Managing your collection ​

Adding a series ​

Click + Add on the Library page and search ComicVine by name. Pick the right volume (covers, year, publisher, and issue counts are shown to disambiguate — "X-Men" has many volumes) and it's added with its full issue list.

Know exactly which volume you want? Paste its ComicVine URL or type cv: and the volume id (e.g. cv:166619 — the number after 4050- in any ComicVine volume URL) into the same search box, and that volume comes up directly. It's the sure route when a name search is crowded or a brand-new series hasn't ranked yet.

By default, adding a volume immediately queues its missing issues to download. If you'd rather add series empty and choose when to fetch, turn off Settings → Downloading → "Download on add". Either way you can still download per issue, per series, or via automation later.

You can also add series from the Discover feed or the Requests queue — see Discover and Requests.

ComicVine matching ​

Everything in BackIssue hangs off a series' link to its ComicVine volume — the issue list, cover art, publisher, and metadata for tagging.

• Series you add by search are matched from the start.
• Series discovered by importing an existing library need matching: the ◆ Match CV button runs the matcher across every unmatched series. Confident matches link automatically; ambiguous ones wait for you to pick from candidates.
• A series with no match shows a needs ComicVine match badge and the No CV filter collects them.
• Matched the wrong volume? Open the series and re-pick — the matcher can be overridden manually per series.

The Library view ​

The Library section lists every series you track. Toggle between a poster grid (⊞) and a dense list (≣) at the top right — the list adds publisher, year, download activity, the latest issue's date, and size on disk per row.

Each series shows its cover, title, owned/total count, and badges:

Filters — All, Incomplete, Unmonitored, Problems (corrupt/untagged), No CV. Sort — A–Z, recently added, most missing. Search — instant filter-as-you-type.

Filters, search, and sort are all kept in the URL, and they stay put while you open series or other sections.

The series page ​

Opening a series shows its full ComicVine issue list with ownership state per issue:

• Download a single missing issue, or Download missing for the whole series.
• Redownload an owned issue (deletes the current file and fetches a fresh copy — used for upgrading a bad scan).
• Search sources on any issue for a manual pick: results from every enabled source in one ranked list, labelled by source — you choose exactly which release to grab. See Downloads.
• Search packs looks for multi-issue collections covering your gaps — see Packs.
• Issue rows support shift-click to select ranges for bulk download.
• Read an owned issue in the browser (▶), or add issues to a reading list ("☰ Add to list") — see Reading.
• Series-level actions include tagging all files, cleaning up duplicates, renaming the series' files to your naming patterns (⋯ → Rename files), editing search aliases (extra names the series is known by on indexers), and setting a custom folder.

Download and management buttons only appear for roles holding those permissions — a viewer sees the read buttons and nothing else (Users & access).

The list toggles between a cover grid and a detailed row list; the list view shows each issue's cover date, page count, file size, and format at a glance.

Editing metadata ​

Trusted users can hand-edit metadata anywhere it's wrong or missing:

• Series — ⋯ → Edit metadata… on the series page: title, publisher, imprint, years, publication status, content rating, series type, genres, and description.
• Issues — the Edit button in an issue's details: title, number, dates, content rating, cover price, UPC, ISBN, and description.

Edited fields are yours: metadata refreshes, ComicVine matching, and enrichment never overwrite them. Each editor shows Reset all edits when edits exist — resetting drops your changes and the next refresh restores the source values. A hand-edited content rating also owns the mature-flag decision: automatic flagging won't override it.

Monitoring ​

The star on each series toggles monitored. Monitored series are:

• included in the weekly Releases view and its scheduled check,
• included when scheduled searches fetch missing issues automatically.

Unmonitored series keep their files and stats — they're just excluded from automation.

Bulk actions ​

The ☑ button in the Library header switches to multi-select. Select any number of series and:

• ★ Follow / ☆ Unfollow — toggle monitoring en masse
• ⤓ Missing — queue every missing issue of the selected series
• Remove — drop the series from the collection (files on disk are never touched)