B&W: | Black and white - the book is illustrated in black and white only |
CVR: | Cover; the cover of this comic is drawn by a different artist or in the case of for example FOIL CVR the cover is printed on a different material. Covers by different artists are usually distinguished by assigning letters to them; for example COVER A (LANGLEY), COVER B (ALEX ROSS) etc. |
DF: | Dynamic Force edition; they specialize in publishing special editions (especially signed and limited editionsm but also special covers) |
DM: | Direct Market Edition |
ED: | Edition |
FC: | Full color - the book is entirely in color |
HC: | Hardcover - the book has a hard, inflexible cover |
LTD: | Limited edition: the printer has only printed a limited number of copies of this book. |
PGS: | Pages; the number of pages in this book. |
PP: | Number of pages in the issue |
Premiere or Prem: | Larger size edition |
S N or S/N: | Numbered edition; each volume has a consecutive number. |
SGN: | Signed edition; one of the authors has signed his autograph. |
TP or TPB: | Trade Paperback - the book has a flexible (or soft) cover |
UK: | This edition of this book was printed in the United Kingdom; this usually means that the book was printed by either Panini or Titan Publishing using their Marvel license. |
VAR: | Variamt edition: this edition is different from the standard one, usually because it has a different cover |