Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26066818-20150916131507/@comment-61022-20150917132725

Slingers You pose an interesting question.... I won't be able to check on this for a few hours, but do you happen to note any differences in the indica information for the variants of Slingers #1? In lieu of any alternate numbering listed in a indica (like a 1A or 1.1 or whatever) I think the Issue Title, Volume Number, Issue Number, Character name of who is the "feature" of the variant is appropriate. Not sure if a colon is appropriate to separate the issue number and the feature character. Maybe in brackets? I seem to recall that's what we tend to do if there are comics that have a similar titling and numbering system in the indica. Another idea would be maybe putting the first letter of the feature character. Like Slingers Vol 1 1H (for the Hornet issue) and Slingers Vol 1 1P (for the Prodigy issue) Slinder Vol 1D (for the Dusk issue) etc.

I personally like the idea of breaking up different pages for the different variants and each summary being written to summarise the material presented in that specific variant. Tag the character appearances so that the previous appearances of the characters is whatever variant is the one that they were the main feature in (Example, in the Hornet variant, the Prodigy's previous appearance would be the Slingers #1 Prodigy variant but each story's next appearances would be Slingers #2)

Ultraforce Spider-Man (and similar titles) With the Ultraforce Spider-Man stuff... Since the 1A and 1B designations I would break them up into two different pages because there is a definite variation in numbering (at least on the front cover, again I'm not sure what the indica says). Even if half of the story appears to be recycled in both issues (which at a glance of some of the Malibu/Marvel cross-overs this seemed to be a thing they did in order to double-dip on sales in what could have only been accepted in the 90s heyday of ridiculous special editions, variants, mail-order specials etc.) It would make appearance tags more fluid. I think anyone researching that particular cross-over in the future would appreciate that the information between 1A and 1B were broken up, even if half of the data will be the same between the two issues.

In General

I would like to think the general rule about issue summaries is that even if the indica/numbering/whatever is virtually identical but both versions have unique content then there should be different pages for each version. The challenge is finding a way to organize the page names and the issue gallery pages are up to date so that they're easy to find and identify later.