What Longbox needs you to decide
Each list is something Longbox can't settle alone. Every answer is saved the moment you click, and every answer can be changed.
Relaunches back to old numbering
A run that starts (or jumps) at an old issue number, like Avengers #672 in 2017. Metron, ComicVine and the publishers' own sites (checked: Marvel.com, DC.com) keep each as its own volume; collector price guides file them under Vol 1. Longbox keeps both: its own volume number, and the old numbering on record. Case by case (D-017, D-021).
Files with two identities
The ComicVine ID inside the file and Mylar's record for that path name different issues.
Annuals with no parent series
Annuals live inside their parent series (D-005). These found no parent by themselves.
Series Mylar doesn't follow
Files whose series isn't on Mylar's list. Follow it, or keep what's here as it is?
The folder for each type
Your folders go Publisher/Format/Series/Volume (D-012). Which Format folder does each type of run go in? A series goes by what it launched as: an ongoing series cancelled after 6 issues is still ongoing (D-024). Nothing moves until the Phase 4 preview.
Collected editions on disk
Runs typed as a trade paperback, hardcover or graphic novel. Collected editions are listed apart and never grabbed; original graphic novels count like issues (D-006).
Volume numbers outside the wikis
Runs the Marvel and DC wikis don't number where your research and Metron disagree, and runs of a series that moved from another publisher (in your library, or only on Metron). Pick the volume number; its annuals follow it.
Issues with two copies
The same issue in two folders. Which copy should Longbox show first? The other stays on disk, untouched, and you can compare the two later.
Not asking about
| Missing issues Mylar marks Archived | 88 | Ruled 2026-10-19: they show as gaps, not as had (T-1100). |
|---|---|---|
| Missing issues Mylar marks Downloaded | 15 | No file found for them either; they show as gaps. |
| Magazines | 213 | No ComicVine entry; they stay magazines (D-015). |
| Files Longbox will place itself | 20 | Their series is known; Longbox needs the issue list from Metron or ComicVine. |
| Followed series now in the library | 133 | Your Follow answers: listed with every issue Metron has, gaps showing (T-1127). |
| Followed series Metron doesn't have | 38 | Still under Series Mylar doesn't follow; their issue lists wait for ComicVine (T-1099). |
| Files with no ComicVine ID | 12 | Identified later, from their pages. |
| Files that can't be read | 6 | On the cleanup list (T-1102). |
| Runs with no type yet | 167 | Neither Mylar nor Metron says what they are; ComicVine will (T-1099). Ones your research placed keep their folder. |
| Annual runs: where their files go | 307 | Already ruled: in the parent's volume folder, the volume running when each came out (D-005, D-013). |
Your answers are kept in /data/rulings.jsonl, one line each, with what stood before and how to undo it.