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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
There's valid reasons for wanting a ToC.
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First: You are right. Just because they are unimportant to me does not mean they serve no purpose to anybody.
I'm saying this because the rest is why they are unimportant to me
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For example, I picked up a couple of these on a recent Kindle sale, and since they're basically just collections of works by a single author and not limited to any specific comic line, it would've been handy to jump past random one-offs concerning heroes I'm not familiar with.
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I always followed writers/artists rather than characters. In fact I really dislike superhero comics.
The reason I picked up the book you linked to is because I like Alan Moore so much (and man, they will never stop making money off his stuff). So it doesn't matter to me if he is writing a Green Lantern story or a Superman story or what have you. The only reason I am reading about these characters is because they lucked into getting Alan Moore to write for them.
A book like that is a good candidate for a TOC. I just don't case about one. I'll likely read each story in one sitting anyway.
BTW: Have you seen the 2000 A.D. Alan Moore collections?
The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks. A Compilation of the short tales he wrote for 2000 A.D. He wrote a couple of other short series for them as well. D.R. and Quinch, Skizz and The Ballad of Halo Jones. Those are also available. Sensibly sold as DRM-free CBZ or PDF files.
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Another example might be some of these Marvel Epic Collections in which adjacent comics were often packaged in; I don't feel the need to suffer through an issue of Power Pack while re-reading some X-Men classics.
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Weren't those adjacent comics packed in because the story continues in them? (Another thing I didn't like about superhero comics.)