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List of credits keys
This web site features characters that are copyrighted and trademarked by Marvel Characters, Inc. or on several occasions by other
owners (DC, Wildstorm, Image etc.).
No breach of copyright laws is intended, but should it happen please lt me know
(mail address see below) and I will change the web site immediately.
Marvel characters:
The characters and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof are Trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc. and are used with permission. Copyright
©1939-2008 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Other characters are trademarks of their respective owners and are used without permission.
Andrew Henry sent me a list of more than 11000(!) links to Marvel Unlimited digital comics. He also suggested to add those links to the date lists, which would be a great overview of all Marvel Unlimited comics.
The long-time goal of this web site is to list all comics ever published by Marvel Comics and give to each comic when it was published
and who was the creative team. Further it provides a list of storyarcs and crossovers, a list of published comics sorted by date, an index
to the people who bring you your favorite comics, a list showing where a comic has been reprinted and an index for
the appearance of characters.
The task to gather and complete the data is twofold: On the one side all new comics published by Marvel Comics are listed and on the other
side the comics of the past are completed. Especially the gathering of old information is time-consuming - and all and any help is
appreciated. And slowly but steady the goal will be reached.
The UHBMCC originally started as a two-mn enterprise (Paulo and Markus), but in the meantime many people have joined
in the task of completing this web site (See the "Thanks to..." page for all the details). Some are just dropping a line to
correct even a minor error, others came to the rescue for many months and many missing data. I would like to say a big THANK
YOU to all of you for sharing your time and the dream!
Especially the following guys who have been helping me through the last years and month by month with
missing data, corrections, checking the data I already have, and providing suggestions, insights and a second point-of-view
that leads to improvement of the UHBMCC:
| Barry Pearl | Chris Nowlin | Daniel P. Sanders | Del Gruber |
| Gerald Berse | Gernot Zipperling | Jeff Jaworski | Jessie Long |
| Randy Tischler | Sascha Oppelcz | Yiannis Anastasakis |
They are the giants on whose shoulders I am standing.
Due to a new and very demanding job Paulo can currently divert only very few time to his hobbies. For the UHBMCC this means that his site will not be updated for some time to come.
Each page has one menu bar on the top. For displaying the data there are four additional frames for navigation. (BTW, for those who have not yet figure it out: It is possible to drag the borders between the individual frames so that you can adapt the layout to your needs. Alas, the layout is not stored - but when someone knows how to save the layout in a cookie I would be glad to add this.)
, the date, number of pages,
title, writer, penciler, inker, letterer and colorist of all stories of all issues are know.Using the links within these frames you can select the required data from this handbook:
The data are presented in a table that looks like this:
| No. [ANo.] | Date Rating | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cover artists Variant covers, further printings, remarks for the issue | Pages | |
| Credits for the whole issue | ||
| Title Creator names Commentaries Characters Reprint info Translations Work number IMDB link | Pages | |
| Features |
No. is the issue number. The field spans over the cover data and
all stories in the same issue, which are listed in the sequence they appear in the issue. The issue number may be
followed by a second number in square brackets - this is the alternative number given for some issues.
Date is the date the comic was released. The format is YYYY/MM when a
release month is given, else it is YYYY. If a comic was published "early" or "late" within a month, this is given as
an additional comment. For some comics instead of a month a season (spring, summer, fall, winter) is given.
A question mark indicates that the information about the date is missing (if you have it, please send an e-mail!)
Rating is the rating of the issue, Please see the chapter
Rating for more information.
Price is the US cover price given for the issue.
Cover artists are the names of all artists who worked on any
of the listed cover variants.
Pages is the highest number of pages that any cover variant
occupies. A normal cover counts as one page, wrap-around cover counts as two pages, a gate-fold cover counts as two or
more pages. In order to count as multi-page cover, the motive on the front cover must continue on the other pages.
Variant covers, ... contains information about the issue, variant covers or additional printings.
When the backside of the issue features a motive that is not connected to the frontside, the credits for the two covers are given in
this section (FC = frontside cover, BC = backside cover). The backside cover is not listed when it only contains
text or reprints art taken from the comic itself.
Credits for the whole issue lists the people involved in creating
the issue, but which are not credited for a specific story. (These are mostly reprint editors etc. for TPBs.) Each entry
is prefixed with a key stating what was done by the specific person(s). See below for a list of the keys.
