Subscribe to your VerseDB calendar feed and your pull list release dates, FOC deadlines, and followed comic events show up alongside everything else in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, or any other app that reads calendar subscriptions.
Open the Sync panel#
Sync to Calendar lives in three places:
- My Library → Apps → Calendar — the primary home, with everything in one panel
- My Pull List — the button next to the view toggles at the top of the page
- Account Settings → Connected accounts — the Calendar card
All three open the same controls. You choose what the feed includes:
- Release dates — when issues on your pull list ship. On by default.
- FOC deadlines — Final Order Cutoff, the last day to add or cancel an issue at your shop. Off by default.
- Followed events — conventions, store signings, and anything else you follow on VerseDB. On by default.
Preference changes apply to the feed within about 15 minutes, once your calendar app polls for updates.
Subscribe from your device#
A subscription is the normal way to use this — your calendar keeps itself up to date as your pull list and followed events change.
- Click Google, Apple, Outlook (personal), or Outlook (work). The provider opens its native "Add calendar" dialog.
- Confirm in that dialog. Google shows Add calendar, Apple opens Calendar.app, and Outlook drops you in its web calendar.
- The new calendar appears in your app within a few minutes.
Pick Outlook (personal) for Outlook.com / Hotmail / Live accounts, and Outlook (work) for Microsoft 365 / work or school accounts.
For any other calendar app, use Copy to grab the subscription URL, then paste it into that app''s "Add subscription" flow.
Subscribing on your phone? Expand Show QR code to subscribe on phone under the Copy button and scan it with your device camera — iOS and Android will both offer to open the feed in their default calendar.
The feed asks your calendar app to refresh every 60 minutes, but each app decides on its own schedule. Google often lags several hours; Apple Calendar and Outlook usually refresh sooner.
What''s in each event#
Every event is a full-day entry marked Free, not Busy, so a stacked Wednesday of Marvel releases doesn''t turn your day red.
Click an issue event and you''ll see:
- Publisher as the event location — handy because Google''s row view shows it inline
- Creators grouped by role (writer, artist, cover artist, and so on)
- Cover price, when the publisher has set one
- A link straight to the issue page on VerseDB for solicitations, variants, and adding to your collection
- The cover art as an attached image — Apple Calendar, Outlook, and Fantastical render it inline
Followed comic events carry the event description, venue or online flag, ticket price when set, and a link back to VerseDB.
Events are tagged with categories (Comics, the publisher or event type, and Release / FOC / Event) so calendar apps that support filtering can slice the feed by type.
The feed caps at 500 upcoming issues and 200 followed events. If your pull list is larger, the ones furthest in the future drop off until the closer ones ship.
Google Calendar displays subscribed calendars with the raw feed URL as their name by default — a Google-specific quirk. Click the three-dot menu on the calendar and rename it to something like "VerseDB".
Download a one-time snapshot#
Download .ics gives you a single file with today''s events baked in. You''ll need to be signed in to VerseDB to download it.
A downloaded .ics is a snapshot — it won''t update when your pull list or followed events change. Re-download any time you want fresh data, or subscribe instead.
Regenerate the URL#
The subscription URL is tied to your account — anyone with the link can see your pull list and followed events. If you''ve shared it somewhere you shouldn''t have, open the Calendar panel and click Regenerate URL. The old link stops working immediately, and you''ll need to re-subscribe in each calendar app with the new one.
Troubleshooting#
Events aren''t appearing. Most calendar apps poll subscriptions on a schedule you can''t override. Google can take several hours; Apple Calendar and Outlook usually refresh within an hour. Toggle the calendar off and on in your app to force a fetch.
FOC dates look wrong. When a publisher hasn''t posted a real FOC yet, VerseDB falls back to the typical cutoff (Monday, three weeks before release). Real dates replace estimates as publishers announce them.
Past issues still showing. The feed includes the last 7 days of releases, so a book that shipped earlier this week stays visible. It rolls off once it''s a week old.
A series isn''t in the feed. The feed only includes active pull list entries with notifications on. Check My Pull List and make sure notifications haven''t been muted for that series.
Followed events are missing. Only events you actively follow appear, and only those with a start date in the future or within the last 7 days. Archived events are excluded.
Pair this with the Pull List email digest for a weekly recap, or set up the Discord app to get release-day pings alongside your calendar.
