The Grail Hunters Comics Podcast

Lean is back, and he joins Neville and Ben as they drop a double episode (cause we got carried away)   It's been a week or two of drama with the grading companies! Neville had challenges with CGC mislabeling books, Grail Hunters members had challenges with Halo mis-grading and not calling out missing pages.    Wrong label colours? Wrong grade? Inconsistent grading? They chat about the impact of gr...

An episode so big, we even changed our intro for it!!   Our brand new episode, stars a special guest and Guinness World Record holder Gareth Pahliney.   Gareth’s been a member of Grail Hunters Australia for just over 3 years, and earlier this year, following in depth scrutiny by the Guinness officials, Gareth was crowned with the world record, beating Deadpool fanatics worldwide to the title... Ev...

We promised big things for this episode and Royd delivered!! In this episode, we are joined by Grail Hunters Australia member, comic and original art collector, Royd Burgoyne! For close to 15 years Royd's worked with Supanova Comic-Con & Gaming to recruit and host international comic artists during Australian events. The list of talent he's worked with is longer than Neville's.... we'll. It's very...

In this Episode, Neville and Ben is joined by Lean Fouche! We recap on our episode featuring James Anthony Joseph and what we learned (and still need to learn) on retro gaming and its collectability and tease next weeks guest! Won’t spoil it here, but it will be someone talking very high end comic related collectibles.   We then jump straight into movie talk! Movies, reception, the movie going mar...

In this episode, Ben and Neville is joined by Melbourne's very own James Anthony Joseph to talk all things collecting!  With James, it runs in the family! He started collecting at the tender age of three, following in his dad's footsteps, and now has 30 years experience in collecting. Aside of comics he also plays in markets for trading cards (including Pokemon and Magic) and retro games and gamin...

We're back for Season 5! Your host line-up have changed ever so slightly, but familiar voices will greet you as we reflect on our last purchases of 2022.   Mike's doing hard time in a Mexican prison (yes, please spread the rumour) so in Season 5 we'll be joined by Lean Fouche who will bring a fresh perspective on collecting comics 101 and ask the 'new to collecting' questions. Nev and Lean got suc...

What a rollercoaster month it's been! First #acetategate with Black Flag Comics producing bootleg comics, then CGC Comics "standing their ground" on giving said Bootlegs a blue label and grading them up to 10.0 (but then....reversing said position ever so slowly like a MACK truck on a downhill) and now we have CBCS Comics exposed for shoddy practices. Join Neville, Ben and Mike for a great episode...

In this episode Neville and Ben are joined by fellow Grail Hunters member Lean Fouche for part two of "Comic Collecting 101" - class is in session!   Lean is "new" to comic collecting, and comes at it from both angles, investing as well as reading. After binging close to 50 episodes of our podcast in a few weeks, Lean highlighted that in many cases we discuss many comic topics with the assumption...

In this episode Neville and Ben are joined by fellow Grail Hunters member Lean Fouche.    Lean is "new" to comic collecting, and comes at it from both angles, investing as well as reading. After binging close to 50 episodes of our podcast in a few weeks, Lean highlighted that in many cases we discuss many comic topics with the assumption that listeners have a sound understanding and knowledge of c...

In this episode Neville, Ben and Mike deconstruct the shitstorm that was Black Flag Comics' C2E2 event! We discuss Black Flag Comics selling Ultimate Fallout 4 Facsimile Reprints with bootleg Acetate Covers with Four Staples at $100 a pop. Allowing "Influencers" to skip queues and bulk buy so they can flip it on their WhatNot channels for triple the price all while collectors and true fans (aka Bl...

In this episode Neville, Mike and Ben chat about the highs and the lows of San Diego Comic Con!  Yes, it starts with a 15 minute therapeutic rant about Qantas and their (lack of) customer service and care factor in general but after that we jump straight into the highlight - the meat and veg!  How was SDCC post Covid? The crowds, the people? Amazing! We talk about the panel reception, and then mov...

In this San Diego Comic-Con Special Episode, Neville chats to Gary Chaloner Next week Neville will be travelling to San Diego Comic Con where he will be hosting a panel to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of some of Australia's most iconic comics and the creators behind them  In his preparation for the panel, many of the great creators behind titles such as Southern Squadron, The Dark Nebula, Jackar...

