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If this is feature I cannot find it. A comic, for example Action Comics 1000, has several issued 1000 with different variants. 1000a, 1000b, and so on. ( I think it has over 50 different covers) I would like a feature that allows me run reports of missing comics of variant covers only if I want them. If I have any issue of Action 1000, I want it to allow me to say I have it. So much space in my reports of missing comics are of variant covers I don’t want. I just want to have an entire run sequentially. Does that make sense? Jason

I would advise against putting an issue number in the title. A few years ago Marvel put out Marvel Comics #1000 and then followed up with a sequel Marvel Comics #1001. Murphy’s Law says that if you create a title Marvel Age 1000, there will be a follow-up Marvel Age #1001 or #2000 or #2099 or something. If you don’t put the issue number in the new title today then there is less of an opportunity for facepalming tomorrow. 🙂

thanks for the info. will run it past our programming team to be looked into.

that stuff shouldn't be there... someone got past our gargoyles and must have slipped them in through a user submission. Will remove

Another new addition is Complete Hate, which should technically be Complete Hate, The. From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich should be categorized under Books, not Comic Books. Land Left Behind should most likely be Land Left Behind, The. The word "of" should not be capitalized in the title Legion Of Oakley. Following ComicBase convention, Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies should be Real Life Funnies (Stan Mack's...).

Email our support team at support@comicbase.com and let them know the about the error you're getting. Make sure you've backed up to cloud the database file that's giving you trouble and mention the database name in your message; they'll likely do a deep dive on the db and see what's going on with it.

I'm having the same problem. It just started this week.

The most recent content update deleted the GL issue, so the combined title is the one to use.

I agree in general, but in this case (if it's what I'm thinking of), "El Dorado" is a proper name, in that it's the title of the movie this comic adapts.

Actually, this book is already double-listed in the database. There is a note under the Red Lanterns title that "Issue #28 listed under the title Green Lantern/Red Lanterns #28". And, indeed, there is a title Green Lantern/Red Lanterns in the database dedicated to handling this flipbook issue (it also contains a title note indicating "Serves as issue #28 for both Green Lantern (5th Series) & Red Lanterns". But there is also apparently a listing for Green Lantern (5th series) #28 even though there is a title note for Green Lantern (5th series) stating that "Issue #28 listed under the title Green Lantern/Red Lanterns #28". So it looks like Green Lantern (5th series) issue #28 should be deleted. Unfortunately, I don't think that there is a way to handle this type of situation that would satisfy automated "collection hole" finders *and* not double count the flipbook issue. Now that this topic has been brought up, is there any chance that we can set up an Eternal Warrior/Archer & Armstrong title to handle the similar flipbook situation there for EW #26 and A&A #26?

The 2023 Red Sonja FCBD comic appears to be in the database in two places, once under the Red Sonja (Dynamite, Vol. 6) title and again under the Red Sonja (Dynamite, Vol. 7) title. Since the story in the comic is continued in Red Sonja (Dynamite, Vol. 7) #1, I suggest that it should be catalogued under that title.

On the CB website, you can remove one or both databases. Under My Account-Profile is Know Databases (may have to scroll down). Each Database should show the Database ID. These should not be the same. You can delete the one that is not your database (you can find the Database ID in CB by using File->Collection Statistics (or F12), then click on the icon on the top right side of the window (see attached).) Or You can just delete both of them, then go to CB and run Collection Statistics. This will re-populate the database in your My Account, Profile Known Database list (it may take a few minutes.

I know there's a thread for this over in the ComicBase Mobile forum, but it doesn't seem to be getting much attention so I thought I'd mention it here too. With so many items being moved from the Comic category over to the Magazine category, it would be really handy to have the ability to search all categories in the Item Lookup of the Mobile App. Right now the only way (that I know of) to search for items under the magazine or book categories is to view a report. The only other method I can think of would be to create a separate database for each category and then switch databases to do the search, but I for one would prefer to have everything I own sitting in the same database. Thanks for considering!

