Practical guides, expert advice and resources to manage, value and grow your comic book collection.
Ororo Munroe's entourage: Forge and the invention that dispossesses her, Callisto and the Morlocks, the Wakandan marriage, Yukio and Kitty Pryde. A universe without personal enemies.
Read article →Byrne invented it eight years after its creation, through a process rather than an origin. A character whose value comes from a run, not a first time, remains cheap.
Read article →Bendis (2004-2005) which made it a disaster, the two limited series of 1982 and 1985, Englehart in the 1970s, James Robinson (2015). Where to cut.
Read article →Chris Claremont (1981-1991), Rick Remender (2012), Kelly Thompson (2018), Robert Rodi (2004): 23 years passed before his first continuing series.
Read article →X-Factor (1991-1993) is the only run where he is a subject, not a temperament. A secondary character is never programmed, he is collected: his quality depends on who collects him.
Read article →Titans (2018) vs The New Teen Titans (1980): the title that saved DC, adapted by taking the heat away from it. Three adaptations, three tones. Key numbers.
Read article →X-Men #4 (1964), Lee and Kirby: Wanda Maximoff begins as an adversary, with her brother. ⚠️ This issue belongs to the X-Men market: its price is set by another request.
Read article →Fantastic Four #5 in CGC: the scale of grades, what level to aim for according to budget and objective, the economics of grading, pressing, restoration and labels.
Read article →A professional entourage before being family, and renewable for each business. This is what makes this folder self-contained, and almost without indirect keys.
Read article →Palmiotti, Gray and Amanda Conner (2009), Gerry Conway on All Star Comics (1976), the Showcase sequences. 33 years before his first continuous title.
Read article →Millar and McNiven (2008-2009), the 2015 revival, Jeff Lemire (2016-2018) and Dead Man Logan (2018-2019). A file which has a written beginning and end: therefore complete.
Read article →Buy better grade, sell lower grade: method for upgrading a set of comics, real cost of the operation, profitable grade differences and liquidity traps.
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