Comic Book Manager

Comics have always been highly prized items, both for their intrinsic visual qualities, but also for their value as collectibles. What's more, with the advent of e-commerce, there has been an increased demand for tools that help collectors adequately manage their comic books catalogs. Comic Book Manager is one such utility allowing one to record all aspects of a given collection.

As with similar applications, the program works by allowing users the possibility to enter all the information on the available comic books. This is performed by going through multiple fields, including the issue, number and title of the comic, but also other details, such as the name of the publisher or the writers involved.

The application is built around a tab-like interface that allows users to work on several entries at the same time. The available editable frames (dubbed 'screens') are: “Publisher”, “Series”, “Title”, “Issue”, “Character”, “Penciler”, “Colorer”, “Inker”, and “Writer”. As one can see, these categories cater to even the most demanding needs and cover most aspects related to managing comics collectibles.

Each category can be customized to suit the peculiarities of the comics collection and certain items can even receive local multimedia files, such as cover images. With this application, users can even insert information related to the characters who make appearances in the issue, complete with their real name.

Where applicable, users can insert hyperlinks and wishlists can be created to keep track of new editions. Once recording is complete, one can generate detailed reports of selected entries; printing these items is possible and exporting the entire library to DBFs, TXTs, XMLs or Excel formats is also possible.

Summing up, Comic Book Manager is a simple, but practical tool for anyone involved in collecting comics and similar items.