Comics & Graphic Novels - editing metadata suggestions?

Hi everyone,
I just bought a batch of ePUB formatted graphic novels from a third party store, and when I put them into iBooks for Mac the cover is replaced by that generic, faux leather design. Now, I absolutely acknowledge that this is entirely an OCD, anally-retentive, non-issue, but I would quite like to see the actual book covers in my library.
Now, some people had suggested using Calibre, which I have had a go with, but there seems to be some formatting problems that appears to be unique only to comics and graphic novels. Basically, when I open the edited ePUB book and try to get the pages to fill the screen, either the window expands but the page image stays the same size, or the pages have been sliced in two (right down the middle) and spread out over twice as many slides.
I was just wondering if any other digital comic collectors out there have worked out a solution to this? Is there some check-box in Calibre I forgot to click on, or is there some other metadata-editing software out there that's better suited for graphic novels?
If anybody's got any suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them
Cheers,
Kieran

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