Issue Indices - Features
The next record in each index is the story, or what is commonly called the feature that is being indexed. This is information about the individual story, or feature in the comic you're indexing. Today's comics usually only include one feature (story) per issue, but it didn't use to be this way. Anthologies (comics with many individual stories) use to be much more common. A pin-up or a text story would also considered a feature. So a comic with a 21-page story with a pin-up would have 2 features.

Got all that? If not, re-read. It's important to understand what we mean when we use the term feature.

The feature record has eighteen fields:

1. Issue Number
2. Publication Date
3. Type
4. Genre
5. Feature
6. Title
7. Pencils
8. Inks
9. Script
10. Colors
11. Letterer
12. Edits
13. Total Feature Page Count
14. Cover Price
15. Character Appearances
16. Notes/Comments
17. Synopsis
18. Reprint Information

These fields will all be on one line in your index, with each field separated from the next by a tab character.

Sample Index