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Show HN: Marvel Comics and Characters Search Engine

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I did a search of Oddball and Madcap as characters and came up with nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddball_(comics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madcap_(comics)

I'm certain that they exist in the Marvel universe.

That's interesting, I will take a look if Marvel API has those characters or I can try to import it manually, thank you for your feedback

Cool. I'd like to see ways to order them. There are many volumes of many universes created over the past several decades. Some way to sort them chronologically, or by character incarnation, would be really helpful for people who want to organize their interest

Cool app, it looks really good. How was it working with the Marvel API? Did you try the comicvine API? http://www.comicvine.com/api/

Thank you, I appreciate that. I will definitely check out comicvine API.

Missed your question. Working with Marvel API was not bad. They have really good interface for testing endpoints so they make it easy to create and test objects. Accessing large sets of data where you have hundreds of issues would timeout sometimes, so you just have to rerun it number of times. Its a new API but so far they have done pretty good job. Overall I liked working with Marvel API.

Awesome, UX feedback:

1. Hitting back button should hide the overlay. 2. The left side of the overlay needs to scroll as the screen scrolls, otherwise you're not able to see the picture you hover over in the gallery.

Back button fixed on web only, mobile unfortunately has to be this way at least for now. Its technically single page app, so I'm just manipulating hash URL value, that is why back button is not trivial. Good point on the image, I will add it to my todo list.

I will fix back button, thank you for checking it out.

Have you talked to a lawyer regarding possible IP Problems?

Not OP but Marvel makes an API available for all this so most of it's likely within bounds:

http://developer.marvel.com/

They may have a problem with the use of "Marvel" in the domain name though.

Yeah, the terms & conditions say you can't have "Marvel" in your name:

"You may not create derivatives of Marvel Property, or use the 'Marvel' name or any other Marvel Marks in the title of your App without Marvel's prior written approval."

They might let you if you ask, though. It's not like it's a commercial app.

I think it's good that you added links back to the Marvel website, and attributed the data to Marvel, following their guidelines: http://developer.marvel.com/documentation/attribution

Some developers overlook the boring API documentation and rules.

I have reciprocal links going back to marvel.com, there are no ads and I did receive a feedback from an individual on Marvel dev team that he liked the app. So I'm assuming they are cool with it.

> assuming they are cool with it

That reception is probably not uniform among Marvel, especially since they have to mount an affirmative defense against trademark infringement. But just don't get too popular and it will never matter. ;)

I'll try not too :)

It looks like Fin Fang Foom has obliterated the Marvel index for his appearance in the 1974 Astonishing Tales.

Acid mist exhalations are `murder` on indices.

I have trouble with Chrome's back button and every character I type into the search box.

I will fix browser back button, thank you for your feedback.

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