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When a .1 prelude is not issue one

Avengers event months often open with a .1 prelude. On a digital drop page the cover can look like the main series #1 that follows two weeks later: same skyline, similar costume, different caption box if you zoom. Collectors who filename by art then overwrite the prelude with the first numbered issue.

We treat a .1 as its own issue number. The ledger stores the decimal, the prelude label if the masthead uses one, and a one-line note on whether the NFT identifier differs from the printed numbering. If a later facsimile reprints the prelude with a new drop code, that facsimile becomes a third row.

This habit comes from paper shops, where a .1 still occupies a pocket. NFT comic issues deserve the same courtesy. The point is cataloguing, not claiming that one file is more “complete” than another.