Here are several page examples of the guide book aspect of AAR. They have been designed to accommodate the wide range books published in many different sizes ranging from Copper age comics, standard Modern comics, variant comic covers, digests, magazines, paperback books, foreign editions, coloring books, toy packs & more. 

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero has been published for 40 years from many different publishers in many different countries under different names & lots of languages equaling lots of variety.

For collector's the continuity of the series matters, a unique feature is the color continuity coding. Each continuity has been assigned a color. These colors can be seen to the right by looking at the boxes around the cover image.