Sources of inspiration
From Komic Box Docs
- The Comic Collector application for collecting comics by Collectorz.com
- The Grand Comics Database (GCD) web site and their data model
- The Comic Book db (CBDB) web site
- Comic Base by Human Computing and the companion web site Atomic Avenue
Notes
You can download and install the free copy of Comic Base (limited to 500 comics). After installed, the database file is located: C:\Users\< USER NAME >\Documents\Human Computing\ComicBase Databases and is called: ComicBase Database.cba
Despite the .cba extension, the file is just a Microsoft Access database which is password protected. The password can be extracted by using tools such as Access PassView. The password is: odocdll
GCD Entity Relationship Diagram
Comic Base Schema
Tables
- 1st_Appearances
- 2nd_Appearances
- Alt_Issues_Report_Data
- Artists
- ComicTypes
- Conditions
- Country
- CreatorAliases
- Creators
- Credits
- Currency
- Deaths
- ImportExportFields
- Issue_Mappings
- IssueLabels
- Issues
- Issues_Report_Data
- IssueVariations
- Label_Types
- MyVersion
- Origins
- Prefs
- PricingSheets
- Publishers
- RegInfo
- Special_Appearances
- Special_Issues_Index
- States
- Storylines
- Superlatives
- Synchronized_Databases
- Title_Mappings
- Title_Report_Data
- Titles
- Update_Issues
- Update_Titles
- Writers
- Years
- Labels
- CurrencyHistory
- Sets
- Versions
- IssueSkipTable
- temp_table
- Issues (IssueTotals query)
- Issues (KochExport query)
- Titles (KochExport query)
