ComicBase Atlas: Ready to Rock Your World

This is by far the most awesome version we've ever done. The cover downloading feature alone is enough to really put a smile on my face!
-Pete Bickford

ComicBase Atlas has arrived, and as the name implies, it’s truly epic in scope. This year's huge update adds another 100,000 more issues to last year’s release, and features new power tools like the ability to port your collection data onto a wide variety of handheld devices. Exciting new auction-based new pricing for Golden and Silver Age comics will revolutionize the way you think about comic collecting. And our
Archive exclusive download covers feature delivers high-quality cover scans
to you the same week new comics are released!

Did You Just Say 100,000 New Issues?

Yup. We boasted 300,000 comic issues last year, but this year’s Atlas clocks in with a whopping 125,00 new issues—definitely living up to the titanic proportions of its mythological namesake!

With information on more than 425,000 issues, ComicBase is still growing… and growing… and growing. New titles and issues are added weekly, and your current subscription means you get the latest prices on the books that matter to you every month. Just that much more value for your program when you update your subscription now!

iPhones, Blackberries, Windows Mobile and More!

Attention, travelers! ComicBase Atlas can now send your collection with you wherever in the world you go. Easy to follow instructions (and if needed, a small software application) give you the step-by-step for how to transfer the data that matters to you onto your phone or PDA. Review your collection and check what your books are worth wherever you are, all from the convenience of your handheld device.

Supported platforms include the Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Palm OS devices, any phone with the Symbian OS, as well as the Apple iPhone—and amazingly, the Playstation Portable.

Silver and Golden Age Pricing Straight from the Source!

Comic books values jumped from about $14 million to $17 million in the last year, and that value difference didn’t come about because Marvel or DC decided to add a dozen new variants to their Secret Invasion or Final Crisis offerings. No, most of this spike was thanks to the record auction sales of high-end Silver and Golden-Age comics. So, we’re really excited to have partnered with Heritage Auctions, the world’s top auction house for comic books, to bring you the hardest hitting prices on the market.

Heritage Auctions now provides us with real, verified closing prices on the rare Silver and Golden Age comic books that sell through their high-profile auctions. And some of the resulting shifts have been dramatic: comic values going up as much as tens of thousands of dollars from previous estimates—and that’s information you’ll only get exclusively from us!

Comics and Currency From Around the World

We’ve always aspired to be a cosmopolitan program, but Atlas is our very first version to truly claim that description.

As always, default comic prices are shown in US dollars, but if you want to see them in another currency, now you can. You’ll also see pricing change depending on real-time fluctuations in currency values, as well as value changes in the comics themselves.

You can search for comics by country in Atlas, so if you’re yearning for something dark and British or something splashy and Japanese, count on us to help you find it. Look out for German, French, Italian and Spanish language versions of the program to come in the near future.

Sell Your Comics in Sets

By now, you’ve probably heard all about Atomic Avenue, the vast online marketplace for comics which allows every ComicBase user to sell comics in their own online store. Having myself sold several thousand comics last year on the system, I’ve learned that there really is someone who wants to buy even the most oddball comic in my collection. Personally, it’s been at lot of fun pulling odd copies of Axa or Cable/Deadpool to ship to a comic fan in Australia, but we know there are a lot of you who have been looking for the ability to sell sets of comics—even whole collections—in a single sale on the system. For you folks, we’ve created “Sets” in ComicBase Atlas.

Whether you’re looking to sell “Walking Dead #1–12”, “John Byrne’s X-Men” or even“Massive 20,000 book comic collection“, the Sets feature is a terrific new way to help turn your unwanted comics into cash.

Speed… I Love Speed

We may have added tons to the database, but try Atlas today and you may be pleasantly surprised to find that it runs faster than any other version of ComicBase to date.

How much faster? Well, depends on what you have . To make a car analogy, it won’t turn your Mini Cooper of a computer into a race car, but you will notice a difference. And if you happen to have a Lamborghini computer, sit back and enjoy the ride! Atlas will run on any PC running Windows XP or Vista, as well as Macintosh computers with Bootcamp or Parallel’s VMWare.