In this San Diego Comic-Con Special Episode, Neville chats to Tad Pietrzykowski Next week Neville will be travelling to San Diego Comic Con where he will be hosting a panel to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of some of Australia's most iconic comics and the creators behind them  In his preparation for the panel, many of the great creators behind titles such as Southern Squadron, The Dark Nebula, Ja...

In this San Diego Comic-Con Special Episode, Neville chats to Dave De Vries In a few short weeks Neville will be travelling to San Diego Comic Con where he will be hosting a panel to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of some of Australia's most iconic comics and the creators behind them   In his preparation for the panel, many of the great creators behind titles such as Southern Squadron, Dark Nebula...

On this episode, Neville, Ben, and Mike is joined by Mark Wahlberg... Uhm... sorry Ty Salazar!   Ty is a comic trading veteran of 10+ years using social media to buy, sell and help fellow collectors complete their runs. He was also a CGC witness and travelled to conventions far and wide with creators including Kevin Eastman for signature events and facilitation. Ty recently bought a blind box of c...

Foreign Comics and foreign prints of US comics are booming!!   Neville and Ben are joined by Matthew Roybal. Matthew is a journalist, and also co-founder of Foreign Comic Collector Magazine as well as admin of one of the friendliest and engaging comic groups on Facebook of the same name! (Well Grail Hunters Australia set a pretty high bench mark, but I agree!!) Matthew takes us on his collecting j...

In this episode Ben and Neville are joined by Tad Pietrzykowski, the creator of Dark Nebula! On the eve of the release of issue 10, and with only months before The Dark Nebula celebrates its 40th anniversary we take a look back at where it all began. Analog printing, large print runs, cheap paper and months of wait!  Tad takes us back to what it was like to be in independent publisher in the 80's,...

  Ben and Nev are joined by a special guest, Scott Liston! Scott's been part of the comic collecting community for years, and a card punching Grail Hunters member since day one. Scott also happens to be Event Director of Supanova! Also, he needs to add to his business card "Hell'a funny guy".   Comic Collections, Community Spirit, Investing in books, Supanova events, and more NFT's and Poohing on...

Following the excitement of taking part in our first NFT drops on Veve, Ben and Neville debrief on the entire experience, from getting up (or being up) at 2am for the drops, the hussle to try and land one and how the community in itself is coming together to support each other in educating and enjoying the NFT side of our hobby.   Mike's back for this episode, and true to form we regress into a de...

With Mike celebrating 31 days of gaming on Twitch for the month, Ben and Neville are joined by special guest Jordan Howlett to talk Comic Non Fungible tokens.   We've all heard "disruption is good", and the comic publishing and collecting landscape have experienced many disruptions over the years. Fast forward to 2021 and we're again experiencing a brave new territory with Comics NFT's!    Jordan'...

After a few months break we are back, and if episode one is anything to go by, we have A LOT to talk about! In this episode we talk about how we survive our groundhog day of lock-down habits, after which we dive into Mike's pull list only to get severely side tracked by great movies The Prophecy and Power of One (Which became Mike's homework for our next episode!)   Neville talks about the hidden...

Join Mike, Ben and Neville for another hilarious episode as they provide a recap on Supanova Melbourne (And GABS) right before the fourth wave of COVID lockdowns struck Melbourne! It quickly turns into a therapy session where they reflect on the crazy prices in the market and books going out of reach.  They debate shows including Falcon and Winter Soldier, and upcoming Loki and trailers including...

In this episode talk about prepping books for signatures and then full into conversation about Ben Gee's weakest claim to fame! (Hint, it involved Keanu Reeves)   What a world we live in! We chat about the abundance of comic themed shows available to us including the Snydered Justice League, the magnificent Invincible, as well as Falcon and Winter Soldier (and how it compares to its predecessors)...

Stage 4 lockdowns can't keep us down! We're back on Zoom for this jam packed episode, and it's packed with Comicy goodness.   We recap on our visit to Big City Comics and then dive into a few of the big topics for January including: - DC's Future State books, are they finally doing something right? - We share our thoughts on Marvel and Disney's TV Projects including Wandavision, - We go on quite a...

State vs. State - Member vs. Member - Who will win over the judge and score a point for their state?   Sam Cripps won Episode 5, and set the stage with a mighty challenge "Which stories are better read in a collected edition" It was a tough round, but the team brought their A game. Stories from DC, Marvel and many indie books were discussed, but we could only leave with one winner.   Episode 1: Mo...