Valuation
Colors of slab labels: what they are worth
Blue, yellow, green, purple: what each slab label color means, how it impacts value and liquidity, and how to read a label before you buy.
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Collector's Guide
Winter Soldier Reading Guide: Where to Start
Where to start with the Winter Soldier in comics? Guide to reading Ed Brubaker's runs, order of sagas, solo series and best editions.
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Collector's Guide
Wasp reading guide: where to start
Wasp reading guide: where to start, the founding runs, Avengers sagas, the modern era and Nadia Van Dyne. Reasoned reading order.
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Collector's Guide
War Machine Reading Guide: Where to Start
War Machine Reading Guide: Where to start with James Rhodes, from the seminal 1990s run to modern solo runs, major sagas and key collections.
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Comics History
Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom: what does it change?
Robert Downey Jr. plays Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday. What this casting changes, the Doom/Iron Man links in the comics and the theories.
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Key Issues
Loki Key Issues: Complete Collector's Guide
Journey into Mystery 85, Avengers 1, Thor 5: Loki's key issues, their real CGC ratings and a buying guide for discerning collectors.
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Key Issues
Green Goblin Key Issues: Complete Collector's Guide
Green Goblin key issues: ASM #14, #39-40, #96-98, #121-122, #136-137 and more, with creators, CGC rarity and actual collector grades.
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Comics History
The mask of Doctor Doom: origin and symbolism
The iron mask of Doctor Doom: its origin (disfigurement), its symbolism (pride, dignity), the mystery of the hidden face. Icon of the Marvel universe.
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Films & Series
Marvel's Spider-Man (2017) versus the comics: the sixth origin
The 2017 series vs ASM #31 (1965): the systematic rejuvenation of the character, and what repeating the origin does to the key issue market.
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Films & Series
The Legion of Super-Heroes versus the comics of 1958
Legion of Super-Heroes (2006) vs Adventure Comics #247: adapt a team of thirty members, and keep an optimistic future. Key numbers.
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Valuation
Invest: English VO vs VF comics, what value?
Why the original American VO edition dominates the price and what real place do the French editions (Lug, Semic, Panini) occupy for the investor.
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Collector's Guide
Vision Reading Guide: Where to Start
Vision Reading Guide: Where to Start with the Marvel Synthezoid. Order of runs from Roy Thomas and John Buscema to Tom King, cult sagas and key collections.
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