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Current Schema: Stories table, Notes field
Current Schema: Stories table, Notes field
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Revision as of 04:19, 15 November 2009

  • Optional
  • This is a catch-all field for anything that doesn't fit anywhere else but you think it worth noting. Direct comments about other fields to here with a "(see notes)" comment. Use this field in the cover sequence for notes applying to either the cover or to the whole issue, and use it in other individual sequences for notes that only apply to that sequence.
  • Examples (cover sequence):
* Wraparound cover 
* Gatefold cover 
* Die-cut cover 
* ISBN 1-234-5678 
* Reported circulation: 150,245 (average), 125,243 (nearest issue) 
* 30th Anniversary issue; Embossed cover 
* Published with 4 variant covers 
  • Examples (other sequences):
* Pages 17 and 18 reversed 
* Edited reprint (pages 17 and 18 removed) 
* Story continues in Avengers #56 
* Miscredited to Joe Sinnott. Obvious by style 
* Miscredited to Edmund Hamilton. Appears in Otto Binder's files 
* Miscredited to Robert Kanigher. Corrected in later letter column

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Definition currently under review by Senior Editors (September 18, 2008)

Current Schema: Stories table, Notes field


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