If in need of a tool to keep your comic collection organized and easily searchable, Collectorz.com Comic Collector is a very interesting option to consider. It offers you an extensive online database for you to check the comic books and graphic novels that are part of your collection, those still missing, and those you’ve lent to friends and family.
The program’s interface offers you an attractive dark-looking skin to make your comic covers stand out nicely, though you can use a clearer one instead. Besides, you’re offered a wide choice of layouts for your main screen folder, list, and comic details panels.
The aim of this tool is to help you keep your paper comic books organized, so you know what’s in your physical shelves and which issues are missing or on loan and to whom. I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t include your scanned e-comics on your personal database using this tool, but it has been clearly designed to hold records of physical objects, not electronic ones, so you may miss some important or interesting fields when describing your electronic copies.
Comic Collector comes with an extensive database of well-known comic series to make it easier for you to tick those you already have, but it is flexible enough to let you include any new series or any new comic book in a series in case they’re not already there. The amount of detail you can store for each of your comic books is really amazing, as it is the way all of this information is displayed alongside the corresponding high-quality cover of each issue.
The program includes a useful loan manager and a few some other interesting utilities, such as the possibility of exporting your database as a Text or XML file, the option to batch-edit certain fields, add new covers, and store and synchronize your data using a free CLZ cloud service. These and many other features make Collectorz.com Comic Collector a nice and practical comic cataloging tool suitable for all kinds of users and all collection sizes. It works on a low-cost subscription basis that allows you to spend your money on enlarging your comic book collection rather than on paying crazy software fees.
v5.3 [Sep 19, 2012]
Version 5.3 build 1 (September 14, 2012)
New:
- Compatibility with the upcoming CLZ Comics 2.0 for iOS.
Improved Update File Links screen
* Update/repair your file links (e.g. image files) with
the redesigned Update File Links screen (in Tools / Maintenance)
* Simplified user interface, just use either the Automatic or the Manual
button to indicate the new file locations, then click Update to "make it so".
* The "Automatic" system is now more intelligent in dealing with non-unique
filenames. It now also uses the containing folder names for matching.
* New "Manual" method for just replacing the old base folder with a new one.
* New "File Type" filter.
Fixed:
- Connect:
- Comics marked with "Do not ask me again for these comics" when asked to link, still generated link question
- Dates with only a year '0' filled in would always cause a mismatch
- Next Index wasn't updated after down sync
- Barcode would show as mismatch when different on connect, even though it
was filled in locally (it wouldn't be overwritten though).
- Backdrops: backdrop images with non-standard characters in the file path
did not work (showed a white background instead).
- Details Template:
- When no links were specified the preview art wouldn't show in the image strip
- Publisher images or names didn't link to url
