How issue numbers hide inside NFT comic titles
A printed Marvel comic usually puts the issue number in a corner box. An NFT comic listing may bury that number after a character nickname, a variant artist tag, or a drop series name. The first job of issue curation is to recover a filing code you can sort.
We copy the title into a notebook line, then circle digits that sit beside a book name rather than beside a year. Years are useful as drop dates; they are not issue numbers. If both appear, the Ledger gets two fields, not one mashed string.
Homage covers cause extra confusion because a 2024 drop can wear a 1960s trade dress. The dress is a visual quote. It does not change the periodical number of the story file, if a story file is even present.
When a title contains only a cover nickname, we mark the record as “cover object pending number” instead of inventing a digit. Invented numbers break run-completion maps later, which is worse than an empty field.