Understanding new Comics Library
The Library of Comics has been improved to make faster, better and complete archiving.


SERIES:

Book Name: This field is required and necessary. It's the title as it appears in the indicia or title page (For example: Spawn, Superman, The Adventures of Wolverine etc...).

Publisher: The common house name of the publisher (For example: DC, Marvel, Image etc...).

Imprint: It's the specific corporate name or other publisher details (For example: Marvel Comics Group, National Comics Publication etc...).

Format: Physical format of each issue as color, dimensions, paper stock, binding, publishing format (For example: 4-issue Miniseries, B&W, Standard, 20cm).

Series Began: The 4 digit Year of the first issue.

Series Ended: The 4 digit Year of the last issue.

First Issue: The issue number of the first issue, "1" in most cases, but not always.

Last Issue: The issue number of the last issue.

Country: The country of publication.

Language: The language of publication.
 
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ISSUE:

Issue: The issue number of the book as it appears on the book.

Publication Date: The date that appears on the book, generally in the indicia.

Type (cover): The type of cover as it appears.

Page count:The total number of pages for the entire book, including covers.

Cover Price: This is the price printed on the cover in the currency of the country publication.

Inks (cover): Who made inks.

Title (cover): The title of the book if it appears in the cover.

Letters (cover): The standard phrase for any machine lettering is "typeset", unless credited differently.

Pencils (cover): The primary artist on the feature.

Colors (cover): The standard colorist.

Feature (cover): This is the name of any on-going series that the item being indexed is part of.

Notes: This is a catch-all field for anything that doesn't fit anywhere else.
 
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STORY/FEATURE:

Title: The name of the story, as it appears in the first page (of the story) generally.

Genre: This is the broad category that a story may be placed in.

Character Appearances: The appearance of any characters in the story who you think are worth indexing.

Page Count: The number of pages the story count.

Pencils: The penciller artist of the story.

Inks: The inker artist of the story

Colors:The colorist of the story

Letters: The standard phrase for any machine lettering is "typeset", unless credited differently.

Script: The field includes writer, plotter, scripter, adapter and translator.

Feature Story: This is the name of any on-going series that the item being indexed is part of.

Synopsis: What happens n the story.
 
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COVER:

Cover: The image of the cover comic book.