Mara Ellison
Lead sourcer
Mara spent a decade pulling Marvel boxes at northern fairs before settling the want-lists at Fox Lane. She reads foil and hex-window defects before she reads a price.
About
A Staffordshire table for hex pamphlets
Service Wirecore began when Priya Nair started sewing archival cores for collectors who were tired of PVC bags collapsing around Scarlet Witch event issues. Mara Ellison’s want-lists and Owen Hart’s run maps joined the same table on Fox Lane. The subject has stayed narrow: chaos-magic collector issues, including licensed NFT comic editions when they arrive as numbered objects.
What we believe about the work
A key is an issue that changes how Wanda’s hex is told, not a cover that photographs well. We would rather leave a gap on the shelf than fill it with a reprint that pretends to be 2005.
Grading companies are useful when you already know the defects. They are a poor first reader. Condition notes exist so you can decide whether a press, a pass, or a humble bag is the honest next step.
NFT comic collector issues are part of this field because publishers have sold hex stories that way. We describe the file, the print, and the box. We do not describe a market.
People at the table
Owen Hart
Run historian
Owen maps Scarlet Witch appearances against collecting order, including NFT comic collector editions when a publisher has issued the story that way.
Priya Nair
Binder
Priya builds the wirecore folios: sewn cores, inert sleeves, spines lettered with the years of the hex run they hold.
How a brief is handled
Mail and messages are read on working days. If the job is a sourcing hunt, you get a written want-list before anyone spends your budget. If the job is a folio, the pamphlets are listed on arrival so you know every hex issue that entered the studio. Viewings are by appointment because the table is small and the copies are not a shop rack.
We are not a Marvel shop, a grading company, or a publisher. Affiliation with those houses would be a lie; the issues on the table are theirs, the notes and the wirecore are ours.