A comic a day will add up. As long as you are enjoying your reading thats all that matters.

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Well, I was originally reading in chunks: 4 comics on Sat & 3 on Sun kind of thing. Everyone here is correct: Silver Age comics have an uncomfortable word count. It usually takes me about 40 minutes to read a Silver Age book. A while back I caught up on the red hulk (back in 2010 when it was current). The modern books take longer to load on the MDCU than to read. I think I read 5 books per hour of modern books. It is well commented that when Stan is explaining every action with a thought balloon or caption, that the word-count becomes overly tedious equalling slow reading.

I discovered, for me, after reviewing a year's reading in chunks, I was reading about a book a day, so I set my target for that in my reader log. Even though I am currently 5 mos behind this year, it works for me. And, as you have said, the MDCU library gets pretty thin around '72 because Marvel is much more focused on scanning new books than filling in the historic library at the moment...which gave me an excuse to slow down my reading. Maybe if everyone reading the order were to encourage Marvel to scan the back catalogue they might comply.

I don't think anything will encourage them to expand it faster. From everything their people have said, they don't see it as the way they really want to do digital. I have a feeling the guy who ran the program before (and was later let go) really pushed the MDCU through over other people in the companies objections.

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I actually got almost every spider-man appearance ever and sorted them all chronologically one at a time before I stumbled upon this site. I'm just wondering how long it will be before this site will get "caught up" to current releases?

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probably several years. At the current rate, I am adding around 3750 issues a year into the order.

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If I can do anything to help speed this process along just let me know I'm sure you've had offers like this in the past but it's hard to trust e-strangers lol. Perhaps if you need someone to help you enter issues in the database so that all you have to do is make sure they are in order before publishing?

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Well, its not just data entry into the database that is the bottleneck. There are levels of checking and rechecking that happen also to get things in a workable order. Skimming the issue, making notes, checking notes, checking internet sources. That takes much more time. And even then, until people read through sections of the order closely to make sure everything fits as it should, it is still kind of loose in the order.

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Hello there. I'm a newcomer to this forum and website; I joined for one simple reason: my son. He's four, and last night we read his first comic book together: Fantastic Four #1. I have some old Marvel Masterwork hardbacks, and I'm going to take him on a trip through time, back to the Silver Age. Let's see how the Order goes for someone who a) has no experience with comic book heroes outside a couple of movies and cartoons (Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, Fantastic Four cartoon), and b) isn't going to be concerned about Silver Age 'logic.' When you're four, a 'hunter missile with a nuclear warhead' doesn't stretch credulity at all, does it?

Anyway, he's going to have a heck of a trip. He loved FF1, and we're going to continue on together through the order. I can't wait to experience it along with him.

Hey and welcome. My son is also reading his way through the order. He is older (10) but still he is loving it, and we have lots of conversations about the comics themselves, plus stuff the comics mention (we have had several conversations about "commies", since it is mentioned so much. It is actually a really good look into history for him)

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Well, we just finished reading his second comic story: Tales to Astonish 27: The Man in the Ant Hill. I know, I know, I know...it's not in canon. But I read it with him anyway, just 'cause. So now he's read two comics, and he's happy. We're going to continue this as long as possible. Eventually, I expect he'll be learning how to read by himself. I think comics are a great way to teach literacy, especially the ones like the old Silver Age books, where the action is both drawn and described. See? There IS a good point about Lee's exuberant writing style!

Next up...The Skrulls!