Practical guides, expert advice and resources to manage, value and grow your comic book collection.
Three eras including one inaccessible: why start with the recent period, how to construct a list in a table, and how to resolve the mother-daughter question.
Read article →Original edition, four reprints, alternative cover, exclusives: how to identify each version and what it is really worth.
Read article →A 2004 comic rarer than many old keys: the mechanism of firm orders in bookstores, and how to spot other comparable cases.
Read article →A market punctuated by adaptations: when to buy, what the historical premium of the founding number is and why the gradation is not always justified.
Read article →Superman #75 exists in eight distinct editions in the catalog. How to identify them, why the state pays all the price and what is really valuable.
Read article →The passage of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting dominates everything. What the 2012 solo series brings, the detours of 2014 and the return of 2018.
Read article →The series by Tom King and Gabriel Hernández Walta dominates, but the titles from the 1980s are worth a look. Reading order and mistakes to avoid.
Read article →It comes from elsewhere, and each series must decide what to do with this discrepancy. The seminal run, the 2018 breakup, and recent miniseries.
Read article →Each team faces the same problem: writing a character defined by their emancipation. Solutions found from 1995 to 2021, and where to start.
Read article →From the founding work to Elektra: Assassin (1986, Miller/Sienkiewicz), what each series brings and the mistakes to avoid.
Read article →A character defined by what he knows. What each series does with its intelligence, and how to avoid buying the wrong costume wearer.
Read article →Captain America #1 (2005) by Brubaker and Epting brings back a character created in 1941 under a new identity. Two printings, several #1 issues to tell apart.
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