In addition to the items discussed in this thread (a big thank you to @Randall J. Paske 🙂 ), this week's updated added the book title Strangers in Paradise. There is already a comic title Strangers in Paradise, so the new title (the book title) should probably be re-named to something like Strangers in Paradise (Graphitti). Note also that somewhere along the line the scan for Strangers in Paradise (the comic book title) #1 got replaced with the solicitation image of the Graphitti book. That should get fixed, too. Also added to the database is the new comic title Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck from IDW last year. Back in 2016 IDW released a book that appears to have had similar contents at the very least. Can anybody verify whether the 2023 release is a new printing of the 2016 book with a new cover, or are the contents different enough that this warrants a new title in the database?

'Bristlemouth: A Cove Horror' is a pre-order so there is nothing definitive on this (but the 'A' looks like it should be there). Also, the Publisher is a little questionable. One has 'IPI' Comics' and one has 'SQ Mag'. The 'ipicomics.com' website, has: 'THIS SITE ©2023 SQ MAG PTY LTD trading as IPI Comics™ All material published on this site are copyright SQ Mag Pty Ltd, or are reproduced by legal agreement. No material may be used by other parties unless by conditions of fair use.' Which looks like 'SQ Mag Pty Ltd' may be the main company with 'IPI' Comics being an imprint (that I would use as the Publisher). ======================= 'Hunters, The (Paper Films)' would be the best to delete as the Publisher is 'Paperfilms' (no space).

Because it collects only a couple of issues, the item type would be set to 'Collector's Set' rather than a 'regular issue'

This is in the category of the things that's bothered me in CB. While I understand that the title is essentially the primary key and that similar titles are differentiated either by adding (Xth Series) or (Publisher) to the end of the title name, it not only causes a can of worms like this, but it's not really very helpful. I'm a big SHAZAM! fan and if I see SHAZAM! (5th Series) and SHAZAM! (6th Series), I, for the life of me, couldn't tell you what series they're referring to (plus the fact that it's subjective to whoever entered the title in the first place). It's always seemed to me that the primary key should be a combination of Publisher/Title/InitialPublicationYear or InitialPublicationDate. That would prevent problems like this. I know that CB is not going to change but every time I see this type of problem raise its head, it makes me scratch mine. Plus someone will inevitably jump in and say, "I've already created labels and this will screw up my collection."

Similarly, these new titles contain incorrectly capitalized words: Earthworm Jim 2: Fight The Fish! Life Of Pope John Paul II In Comics, The Little Trees That Went To School, The

That's a good catch, I didn't realize that the *entire* Reckless title got removed. As you say, the Reckless title should exist but only have issue #1-HC under it for exactly the rationale you give. All of the subsequent issues that used to be listed there should be under their own titles which is the case now for the second, third, and fifth books. The fourth book (The Ghost in You: A Reckless Book) is still missing. I have resubmitted Reckless (i.e., the first book) and TGiY:ARB. Hopefully Mark can get the clean-up sorted out for next week's content update.

You are correct. I have submitted a correction to have it added back in.

This week's update added the comic title See You in My 19Th Life. Should that actually be listed as See You in My 19th Life ?

This week's update added Battlestar Galactica Annual published by Grandreams. The title is listed as a US title. I'm not totally positive but I think that this publisher is based in the UK. Can anybody confirm? Also, this title lists two issues, #1978 and #1981. The #1981 issue cover scan bears the title "Mission Galactica". Can anybody confirm the title of this item as it is listed in the indicia? The comic title Robotics;Notes was also added. The title page on AA is here, but I get an error page when I try to navigate to the title from the AA title search box.

This week's update also adds Unofficial Guide to the World of Studio Ghibli, The in the Comic Books category when it should be in Books. Also, I am unsure about these two titles actually contain comics (I have my suspicions; maybe someone can verify one way or the other): Faro’s Lounge Ashoka In Action Cosplay Indiana Jane Cosplay Danejo Artbook Whether it's a comic or not, the first of those two titles contains an error, transposing the second and third letters of the character name Ahsoka.

