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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.

amazon links should not be there. will remove

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

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.

report processor got hung up over the weekend; we reset it and user reports are being processed, may take 1-2 hrs to complete.

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

If the rebuild doesn't help, i would suspect corruption on that database. The file menu has the export and import options; I would suggest exporting out your data fields that are important to you and importing into a fresh database as a final solution.

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

unfortunately not. I'll forward up your message up to the dev team, maybe something can be done in the future.

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."

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.

Isn't the first book just titled Reckless? With the latest update, that's an unrecognized title in my database. I moved my quantities of the second and third books to the new titles, but I think the first book should stay put. And the title should not have been deleted from the master database. Or have I missed something?

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 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Present: April O’Neil (Canadian Edition). Should that actually be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Presents: April O’Neil (Canadian Edition) ? (Similarly, should the pre-existing title Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Present: April O’Neil actually be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Presents: April O’Neil ?)

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.

There are a few corrections. A) 'Spider-Woman (Book)' publisher Marvel is incorrect. The Publisher is Pocket (Books). Should be either 'Spider-Woman (Pocket Books)' or 'Spider-Woman (Pocket)' with Publisher Pocket. B) Title 'Stan Lee Presents the Incredible Hulk' and 'Incredible Hulk, The (Pocket Books)' are duplicate titles. Probably delete 'Stan Lee Presents the Incredible Hulk' (see next item) C) Title 'Stan Lee Presents the Fantastic Four' should changed to 'Fantastic Four, The (Pocket Books) or 'Fantastic Four, The (Pocket)'. All the other Marvel reprint in this 'set' of books are entered without the 'Stan Lee Presents': Amazing Spider-Man, The (Pocket Books, 1st Series) Amazing Spider-Man, The (Pocket Books, 2nd Series) Captain America (Pocket Books) Doctor Strange (Pocket Books) Incredible Hulk, The (Pocket Books) Spider-Woman (Book) Note 1: As you can see most of these have (Pocket Books) in the title name instead of just Pocket. I am not suggesting they all be changed to just (Pocket) but at least be consistent when changing the titles (Spider-Woman and Fantastic Four) so they all use the same format. Note 2: 'Stan Lee Presents' isn't used consistently with these books and looks more like 'trade dress' then actually part of the title name. If you have more questions, let me know.

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.

Whichever is appropriate. Honestly, I didn't put that much thought into it. <Given name> <Family name> is the format for most of the creators in the database, but there's nothing stopping the reverse order if that's what's called for. All that being said, I'm fine with whatever the editors decide (it may not be my preferred solution, but that doesn't make it wrong).

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 just found a Uncanny X-men #129 with 12p on the cover where I can see the indicia. Comparing this to the US version, the indicia is identical indicating to me that the insides were printed at the same time but different covers were attached depending on where they would be sold. So, yes, it should belong in the UK Edition title.

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...

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.

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?).

Greg, you didn't, by chance, create variant covers for them, did you? 🙂

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.

Well, Pete just added "Ode to Buc-Ee's" from Heroes Con in Charlotte, so I'm guessing "no".

we've fixed them in our master, you may have to manually adjust the capitals in your database

