With my comic book collection growing a bit out of control, I needed something to track all the issues I’ve got and, more importantly, the issues I still need. It’s not perfect, but ComicBase was the most full-featured, complete comic book collection tracking system I could find.
The main drawback with ComicBase is the price. On the one hand, they do offer a relatively low-cost ComicBase Express version for $39.95. For that price you get a fairly slick interface to the program’s database of several hundred thousand comic books, plus free database updates for a year. From my usage of it so far, the database is fairly exhaustive (a bit too exhaustive sometimes for those of us who could care less about crap like variant covers — but if that’s your thing, this is your program).
Unfortunately, the main difference between the Express and the Professional version — aside from the Professional version being $129 — is that the Express version lacks most of the export features. You have to upgrade to or buy the Professional version if you want to export your comic book collection as a text or HTML file, or transfer your collection to Pocket PC/Palm-based platforms.
I’ll probably spring for the professional version at some point just for the HTML export, but that’s a lot of extra money for such a basic feature.