRIT (2008), name a good movie.
*As* a cross!
October 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
*As* a cross!