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Avengers Annual #10 (1981), Claremont and Golden: Malicia begins as an adversary. Why the annual format changes everything when purchasing, and what to check.
Read article →Claremont gives him connections: the only way to make a character without a fixed identity situable. Vaughan (2003-2005) treats her as a field agent, a much fairer register.
Read article →Flash (2014-2023) vs Showcase #4 (1956) and The Flash #123 (1961): how editorial tinkering became the structure of popular fiction. Key numbers.
Read article →Tier S, A, B, C and D of Storm's key numbers. The anomaly of #186, the cross-requests, and why 25 years of cinema have not changed its rating.
Read article →Speculate or invest in comics? Two opposing mentalities, horizons, risks and method so as not to confuse the short bet and the long thesis.
Read article →All Star Comics #58 (1976), Conway/Estrada/Wally Wood. ⚠️ The title takes up the numbering of a series from the 1940s: always check the vintage before buying.
Read article →An entourage made up of people she loses: an inseparable brother, a broken marriage, an ambiguous mentor, and children whose existence is the hidden subject of her stories.
Read article →Claremont (1986-1991) who created it by hiding it, the 2019 redesign which made it essential, Gillen (2011-2012) who found a tone for it. How to target sequences.
Read article →Claremont (1975-1991) who invented the character twenty years after his creation, Classic X-Men (1986-1990), Magneto Testament (2008), Bunn (2014), the 2019 redesign.
Read article →Key numbers or complete run: where the value is concentrated, what liquidity, what opportunity cost, and how to mix the two in your collection.
Read article →Ms. Marvel #16 (1978): not an X-Men series. A poorly located key is recognized late, and therefore poorly preserved: here the premium at high grade corresponds to a real rarity.
Read article →An entire entourage built on an impossibility: it cannot touch anyone. Mystique, Gambit (UXM #266), the stolen conscience of Carol Danvers, the X-Men suspicious.
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