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Collector's Guide

Magneto: an issue twice as thick, at the price of an ordinary issue

Four condition points for less than a dollar difference: when the offer is large, taking the best available copy costs nothing.

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The same issue, two searches, three times difference

A median is not a property of the booklet but of the formulation used to search for it.

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Proving an adversary right: the most profitable and riskiest move

An antagonist whose motive we understand becomes inexhaustible — but the hero must then be wrong somewhere.

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Madame Web: the second appearance costs less than ten dollars

A few numbers separate the two issues, an order of magnitude separates their amounts — and the state weighs only one or two dollars.

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Madame Web: the foreign edition of the same issue is another object

Dutch, Brazilian, Mexican: local editions of the same issue form a distinct market, including in better condition for less money.

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The original title that the series no longer has

When a title is renamed mid-stream, everything that came before it becomes difficult to place.

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The adaptation does not introduce the series, it obsoletes it

Titles published in the two years preceding an adaptation are the big losers in the calendar.

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Loki: when half the results are not comics

Decorative plaque, lot which cites without containing, foreign pocket reissue: three families of intruders who can be identified by a word in the title.

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A character that cannot be visually identified

Without a stable appearance, neither the cover nor the costume locates an apparition.

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Restoring old numbering creates the mess it purports to fix

The same series then has two numberings depending on the period.

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Lex Luthor: Why “choose your number” ads screw up all the math

A “choice” ad has no price, it has a call price: that of the cheapest number in stock, never the one you are looking for.

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The powerless adversary is the most durable of all

He cannot win by force, so each confrontation must be written differently.

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