After digging through Lunar Distribution website who distributes DC comics these days to comic shops, the 76194138175600221 barcode is for a Spanish language edition. We'll add it to the upcoming content update.

Delete or Rename HC 1-22.jpg to HC-22.jpg then Move From: Pictures\D\DAW\Kingkiller Chronicle (DAW) To: Pictures\D\DAW\Name of the Wind, The (DAW) Delete or Rename HC 2-9.jpg to HC-9.jpg then Move From: Pictures\D\DAW\Kingkiller Chronicle (DAW) To: Pictures\D\DAW\Wise Man's Fear, The (DAW) Delete or Rename MMPB 1.jpg to MMPB.jpg then Move From: Pictures\B\Boulevard\Spider-Man: Sinister Six Trilogy To: Pictures\B\Boulevard\Spider-Man- The Gathering of the Sinister Six Delete or Rename HC 2.jpg to HC.jpg then Move From: Pictures\B\Boulevard\Spider-Man: Sinister Six Trilogy To: Pictures\I\iBooks\Spider-Man- Revenge of the Sinister Six (ibooks) Delete or Rename HC 3.jpg to HC.jpg then Move From: Pictures\B\Boulevard\Spider-Man: Sinister Six Trilogy To: Pictures\I\iBooks\Spider-Man- The Secret of the Sinister Six (ibooks) Delete or Move MMPB.jpg and MMPB-2.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boulevard\Spider-Man- The Sinister Six Combo To: Pictures\I\iBooks\Spider-Man- The Sinister Six Combo (ibooks) Delete or Rename TPB x.jpg to MMPB x.jpg (where x is 1 to 4) then Move From: Pictures\R\Rebellion\Fiends of the Eastern Front (novel) To: Pictures\B\Black Flame UK\Fiends of the Eastern Front (Black Flame UK) Delete or Rename 1.jpg to MMPB.jpg From: Pictures\D\Dark Horse\A\Aliens- Cauldron Delete or Move ALL (1-A.jpg - 2-E.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Coda (2nd Series, Boom!) To: Pictures\B\Boom!\Coda (Boom!, Vol. 2) Delete or Rename 1.jpg to GS 1.jpg From: Pictures\P\Pioneer\Giant Size Official Prince Valiant To: Pictures\P\Pioneer\Official Prince Valiant, The Delete or Move 1.jpg From: Pictures\P\Pioneer\Official Prince Valiant Monthly To: Pictures\P\Pioneer\All Prince Valiant Then Delete or Move 2.jpg through 8.jpg From: Pictures\P\Pioneer\Official Prince Valiant Monthly To: Pictures\P\Pioneer\Prince Valiant Monthly Delete or Rename TPB x.jpg to MMPB x.jpg (where x is 1 to 6) From: Pictures\E\Eos\Books of Magic, The (Novel) Delete or Rename 11-2.jpg to 11-B.jpg From Pictures\D\DC\H\Harley Quinn (3rd Series) (duplicate of 11-B.jpg)

@Mark J. Castaneda will be the final judge on this, but I would suggest that the database place Marvel Age #1000 under a new title such as Marvel Age (2nd series) under the Comics category. That way the older issues can stay where they are under Magazines but the new release can be under Comics. (Especially since #1000 here is a numbering stunt and not true legacy numbering)

i'll notify the editorial team to take a glance with your edit notes in mind

A couple of things you can try. 1) Open Task Manager (with CB not running) and see if there are any ComicBase apps running. If there is, Right click on and and select End Task. or 2) Try rebooting your computer. One of these two have fixed the problem when I have encountered it.

