Lemire's intimate books: a market without gradation
Asking prices as of August 28, 2026: Essex County, Underwater Welder, Trillium and Royal City have no certified listings. What this absence says about the market.
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Asking prices as of August 28, 2026: Essex County, Underwater Welder, Trillium and Royal City have no certified listings. What this absence says about the market.
Read article →Asking prices as of August 28, 2026: on Descender #1 the variant is LESS expensive than the standard, and Sweet Tooth #1 has none.
Read article →Sweet Tooth, Descender, Black Hammer, Gideon Falls: statement of asking prices as of August 28, 2026, gross and graded separately, and how to read them.
Read article →Why French volumes never correspond to American collections, and how to avoid duplicates and holes in a Lemire collection.
Read article →He draws his graphic novels and entrusts his genre series to others. The distinction changes the signature, the original plate and the way of collecting.
Read article →Buddy Baker, his daughter Maxine and the Red: why Lemire's Animal Man run is a family horror story, and how to read it.
Read article →Remender's founding work, and the most complicated to buy: two editors, several cuts. How not to pay twice for the same chapters.
Read article →Its tracking science fiction, the most accessible and the least representative. Why make a second purchase rather than a first.
Read article →His only story entirely anchored in reality, and the easiest to offer. Why his driving scenes succeed where most fail.
Read article →The Passageway, Ten Thousand Black Feathers, Tenement: How to get into the Bone Orchard Mythos and why it's hard to collect.
Read article →Asking prices as of August 28, 2026: Ted Kord's first appearance is worth less than his #1 in gross, and the opposite in certified. Two reversals explained.
Read article →A programmed killer deprived of his nanomachines: why Bloodshot Reborn is the best entry point into the modern Valiant universe.
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