Polybag residue and digital trade dress
A practical identification habit: leftover polybag ink can confirm which paper variant a digital cover is quoting.
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Essays from the London desk about mutant-team serials, digital covers, and how to file them without turning fandom into a trading floor.
These notes are written for readers who already care about Uncanny page counts and drop weeks. They are not price lists.
Export dates are not story dates
A caution against treating a CSV export date as the year an X-Men chapter was published.
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Guest mutants who should not headline a folder
How the desk stops a one-panel Nightcrawler cameo from renaming an entire New Mutants folder.
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Omnibus pagination versus tokenised page crops
Why reprint trades need their own page column when an NFT comic shows only a splash fragment.
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When a motion cover lies about the printed month
A filing method for digital X-Men covers whose drop week sits months away from the floppy they visually quote.
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