It's early, but that's the best time to get the wheels rolling. I have four thoughts on large-scale projects that could be undertaken for the next-next ComicBase offering. 1) Making the hard changes to finally remove the deprecated features and non-standard Titling and Issue assignments. Deprecated Issue Variations. Non-standard Titles ((Walt Disney's...), Limited Series vs. Series 2, "Moon Knight Annual", etc.) Issues that should be in separate/different titles. "Yeah, it's wrong, but it's been that way for years." "There are too many of these items on sale in Atomic Avenue." Take the time to plan a path to clean up all these legacy issues. Maybe create a new, second set of Title and Issue fields, Title2 and Issue2. Search by both, list with both. Allow the user to choose which set to use for viewing and reports, while officially using the original form on Atomic Avenue for a year or two. Then, after a period of supporting both old and new designations, rename Title/Issue to Title (old)/Issue (old) and rename Title2/Issue2 to Title/Issue. 2) Overhaul the database structure, and protect the integrity/consistency of the data. 2a) The current structure has 2 levels of information, Titles and Issues. This structure is too flat; we should have more. A given Issue Type and Number has the same Artist and Writer, regardless of Variation or Printing. It has the same plot description and appearances. These fields should not be repeating over and over. This introduces bloat, and delay, and opportunities for data inconsistencies. Variations and Printings have different Cover Artists, have different cover attributes. These fields should be separate for each individual entry. 2b) Additionally, existing fields need to be scrutinized and adjusted for basic, separate data types. The storyline field needs to be split; it currently holds individual Anthology titles, single-book titles, and multi-book Arc titles, as well as part numbers and possibly total issue counts. The current ideal for Item Description contains duplicate Cover Artist and circulation information, as well as cover paper, ornamentation description, picture description and several other information types. 2c) The recent overhaul of creator names, spurred by the introduction of support for the full range of international characters, is a great start. Two things. First, consistency/regularization of information across all the other fields should also be carried out. Creator Names are also entered in Item Description and Notes fields. Common cover styles should use consistent wording/spelling. Storyline Arcs should be spelled identically. In some cases, this can be helped by separating information into their own fields. And second, after cleaning them up, systems should be put in place to maintain them. CB should have a master list of official names, and should periodically (ideally weekly before pushing updates, but other periods are acceptable) vet any new names for correctness. Similar steps should be performed, either automatically, or manually, on all other fields. 3) Explore expansions into dealing with groups of comic books. ComicBase is great when your focus is on either an individual issue or on your entire collection. At the issue level, you can identify it, get a description of it, see a price history, research a sales history, and purchase or sell it to anyone around the globe. At the collection level, you can generate reports of all kinds. Owned or wanted, For Sale or Purchased. Different amounts of data. But, with all this information and all these tools, I think there is a weird hole in functionality, and that hole can roughly be described by attempting to do tasks that revolve around groups of books. Comic books are not individual, stand-alone, one-and-done things. There are continuing storylines. There are repeat appearances. There are common creators. There are related covers. And we are comic book collectors. There are people who want to have complete storylines, read things in order, see their favorite characters, support their favorite creators, have complete sets. And ComicBase is very bad at supporting this. How many issues are in this series? Do I have all the issues of this series? Was there a preceding issue/prequel story? Is there a continuing story? How many issues are there in this Story Arc? Do I have all the issues of this storyline? Were there Tie-ins? Do I have all of them? What order do I read them in? Which issue that I own have related covers? Do I have the related covers? For this title, I have several issues and TPBs. Which issues or TPBs should I get to finish the series without overlapping? Some of this requires information that is not being collected. Reading order. Storyline count. Useful TPB component identification. Some of this requires information that is not collected in a useful form. Storyline part number. Some of this requires information be maintained consistently. Spelling, typographic standards. Some of this requires information that can be computed in the database. Issue count. 4) Hole Finder. How can we be 20+ years in on a database to support comic collectors and it doesn't include a tool to find holes? Who doesn't want to finish a whole series, complete a run? I see this as a special case of #3, above. To recognize a hole, the program has to have a concept of the group. Titles, even limited series, are just a heap of records. If you don't have a concept of 'This is an 8 issue miniseries', then you can't have the awareness that 'You are missing an issue; do you want to get it?'

@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'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.

Note that some torrent clients don't allow a firewalled seeder to pass data to a firewalled downloader. I just tried to download using BiglyBT and I am seeing two seeds (it took a couple of minutes for them to pop up) and eleven peers. My download is working as I type this. @Don Veach Any luck downloading since your last post in this thread?

Not sure if this has been suggested before or not. When using the barcode scan to add items, the ability to display a list of all the items that have been added.

Issues submitted. You will need to delete any cover B through H that look like covers I through J (the 616 Comics variants). I renamed them correctly and submitted them with the data.

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.