There is a new update from TurtleDog on the CBR forum with the out of print / low stock list and I’ve updated the page so check that out and keep an eye on things. You’ll notice a lot of those “low stock” books can tend to stay there for a while but still think about looking for them before they disappear.

Additionally, I’m playing around with another small format update on the solicit pages (check out the DC February 2021 solicits and Marvel is coming tomorrow with the new format). Added nice little headers for the sections for Hardcovers & Omnibus, Trade Paperbacks, and Single Issues. Gives it a nice little flair and some needed separation. Let me know what you think!

Thanks to Vertigo, we now have a great big page specifically listing out ALL the stuff up for preorder this month at DCBS in the form of the Monthly Pre-Orders page. It has many sorting and filtering options to help you zero in on what you want (HCs, Omnis, TPBs even) and it will now be a monthly feature on our site until DCBS comes up with a better more useful system for sorting and filtering. Drop us a line and let us know what you think! I think he did a fantastic job and I definitely look forward to using this myself in the coming months. On that note, if you’ve been having issues getting stuff on day 1 at IST, DCBS is a lot less stressful way of getting your books. Something to keep in mind.

Additionally, Molly will now be updating the Restock Masterlist page with everything that her script is currently checking to see if it is in stock. It will also add links to any book that it currently found in stock and remove links to thinks that have since gone out of stock. Hope you like it!

I’ve gone through and updated ALL the DC books based on the dates from Penguin. I’ve done this because the Previews site is completely useless for providing any kind of release date data on DC books. Newer entries seem to ROUGHLY match up but the older ones are total garbage. I’ve also noted that the dates for Penguin are the same as the dates for comic shops going forward (they mentioned they might do that when they dropped Diamond). So that means Amazon is getting the stuff the same day IST does more or less for DC specifically.

Other than that…I’ve finally completed adding all the Marvel Epic and Complete editions to the database as well for what I could find currently. I’ll go hunting to see if there is some stuff that hasn’t been solicited/isn’t in Previews yet and probably add more as I go. Enjoy! That’s now part of what I’ll be tracking going forward. I am not prepared to do regular TPBs because…those are like single issues to me more or less and I don’t think anyone is actually keeping track of that stuff like they do the thicc boys. If you REALLY want it, start dropping me a line and I’ll consider it but I’m assuming no one cares.

I’ve decided to split the database here. The All Upcoming Collected Editions page as well as the various filtered publisher pages will show what is upcoming and I’ve added a new Collected Editions Archive page that shows stuff that already came out. Purpose of this was to make the databases for each of them smaller. Enjoy!

This should be fairly obvious as you are looking at this post but I changed the look of the site. After some thinking and talking to others, it has become clear that a site with as much text and whatnot as this one looks better on a white background. So I’ve swapped over to a light skin, made a few little edits here and there, and here we are! If you have comments or suggestions, feel free to use the contact form under the Misc menu (or tell me on FB, in the Discord chat, etc). Always love to hear from people.

So you should have noticed the “Restock” menu now at the top of the site. Molly from the Omnibus Collectors Group is running a script that checks a list of requested items on IST daily to see if anything is back in stock then adding the updates to the site here for easy archiving. We’ve also worked up a form for adding new items to the list as well as signing up for email updates if you’d like.

Additionally, I’ve added a couple contact forms. One for corrections, missing info, etc and one for general site suggestions/requests. Please feel free to reach out. I’m only one person so I don’t always see every single thing and some people have great suggestions (not to mention if I see the same thing a few times that will probably push me to put some work into adding new things).

Of course as always, I’ve made a bunch of updates to the database. There were a bunch of release date changes, additions, more info on some things, etc. I’m always adding more info to these and manually checking the Previews shipping updates and such as well as using the weekly list from IST that has updates (but again I’m not omnipotent so if you see something, say something 😛 ).

Yup. There’s some new stuff, some stuff with new info (ISBN or Diamond Codes added and some Collected issues), and as I have to deal with at least weekly, a bunch of things have shifted release dates all over the place. I do this fairly regularly but I figured every once in a while it would be good to mention it.

Also worth noting if you weren’t aware, I’ve started adding all the HCs even from companies I know very little about weekly. InStockTrades is now giving me a copy of the list of stuff on sale for the next week every Thursday/Friday and I go move things, add things, and double check things. So what you see on the “This Week” and “Next Week” pages should generally be up to date (next week page will generally be updated on Fridays).

I’m also going to add a contact page soon so you can send me an email if you find something is off, missing, or just have general suggestions so keep an eye peeled.

Today Omnidog informed me that there was a new list from TheTurtleDog with the latest out of print and stock running low lists. Keeping in mind this info currently is just for Marvel. I also took a moment to add some more info to the database and you will now see both previews and Penguin/Edelweiss links for books. I went through and added ISBNs for all the Marvel books and I’ll work on the other publishers soon.