ComicBooks

Reading and collecting comic books can get expensive: These days, comics run between $3 and $5, which adds up after umpteen issues of Iron Man and the Fantastic Four. As a poor college student, it's difficult to justify buying or reading comic books when you have to pay for, say, textbooks. But...

The first edition of "Action Comics," featuring Superman's debut that sold for 10 cents in 1938, set an out-of-this-world auction record Monday, leaping to an astonishing $1 million dollar value in a single bound, or online bid, as the case may be. Sold to an anonymous, private bidder by an...

The stock market is still a shambolic minefield, so what can an investor do these days? Try getting some super powers. Disney is -- it's paying $4 billion for the Marvel superhero empire. WalletPop's Jason Cochran sits down with a cross-section of heavy hitters from the comic book world: artist...