User blog:Nausiated/Tooting My Own Horn a Little....

As I am winding down issue summaries and various updates pertaining to Timely Comics super-hero and western comics from 1949, I am taking the time to look back at all the contributions that I've made to the Wiki.

Back on March 1, 2011 I took it upon myself to go through each Timely era publication I could get my hands on, starting with Marvel Comics #1 updating issue summaries, creating profiles for obscure (but unique) characters, expanding on profiles of existing characters (including expanded histories of important and long running characters) throughout the entire run of 1939-1949.

In 1.5 years I've managed to updated summaries to almost every super-hero and western book published by Timely during this period (some are hard to come by I'm afraid), and in terms of expanded histories I have written possibly some of the most comprehensive character bios for the likes of Captain America (Steve Rogers, William Nasland, and Jeff Mace), the original Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner and many of Marvel's other classic golden age characters. They are by no way complete, but they it is a repository of all their appearances from 1939-1949 (including "flashback" stories that take place during the era over the last 70 years of publication whenever possible and trying to fit them in chronologically as best I could) I think we trump all the other sources out there, official and non-official. Not to make this a competitive thing with other sources out there, I am just saying that there has been a lot of work put in.

My goal from all this work (and my future work on this wiki of course) is to create one of the most concise and centralized repository of all things Marvel. One that is impartial and not restrained by the demands of a corporate direction (IE: Marvel publishing handbooks featuring characters that are popular, or are about to be revived, revamped etc, and other characters omitted due to lack of popularity or icky commercial property problems) or the other more restrictive sources out there.

A lot of hard work and research has gone into it. Reading individual comics is the least of it. Often times I check sources such as the Marvel Handbooks, Marvel Indexs, and other sites (The official Marvel.com Wiki, the Unofficial Handbook, The Marvel Chronology Project to name a few) to get a better idea of the chronology. They are all great sources for fact checking.

That said, in a previous blog post I stated I was considering hopping over to the DC Wiki to work there for a bit on characters from the 30's and the 40's. As kind of a change of pace. After reading through some of the material I've been able to get a hold on, it seems like a bit of a daunting task as I am not as familiar with DC stuff, especially how all the Pre-Crisis stuff all fits (I don't think anyone could really untangle that mess when you think about it) So I am a little bit at odds if I will do it or not.

The alternative of course, is to stick with the Marvel Wiki, in which case I will be plowing through books published in the 1950's next. Sticking primarily with super-heroes, westerns, and some of the sci-fi/horror anthology titles that have ties to the mainstream Marvel Universe (IE: Strange Tales, Journey into Mystery etc.)

But hey, if you people want to chime in and help me make up my mind, lets put it up to a vote. Do I stick around and work some more or take a break? You, my fellow wiki contributors decide.