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i'm betting the proper street dates would be all over the place - unfortunately this would take a lot of manual effort to plug them in

Hi, I was wondering about the use of Comic Base in a retail environment. While Diamond has some kind of Point of Sale system that seems to work well and even helps with subscribers; I wonder the prospect or using of Comic base as a retail comic store Point of Sale and to handel subscribers. Is Comic Base setup such that it can work or be used in a retail environment? Does it have any cababilities to handle retail store subscribers? NOTE: I love the weekly You tube broadcasts and look forward to them. Thank you in advance, Louis J. Desy Jr.

Looks like a similar list... CoverDate2009-02-18.xlsx

I only get 2259 but ti is probably the same entries for the most part. Comic Title-Issues with Street Date 2-28-2009.txt

are you able to save out that list and attach it to this thread? Curious to see what entries are involved so we can check the against our master db

I noticed that 12-D & 12-E are repeated as 12-S & 12-T (with no discernable differences) . In addition 12-G and 12-H are repeated as 12-V and 12-W (with the only difference that I can see is the price).

I was reviewing my books (comics TPB and HC for the most part) to generate a wanted list, and saw that there's a lot of them with a "Street Date" of 02/18/2009. Searching by date in the database, I find 2260 entries with such a street date. Seems very odd. Looks like somebody made a "mass change" and it stuck. Any chance of a fix, or would it take manual entries to correct?

This title should be Zenescope: 20th Anniversary Cover Gallery to match the indicia and to reflect the fact that it encompasses all the Zenescope titles published (not just covers from Grimm Fairy Tales).

It does. CAN'T imagine who that was... 😁

@Jeremy S, I've had issues with the 7Zip compression also. Take a look at your RAM usage in Task Manager. Browsers such as Firefox and Chrome tend to be RAM hogs, so consider closing them and other high-usage programs until the compression is done. I don't have a full solution, but that's been my observation, so hopefully it helps. Good luck.

I’m starting a new thread as the original post by Fred Slota (“Weird system hang when closing ComicBase”) appears to be resolved for them, but I’m continuing to experience the same issue despite multiple troubleshooting attempts. Issue Summary: After closing ComicBase (latest build, downloaded today, WIndows 11), the 7-Zip process continues running in the background, consuming significant CPU resources. This persists for an extended period (over 30 minutes), even when backups are saved locally and not to a cloud folder (i.e., OneDrive). A compressed backup file folder is created but often shows a file size of 0–1 KB, and the 7-Zip process does not terminate on its own unless I manually end it. What I’ve Tried: Uninstalled and reinstalled ComicBase and its Resources Changed backup directory from OneDrive to local SSD Manually ending the 7-Zip process as a workaround I can avoid the issue by disabling the compression, but this prevents me from being able to save the backup online. I am wondering if anyone has any tips? This issue has only been for the past few months (since the latest major update). I am wondering if there is a process for repairing or reinstalling 7-Zip?

Making some progress... v25.6.3.4624 The progress bar progresses, but in downloading from 0 to 232 images, the progress bar smoothly progressed from 0 to 50%, then jumped straight to 100% when all done. Also, the text message kept flickering, I think alternating between two different progress messages.

Good catch... title description for Wonderful World of Marvel will get removed. Likely the submitting user inserted the description without mcs's permission.

Looking at the contents on Google Books, 'Rube Goldberg Inventions' should be a type Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=uxR9Mf3ZhDsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The new update made the following changes NeverWars 1/A -> NeverWars—Land Of Oz/Dorothy 1/A NeverWars 1/B -> NeverWars—Land Of Oz/Dorothy 1/B NeverWars 1/C -> NeverWars—Wonderland/PFC Bird 1/A NeverWars 1/D -> NeverWars—Wonderland/PFC Bird 1/B NeverWars 1/E -> NeverWars—Neverland/Peter Pan 1/A NeverWars 1/F -> NeverWars—Neverland/Peter Pan 1/B This title series starts with a story told with three perpectives with 2 variant cover for each perpective. Dorothy's with Varants 1A-Cover A and a wrap around 1A-Cover B Georgie Bird with Varants 1B-Cover A and a wrap around 1B-Cover B Peter Pans with Varants 1C-Cover A and a wrap around 1C-Cover B All the cover have the Title "NeverWars" This is similar to the Title "Prodical Son" with issue #4 having three variant covers(ie The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly) - each with a slightly difference ending but the same story.

