Practical guides, expert advice and resources to manage, value and grow your comic book collection.
Three orders of words for a single object, and the same number at €5.00 and €6.99: two searches which do not overlap.
Read article →Round number, double pagination, holographic cover: three accumulated event markers, and five dollars at the end.
Read article →“August 2016” replaces “number 12”: the sorting of a collection is then based on a calendar, and a number zero distorts any count.
Read article →Three writings of the same title coexist in the advertisements, and no break in numbering indicates the change of name.
Read article →A complete story for €9.48 in France, compared to $25 to $40 for a single American booklet the same day — two objects, two needs.
Read article →A series relaunched in 1990 bears the title of a series from the seventies, with another bearer: neither the title nor the number says which one you are buying.
Read article →The name of a designer as the main entry, before the title of the series: a parallel axis of classification that the inventories ignore.
Read article →Three numbering regimes coexist on the French market, and none of the last two is stored as an integer.
Read article →Out of 60 announcements from August 30, 2026, only one represents 47% of the amount requested. She divides the average by two and leaves the median within two cents.
Read article →Rated 2.5 it claims $50, rated 3.5 it claims 150 — when five advertisements from a large booklet fit into a dollar despite a four-point difference.
Read article →A million dollars demanded for an ordinary 1992 issue: the top of the market offered does not resemble the top of the market sold.
Read article →Two series, an identical title, the same number: the median noted then does not describe either of the two objects. Why the volume must appear in the inventory.
Read article →