Comic Book Resources

The easiest way to get all the comics in the Death of Superman story would be to just buy the Death of Superman trade, which is still in print. And then follow it up with World Without A Superman and The Return of Superman, of course.

Alternatively, the novelization of that storyline, The Death And Return of Superman by Roger Stern, contains a complete checklist of all those comics, although grouped by series, and not in direct chronological order.

There's also, apparently, a big fracking omnibus containing the death, funeral, and return stories coming out in September.

Amazon links:

Never mind about the Amazon links. I'm too lazy.

What's the best way for an indy publisher to market and get press coverage for their books?

Oh we are supposed to email the questions... let me do that. my bad

Scott,

find some good, reputable, and popular comic sites, and send free copies of your book to each and every one of their reviewers.

A sort of followup question to this current one:

Is there any way to find out whether a certain comic has appeared in a trade paperback?

For instance, let's say I want to read all Doc Ock appearances before Amazing #200 or so (since so many people around here think he's the best Spider-man villain ever during that period) or that I want to read any Frank Robbins/ Neal Adams Man-bat appearances.

How do I find out what has been reprinted where since I don't have the cash for the originals but still want to read them?

Da fug,

http://tplist.millarworld.net/index.html is a great resource for trade paperbacks

arhey

http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/index.htm is a great resource for Marvel stuff.

You know what's real good and criminally underrated?

The Nicieza Gambit series.

Great resource, thanks! But can't you please, please tell us what comic features Gambit's final appearance?

But I kid the Gambit.

Are shameless plugs allowed? At MyComicPile, the owner is putting together a list of "Comic Events" that are the big crossover story arcs. It's not huge now, but we're adding stories every day. There isn't anything to search for individual characters, but we're adding the information to our database. Check it out, and tell them joshschr sent you!

Thanks arhey and entzauberung!

You know what’s real good and criminally underrated?

The Nicieza Gambit series.

I feel that way about everything Nicieza related.

I'll never understand the Nicieza love, let alone that for his Gambit series.

But hey, I don't understand people who watch American Idol, so go figure.

I have tried to list most of the storylines in the Story Title field at CBDB, but I fall down when it comes to some of the older stories. Unfortunately, for example, Death of Superman is not indexed; it will be with the next update.

Here's an excellent crossover website:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060212065208/http://members.tripod.com/~MitchellBrown/xover/index.html

Wayback link used because the site proper seems to be down.