2 Scott McCloud first editions are documented on this shelf, from Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993) to The Sculptor (2015) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Scott McCloud 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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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art — 1993 · Tundra PublishingTrue first edition published by Tundra Publishing in 1993, softcover, 216 pages, black and white, ISBN 1-56862-019-5. The Tundra imprint on the title and copyright pages is the key point. Kitchen Sink Press printings followed after Kitchen Sink absorbed Tundra in 1993, and the HarperPerennial paperback editions (from 1994) are later still. US true first is the Tundra Publishing 1993 softcover, not Kitchen Sink. Kitchen Sink, later DC Paradox and Vertigo, and HarperPerennial editions are all later printings or reissues (first thus). Identify the original by the Tundra imprint. No book-club edition. The trap is that Kitchen Sink and HarperPerennial printings are far more common and are later; verify the Tundra Publishing imprint and the 1993 first printing.
The Sculptor — 2015 · First SecondFirst Second, February 2015, ISBN 978-1-59643-573-5 (the hardcover; ISBN-10 1-59643-573-9), about 496 pages. A first printing carries the full number line ending in 1. The hardcover is the primary collectible first. An original graphic novel; the First Second hardcover is the true first. No book-club edition.

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