Collector's Guide
The first third is worth double the other two
What is sought is not the story but the moment of appearance. Good news for anyone who wants to read.
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Two series, one title, twenty years apart
A number 9 exists in both. Only the year separates them, and she is not on any cover.
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“First print”, but first print of what?
A 2002 reprint announced as the first printing: the mention says nothing without its subject.
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The origin published where no one looks for it
A single issue under a generic banner: the most important material is not published where it is expected.
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Reversing the function of a character means replacing it
The more powerful and abstract a figure is, the less modifiable it is: it only has its function.
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Falcon: three sellers, one issue, two different years
The date printed on a booklet precedes its sale: a year copied from an advertisement will be wrong half the time.
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Falcon: when the number you're looking for is a seller's storage code
Five ads, five different numbers, four decades: the engine found the numbers it was looking for in internal storage codes.
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A neutral name allows a character to age
The editorial choice of 1969 and its lasting consequences on what a figure can become.
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Fifteen years before getting a monthly
What the deadline says about a character, and why the series arrives with its best material behind it.
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A republication disguised as a new series
The intermediate format of 1984: its own numbering, nothing new, and a permanent identification trap.
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A rich figure is a difficult figure to adapt
Four structural obstacles, and why it's not an execution defect but a property.
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A single page, sold alone, at $17.98
When an issue becomes expensive enough, it becomes profitable to dismember it, and each page destroys a copy.
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