Practical guides, expert advice and resources to manage, value and grow your comic book collection.
All Star Comics #58 (1976), Conway/Estrada/Wally Wood. ⚠️ The title takes up the numbering of a series from the 1940s: always check the vintage before buying.
Read article →An entourage made up of people she loses: an inseparable brother, a broken marriage, an ambiguous mentor, and children whose existence is the hidden subject of her stories.
Read article →Claremont (1986-1991) who created it by hiding it, the 2019 redesign which made it essential, Gillen (2011-2012) who found a tone for it. How to target sequences.
Read article →Claremont (1975-1991) who invented the character twenty years after his creation, Classic X-Men (1986-1990), Magneto Testament (2008), Bunn (2014), the 2019 redesign.
Read article →Key numbers or complete run: where the value is concentrated, what liquidity, what opportunity cost, and how to mix the two in your collection.
Read article →Ms. Marvel #16 (1978) — not an X-Men series. A poorly located key is recognized late, and therefore poorly preserved: here the premium at high grade corresponds to a real rarity.
Read article →An entire entourage built on an impossibility: it cannot touch anyone. Mystique, Gambit (UXM #266), the stolen conscience of Carol Danvers, the X-Men suspicious.
Read article →Frank Miller (1981-1986), Bendis-Maleev (2001-2006), Zdarsky (2019-2024): the five runs that make the Kingpin. None bears his name — that’s his particularity.
Read article →Claremont (1990-1991) installed it as an enigma, Jim Lee (1991-1992) made it popular — graphically. On this issue, the image did more than the text.
Read article →The Batman (2004) vs the comics: how to succeed the 1992 series without being a copy. Batgirl before Robin, Joker reimagined. Key numbers.
Read article →Quick but discounted group sale, or individual sale which maximizes the price? The method for splitting up a comic book collection and optimizing the total product.
Read article →The Archie Show (1968) vs Pep Comics #22 (1941): a fictional group invented for the series, whose record dominated sales in 1969. The longest journey in the corpus.
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