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Films & Series

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: the Animated Series vs. the Comics

What the Disney+ series takes from the comics, what it changes, from Norman Osborn as mentor to Nico Minoru, and which issues to read before season 2.

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Collector's Guide

V for Vendetta: From Warrior to the Ten DC Issues, What to Collect

V for Vendetta in three forms: the Warrior magazine serial, the ten DC issues and the collections. What to collect and where the first appearance is.

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Valuation

Corno's L'Uomo Ragno (1970-1981): history and value of the Italian Marvels

L'Uomo Ragno, Italy's first Spider-Man comic by Corno (1970-1981): how to identify originals, avoid Gigante reprints and the fake no. 59, and what drives value.

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Key Issues

Alan Moore's Swamp Thing: The Run's Key Issues (1984-1987)

Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run: #21 The Anatomy Lesson, #29 without Comics Code, #37 first Constantine, Annual #2, #50 and #64, with collecting tips.

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Comics History

Steve Rogers Gives Up the Shield: When Captain America Passes the Torch

Nomad in 1974, John Walker in 1987, Bucky in 2008, Sam Wilson in 2014: the Captain America handoff comics, issue by issue, with a reading order.

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Collector's Guide

Sin City: The Reading Order of Frank Miller's Seven Stories

Sin City reading order: the seven Frank Miller volumes, release versus chronological order, French titles, original issues and editions to choose.

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Collector's Guide

Shang-Chi: First Appearance and Where to Start in Comics

Shang-Chi's first appearance in Special Marvel Edition #15, why Master of Kung Fu vanished, and which series to read first, from Gene Luen Yang to the classics.

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Collector's Guide

Ravage: Who Is Spider-Man's New Villain, Born in #1000

Who is Ravage, Mac Crane? His powers, his link to Ben and May Parker, and which issues matter: Amazing Spider-Man #26, #31 and #1000, with no price speculation.

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Collector's Guide

Who Is Miracleman? From Marvelman to the Avengers Lineup

Miracleman from the 1954 Marvelman to Alan Moore, Gaiman and David Colton in Avengers #1: the history, the two versions and what to read.

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Collector's Guide

Kirby's Fourth World: New Gods, Mister Miracle, Forever People and the Reading Order

How to read Jack Kirby's Fourth World: the four titles, 55 issues, release order, the late endings, omnibus contents and the key issues to collect.

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Key Issues

Yelena Belova: Her First Appearance in Inhumans #5 and Where to Read Her

Yelena Belova first appears in Inhumans #5 (1999). Her key issues, from Black Widow #1 to White Widow, the 2023 Thunderbolts, and a collecting order.

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Key Issues

U.S. Agent: John Walker's First Appearance, from Super-Patriot to Captain America

John Walker's first appearance in Captain America #323, the key issues #333, #350 and #354, his miniseries, and how to collect the U.S. Agent arc.

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