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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
10/22/2025
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We are in the middle of some serious data structuring. So, I wanted to let you know that when you see things moving around, there is a purpose.
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1. All Wizard Ace books have been moved into their own titles and labeled.
2. All Image Firsts books have been moved into their own titles and are labeled.
3. All Dollar Comics have been moved into their own titles and are labeled.
4. All FCBD comics have been moved into their own titles and are labeled.
Currently in Process
1. All Annuals are being moved into their own titles and labeled.
2. All Facsimiles are being moved into their own titles and not in the main title.
We are also working on eliminating the comments field. We have started tagging things and making those tags searchable. This makes the cover artist, specifically the penciler, the key piece of information. We have changed the text on the site from cover artist to cover penciler and are removing any inker or colorist from those areas. These features are designed to make it easier to search and sort on the website.
All the best,
Ron
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midusunknown Posts: 2
10/22/2025
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Why the move of Annuals and specials away from their associated series? It definitely makes looking things up more tedious and time consuming.
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
10/23/2025
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midusunknown wrote:
Why the move of Annuals and specials away from their associated series? It definitely makes looking things up more tedious and time-consuming.
Previously, if you were looking up Amazing Spider-Man Annual, you would get 170 Amazing Spider-Man titles.
Now, if you search "Amazing Spider-Man Annual", you get 14 different titles.
That's much easier to figure out which specific issue you need.
The inclusion of the word Annual or Special makes your search more effective.
Recently, publishers have started labeling Annuals as #1 no matter how many issues came before it. Look at Amazing Spider Annual from 2023, it's #1.
https://comicspriceguide.com/titles/the-amazing-spider-man-annual/pirvhv/
or 2024, it's #1
https://comicspriceguide.com/titles/the-amazing-spider-man-annual/phxpht/
They are making it difficult to differentiate which one is which.
Both of those titles have different UPC's meaning they are different titles.
Finally, Comics.org and CGC and other websites separate titles out in this format. So if you get a book graded you can look at the title and type it into our site and find the book.
I understand that change can be difficult but we have studied this and are making these changes with consistency and clear intent.
Thanks for the questions,
Ron
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kds_comics Posts: 686
11/6/2025
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Ron
Very glad you are moving Free Comic Book Day Comics to the FCBD title with the year.
This makes them much easier to find.
Not big value but previously some were difficult to find.
Thank you
KDS
Ronbatman wrote:
We are in the middle of some serious data structuring. So, I wanted to let you know that when you see things moving around, there is a purpose.
Completed
1. All Wizard Ace books have been moved into their own titles and labeled.
2. All Image Firsts books have been moved into their own titles and are labeled.
3. All Dollar Comics have been moved into their own titles and are labeled.
4. All FCBD comics have been moved into their own titles and are labeled.
Currently in Process
1. All Annuals are being moved into their own titles and labeled.
2. All Facsimiles are being moved into their own titles and not in the main title.
We are also working on eliminating the comments field. We have started tagging things and making those tags searchable. This makes the cover artist, specifically the penciler, the key piece of information. We have changed the text on the site from cover artist to cover penciler and are removing any inker or colorist from those areas. These features are designed to make it easier to search and sort on the website.
All the best,
Ron
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