Practical guides, expert advice and resources to manage, value and grow your comic book collection.
Key numbers or complete run: where the value is concentrated, what liquidity, what opportunity cost, and how to mix the two in your collection.
Read article →Ms. Marvel #16 (1978): not an X-Men series. A poorly located key is recognized late, and therefore poorly preserved: here the premium at high grade corresponds to a real rarity.
Read article →An entire entourage built on an impossibility: it cannot touch anyone. Mystique, Gambit (UXM #266), the stolen conscience of Carol Danvers, the X-Men suspicious.
Read article →Frank Miller (1981-1986), Bendis-Maleev (2001-2006), Zdarsky (2019-2024): the five runs that make the Kingpin. None bears his name: that’s his particularity.
Read article →Claremont (1990-1991) installed it as an enigma, Jim Lee (1991-1992) made it popular: graphically. On this issue, the image did more than the text.
Read article →The Batman (2004) vs the comics: how to succeed the 1992 series without being a copy. Batgirl before Robin, Joker reimagined. Key numbers.
Read article →Quick but discounted group sale, or individual sale which maximizes the price? The method for splitting up a comic book collection and optimizing the total product.
Read article →The Archie Show (1968) vs Pep Comics #22 (1941): a fictional group invented for the series, whose record dominated sales in 1969. The longest journey in the corpus.
Read article →Uncanny X-Men #221 (1987) by Claremont and Silvestri, after more than a year of silhouette teases: why the market never settled which issue counts first.
Read article →The acting under the Iron Man armor (1983), the armor of his own (1992), the solo series of 1994, Pak's run (2009), his death in 2016. What to tell about a derivative character?
Read article →Life-Death (UXM #186, 1984), the powerless period, the conquest of the Morlocks, Mutant Massacre, the Wakandan marriage. Four out of five arcs hinge on a loss.
Read article →Generate a cryptographically signed comics insurance PDF in 3 clicks with MCC. SHA-256 hash, QR verification, accepted by AXA Art and Hiscox France. Step-by-step guide.
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