Put simply, to be the most useful and easy to use comic book website in the world. We've also built enough community tools to hopefully be a fun place to kill time while you wait for the latest comic drop.
Comic Vine is owned and operated by Whiskey Media, who distill fine websites out of Sausalito, CA near San Francisco.
Send your mail and free comics to:
Comic Vine
1001 Bridgeway, #226
Sausalito, CA 9496
Direct your News and Community questions to:
Tony Guererro (aka G-Man)
tony@comicvine.com
Direct your Sales and Biz Dev questions to:
Mike Tatum (aka The Great Mamboozo)
mike@comicvine.com
Comic Vine uses a unique system for content submission that involves heavy moderation for new or anonymous users and gradually opens up more options to the individual user as they continue to submit quality data to the site. Most users can gain live edit access (where submission show up on the site immediately) within a week or two of submitting approved content. Until that time submissions go through a moderation queue that is monitored by the staff, or most likely, volunteer moderators from the community. We try to get to new submissions within 24 hours. You will receive a private message once your submission has been approved or rejected and a history of your submissions can be accessed at anytime from within your profile.
The heroes, villains and people that inhabit comic books. They must exist in at least one comic book.
Teams are groupings of multiple characters that fight or work together. Teams can not be a part of other teams.
A creator is a living human being that designs, writes or edits comic books.
Story arcs are major comic events comprised of at least 2 issues.
Volumes are a collection of numbered issues that make up a comic book.
Publishers are the companies or brands that comic volumes are released under.
Objects or things are pages that concern something inanimate that exists in a comic universe. One example of an object is adamantium.
Concepts are ideas or beliefs that exist in a comic universe. "Mutant" or "Gamma Rays" are good examples of concepts that might benefit from their own pages.
Locations are the places, both fictional and real, that exist within comics. Daredevil resides over Hell's Kitchen and Superman lives in Metropolis.
Comic Vine centers around the costumed crusader or team first and the separate universes, volumes and personae they inhabit second. In this way there is no character named Ultimate Spider-Man on CV. There's just plain old Spider-Man, who is attached to issues in volumes called "Amazing Spider-Man" and "Ultimate Spider-Man". Of course we realize these two characters operate in different universes and there are some differences. Those differences should be covered in the description text on the single Spider-Man page. Doing so keeps all Spider-Man info in one place and makes the site much easier to use.
The exception to this is that some alternate reality characters that are both big and different enough can have their own page, for example Powergirl has a separate page from Supergirl. Other examples are Superman Prime, Bloodstorm and Maestro.
The same rule goes for characters who have had multiple personae such as The Flash, Bat-Girl or Robin. There should only be one Flash on Comic Vine, not three. We handle the separation of the character by allowing for alias pages such as Wally West and Barry Allen (two of The Flash's personae) attached to The Flash where specific info can be stored. You're also encouraged to explain and discuss the differences between these personae on the main Flash page.
The exception to this is when a character have used the same name, but have nothing else in common - for example Spider-Man 2099.
For characters who have come to the world of comics from television or movies, it's not unusual for more than one publisher to be attached to the same character i.e. Number Six from the new Battlestar Galactica or various characters from Xena: Warrior Princess. In this case, we serve the character first and the publishers second. As such, regardless of the publisher, there should be only one character page per character. Any differences between the incarnations or adventures of a hero/heroine from different publishers should be noted in the text of the character page.
There's only one Spider-Man and only one Flash. There is no Ultimate Spider-Man.
There's only one character that's been translated from television or movies to comic books. There's only one Xena, one Buffy, one Lisa Simpson.
There's only one The Flash in the database despite there being multiple people that wore the mask.
Tim Drake is the real name of Robin, not Dick Grayson.
Dick Grayson was Robin, and should be listed an alias of the character.
If you see a page with Black Canary and another with Dinah Lance with recent comics and or information on it edit us a comment and we'll merge the two.
Often you'll find pages, characters or teams that need to be combined, deleted or renamed on the site. Both are possible but can only be handled by someone with staff or moderator privileges. You can either contact us directly or leave a note on the Delete/Combine boards that describes the problem and we'll try to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
Comic Vine is powered by an in-house, structured wiki platform designed specifically for and by Whiskey Media.
The "Whiskey Powered" platform benefits from the following open source technologies:
It's in the works. We plan to provide free access to a large portion of our database for non-commercial projects.