Another example that comes to mind is Dennis Hopeless. He decided to use Dennis Hallum for Sea of Stars, a creator-owned series at Image. In the CB Writers Search, he comes up as Dennis Hopeless (599 entries), Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum (86 entries of which Sea of Stars shows up), and Dennis Hallum (19 entries). I think this is also a good example of needing to merge a creator's lists together. And the suggestion above is a good one to list aliases for a creator so that no matter how one searches, you find everything by that creator. Related to this, I'm glad there's been a cleanup of names to make sure they're correct. That's been one of my frustrations trying to find someone's full list when there's misspellings, etc.

I am not positive about this answer but I believe the 12p on the cover is more important as that indicates the market is sells in.

Two Livestream suggestions... 1) Re-re-re-request a tour of what it looks like from the editor's point of view when they process additions/corrections/new cover scans. 2) Demonstrations of cover attributes... Standard, wide, wraparound, gatefold, Ptych, Binding types, special covers...

i'm for keeping everything where they are and use of the "Item Title" field and/or Notes field to explain what each are if necessary

CB has 2 fields: UPC and ISBN (There is also an AltUPC but that can be ignored for now) For modern Books the UPC is the composed of a composite of ISBN-13 + a checksum + Price ISBN contains the ISBN-10 number. (You can try to put the ISBN-13 there but if you the entire value in UPC and TAB out of the field, it will automatically fill in the ISBN-10 number (as CB decodes it). For your scanner to work successfully, it must be able to pick up the last 5 digits (get the full UPC). If it doesn't it will pick up what is the ISBN-13 number that is not stored in CB. Unfortunately, I can't tell you how to set up your scanner. You will need to get a manual for it which should have the codes to set it up properly, if it is capable of doing so. Not all scanners can do this. Your other book software must store the ISBN-13 number which is why it works there. PS Alt UPC is used when some older books have two UPC number. For example, Book title 'Losers, The (Del Rey)' MMPB has 07099900599738520 on the back cover and 978034538520850599 on the inside of the front cover.

Either. Keep in mind, I believe if the software is set, and attempts to download new pictures, it can notice that the directory no longer exists and will remake the directory. In other words, deleting the folder(s) doesn't prevent future pictures from being downloaded; you need to change settings to prevent any from returning.

Spoke with our programming team; after some digging through the full manual, that DX (Mark1) doesn't look to support the Codabar code that you need in order to read those print out label barcodes unlike later models we carry 😞

A little more information. The following names work: 1.pdf 1-HC.pdf Bk 1-A.pdf FCBD 2013.pdf 1-HC-2.pdf These names do NOT work: Bk 1-HC.pdf Dlx 1-HC.pdf Just ending in HC works successfully. But if there is a <space> in the name AND it ends with HC, it doesn't work.

This week's update added the book title Adventurous Decade: Comic Strips In The Thirties, The. The actual title for this book is Adventurous Decade, The: Comic Strips In The Thirties which, as it turns out, is already in the database. The new title (the one with the "The" at the very end) should be deleted. New book titles that were added include Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover (DAW) and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover (Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust). Should those have been indexed as Darkover (Marion Zimmer Bradley's…) (DAW) and Darkover (Marion Zimmer Bradley's…) (Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust) ? The new comic title Kernel' Corn Trains a Champ looks like it has a stray punctuation mark in it. Also, the title appears on Atomic Avenue search results (the dropdown list of suggestions when you type Kernel into the search box) but brings up an error if you try to click through to the title page. Time 2: The Satisfaction of Black Mariah was added back into the database. As described over in this thread last spring, this is an incorrect duplication of a long-existing entry.

This works. I had to do it to my iPhone. https://webtrickz.com/exclude-apps-from-dark-mode-iphone/

If a Quick Report will work for you, you can do an Advanced Find for Publisher (one or more) and use Quick Report on the results. If you have to use one of the 'canned' reports For Collection Report, Item Checklists, Price List, and Wanted Lists you can find the issues by Publisher, Mark all of them and select 'List only Marked Issues'. For all reports, you can choose Selected Series, click on Publisher to order by Publisher, click the first title for a publisher, scroll down to the last title for that publisher, press and hold SHIFT then click on that last title. NOTE: None of these would be as easy as a dedicated set of Publisher reports. I am only trying to supply ways to get what you are looking for until this can be evaluated (and incorporated into CB?).

