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Advanced Search is still somewhat experimental and has some known bugs
and limitations:
- The default ordering of the search results sorts according to series name and issue date. This ordering is not very useful if you search for publishers, you might want to change it under "Ordering".
- All "contains" searches match exact substrings. Punctuation is not ignored. "Jack Kirby; Joe Simon" and "Joe Simon; Jack Kirby" are two different searches.
- There's no way to search for multiple values in a field (for instance, while you can search for stories written or penciled by someone, you cannot search for stories penciled by either Jack Kirby or Joe Simon.
- Searching by date is somewhat tricky. Supported formats include "year.month.day", "year-month-day", "month/day/year", "month-name day, year", "day month-name, year" and just plain year.
- Date searching for series and stories uses a hidden field that is not always filled out. This is the same field used for sorting by date, which is why sometimes several out-of-sequence results will appear at the beginning of the list. It is also possible to search an issue's cover date as a text field without any conversion to an actual date.
- At the moment you cannot directly search for Brands or Indicia Publishers (which are recent, as in December 2009) additions to the site. You can, however, search for Brands and/or Indicia Publishers as issue fields. The rest of the search functionality for these will be implemented in the near future.
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