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Four contradictory demands to satisfy at once. Why the recurring flaws in these stories are structural and not clumsiness.
Read article →Factual continuity versus consequential continuity. What the second costs, what it makes free, and why the industry discourages it.
Read article →Entries between $0.99 and $2.99, two exceptions to keep aside. Why a flat market is the material condition for an orderly reading.
Read article →Five ads, one price, identical wording: counting ads is not counting sellers.
Read article →145 ads for a single issue and a median of ten dollars: the fame of an episode produces abundance, it does not produce scarcity.
Read article →A three-letter abbreviation separates two issues bearing the same number in the same series — lost during copying, the copy cannot be found.
Read article →Neighboring issues of the same series and the same year are asked for ten to thirty dollars: what carries the price is the content, not the seniority.
Read article →Two neighboring issues claim the same first appearance and are both right: one shows the equipment, the other the character.
Read article →The person first, the costumed identity much later — and there is no obligation to specify which one.
Read article →The creator is an intention, the creature is a conflict. The market records it, a few numbers apart.
Read article →Two exact mentions, two separate booklets published one number apart: the market does not buy the same thing as the reader.
Read article →A copy without a cover fetched $54.99, above four complete objects from the same statement: incomplete is a category, not a reject.
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