Format

Required field

• This is a single field with five elements. The five elements are separated by a semi-colon.

• 1) Color (Color, 4 Color, Painted, 2 Color, Black and White)

• 2) Dimensions (Standard Golden Age US, Standard Silver Age US, Standard Modern US; Digest; Tabloid, A3, A4, A5, 8.5" x 11", 21cm x 28cm)

• 3) Paper Stock (Newsprint, glossy, bond, Mando, Baxter)

• 4) Binding (Stapled, Saddle-stitched, Bound, Squarebound, Hardcover, Trade Paperback)

• 5) Publishing Format (On-Going Series, Limited Series, Miniseries, Maxiseries One-Shot, Graphic Novel)

For publishing frequency, the following was also suggested:
1) one-shot - intended as a standalone publication
2) limited series - intended as a finite series
3) ongoing series - intended as an open-ended series with no set endpoint
4) was ongoing series - a formerly ongoing series that has ceased publication

• Since you may not know all five elements, or they may change over the run of the series, there is some flexibility to this field.

• Page counts do not belong in this field.

• Any other special cases should be listed in the series notes field. Special cases would be things like "started as a limited series and became ongoing", "started referring to #75 as the final early on", "was supposed to be ongoing, but was canceled after one issue", etc.

• Note that at some point the format will be associated directly at the issue level and this field will be eliminated.

• Examples:

Color; Standard Modern Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series 
Color; Standard Golden Age, Silver Age, and Modern Age US 
Black and White; Digest; Squarebound; Limited Series

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