Title is the title that was given to a particualar story. Some times it
is missing, because the story has no title, which is indicated by a '-'. For a few issues the title was taken from the
cover, as I think that was the intention of the creators; it is stated under Commentaries where this happend. If a story is part
of one or more multi-issue story arc(s), the names of the story arc(s) are listed before the title of the story. The first
listed story arc is the more general one. If the title is missing, it is identical to the last given story arc. If the
story arc is enclosed in square brackets it is not an official story arc name, but was added to indicate a
multi-issue story. When the story is divided into chapters, the titles of the individual chapters are given, separated
by '/'.
Pages is the number of (whole) pages the story occupies, rounded to the
next higher integer if necessary. Ads are not counted. In recent years stories often are preceeded by a recap and/or introduction page. This
page is usually included in the count, and the page number is marked with a '*' when this happens, as the intro/recap page might
not be present in reprints. When the story is divided into chapters, an additional sequence of numbers in round brackets gives
the number of pages for each chapter.
Creator names lists the names of the people involved with the
creation of the story. Each entry is prefixed with a key stating what was done by the specific person(s). See below
for a list of the keys. Usually it is not listed whether a person did not work on the whole issue,
but only on singular pages. If the issue is divided into chapters that have all the same creators, these chapters are not
individually listed. When a particular credit is not given for an issues, it is listed as [N.G.] (not given). When a task
is not relevant for a story, it is listed as [N.A.] (not applicable), e.g. [N.A.] for the colorist usually means a story
in black/white, [N.A.] for the inker (when penciler and colorist are given) usually means that the art is painted.
Commentaries contains additional commentaries about the story.
Characters contains the name(s) of the main character(s) appearing
in the story, when he/she/it/they is/are different from the main character(s) defined by the series or when the series
does not have a main character at all. This way is possible to see e.g. which is the Hulk and which is the Sub-Mariner
story in a Tales to Astonish issue. And which stories of an Spider-Man annual are not dedicated to the web slinger.
For older issues, however, even the main character is listed, because a) this is sometimes the only way to identify a story
and b) it is necessary to distinquish between stories that have no specific main character at all.
Reprint info contains the name of the series and the issue number of the
original story that is reprinted. If the actual story itself is reprinted, a link with the text "Reprinted in..."
exists. Clicking on the link will show a list of issues that reprint the actual story in the third frame.
Translations contains a link to the pages with the translation for
non-English words and sentences in the story. For now that is limited to German, but I would be happy to add other
languages, too. (Any one out there speaking Skrullian or Kree?)
Work number gives the work number (or job number) for the story.
For older stories this is often the only way to identify a certain story. See also the complete list of work numbers.
IMDB link contains a link to the Internet Move Database where you
can learn more about the movie or TV series on which the story is based.
The data between Title and IMDB link are repeated for each story within an issue.
Features contains a list of additional features for the issue.
Features are not (comic) stories, but any text, text story, pin-up, etc. that is not an ad (and in a few cases, even that
when the ad contains unique art).
(Many thanks to Barry Pearl for re-writing this section with additional info that I did not have.)
There was no rating of comics before the Comic Code Authority was
installed in 1955. Starting then,
all of Marvel's comics had to be approved by the CCA or they could not be distributed to dealers. When the rebirth of
Marvel's super hero comics began with Fantastic Four #1 in 1961 the CCA stamp was on all Marvel comics. Until the "anti-drug use issues" in Amazing Spider-Man #96-98 published in 1971. At this time any references to drugs, even
if they were shown to be harmful, were not allowed. In 1971, a government agency, who knew nothing about the CCA, wrote to
Stan Lee asking for anti drug stories. Stan, a smart guy, knew that he could use this as a political wedge to change the code
and he got a huge amount of publicity out of it too! And by that time, comic book stores started opening so he knew sales
would not be affected. By 1971, the new stand dealers had even forgotten about the code anyhow. Marvel's publication of
these stories triggered a major revamping of the 15 year old code that same year. This revamping now allowed comics to
portray not just drugs use, but vampires, werewolves and mummies. These horror standards soon "exploded" onto the Marvel
schedule.
Nudity, Zombies and other "adult" themes were still barred by the CCA, but Marvel started a Black and White line of
publications that were not subjected to the CCA. It should be noted that vampires were considered "the living dead" and
were allowed by the CCA, but zombies were considered "the walking dead" and were not allowed.
