2 Frank Miller & Lynn Varley first editions are documented on this shelf, from Elektra Lives Again (1990) to 300 (1990) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Frank Miller & Lynn Varley title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Elektra Lives Again — 1990 · Marvel / Epic ComicsFirst edition is the 1990 Epic Comics original graphic novel hardcover, fully painted by Lynn Varley, with pictorial boards and decorated endpapers, issued in a dust jacket. Confirm the 1990 date and Epic imprint on the copyright page. The 1990 Epic hardcover OGN is the true first edition. Softcover and later reprint editions are first-thus only. Later printings and softcover editions are later first-thus, not the true first.
300 — 1998 (serial) / 1999 (collected) · Dark Horse ComicsSerial: five-issue oversized limited series, Dark Horse, with the first issue dated May 1998 and the series running monthly through September 1998. First collected edition: oversized landscape hardcover, Dark Horse, 1999, ISBN 1-56971-402-8 (9781569714027), with each original two-page spread presented as a single page. The first-print collected edition states the first printing. The 1998 five-issue series is the serial first appearance; the 1999 oversized landscape hardcover is the first collected book. Distinguish serial from collected; later film tie-in printings from about 2006 to 2007 carry movie art. No book-club edition. Film tie-in and later printings are later. Verify the 1998 and 1999 first printings and the original non-film cover and oversized landscape format.

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