If you mean "no" to Patrick's minimum print run question, I'd say that you are probably right as long as the item has multiple copies. I suspect that the single copy comics that I wrote and drew as a pre-teenager that exist only as single, original copies wouldn't qualify... but something that was actually produced as multiple copies is probably fair game, even if the "print run" was low. So I would say "yes" to Patrick's question about sending them in from his database.

@Don Veach If you are using any kind of antivirus or security software other than what is native to your operating system, you might need to go into that software's settings to specifically whitelist your torrent client. (I had to do this with Norton after I installed that on my Mac, for instance) I am also assuming that you are trying this on your home network. Something to be aware of is that workplace networks can be different from home networks. If you are trying this at your workplace, it is possible that their IT has decided to block all torrenting traffic.

@Don Veach it might be a port forwarding problem to in your router... or a config of some sort in again the router.

@Don Veach it's probably a firewall problem i'm using 36970 as port but this il not help you... or the other things is your internet provider, can you download any other torrent ? like try ubuntu go get it on the ubuntu site. Thanks @Gregory Hecht for confirming the torrent works. i was a bit ambaras i did not what to tell Don.

This week's update added the Comic title Jacin andthe Olympians. There should be a space between and and the, yes? Also added was the new Comic title The Making of Assassin’s Creed: 15th Anniversary Edition. Based on the title description, this sounds like it really belongs in the Book category. The database now includes the following three Comic titles: • Spider-Man 2 (Custom Sony Interactive Entertainment 2023) • Custom Sony Interactive Entertainment 2023 English Print Comic (Marvel) • Custom Sony Interactive Entertainment 2023 English Print Comic At least two of these look like they are the same thing, I am suspicious that all three of them are the same thing.

Greg, I am not sure if this gets you what you are looking for. It uses ValueYear4 to get the Current Price which is not accurate. If you have Locked the Price, the actual value you want for that week is not stored in the database (I don't believe). However, I checked a new database and all the Price and ValueYear4 matched in value (except for 2 which looked like they rounded to nearest whole dollar). What this does is uses the Condition value in a CASE expression to convert to the Percent value then multiplies with the ValueYear4 to get the adjusted price per Condition. I.Price < (I.ValueYear4 * CASE I.Condition WHEN 'MT' THEN 1.5 1.05 WHEN 'NM' THEN 1 WHEN 'NM-' THEN .9 WHEN 'VF-NM' THEN .8 WHEN 'VF' THEN .66 WHEN 'FN' THEN .33 WHEN 'VG' THEN .20 WHEN 'G' THEN .13 WHEN 'FA' THEN .08 WHEN 'P' THEN .02 END) * .5 PS If you have other than the Standard Conditions (CGC for example), you will need to use Setup->Grading... to get the Text value (under Cond) and the Percent value (under % of NM) and add additional WHEN ... THEN ... statements.

Yup. That's me. A comic comic.

I'm partial to B-flat minor...

Sooooooo....... Might there be any progress on this front? Thanks!

you got many databases by the same name linked to your account which is confusing our system. Would suggest going into your online profile page here, glance down towards the Known Databases section of the page and removing ALL databases you currently linked to your profile: https://www.comicbase.com/mycb/profile.aspx Next, make sure you're using the most up to date version of CB2023 (v23.2.2.2682). Download/install it from your online account here: https://www.comicbase.com/mycb/Registrations.aspx Lastly, launch CB2023 and load in the database you wish to associate with CB mobile app. Go to the File Menu>Collection Statistics-this will give you the db's overall stats AND link it to your online profile/mobile app. Going forward, you should then be adding comics through the mobile app to that database.

But, of course, that requires one to properly match your understanding of which type of item you are scanning with how it is currently entered in ComicBase...