Collector's Guide
Twenty years: a disappearance that lasted, and why
A disappearance holds when it has a structural function, not just a dramatic one.
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Collector's Guide
Supergirl: reading an ad title that contains two contradictory dates
In an ad title, the year that counts is the one that accompanies the name of the collection, not the one that accompanies the character.
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Supergirl: search for a character whose name is not yet spelled the same
Three formulations to designate the same thing: research that uses only one misses the others.
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Start at the end of an issue, in another's series
The position in the summary is information that the market integrates and that inventories ignore.
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Strangers in Paradise Interludes: Read Them or Skip Them
Poems, songs, silent plates. What they do to the story, the argument of those who reject them, and why the binding matters here.
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Francine and Katchoo: how to last ninety chapters
Two characters constructed in opposition on everything except the essential. Why we judge one wrongly, and why David is not a rival.
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Strangers in Paradise: the publishing trap
Three number ones, three collections of collections, reprints invisible from the front. The only stable unit is the chapter range.
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The giant booklet is a stimulus instrument, not an episode
Enough pages to introduce new characters without engaging current continuity.
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Usagi Yojimbo: where to start, and the editor trap
Forty years, four publishers, four numberings. You can start anywhere — the real obstacle is elsewhere.
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Valuation
Usagi Yojimbo: three “number ones” at the same price
Asking prices as of August 29, 2026: three publishers, three relaunches, $14.99 each. And a first appearance which has more graded copies than raw ones.
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Stan Sakai letter in hand, and that explains everything else
He practiced lettering as a profession before becoming an author. What this changes in the density of the pages, the translated reissues and the fluidity of reading.
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Spider-Man 2099: 'key number' is a selling point, not a property
The same mention accompanies an advertisement for $0.99 and copies a hundred times more expensive: the label says nothing, the edition and the condition do.
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