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Also: A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison was added as a new title beginning with "A" instead of "L".

noted. we'll tweak for the upcoming content update.

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.

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).

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

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).

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

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

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

The comic title Geiger (2nd series) includes an entry for Book #1/HC. My understanding is that this collects issues #1 through 6 of the first Geiger series. (There has not been a hardcover collection of the second Geiger series yet AFAIK.) Consequently, that item should be moved to the Geiger title.

Variant I and N are duplicates

Silly me, I thought he was referring to coverprice, the comicbase field, not realizing there was such a thing as covrprice.com. The conversation makes much more sense now.