My Collection: Comic Scanner

First, let me start with saying that I am currently not paying attention to grading and pricing within the app. I’m just trying to get my collection uploaded somewhere as easily as possible. More often than not, this app excels at what I need it to do. Sometimes a book doesn’t show up properly (or sometimes even at all, especially new books), but it detects the book well most of the time. The biggest issue I face is the app loading correctly when I open it. A lot of times, it seems like the app is too large for the screen and is stuck loading/buffering. I give it plenty of time to right itself (and, occasionally, it does), but it often just stays that way no matter what I try. The only true resolution I’ve found is to uninstall and reinstall it. But that’s too much work. As a concept, the app is great. Scan a comic’s cover and it detects its title, number, year, authors, condition, price, etc. An extremely useful tool for collectors. I’m predicting it will get better and better and probably be the go-to app for comics, if it’s not already. I haven’t checked yet, but I hope there’s some sort of offline report-generating feature. That would be fabulous I’m glad to have found it and highly recommend it to any/all collectors.

I just scanned all my Frank Miller Daredevil issues, but it only was able to price about a quarter of them since most are newsstand releases. In the 90s, that was a big deal, but I don’t see that as much anymore. Should be able to get prices for these regardless. Also, some of the pricing is inaccurate. It priced my Green Lantern #1, (1960) at $.48. That’s completely inaccurate; not even close. That’s a $1000 comic book at worse. Also, it would help if it would allow multiple options when there are multiple versions of a book. My TMNT #1, third printing, still was coming up as a first printing since the covers are virtually identical. This app has a lot of great potential, but needs some work. Since it’s a beta version, I am still rating it 3 stars. Great job so far but still a little frustrating. Keep up the good work.