Stan Lee said once in a "Stan's Soapbox" that he sees no problem with the Comic Code, because it is very similar to the
internal policy of Marvel. This was because Marvel's internal policy had to conform to the code or their comics could not
be published or distributed. Before the code, in the 1940s and 1950s, their standards, as portrayed in their stories, were
quite different. In later years, Stan Lee and other creators from Marvel, have given examples of materials that were
changed or deleted because of the censorship of the code.
In 2001 X-Force #116 was published and Marvel saw a problem, because this issue is not CCA approved, but it did not affect
sales like it would have in 1955 when comics were only sold at newsstands. From that time on, Marvel dropped the CCA stamp
completely and for a few months there was no rating of the comics at all.
Then Marvel installed following system (taken from Marvel Previews #20 2005/06):
All ages - Appropriate for for readers of all ages (like the Marvel Age series).
A, T - Appropriate for ages 9 and up.
PG (Parental Guidance), PSR (Parental Supervision Recommended), T+ (Suggested for Teens and Up) -
Appropriate for most readers, parents are advised they may want to read before or with younger children (13+ years).
PG+, PSR+, Parental Advisory - Suggested for teen and up, but featuring more mature themes and/or
more graphic imagery. Recommended for teen and adult readers. (15+ years).
MA (Mature Audience), "Explicit Content" - Most Mature Readers books will fall under the MAX Comics banner,
created specifically for mature content titles. (18+ years).
Many series that Marvel publishes today get the rating "PSR"/"T+", many get "All Ages" and a few get "PSR+"/"PA" or "MA/EC".
So that you can find these non-"PSR" series quicker, I have added a list of these series to my site. When you select the
"Character/Series" tab, and go to the addendum, you'll find the links to these lists as "RATING:".
All other navigating is as usual.
Marvel submitted not all comics to the CCA. Especially the black and white magazines that emerged after the Code
was modified were not rated - in most cases that meant that they contained violence of nudity. The same can be said
about the Epic line of comics, which was intented for mature readers in most cases anyway.
Alas, trade paperbacks that reprint CCA-approved comics were also not rated. And for unknown reasons a few issues
throughout the years do not bear the CCA seal without any obvious reason, so I assume it was just an error
during production.
Therefore the rating "Not rated" can have many reasons and does not necessarily mean that a comic is adult-oriented.
For TPBs a look at the rating of the original issues can be helpful.
In the cases where there is no rating, the contents however is obvious for mature readers or it looks as if the
CCA seal has been omitted during production, I took the liberty to add a rating although the original book does not have it.
The traffic statistics show that our sites are viited by many people each day - which makes us glad, as it shows that we are on the right way! But as you can imagine, it is a hard way, because getting the data of old issues (and even some of the new stuff) is next to impossible. But you can help! Please read more about it on the Missing page.
With V85 a simple search has been introduced to the UHBMCC. This search works with JavaScript, which has the advantage
that it can be done online and offline.
The search is limited to the names of the series, for the other indexes the search function of the browser should be
sufficient. There is no search in the data area, however.
To invoke the search, go to the character/series index, the search form is at the top of the index of groups. As it needs
JavaScript, the search will not work without it, but still the search form will be displayed.
Just enter the words (separated by blanks) you want to search for and choose whether all or any words have to be matched,
then press the "Search" button. When you work online and use the search for the first time, it will take some time until
the search data have been loaded (with V100 about 546KB, and growing). After the data are cached, searching will work
much quicker. On my 1.7GHz Pentium notebook it takes only a few seconds until the search result is shown in the upper
right frame. The search will take longer the more series are found.
I tested the search with FireFox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0. As the program needs JavaScript 1.5, it does not work in
e.g. Netscape Communicator 4.78 or Opera 6.04. (For Netscape you need at least version 6, for Opera version 7.) If you
have troubles with any browser that supports JavaScript 1.5, but it still does not work, please contact me.
In the internet I often find links to certain series listed within the UHBMCC. Which is basically OK, but as there
are still many people with 56k modems (or even slower), I try to keep the size of the data files to about 50KB
(which should not take longer than 15 seconds to load on a 56k modem). As a consequence, series sometimes gets moved to other
data files, and any deep link to the series is broken.