New Comic Book title: Rube Goldberg Inventions Can somebody verify that this is comics? I suspect that this is prose with illustrations. I guess part of the question is whether one considers Rube Goldberg's invention single panel illustrations to be sequential story telling or not. New Magazine title: The Wonderful World of Marvel I notice that the title description for this is verbatim with wording from the mycomicshop website without attribution. As a former University professor that frowned upon plagiarism, I have to ask: is that allowed here? I assume somebody asked mycomicshop for permission to use their text?

Delete or Move 1-A.jpg From: Pictures\O\Oni\Biker Mice from Mars (Oni-Lion Forge, 2nd Series) To: Pictures\O\Oni\Biker Mice from Mars (Oni-Lion Forge, Vol. 2) Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 3.jpg) From: Pictures\M\Marvel\C\Craptacular B-Sides,The To: Pictures\M\Marvel\B\B-Sides Rename 1.jpg to TPB 1.jpg and 2.jpg to TPB 2.jpg From: Pictures\O\Opus\Lejentia Rename 1.jpg to TPB 1.jpg From: Pictures\B\Black Coat Press\Shadowmen (Black Coat) Delete or Rename Bk 2-HC.jpg to Dlx 1.jpg then Move From: Pictures\M\Marvel\C\Captain America (1st Series) To: Pictures\M\Marvel\C\Captain America Comics Delete or Rename I-M.jpg to 1-6.jpg From: Pictures\O\Oni\Rick & Morty Delete or Rename 1.jpg to 2.jpg From: Pictures\B\Black Coat Press\Shadowmen II

As I understand it, automatching relies on matching up UPC codes. So old National and Quality comics won't work with automatching b/c those issues won't have UPC's. Something like GI Joe ARAH might work since (I assume) all of those issues have UPC's (at least the newsstand editions would, at any rate).

No. Publisher is only in the Title table. It is not in the Issue table. Which is why it has to be referenced as ComicTitles.Publisher in an Advanced Find instead of just using an I (which indicates Issue) for I.IssueNumber

I would second the idea to separate titles based on (long running) publishers, with the noted exception for titles bouncing between limited independent publishers (mostly in the '80s/'90s.) A search of Quality books from the '40s excludes titles such as Blackhawk and GI Combat, which had substantial runs before being bought by DC. I would suggest separating these titles (and others, such as Tarzan that you mentioned) into separate entries for historical purposes. On a related subject, when searching for Quality titles, I noted that many entries were under "Comic Magazines" which was the official name of the company, much as it's National instead of DC until the '70s. You've brought all the old National titles under the DC name, and Marvel as well (Timely at least, it seems Atlas is still separate), I'd suggest doing the same for the Quality titles. Splitting titles among the two names is confusing, and seemingly arbitrary. If the automatching function works as intended, I don't think these changes are out-of-bounds anymore. (I do understand the ROI for the time needed to make these changes.) Regarding advanced searching (another of my interests, already answered in the tech forum), is "Publisher" a field for individual "issues" and not just for "titles"?

If you do decide to upgraded to Pro (I think that has advanced find) or Archive and what to know some of the basic Advanced Find 'stuff', look at the Advanced Find Guide 'someone' put together

I have the Express version, which explains my obliviousness, since it doesn't have the Advanced Find pull-down menu item. Definitely more elegant and useful to use the Type field instead of ItemNumber (the four separate fields wwre explained in a "requested feature" post a week or two ago.) My database programming is limited to using the Access built-in features (I was restricted from additional programming at work when developing them due to future support issues if the author left the department.) So I'm interested in trying my hand at this. Thanks for the continued support.

Dreadstar is similar, the title was published continuously but changed publishers from Marvel to First in midstream. The database treats this run as just a single title. But Tarzan starts out as Tarzan (Dell), then goes to Tarzan (Gold Key), then goes to Tarzan (DC). I don't know for sure, but I don't think that there was a break in publication for the title, so it seems that it may be fairly analogous to GI Joe ARAH. I am guessing that the CB editors handle this on a more or less case-by-case basis. To some degree, I am fine with this. For short run indie titles that might have hopped around amongst a couple of publishers during their brief lifespan, I think having multiple titles in the database is overkill. But for much longer runs (Tarzan, GI Joe ARAH) I can definitely understand the reasoning behind breaking things up by publisher. The situation for GI Joe ARAH has been in the database this way for many years now, so the rationale of "we don't want to mess up people's inventory" might be invoked here. But now we have the "automatching" function. @Peter R. Bickford @Mark J. Castaneda thoughts on this?

And it's WRONG. If it's an entirely different publisher, it needs to be a seperate entry

That is the way the creators decided to do this in the early days of CB. Not sure of the exact criteria but it appears if the numbering is continuous, the change in publisher is put into the title notes/comments. See 'Phantom, The (1st Series)' as another example (Gold Key, King, Charlton).