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Green Arrow: eleven clean ads are better than a hundred mixed ads
Four independent sellers converge around forty dollars: the size of a sample never compensates for its impurity.
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Green Arrow: the mini-series can be collected whole or not at all
In a closed four-issue format, the conclusion is the least expensive ad in the statement: the unit that counts is the whole, not the issue.
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The title that attracted auditions
One candidate per issue: this is where the first appearances of an editor are statistically concentrated.
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Ghost Rider: when an ad sells an adaptation that doesn't yet exist
Two comparable copies, one marked and the other not, claim the same amount: the ad sells an expectation, not an object.
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Nothing printed in 1990 can become rare
The woodpecker self-destructs: the preserved copies all come back at the same time. And that's good news.
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Ghost Rider: the market invented a category before the first appearance
Third appearance, fourth, “prior image”: a ladder of entry points constructed by sellers, neither fake nor guaranteed.
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Gambit: the tear-off inserts are part of the copy
A missing insert is not seen in any cover photo: “unverified” is a valid answer, the absence of a field is not.
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A character whose concept is secret cannot win
Revealing deprives him of what distinguishes him, not revealing exhausts patience. All three outcomes fail.
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Gambit: the foreign edition of the same story does not have the same number
The American n° 266 published under n° 65 in Brazil: an object that no search by number will ever find.
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The first third is worth double the other two
What is sought is not the story but the moment of appearance. Good news for anyone who wants to read.
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Two series, one title, twenty years apart
A number 9 exists in both. Only the year separates them, and she is not on any cover.
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“First print”, but first print of what?
A 2002 reprint announced as the first printing: the mention says nothing without its subject.
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