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So, who's against the superheroes anyway?

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bchat:
I think it's nice to see a variety of titles featured as thumbnails for each of the different companies.  "Suzie" for MLJ got me curious enough about that title to download an issue to see what it was like.  I look at the cover of "Fairy Tales" for Ziff-Davis and I'm interested in checking that out one of these days, as well.

Is it possible to have two images for each publisher (left & right sides), one featuring what the company is best known for and another highlighting an often over-looked title?

srca1941:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the genre books at all ("So, who's against the superheroes anyway?" was just to give this thread an eye-catching title), and I'm all for promoting the obscure (just look at some of the things I've featured on my Golden Years site). What I'm advocating is just some way to quickly tell what company I'm looking at if I am quickly scrolling through the page. Perhaps another way to accomplish this would to be remove the text headers of the companies and replace them with graphics. Nothing too large, just something that could eye-catchingly tell you that you are looking at Columbia or Harvey, be distinct from the other categories, and then the cover thumbnail wouldn't really be an issue.

If it wasn't so late I'd create a mock-up to show you what I mean.

-Eric

JVJ (RIP):
I get your point and I'm not trying to beat a dead horse here, Eric, but aren't the companies posted pretty much alphabetically? And, quite honestly, while I understand your suggestion, how hard is it (really) to find a publisher?

One man's Fiction House = Wings is likely to be someone else's Fiction House = Rangers or Planet or Jet Aces or Jumbo or, well, you get the idea.

What would be GREAT, if it could be automated, would be a rotating thumbnail through all the titles for which we have scans. Like the publisher links I'd like to see, I think we're talking snowballs and Hades, again.

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Yoc:
I believe JVJ hit the nail on the head for choosing more obscure titles for some publishers.  The idea of perhaps generating some interest in the second and third string books might get them noticed and perhaps even scans of them made.

Captain DJ is the tech master behind all our new improvements.
He's got some big ideas on the back burner already.  I'd hate to bog him down on what is a cosmetic issue with the covers.
Adding a thumbnail that changes depending on which title your mouse hovers over sounds like fun but that's still a LOT of thumbnails to collect never mind the extra code that Capt would have to create.  If it happens and we say we need covers collected I hope one of you members will step up and provide a folder of them on the FTP for us to use.

I'm not saying something wont ever happen but let's not get bogged down on the issue either.

It's CaptDJ's call in the end.  He's managed to fix and add some features in record time already, maybe a rollover isn't as big a job as I would think.  But it's his call.

-Yoc

aussie500:
Rotating thumbnails would be nice, it would also prevent people getting used to seeing the same thumbnail all the time.  >:D 

Unfortunately such modifications require someone to make them, and someone to have the time to collect the covers and do the thumbnails. Neither is likely to be high on the list of things to do just yet, but could be done later.

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