Special Projects

Database Cleanup

Creators

• Creator entries to investigate from the Who's Who of American Comic Books and then to be added to the GCD if needed.

• Who's Who creator data needed to be manually imported into the GCD, "To be confirmed against the Who's Who entry."

• Add creators from Lambiek Comiclopedia

• GCD Creators with No Sort Name

Other cleanup chores

• Re-write synopsis with solicitation/Previews text (search words "solicitation" or "preview") Stories with 'per solicitation' text

• Series with no issues

• • By country: Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA

• • By language: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

• Indexed comics with missing cover price

• Missing PubDates

• Missing KeyDates

• Problem series that need to be worked on (this is an old list that used to be for Editors only)

• Type "filler": Lots of stuff in this type that needs to get sorted out (blank pages, credits, tables of contents etc.)

• Indicia/Colophon Publisher year inconsistencies, with issues published outside the period from begin to end dates.

• Issues With Multiple Covers that need to be moved to Variant Issues.

• Series Country doesn't match Publisher Country

• Issues with more indexed pages than total pages.

• Feature field with "/" to separate two features - need to be changed to semi-colons. Some of these are correct usage of the slash, but most are not.

• Issues missing on-sale dates: (sources for dates can be found in Useful indexer links)
  • All DC series
  • DC series begun 1981-1991
  • Marvel series begun after 1960

• Variant issues without cover sequences - Cover sequences should be added at least to issues with different cover credits

• Stories with synopsis longer than 600 characters

New indexes and skeletons to add

• New Releases Skeletons - coordinated effort to add skeletons for new US releases
• Bell Features Collection (the Library and Archives Canada)
• Timely/Atlas titles indexed by Tom Lammers (info to be moved from error tracker into indexes)
• British 2000 AD homepage 1
• British 2000 AD homepage 2
• British Star Wars reprints
• Comic Magazine Publishing Report (George W. Dougherty, 1942 series), #129 (October 1952). On sale date, frequency, and other data from industry trade publication which needs to be entered into titles in the database.
• French comics
• Finnish Comics
• Alberto Becattini Dell Four Color Comics Checklist
• German comics from publisher BSV, indexes only
• German (and Dutch) Western comics, indexes only
• Italian Comics - Guida Fumetto Italiano [Reference only]
• Major Mars stories and Comic ads from Art Lortie
• Radio Patrol reprint data for King Comics issues from Art Lortie
• The Saint Comic Strip Reprint Data needs entry into The Saint (Avon 1947 series) and future French titles, maybe these Australian titles, circa 1950, circa 1965, and these United Kingdom titles circa 1962, and circa 1966.
• Swedish Star Wars
• Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact comics, nearly entire run from 1946 to 1972 has been digitized and ready to be indexed The Catholic University of America Digital Collections
• USA and some International Unindexed issues at Comic Book +
• USA and some International Unindexed issues at Digital Comic Museum
• USA Government Comics
• USA Educational Comics
• USA Comics with Problems
• Volto Comic Ad Information from Art Lortie

Art checklists

• Hugo Pratt checklist
• Jack Kirby checklist
• Joe Sinnott checklist
• Todd Klein Lettering Archive

There are many sites with databases of comics from all over the world - if you are interested in adding books from specific countries, languages or publishers, the links found in Useful indexer links will come handy.