The auto-wishlist is an exclusive Premium feature that automatically adds every new issue from a followed series to your wish list. Toggled on a series-by-series basis via the ✨ icon, it tags auto-added issues with a distinctive badge to distinguish them from manual additions. The result: you never miss a new release from your favorite series without having to check the calendar every week.
Activation is a simple two-step process, available to Premium accounts only. Step 1: follow the series by clicking the "Follow" button in the Upcoming Releases view. Step 2: once you're following the series, a ✨ icon appears next to the Follow button. Click it — the icon turns to a golden ✨ and a toast notification confirms "Auto-wishlist enabled." From that moment on, every new Metron solicitation for that series will automatically add the issue to your personal wishlist.
How to Enable Auto-Wishlist on a Followed Series
Auto-wishlist is per-series, not a global toggle. You can turn it on for 2 must-have series and leave it off for the other 8 Premium series you follow in passive watch mode. That granularity keeps your wishlist clean: for series where you buy selectively, following notifies you of new releases without pre-empting your purchase decision.
Manual Wishlist vs. Auto-Wishlist: What's the Difference?
The manual wishlist has been part of My Comics Collection since launch: you use it to flag a specific comic you want to buy — a key issue you spotted in an article, a missing issue in your run, a Reddit recommendation you want to dig into later. These additions are intentional, case by case, and appear without any special badge.
The automatic auto-wishlist is different: it operates across an entire series, triggered whenever a new issue is added to the database. Auto-added issues get a ✨ badge that visually sets them apart from manual additions — so you can filter your wishlist to show only auto-added items (your recurring buying pipeline) or only manual additions (your one-off discovery list).
That visual distinction is invaluable for power users: it lets you scan your wishlist at a glance and separate "normal workflow" items (auto, to handle on your monthly comic shop visit) from "special decision" items (manual, to dig into when you have time).
Use Case 1: The Story Arc Collector
Lucas is following Hickman's current Amazing Spider-Man arc. The arc spans 24 issues, some with incentive variants. By enabling auto-wishlist on ASM, every weekly release lands directly in his wishlist without him ever having to check the calendar. On his monthly comic shop visit (or his monthly eBay/Cmoa order), Lucas filters the wishlist by "auto-added ✨" and instantly sees the 4 issues that dropped that month.
Without it, he'd either miss an issue (a moment of inattention), or spend 5 minutes a week checking releases and adding them manually — 20 minutes a month doing admin work. Auto-wishlist turns that dead time into a fully autonomous workflow.
Use Case 2: The First Appearance Hunter
Sophie follows new Marvel first-volume series (Ultimate Spider-Man, New X-Men, Tigra: Soul of the Tiger). These series are fertile ground for first appearances: a secondary character introduced in issue #3 of an Ultimate title could become a major MCU player within two years. Sophie enables auto-wishlist on all three.
Every new release lands in her wishlist. She buys new issues at $4.99 cover price on release day, stores them bagged and boarded, and waits. If any of the secondary characters introduced in those issues goes hot 18 months later — an MCU announcement, a casting reveal, a movie leak — Sophie has her copy at cover price sitting in her back stock. The potential return can be 10x to 100x the initial cost, depending on how the character's trajectory plays out.
Auto-Wishlist and Variant Management
A common question is how variants are handled. Auto-wishlist currently adds the main issue (cover A) to the wishlist — not incentive, ratio, or retailer-exclusive variants. This limitation is intentional: variants are often pricier, their availability depends on the retailer, and collectors generally prefer to make that call manually.
For now, if you want to systematically grab cover A plus an incentive variant, add the variant to your wishlist manually when you see it solicit. The product team is working on extending auto-wishlist to support configurable variant inclusion (an option like "also add 1:25 ratio variants"), but that feature hasn't shipped as of June 2026.