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Xiankowaty01 | 13 comments Hi,

After introducing new guidelines for numbering comic books on series pages I found some problems with non-US editions of Marvel TPB (but it's very likely that similar cases can be found in other ongoing series). From my experience (Poland): most of the foreign editions are based on US TPB (so they can be easily added as an edition of existing book), but sometimes they are slightly different and must be a seperate book in database. So I found 3 problematic examples that I want to clarify:

1. Savage Avengers. Tom 1 (collecting 2 american TPB) - like before just add the number "1-2" on the series page? It's quite logical, but I want to be sure that everybody thinks so.

2. Uncanny X-Men. Tom 2: Cyclops i Wolverine (collecting 2 american TPB and a TPB of event tie-ins) - how to number this edition when the tie-in TPB doesn't have its number now (previously - 2.5). This is a second volume of Uncanny X-Men series in Poland (the first is the same as US), so it should be listed on some series page.

3. Świt X: X-Men. Tom 1 - this one doesn't match any other edition (diferent number of comic issues), but is still collecting Hickman's X-Men. I don't know if the numbering used now is even acceptable (I saw it in some other series, so used it here). Maybe creating another series for polish editions with a link in description to the US one?


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