When a motion cover lies about the printed month

A motion cover can quote a 1980s Uncanny pose while dropping in a week that has nothing to do with that cover month. Collectors then file the digital item under the paper date, which wrecks a chronology card. At the Fenchurch Street table we keep two date lines: “art quoted from” and “drop window.”

The first line names the printed issue whose composition is being reused. The second line is the week the NFT comic became inspectable in the collector’s own viewer. If those lines diverge by more than a season, the card gets a red ink warning so nobody treats the digital object as a time machine.

We still refuse to write a price history next to either date. The point is to stop a Wolverine pose from leaping across decades in a longbox database.