Valuation
Invest in comics with less than €1000
With a budget of €1000, target serious key numbers without aiming for the grails: method, categories to favor, grade and pitfalls to avoid.
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Valuation
Best DC comics to invest in: the market guide
Where to invest in DC comics? Golden Age founder, key issues, odds and differences with Marvel for the investor. Concrete method and verified facts.
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Collector's Guide
Zatanna: reading guide, where to start with comics
Where to start Zatanna in comics? Reading order of major runs and sagas, from Zatanna's Search to Justice League Dark and Paul Dini's solos.
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Key Issues
Fantastic Four #5 (1962): the first appearance of Doctor Doom
Fantastic Four #5 (1962), first appearance of Doctor Doom by Lee and Kirby: the founding issue, its rating, its Silver Age key status and Avengers: Doomsday.
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Key Issues
Doctor Doom #1 (2019): the Cantwell run, Fatalis as an anti-hero
Doctor Doom #1 (2019) by Cantwell and Larroca: the modern solo series where Doom, wrongly accused, becomes anti-hero. Recent key and nuanced exploration.
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Collector's Guide
Carnage Collecting Guide: The Complete Method
Its key issues belong to the medium's most overproduced period. No rarity, cyclical demand, and only one rule: very high grade, or nothing.
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Collector's Guide
Cable Collecting Guide: The Complete Method
A preliminary decision: target the character or the series. The run that contains his first appearance houses a foreign key more expensive than his own—serial contamination.
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Collector's Guide
Ant-Man Collecting Guide: The Complete Method
Three people have carried this identity, with first appearances twenty years apart and unrelated markets. “Ant-Man” does not identify a character, but a function.
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Comics History
“Triumph and Torment”: Doctor Doom and Doctor Strange
“Triumph and Torment” (1989) by Roger Stern and Mike Mignola: Doom and Strange in Hell to save Doom's mother. Magic and filial love.
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Films & Series
Paper Girls versus comics: a work in advance, adapted late
Paper Girls (2022) vs Paper Girls #1 (2015, Image): Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, 30 issues. Two adaptations by the same author, two cancellations. Key numbers.
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Valuation
Best Copper Age comics to invest in
Investing in the copper age (copper age, mid-1980s-early 1990s): sorting overproduction and real nuggets, first appearances that count, role of the state, tra
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Collector's Guide
X-Men Reading Guide: Where to Start
Where to start with the X-Men? The founding run of Claremont, the Saga of the Black Phoenix, the Krakoa era and a clear and reasoned reading order to get started with peace of mind.
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