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I have been collecting since the early 1970s, and I still refer to the Overstreet CBP every year. There are new articles and market reports about actual sales verified from each of the over 50? plus stores around the world that report on the Market and what customers/collectors have been searching for. It gives a good indication of the market forecast for the coming year and reflects what the past twelve months previously had sold. It's also still used at conventions as well by several dealers to this day. yes, internet is faster, but, CBP also has an internet publication as well. I have referred to it. The other great thing about this book is the amount of comic and art collectors' vendors to reach out to if you wish to purchase or sell your collection. Believe it or not, even the CBP has also become a collector market as well. I very much feel it's a valuable tool. Still relevant IMO.

Steven, thanks. Somewhere, I must have downloaded the wrong spelling item and never checked that database download for wrong entries. All clear now.

Also, it looks like there was an effort to move poster books out of the Comics category and into the Books category. Makes sense, except that I can verify that the title 20 Nude Dancers 20 Year One Poster Book consists almost entirely of comics and should be returned to the Comics category. "Poster Book" is a bit of a misnomer in its case, referring mainly to the larger size of the pages. Most if not all of the contents originally saw print in Comics Buyer's Guide when it was in the newspaper format. They are single-page strips--comics--not poster images of the Hulk or whatever. Also, these two titles were added to the Comics category: The Roman Stars The Trust Book One- Silent Scream "The" should come at the end of those titles (Roman Stars, The).

New magazine title CLIJ was added to the database. Based on the cover scans, the title for this does indeed appear to be CLIJ. However, the title description refers to the title twice as CLIP, so that needs to be fixed.

The Shadowmen II title still needs to be deleted.

The title description still there, unchanged.

Yes, it looks like it corrected the Title. The Report is a little confusing because it is a one-pass process. By this I mean the update process that added/updated/deleted issues processed and found License to Kill 1 and 'flagged' it in the report. Later in the process it found the misnamed Title and corrected it and also noted it in the report. So the report lists both events even though the second event (Title name change) corrected the first event. It should really be a two-pass process but that would require running the entire Update twice and for most situations, this would be much longer processing time for the few rare occasions this may happen.

You are correct. Each Type would have its own Import and can not be combined. However, It if did import a Magazine into Comic Books, you can use Edit->Change Series Media Type to move it to Magazine (or whatever type you need). You can edit the Title information to correct the Publisher, also.

I just updated to the latest content, and got the following Unrecognized Items message: Comic Books Renamed Comic Book Titles License to Kill -> Licence to Kill Unrecognized Comic Books License to Kill 1 ---------------------- Does this mean the update corrected the item? I no longer show the incorrect spelling item. Guessing I screwed up while importing.

Has this freebie been added yet?

I'm not finding License to Kill as a title in my database or on AA (the latter reflects the master database). I am finding Licence to Kill in both my database and on AA.

I was updating my cost field for my other databases, and found an issue. For those listed as magazines (those items, such as Official Crisis Index from the mid '80s, were mixed in my spreadsheet-I did the text conversion correctly this time!), it tried to import as a comic instead of a magazine, and created an "unknown publisher" item under comics. I take it I need to import Comics, Books and Magazines separately? Or did I do something else wrong? Could have sworn that when I did my DC database, magazine items like Who's Who imported correctly. (This most recent database import was for "other" publishers.)

This title as listed is spelled using the US English, License to Kill. The book is properly spelled using the UK method, "Licence". (I just checked my copy.) The Title comments even mentions the UK spelling. I tried to correct the Title spelling, but it didn't take in the database (gave me an "unknown publisher" when I tried to import to a new database.)

Thank you! I was beginning to think that it must be a problem with my specific installation. The only solution I have been able to find is to disable the compression. If I then close ComicBase and run SIdekick, I can at least save the backup online (as it does whatever compression is required for that okay). However, the compressed local file backups are never created. I never thought of the local file creation. If I create a WinZip file, it is pretty fast. If I manually create a 7z compressed file, it works and completes, but takes about 10 minutes - still an improvement. I must admit that the technically/programming elements are but beyond me, but hopefully others will have some ideas

Never mind; I've seen it take over 16 hours without completing (and that's with no browsers running), yet if I create the 7z compressed file by "hand", it takes 2 minutes. Something is definitely wrong here (maybe the thread/process priority is too low?)

Is this windows trying to access the comicbase data? I uninstalled one drive, but with anything this day and age everything is so pervasive that I'm sure it's still there.

Delete or Rename Bk 1.jpg to TPB From: Pictures\T\Tundra\20 Nude Dancers 20 Year One Poster Book Delete or Rename 1-HC.jpg to HC From: Pictures\S\Simon & Schuster\Rube Goldberg Inventions Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\H\Hodder\Asterix Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\A\Avengers Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\B\Black Widow Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\B\Blade II Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\C\Civil War Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\D\Dark Avengers Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\D\Deadpool Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\F\Fantastic Four-Silver Surfer Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\F\Fear Itself Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\H\Hulk Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\H\Hulk Poster Book (2nd Series) Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\I\IDW\IDW Publishing Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\M\Marvel 70th Anniversary Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\M\Marvel Monsters Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\M\Marvel Vampires Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\M\Mary Jane and Friends Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\M\Mystique Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\N\New Avengers Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\P\Punisher Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\S\Secret Invasion Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\S\Spider-Man and Sinister 6 Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\S\Spider-Man Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\S\Spider-Man's Fearsome Foes Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\T\Thor Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\D\Dreamwave\Transformers Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\U\Uncanny X-Men 500 Issues Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\U\Urban Legends Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\V\Venom Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\W\Wolverine Poster Book Delete or Rename 1.jpg to Staple.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\X\X-Men Legends Poster Book Delete or Rename 1-B.jpg to Staple -B.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\W\Women of Marvel- Celebrating Seven Decades Poster Book Delete 26-Q-2.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\A\Amazing Spider-Man, The (6th Series) Delete 37-A.jpg From: Pictures\M\Marvel\S\Star Wars (Duplicate of 37.jpg)

This issue, 16/HC, should be renumbered to 18/HC. The issues listed separately here Should be 16/HC and 17/HC.

There are two entries for Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit. There's that title and Gotham City Sirens (3rd Series). According to the indicia, Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit is the proper title. Both entries should be merged under that title. FYI @Mark J. Castaneda

@Mark J. Castaneda, I wonder if there's an older backup out there with the right cover dates that would make it easier to find the proper values and import them...

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