Our selection of links
Here's a list of web sites that are often used for writeups research. This list is not specifically maintained, so it will degrade over time.
Marvunapp.com
The traditional research source for everything in the Marvel Universe, with the Master List being an invaluable resource when researching a character. If you spot mistakes or omissions in the Master List, please write Snood to help him maintain his work. One important feature of the Marvunapp Master List is that flashbacks are placed in chronological order, which is useful when writing about a character. However, the index tends not to be up to date for lack of manpower, so always check other indices.
The Comic Book Database
This features user-generated lists of appearances. Originally, those lists were hit-or-miss and were only occasionally useful, but the site has grown a lot and may now be the most useful appearances index -- plus of course it covers other publishers than Marvel. Do note that it also indexes foreign editions (such as British or German Marvel books, often in a compilation format), which can be confusing at first. Note the "display in chronological order" link, which is the one most useful for research purposes.
Comic Vine
Another user-generated index that was weak at first but has grown a lot ; it can be invaluable since it gives good coverage of areas other indices do not excel with, such as Fawcett books. The way appearances lists is set up is not the best for our purposes (even after ordering appearances by release date of the book), but that's not a big deal.
Mike's Amazing World of DC comics
An old-school labour of fan love, this database is very useful in researching DC stuff, especially older material.
The Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe
This used to be one of the best sites way back then, but efforts by ad-hoc teams are hard to beat by small teams or single writers. Still, checking it takes very little time and might pay off.
DC Cosmic Teams
A wonderful DCU site with articles about all sorts of teams and characters, and funky little manikins of many characters.
Wikipedia
Wiki is always convenient for quick facts, but comic books are an area in which it can be less than reliable - remember, the content is only as good as the people, and comic book readers include many weird and... creative people. Who also are obsessive so they'll camp the article no matter what. And there seems to be people who deliberately inject erroneous data from their fan fiction in the hope that a careless writer will consider it canon and include it in a comic book.
Siskoid's Collection
Many writeups for DCH/MEGS/Blood of heroes as Siskoid goes through his comic books collection. Covers many characters WORG does not.
The Knight of Shadows
Many DCH/MEGS/Blood of heroes short entries, which tend to have very little overlap with the entries at writeups.org (since we normally only cover Mayfair material when it needs to be significantly revised), making it doubly useful.
Since Geocities is now gone, we have archived the entire site on writeups.org.
Brave and the Bold
A source site for a role-playing campaign set in a variant DCU ; has very useful and detailed biographies for key DCU characters, though there are additions from their campaign one has to be careful about.
Vanishing Point
A client database for the Legion of Super-Heroes, used in most of the LSH entries on WORG as a reference.
Titans' Tower
A very solid and well-made site for all things Titans (books through which I intend to do a full run, one of these days... in a few years...)
The Golden Age Heroes Directory
Probably the best starting point about Golden Age heroes and Pulp Era heroes. Tons of cool stuff to be read in there.
DarkMark's Comics Indexing Domain
Extensive and very useful annotations for many older DCU series.
Fanzing
Often useful articles in this good fanzine ; click on the "DCU Info" or "Hall of Champions" entries for the stuff that is most useful for us.
Obscure Villains of the Marvel Universe
Those writeups for the cards-based version of the Marvel RPG are short, but I really like the selection of obscure villains since most of them are just perfect when you need an obscure villain for your game. Hopefully, most of the characters there will be covered on WORG in time.
The Golden Age Super-Villain Fact File
The list of appearances for those Golden Age DCU are invaluable - for now (since I'd like to write them all up). Excellent Golden Age/JSA material ; other parts of the site cover heroes.
An International catalogue of super-heroes
The entries are often too brief, but it's a pretty cool read and can give ideas about unusual writeups.
The DC Database Project
Another wiki ; at the time of this writing many entries are still blank, but it seems to be getting populated at a good rate, making it increasingly useful.
Cool French Comics
A personal favorite covering a lot of francophone comic books and pulp fiction, by comic book writer and scholar Jean-Marc Lofficier. Everything is in English.
Comic Book Profiles
A home page with articles about some obscure comic book characters, because we love obscure characters (and they are easier to write than people who appeared in 500+ issues)
Supermanica
A wiki on Superman characters. It has a bunch of brief articles on Silver Age craziness, often involving gorillas.
Green Lantern Corps
Solid web site about all sorts of old Green Lantern stuff, mostly Silver Age.
