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Welcome to a new Wanted Comics list. CB+ version. The list is a work in progress

The tutorial can be found here
https://comicbookplus.com/forum/index.php?topic=11823.0

This is a comprehensive list of more than 2500 comics which are either unscanned, or for which partial or lesser quality scans exist. The list can be searched, filtered and sorted in various ways, so that collectors can check to see if they have books or scans that we still need help with on CB+.  (Note, if you own a book or scan that you feel is an upgrade to one already on CB+ you are still welcome to upload it.)

See something wrong or missing that you think should be on our list?  Please mention it in a reply below.

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The list is embedded in this post on the Comic Book Plus forum. When you are viewing the list in your browser, you will see three sets of controls: Filters, Page Navigation, and Data. The Filters allow you to narrow down the amount of information shown; the Page Navigation arrows let you page forward and back one screen at a time; and the Data is the information for each book.

First let's talk about the Data section.

Data

• Publisher - the publisher of the comic. In some cases, multiple values are shown (e.g. Better/Standard or MLJ-Archie-Close Up) since the publisher name has changed during the run of the book.
• Title - the title of the book.
• Issue # - the issue number of the book.
• Status - the status of the scan. It can be one of 5 values:
  • Unscanned - No scan is available
  • Incomplete - An existing scan is available, but it is missing one or more pages.
  • Upgrade - An existing scan is available, but one or more pages are either damaged or are lesser quality (e.g. fiche, photocopies, extremely small images).
  • Awaiting Scan - The book is in the hands of a scanner, waiting to be scanned.
  • Awaiting Edit - The book has been scanned and is waiting to be edited and posted.
• Notes - this is provided for books that have a status of Incomplete or Upgrade, to indicate the pages which are missing, or the reason an upgrade is needed.
• Source - this indicates if the book is available in one of several collections. The collections in this column include the JVJ Collection (JVJ), the Library of Congress (LOC) and Soothsayr (a member of this forum). A choice of "Other" indicates the book has been found with another collection/collector.
• Other Info - this column expands on the Status and Source columns. For "Unscanned" books, it will indicate another collector who has a copy. For "Awaiting Scan" or "Awaiting Edit", it indicates who is working on the book.

Note that you can click on the headings for any of the columns, and the list will be sorted by that value. One click will sort in ascending (A-Z) order, while a second click will sort in descending (Z-A) order.

Filters

There are four filters at the top of the window, that let you narrow your search by publisher, title, scan status, and available sources for unscanned books.

For Publisher, Status and Source, you can click the drop down to see the available choices. Initially, the checkboxes for all values are checked. If you hover over a value, you can click on ONLY to show only the rows that contain that value. Alternately, you can check multiple values to show rows that match all of the selected values.

For Title, type in the box and press Enter, and the list will refresh to show all titles that contain the text string that you typed. The text you type can appear anywhere in the title (beginning, middle or end). Also, be aware that the value you type is case sensitive. If you type "captain", it won't find "Captain Marvel".

Page Navigation

Below the Data section, you will see a set of numbers  and "<" and ">" buttons on the right. The numbers indicate which books in the list are currently being displayed, and the total number of books present for the current filters that are in effect. For the initial release of the list, the numbers will be "1 - 25 / xxxx" meaning that items 1 through 25 are being displayed, out of a total of xxxx items. If you press the > button once, the window will show the next page, and the numbers will change to "26 - 50 / xxxx". If you use the filter to only show books whose publisher is Avon, the navigation numbers will be "1 - 25 / 37".

At the top right of the window, just below the Source filter, are three vertical dots. If you click this, it gives options for sorting the values by different columns, resetting the filter values to their defaults, and an export function that will let you download the currently filtered set of books as a .csv (comma separated value) text file. (In case you want to print it out for your next comic store shopping trip)

[narfstar]

Wow and double wow. Great job. And the JVJ and LOC books marked off. That is a big help for those of us who hunt for unavailable comics.

[bdw]

Tis wonderous.

I would add a cautionary here that just because LOC or JVJ has a book does not necessarily mean it will be scanned, least not in the next decade or so, the scanners and editors for those projects can only do so much.

If you got it, scan it! It ain't rocket science.

[MarkWarner]

Blimey awesome!

[Yoc]

a wonderful project I hope will result in many missing books being scanned some day!

THREE CHEERS TO ML and NONNY MOOSE for all their hard work!!

[paw broon]

An amazing bit of work.
I see that it covers American titles only.  At the risk of labouring the point, or boring you all, we still need simply piles of non-American comics for CB+ but even with the British guide to hand, I'm sure I couldn't create a non-American version.  Or versions, as we are still short of early European and Aus/NZ comics.  There was an awful lot published in the UK pre 1940, say, that might not even physically exist - comics and story papers.  Starman is doing a lot of work on old French titles, hoover has supplied so many obscure British comics, and a lot of story papers, as have other worthy members, and a few new sources for old Spanish material have surfaced which I'm currently mining.  But it would require a herculean effort to get anywhere near complete runs, I'm afraid.
As Yoc writes, "a wonderful project....."

[bromichaelhenry]

Hello,

Has this been updated since 2016?

[movielover]

Been updated too many times to count.

[Kracalactaka]

bro.......

constantly

[Herr Kommandant]

"El Lobo: the man from nowhere" still has most volumes missing. Could they be added to the list as well?

[paw broon]

Well, perhaps, but someone will have to find them, check them for non pd strips, make sure they're no later then 1960, make sure they're .cbz format, and upload.  There are other issues on various sites but I'm too pushed with to much stuff to push them up the list.  Please, have a go.  It's good fun digging.

[movielover]

"El Lobo: the man from nowhere" still has most volumes missing. Could they be added to the list as well?

Nope, the list is American, some Canadian, and is staying that way

[The Australian Panther]

  "El Lobo: the man from nowhere" still has most volumes missing. Could they be added to the list as well?

That's an Australian title and I think Dan has already posted links to lists of Australian comics we don't have - whihc is most of them.

But I'm surprised that there isn't a list for British comics. 

[Downunder Dan]

That's an Australian title and I think Dan has already posted links to lists of Australian comics we don't have - whihc is most of them.

I don't have a list of Australian comics published - and I know that, as hard as people have worked on making such a list, I have found comics not on those lists. Last week, I first encountered a comic called Sky Hawk, which is listed as running for 11 issues at the AusReprints site - and the one I found was #12. The checklist of Australian comics suggests Sky Hawk issues are 1-12+. We don't have certainty.

As for El Lobo, there's some issues at the library I use, but even if every one of those is suitable for scanning, if they were all uploaded to CB+, it still wouldn't be a complete run. I'll be adding more, but there's many other comics we don't have here, so they may not be added soon

[paw broon]

I, wrongly as it turns out, assumed that Herr K wanted more scans of El Lobo.  I forgot this was about the missing list.