I'm new here, but I've noticed that there are some fields I would have expected to be included in the data. I clicked "edit this wiki page" to check if arbitrary data could be added, and that doesn't seem to be the case (don't worry, wasn't going to save anything even if it looked possible).
Has anyone considered including the unique ids (many of which are standardized) for these comics? For periodicals, those are uniquely identified by the ISSN number (most modern comics have these, though they seem to be printed rarely in the inside cover). For real persons, there are two of these, VIAF and ISNI. You or I don't have one, but most of hte comic book artists and writers are notable enough to have these. It helps to disambiguate when two people have the same or similar names (Hollywood does this for movies through the actors guild, but in most other contexts it can be a big problem). There are a handful of other unique ids internal to Marvel and DC's online subscriptions that it would probably be good to include as well.
If this was something that you guys were interested in including, I'd be willing to put a few hours per week to adding them when possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_International_Authority_File
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Name_Identifier
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