I didn't even know they had anything like that! I could sure use something. Not necessarily for value, but to help generate lists, so that when I go comic hunting in other towns, I can do a quick search, and print up a list.

I use Comicbase from Human computing, it has photos of most covers in the latest release (on DVD) and I think it can dump a want file onto a Palm pilot.

I just put my collection in Excel. That's it!

Just for a checklist for myself, I have a word document I created. I had a computer-junkie friend of mine generate a script that would just generate the numbers 1 through 1000. Then I used a website (Usually Mile High Comic's site, though sometimes other stuff if they don't have what I want) to figure out how many issues of a particular comic there are. Then I just type the name of the comic, and put the publisher in parenthases. Next, I copy the requisite number of numbers out of my little wordpad document into my Word document. Finally, I format in Arial size eight with six columns per page. For most of my comics, I even go in with the "Strikethrough" formating option and strikethrough the stuff I have. I have a simmilar doccument for my clix - got all those checklists down to three pages!

Yes, it is costly to start, but if you can shop around and buy a old copy it is cheap to upgrade. Each year they update the database with new comics and more pictures. The last upgrade cost $99 for the deluxe DVD. It has some useful features that excel can't give like a search function for writers, artists, first appearance, any appearance, etc.

I have bought a couple of old back issues based on info from Comicbase.

Is it worth it - depends on the size of your collection, I have a collection of about 3500 comics.

The CD version is cheaper but doesn't have all the pictures, but if you have a scanner, it is all set up to accept the images.