Online Resources for Fandom Information

This thread will provide a list of online resources for fans looking to acquire information about various elements of fandom. This is not a thread for fan-listings or fan-pages of characters.

You can always quickly navigate to this thread via the 'External Resources' link on our site's menu bar, or access some of the more generally useful links on it's dropdown menu.

Don't see something listed you think should be, post it in the thread below. If the site's Staff agrees with you, it will eventually be edited into the first post.

...and maybe even to the dropdown menu on the External Resources tab!

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COMIC BOOKS & GRAPHIC NOVELS:

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ComicList: New Comic Book Releases List

www.comiclist.com/

The World's Greatest Comic Book Shipping Information Website!

ComicList provides a list of the comic books, graphic novels, and other products that should be available in your local or online comic book shop each week.

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Site no longer exists. Entry left for historical purposes only.

ComicBookDB.com: The Comic Book Database

www.comicbookdb.com

ComicBookDB.com is the fastest-growing comic database on the web. The first goal of the project is to catalog every comic, graphic novel, manga, creator, character and anything else that could relate to the field of comics.

But that is only the beginning. The second goal of the site is to make this wealth of information as useful as possible. This means making as many connections as possible from one issue, one creator, one character to everything else in the site.

Best of all, ComicBookDB.com is built by anyone who wants to help. Fans, creators, publishers, anyone with useful info is welcome to register a free account and start contributing.

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Grand Comics Database (GCD)

www.comics.org/

The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building a database covering all printed comics throughout the world.

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Comichron: A Resource For Comic Book Circulation Data

www.comichron.com/index.php

Welcome to Comichron, a resource for comic book circulation data and other information gathered by
John Jackson Miller and other pop culture archaeologists interested in comics history.

More than 146,400 comic book and graphic novel circulation figures online!

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Comic Shop Locator Service

www.comicshoplocator.com/storelocator

Find A Comic Shop Near You With Comic Shop Locator!

Search by Zip Code, Canadian Postal Code or Address.

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CMRO: The Complete Marvel Reading Order

cmro.travis-starnes.com/

The goal of the Order is to put all the comics of the main Marvel universe in a readable order. To have the events from issues flow in a way that makes sense, so if an event or comic is referenced in one issue, you have already read the comic being referenced. The Order also tries to keep all the characters where they should be. So if the Hulk is wandering around in Siberia, he isn’t seen intermittently in Nevada at the same time. There are of course times with the convoluted nature of the Marvel universe will make this impossible, but the goal is to get it as close as they can.

Why not just read in the order they were published?

It comes off as a bit confusing to read part 1 of this Daredevil story, part 2 of a Spider-Man story, then say a stand alone X-Men before going back and reading part 2 of the daredevil story. That is the main goal of the Order, to allow you to read comics in the way they were intended but also in an order that is readable (so story lines are intact and characters are in as good a place as they can place them). They also try and take pacing and readability into account when placing comics from the same time period, of course after continuity and story lines are accounted for.

Aren't there already chronological orders out there? What makes the CMRO different?

There are several of them in fact. But that is not what this project is. While chronology and continuity have a place in the Order, it is trumped by readability (you will find many chronological orders break single issues up even by page) and by intent of the writer (no mixing comics written 40 years apart because one is a flashback). Chronological orders have their place, and are great tools, but this order is about reading, not just listing.

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Marvel Chronology Project

www.chronologyproject.com

The MCP is an effort to catalog every actual appearance by every significant character in the Marvel Universe, and place them in their proper chronological order. There are very few graphics on the site, in an effort to cut the download time.

If there's a particular character that's struck your fancy, that you just can't live without owning their every appearance, this is the place to start. Simply click on the first character of their name (if it's a supporting character, then the first letter of their last name), and the Project will take you to an alphabetical listing of all characters starting with that letter. You'll notice that some characters have links on their names. These links take you to either a cross-referenced MCP web page, or to a web page at another site dedicated to that character. If you have a web page that features a Marvel character, let them know and they will add a link if it's appropriate.

First, however, you should visit the key and read the FAQ. The key gives you more detailed information about the project, including their charter, an abbreviations list, a list of titles covered, and what qualifies as an "appearance." The FAQ (or Frequently Asked Questions) goes into more detail on these and many other points.

Because of newly released comics, the MCP will be in a constant state of flux.

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ComicArtFans.com

www.comicartfans.com/

ComicArtFans.com is a free gallery service for Comic Art Collectors and Artists. Once you've registered for an account and signed in you are free to create Gallery Rooms to post your artwork to. ComicArtFans.com does offer a Premium Membership which extends the use of the site for you.When you sign up for an account you are given a 7-day trial of the site's premium features.

ComicArtFans.com has an active community that frequently give feedback on posted artwork and even have their own forums.

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Comic Art Community

comicartcommunity.com/

Comic Art Community has been run by Terry Maltos for over 12 years. The site boasts 61635 images in 826 categories.

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League of Comic Geeks

leagueofcomicgeeks.com/

At its core, the League of Comic Geeks website features a robust cataloging system that utilizes a variety of sources to ensure new release information is the best on the 'net. Beyond that, the database is curated by the community. Anyone can request corrections to individual entries in the database. To support those efforts is our moderator team, who ensure everything submitted is quality.

Add/Edit New or Old Comic Listings
Add Creator Credits to Issues
Upload New Cover Images
Add/Edit Creator Biographies

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Mike's Amazing World of Comics

www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/

A searchable resource indexing comics from multiple publishers, including DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, Archie, Charlton, Dell, Gold Key and Harvey. Mike's brings you a wide range of features which catalog and index comics from a variety of publishers. These features include tools to search and display information about comic stories and characters, cover galleries, and creator credits.

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ROLE-PLAYING GAMES(RPGs):

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ClassicMarvelForever.com

classicmarvelforever.com/cms/

ClassicMarvelForever.com is an almost complete net resource for everything related to the Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game published by TSR from 1984 to the early 1990's. Within these pages you will find details relating to many superheroes and supervillains published by comic houses such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and Image. There are a number of optional rules, more information on Looking for the Character Profiles?playing the game and a very active and courteous community message board. Also provided are links dedicated to other sites for the game or comics in general and all are really worth visiting.

ClassicMarvelForever.com started out in 2000 as a bunch of data collected from the net or written up. The idea grew and it was made available on the net as a resource page, at ClassicMarvel.com. Now 17 years on, the site and the community has grown incredibly, and are located today at ClassicMarvelForever.com. The site contains pretty much everything you ever needed or wanted to know about MSHRPG, aka "the FASERIP system. We have a plethora of gaming material for a Classic Marvel campaign including a heap of character profiles, custom rules, a lively message board, links, and much, much more. Now over 6 times larger than when it started, and in its 4th incarnation.