Made by a collector,
for the long boxes.
Who is behind Mint Menace, what it promises, and who and what it is built on.
Stephen Pollard.
Mint Menace is made by Stephen Pollard in the UK. It exists because the comic apps he tried would read the issue number and stop, treating a 12p copy as if it were the 35¢ one, and would rather give a confident wrong answer than admit they were not sure. Anyone who bought their comics off a spinner rack knows those are not the same book.
The app is in a test version on iPhone now. It names the comic when it is sure and asks when it is not, spots pence copies and key issues, hunts through boxes, watches for screen announcements and signing guests, and keeps your collection on the phone. Grading, price guidance and the pence guide come next, in that order, and not before they are real.
This issue.
- Story
- Stephen Pollard
- Art
- Made with Google Gemini and finished for Mint Menace
- Catalogue
- Grand Comics Database
- New releases
- Metron
- Some key-issue facts
- Wikidata
- Type
- Bangers, Atkinson Hyperlegible, IBM Plex Mono, all under the SIL Open Font Licence
- Printed on
- Newsprint, 1978. Read on an iPhone, 2026.
Honest about what it knows.
It never bluffs
It names a comic only when it is sure, shows the evidence, and asks when it is not. A confident wrong answer is the one thing it will not give you.
No invented values
It links to real eBay UK sales instead of estimating. Price guidance comes when it is built from real records, and not before.
Measured, or nothing
Accuracy figures will be published when they are measured on real scans. Until then there are none.
Coming means coming
Nothing on the plan is described as available. The next issue page keeps the list honest.
The databases.
Issue names, dates, runs and creators come from the Grand Comics Database, a volunteer project that has been cataloguing comics for thirty years. New releases come from Metron. Some key-issue facts come from Wikidata. Convention guest lists come from each convention's official guest page, and film and TV projects are linked to first appearances by hand. Their licences ask for credit, which is why you will find these three lines in the footer of every page, and why the app shows them on every card.
Catalogue data: Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0
New releases: Metron (metron.cloud), CC BY-SA 4.0
Some key-issue facts: Wikidata, CC0
Questions about any of this: hello@mintmenace.com.