As a work-around for this problem (and also for the German UHBMCC), I have created a way to link to a series that
automatically adapts when a series is moved. All you have to do is make a link like this:
http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/show.htm?SerNr=
followed by the number of the series. As no-one is supposed to know that number, there is an easier way to get the link:
Go to any series, beside the title of it you will find the symbol 
. This contains a link to
the series in the format shown above, you can copy this link to the clipboard and then paste it anywhere.
For the credits of an issue or of a story, the names are prefixed with a key indicating the task performed by that person. To save space, only an abbreviation is given as key. In the following you can find the long texts:
| Adapt | Adaptation |
| ArtAsi | Art Assistant |
| ArtDir | Art Director |
| ArtRecon | Art Reconstruction/Restoration |
| Asi | Assistant |
| AsiEd | Assistant Editor |
| AsiEdSpecProj | Assistant Editor Special Projects |
| AsiManEd | Assistant Managing Editor |
| AsiProdMan | Assistant Production Manager |
| AsoEd | Associate Editor |
| AsoEdSpecProj | Associate Editor Special Projects |
| AsoManEd | Associate Managing Editor |
| BalRep | Balloon Placement |
| Base | Based on Work |
| BgrAsi | Background Assistant |
| BrMan | Brand Manager |
| C | Colors |
| CharDsgn | Character Design |
| ChiCreOff | Chief Creative Officer |
| CollEd | Collection Editor |
| ColReconCorr | Color Reconstruction/Corrections |
| Cons | Consulting |
| ConsEd | Consulting Editor |
| CopyEd | Copy Editor |
| Crea | Creator |
| CreaCon | Creative Consultant |
| CreaDir | Creative Director |
| Cvr | Cover |
| CvrDsgn | Cover Design |
| CvrRecon | Cover Reconstruction |
| DiagAsi | Dialog Assistant |
| DigCoord | Digital Coordinator |
| DigProdMan | Digital Production Manager |
| DirCirc | Director of Circulation |
| DirDigCo | Director of Digital Content |
| DirMrkt | Director of Marketing |
| DirSale | Director of Sales |
| Dsgn | Design |
| Dvlp | Developed by |
| Ed | Editor |
| EdIntAsi | Editorial Intern/Assistant/Staff |
| EdSpecProj | Editor Special Projects |
| E-i-C | Editor-in-Chief |
| ExecEd | Executive Editor |
| ExecProd | Executive Producer |
| F | Feature |
| GrpEd | Group Editor |
| I/F | Inker |
| Int | Intern |
| IntDsgn | Interior Design |
| L | Letters |
| LegAdvSrv | Legal Advice/Services |
| LinEd | Line Editor |
| Log | Logo |
| ManDir | Managing Director |
| ManEd | Managing Editor |
| Manu | Manufacturing |
| NotPub | Notary Public |
| OrigCon | Original Concept |
| P/L | Pencil |
| PhotoEd | Photo Editor |
| PlotAsi | Plot Assistant |
| Pres | President |
| Prod | Production |
| ProdDir | Production Director |
| ProdMan | Production Manager |
| ProjMan | Project Manager |
| PtgAsi | Painting Assistant |
| Pub | Publisher |
| Recol | Recoloring |
| RepEd | Reprint Editor |
| Rsrch | Research |
| RsrchAsi | Research Assistant |
| Schem/Mod | Schematics/Models |
| ScrPl | Screenplay |
| SelCol | Select Coloring |
| SenEd | Senior Editor |
| SenEdSpecProj | Senior Editor Special Projects |
| SenExecEd | Senior Executive Editor |
| SenVPSale | Senior Vice President of Sales |
| SpecAsi | Special Assists |
| SpidBT | Spidey's Braintrust |
| StorEd | Story Editor |
| SVEd | Supervising Editor |
| TechCon | Technical Consultant |
| TrafMan | Traffic Manager |
| Trans | Translation |
| Type | Typesetting |
| VPCrea | Vice President of Creative |
| VPDev | Vice President of Development |
| VPDigCon | Vice President Digital Content |
| VPMerchComm | Vice President of Merchandising/Communications |
| VPSale | Vice President of Sales |
| W | Writer |
You
Then send an e-mail (except in the last case) to:
 Markus Mueller |
Please use a subject in your mail that gives a hint that your mail is about the UHBMCC, else it might happen that the SPAM filter protection deletes your mail. A simple hint like UHMBCC or Marvel will do. Thanks.
