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How are the results sorted? When I search "Spider-man", the first result is Boomerang, and none of the results on the first page are for the Peter Parker Spider-man (result #2 is Ben Reilly Spider-man).

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Yeah, I searched for "Nimrod" and got nothing but a few other characters who reference encounters with him. He's in Marvel Universe, so clearly they're just picking and choosing who gets in here. This database is sorely lacking, and the search function is meh... Not a knock on the Node.js code, more of a knock on the Marvel API.

I know we're not supposed to be negative on here, but this is a cut and dry Comic Book Guy situation....

clears throat

"Worst..... database..... ever...."

This was a little project I did when Marvel's API first came out. I scraped all the data and put it in a database that allowed better searching/browsing. I probably need to periodically scrape the API again to pull in changes and additions as they add them. Hopefully Marvel will update the data and make it more complete.

How in the world is this repo compatible with their TOS - http://developer.marvel.com/terms ?

That explains it!

I really do like the presentation and the whole site. I just couldn't resist the comic book guy opportunity.

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