Practical guides, expert advice and resources to manage, value and grow your comic book collection.
The limited series from 1982-1985, House of M, Avengers Disassembled, the transition to heroes. A bibliography where the calm episodes explain the most violent ones.
Read article →The founding aggression, the difficult integration, the Australian period, the settlement of the Danvers affair, the 2018 series. A rare bibliography: it is continuous.
Read article →The creation (1976), the stories of Showcase (1978), the loss of one's world, Amanda Conner's run (2009), recovery. Two out of five entries are business decisions.
Read article →A bibliography that begins with an absence: its best moments are those where it is not shown. Its peak precedes its 1987 revelation.
Read article →Grading Spider-Man: CGC, CBCS, PGX - grading scale, key census (AF15, ASM 1, ASM 129) and purchasing advice for collectors.
Read article →An almost entirely dead entourage, and a file without any indirect key: a closed story does not contaminate and is not contaminated.
Read article →Swamp Thing (2019) vs “The Anatomy Lesson” (1984): canceled after a single episode broadcast, for a reason unrelated to the work. Key numbers.
Read article →Ratio variants 1:25, 1:50, 1:100: what print scarcity really implies, how to distinguish artificial scarcity and real demand, and avoid pitfalls.
Read article →When to sell your comics: catalysts, hype cycles and objective signals to identify the right release timing and avoid selling too early or too late.
Read article →Uncanny X-Men #266 (August 1990), plus a partial annual appearance. Its particularity lies in a date: it arrives just before the explosion of print runs in the early 1990s.
Read article →New Mutants #87 (1990), Liefeld and Simonson. Eleven issues later, the same series introduces another character - and this issue is today more sought after than his.
Read article →Born Again (1986), Gang War (1987), Underboss, Hardcore, Devil's Reign: five arcs where the Kingpin almost never fights. How to read and collect them.
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