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". If you mostly add series for one issue — from a reading list, a release, or a CBL import — turn on "Only the issues that were asked for" and those adds download just the issues in question, while adding from the Library or Discover still fetches the whole run. 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:

Each card has an actions menu, reached three ways: the ⋯ button that appears when you hover it, a right-click anywhere on the card, or a long press on a touch screen. All three open the same menu, so you never have to open a series just to act on it:

• Open it, follow or unfollow, and download its missing issues.
• Scan folder, Edit metadata, Rename files and Fix match — the library-management actions that otherwise live on the series page.
• Its monitoring policy, with the current one ticked.
• Remove it from the library.

The menu only offers what your role can actually do, and it leaves out what would not apply: an unmatched series offers Match to ComicVine rather than Fix match, and has no metadata to edit until it is matched.

Filters — All, Incomplete, Followed, Monitored, Not monitored, Ongoing, Ended (publication status from enriched metadata — run Refresh series metadata under System → Tools to fill it in for older series), Problems (corrupt/untagged), Nothing downloaded, Unmatched.

Nothing downloaded lists series with no file at all. That is what a bulk add leaves behind when the downloads fail, so it is the quick way to find and clear them: filter, Select, Select all, Remove. Removing takes them out of the collection and leaves any files on disk alone. A series whose only file is corrupt is not in this list — that one is under Problems, because it did download something. 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.

Collections ​

Sidebar → Collections shows the same library grid narrowed to multi-volume book and audiobook series — box sets, numbered series, anything holding two or more entries. Standalone titles are left out, so a shelf of hundreds of individual books collapses to the handful of series worth browsing as a set.

It carries the same search, filters, sorting and view options as the Library view, so it behaves like a saved perspective on the collection rather than a separate screen.

The view only has something to narrow once you run a Books or Audiobooks library; with neither installed it simply shows everything. For picking through a large book library by author, decade or format instead, see Shelves.

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.

Files in the series folder that the app could not match to an issue are listed under the issues, with the number it read from each (from the ComicInfo tag, else the filename). If the volume is right and the file's number is not — or there is no number to read — pick the issue from the file's Assign to issue menu: the file links to that issue immediately and the assignment is remembered per file, so rescans, re-matches and metadata refreshes keep it. A file that linked to the wrong issue is moved the same way from that issue's own page (open the issue, Move to another issue…), where a hand assignment can also be undone. If many files are off, Fix match (wrong volume) or renaming and Scan folder may be the quicker fix.

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.

Right-click an issue ​

Every issue, in both the poster grid and the list, has an actions menu. Reach it from the ⋯ button (top-right of a poster card, or at the end of a list row), a right-click anywhere on the issue, or a long press on a touch screen. It carries the actions that otherwise live as small buttons on the row:

• Whatever the plugins you have installed contribute, first. With the Reader installed that is Read, Mark as read or Mark as unread, and Read later.
• Issue details for the full record and its files.
• Download this issue, or Download again for one you already own, or Re-download when the file is corrupt.
• Want or Don't want, for an issue you are missing.

The menu is built when you open it, so it always reflects that issue as it stands: an issue you just marked read offers to mark it unread. Right-clicking does not change which issues are selected, so a selection you are part-way through building survives.

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 ​

Every series has a monitoring policy that says what download automation should go after. Set it from the ⋯ menu on the series page (it also shows as a tag in the header), or for many series at once from the Library's bulk bar:

Picking issues by hand ​

On top of the policy, any issue can be picked or skipped individually — the target button on each issue row (Series page) or the target / ban buttons on the Wanted page. A pick always wins over the policy, in both directions:

• On a series that is off, pick the one issue you want and automation searches for just that one.
• On a series set to all, skip a variant cover or an issue you own in print and it stops being wanted.

Only the exceptions are stored, so changing the policy later never fights a stale pick. When a picked issue lands, whoever picked it gets a notification and the pick retires. Pressing Download on an issue the policy doesn't want records a pick too — if the grab fails, automation keeps after it and the Wanted page can say why it's there. Switching a series off asks whether to keep its picks; Forget picked issues in the ⋯ menu drops them all.

"Wanted" and "missing" are deliberately different things: missing is a fact about files on disk (the Library's counts and Incomplete filter), wanted is your decision (the Wanted page, the search schedules, the RSS and announce watchers). Reading lists can want every issue on them — see Reading lists.

Bulk actions ​

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

• ★ Follow / ☆ Unfollow — your personal follows (the pull list), en masse
• Monitoring… — set the monitoring policy for every selected series
• ⤓ Missing — queue every missing issue of the selected series
• ☰ Add to list — put every issue of the selected series on a reading list, in the order the Library is showing them
• Remove — drop the series from the collection (files on disk are never touched)