Mike Carbo's Comic Book Marketplace Hits the Big Apple!

Last Saturday saw droves of comic book fans flock to the Big Apple for Mike Carbo's Comic Book Marketplace. A single day event that rocked Penn Plaza despite the chilly weather. This year's con featured an impressive line up of artists and writers from some of the best titles around, plus comic book movie legend Ilya Salkind, the original producer of the first three Superman films.

The first panel of the day featured master X-Men scribe Chris Claremont (Uncanny X-Men, X-Men Forever) along with Dan Slott (She-Hulk, The Might Avengers), Jim Starlin (Captain Marvel) and Larry Hama (G.I. Joe) discuss the art of storytelling in comics over the years. While a little later in the day another panel featured artists J.H. Williams (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight), Bill Sienkiewicz (New Mutants, Moon Knight) and Micheal Golden (Wolverine: First Class, New Exiles) talking everything from cover art to sketch cards.

Attendees also got a unique chance to partake in some classic gaming during the con. As NYCBM's video game room allowed fans of all ages to relive the glory days of Goldeneye on N64 and games like Contra and Gauntlet on the original Nintendo entertainment system.

Then there was of course the comics, with rows upon rows of vendors dealing in everything from the golden and silver age to the variants and trades of today. Manhattan's own Midtown Comics was on hand as well as some of the independent comic shop owners in the business today, and with the recent purchase of Action Comics #1 for a cool million dollars right here in New York, the energy at the market was almost at fever pitch. With all sorts of sweet deals to be had the Market was definitely open business to bad it was only one day.