Omnibus pagination versus tokenised page crops

Many London collectors keep Claremont-era X-Men in oversized reprints. A tokenised page crop often shows a splash that the floppy numbered as page 2 and the omnibus numbered as page 48. If the archive note only cites the floppy, the person holding the trade cannot find the panel.

Our method adds a reprint column. We open the trade of record, find the same panel by art rather than by number, and write both citations. When the NFT comic is a tight crop, we also note which characters are cut off so the collector does not assume the digital still is the entire fight.

This is slow work and it is the reason a reading map costs more than a single chronology sticky. It is still cheaper than buying a second floppy copy “just to match the crop.”