I’ve got a whole bunch of Pre-Crisis books that I’ve just added to the RRO tonight. They’ll show up on all the DC Comics lists now!

Superman in The Fifties

Batman in The Fifties

The Flash Chronicles Vol. 2

The Green Lantern Chronicles Vol. 2

The Green Lantern Chronicles Vol. 3

DC Comics Classics Library: Batman: The Annuals Vol. 1

Atomic Knights

DC Comics Classics Library: Batman: The Annuals Vol. 2

DC Comics Classics Library: Legion Of Super-Heroes: The Life And Death of Ferro Lad

DC Comics Classics Library: The Flash: The Flash of Two Worlds

Superman in The Sixties

Batman in The Sixties

Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams Vol. 1

Batman From The 30s To The 70s

Superman From The 30s To The 70s

Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams Vol. 2

Jimmy Olsen: Adventures By Jack Kirby Vol. 1

DC Comics Classics Library: Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore

Jimmy Olsen: Adventures By Jack Kirby Vol. 2

Jack Kirby’s Mister Miracle

Jack Kirby’s New Gods

Jack Kirby’s The Forever People

Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes

DC Universe Illustrated By Neal Adams Vol. 1

Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams Vol. 3

Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Featuring: Mister Miracle

DC Comics Classics Library: Roots Of The Swamp Thing

Jack Kirby’s OMAC: One Man Army Corps Omnibus

Shazam! From The 40s To The 70s

Batman in The Seventies

Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali

Superman in The Seventies

Superman From The 30s To The 80s

DC Comics Classics Library: The Justice League Of America by George Perez Vol. 1

DC Comics Classics Library: The Justice League Of America by George Perez Vol. 2

Time to hit the sack. More tomorrow – I’ve still got around 250 books left Unplaced.

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I’m crashing sooner than I thought. I managed to finish placing these five books in the reading order:

The Newsboy Legion By Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

The Sandman By Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

Adventures of Superboy

Batman in The Forties

Superman in The Forties

Alright – goodnight, all! See you tomorrow!

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I’m pretty satisfied with the book page updates for now, so it’s back to putting Unplaced Books onto the RRO. Here are the books I got to so far tonight:

Blue Beetle: Black And Blue

Booster Gold: The Tomorrow Memory

Manhunter: Face Off

Teen Titans: Ravager – Fresh Hell

Red Robin: Collision

Justice Society Of America: Axis of Evil

JSA All-Stars: Constellations

Wonder Woman: Contagion

Supergirl: Death And The Family

Superman: Mon-El Man Of Valor

Superman: Nightwing and Flamebird Vol. 2

Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton Vol. 1

Outsiders: The Road To Hell

The Legion of Super-Heroes: Prologue to Darkness

Batgirl: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The World’s Greatest Super Heroes

Tales Of The Green Lantern Corps Vol. 3

I may be able to get in another batch of book placements before I crash. Tomorrow I have work again (these past couple days were my days off) and I was hoping to be done with the placements by now, but I can’t really complain because a lot of other work on the site got done instead. It’s always building, growing, getting better all the time!

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Since there’s a lot of information on every book page, I’ve added some expandable [More Info] boxes to each section. Hopefully it’s clear to click them.

Each one, when clicked, will expand down a little bit of help text about that section. Go ahead and check it out on Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team Ups Vol. 1.

Pretty snazzy, right?

I’m hoping I can use similar functionality to make it so you can get more info about books on the reading orders without having to leave the reading order page.

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Here’s a gif I made of superman! Enjoy the seizure! You’re welcome!

So, obviously, this is a site for collectors and obsessed comic readers as much as it is for new readers looking for what to read next. I created it because I couldn’t find a satisfactory resource to help me sort my shelves.

Today, the site took a pretty great step towards helping you sort your shelves. I’ve added some very useful information to every book page. The two values are the Unique Reading Order ID and the Chronological List Value. There’s an explanation right on the page, but I’m pasting it here as well.

The Unique Reading Order ID determines this book’s placement in all lists generated from the Recommended Reading Order (or equivalents for non-DCU lists).

The Chronological List Value is determined by the most recent publication date of collected contents. This value determines book placement on all lists generated chronologically.

These values are provided for the purposes of sorting your own collections. You could, for example, keep an excel spreadsheet or google document with the titles of the books in your collection. In columns next to the books, place each of these numbers. Then when you display the list sorted numerically by either of these columns, your books will fall into order.

The ability to export these sorting values and the information above directly into your personal list or collection will be coming in a future update.

Check the new feature out on Jonah Hex: Welcome To Paradise or Superman / Shazam: First Thunder or… well, any book in the database!

Thanks again to Daniel for prodding me in the right direction for this. Stay tuned for future updates concerning managing your own collection through this site. (We’re still in beta for this first year!)

The first priority, of course, is still getting all the books into the Recommended Reading Order for DC, and then populating all of those entries with full information (Chronological Reading Order won’t work until they’re all done!) but it’s exciting to think about how the site can work for you in the future. I think so, anyway. I never imagined it coming together this well!

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