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There’s a new entry to the red-hot collectibles market. Brent Montgomery is teaming with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian to launch Mantel, a content platform created specifically for collectors of sports cards and memorabilia, comics, cars, watches and more. Wheelhouse, the media and marketing company founded by Montgomery (Pawn Stars, King of Collectibles), and Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six tech and venture capital firm, launched the platform Tuesday in beta. The site will serve as a social media…

Astrobotic, the team behind the Peregrine spacecraft, is urgently working to extract any possible value from its failing mission. This comes after a catastrophic propellant leak occurred just after yesterday’s launch, ending the spacecraft’s attempt to land on the Moon.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThe 2,829-pound (1,283-kilogram) Peregrine lander reached space early yesterday, after the picturesque inaugural launch of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. Following orbital insertion, Astrobotic,…

Dacre Montgomery rose to fame for his role as school bully Billy Hargrove in the Netflix hit series, Stranger Things. However, there have been several speculations that Montgomery will replace Hugh Jackman to don Wolverine’s metal claws. And the actor has recently unveiled the truth behind the rumours. In a recent interview with The Daily Telegraph, Dacre revealed that he has no interest in replacing his friend and mentor Hugh Jackman in any upcoming Marvel films. Dacre had been rumoured as a possible replacement for…

  This slim comic from 1957,  Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story, is credited with inspiring many to take on non violent protest as a means to achieving civil rights for all with its story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.  Most famously, a young John Lewis read it and recalling the power it had, inspired him to adapt his life story into the March Trilogy. The comic, published by the Fellowship for Reconciliation, was written by pacifist Alfred Hassler and drawn by an unnamed artist*** in the Al Capp studio; it’s…

While travelling through the US in 1994-5, Roy Montgomery recorded two albums, Scenes from the South Island and Temple IV, which would set the tone for three decades of maverick work by the quietly avuncular New Zealand guitarist. “My partner Jo had died in 1992, and I felt I owed it to her to travel and deal with what had happened,” he says, via Zoom from his home in Christchurch. “I sub-let an apartment in New York from a friend with a four-track recorder and lots of effects. It was lonely, like solitary confinement,…

Country singer John Michael Montgomery was involved in a “serious accident” on his way to a concert in North Carolina on Friday. “Yesterday we had a serious accident on the way to a concert in North Carolina. Everyone that was on the bus is recovering from their injuries,” Montgomery, 57, wrote in an update to fans on Facebook the day after the incident. “Despite some cuts and broken ribs, I am doing well,” he said. “I will take some time over the next couple of weeks to heal and be back on…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest nerdy toy news. This week wraps up Obi-Wan Wednesdays with two more Hasbro figures, Super7 heads back to Springfield and beyond for even more Simpsons Ultimates, and: do you dare to bop Darth Vader? Check it out!Super7 The Simpsons Ultimates! Wave 3 FiguresAlthough Playmates did a fantastic job with its incredibly extensive line of The Simpsons figures from the early aughts, they were nowhere near as detailed and accessorized as Super7's The…