I am not complaining and I don't want to sound ignorant but I was wondering if I could get clarification or guidelines as to how titles are alphabetized when they have punctuation marks in them.

For instance, G.I. Joe comes up before Galactic Guardians - Star Wars is before Starblast, etc. Plus certain titles with a lot of sub-series seem haphazard to me. G. I. Joe vs the Transformers is ahead of G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero. I realize that the marks are ordered somehow, is there a framework I can look at? Are spaces counted as characters? I like the way numbers are treated, I've worked at places where 1st Issue Special would be filed under "F" for First, etc.

I know that I can organize my comics however I want but since I mostly use this site for selling I would like to keep my inventory as easy to access as possible. What I have been doing is alphabetizing without regard to spaces or punctuation marks.

To be clear, I am not criticizing, just looking for guidance.

Thanks!
Howie

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Exactly.

The CCL database organizes everything exactly.

G.I. Joe comes before Galactic Guardians, because it's "G" before "Ga."

Star Wars comes before Starblast, because STAR is a shorter word than STARBLAST.

Periods in titles breaks the word up. G.I. Joe before Galactic.

R.E.B.E.L.S. and S.W.O.R.D and T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents are more examples of this.

After that, you'll see:

Avengers (1963)
Avengers/JLA
Avengers: The Children's Crusade

So, no punctuation, followed by a slash, followed by a colon. Oh, and ampersands (&) go before everything.

This is really just how a typical computer organizational spread works. Type the three titles into an Excel spreadsheet and order it to alphabetize it, and it'll do the same thing.

It's not specific to Excel, it's Windows (and all modern computer operating systems) in general.
Period counts as a period.

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