Randall J. Paske

I believe the ComicBase policy is to not distinguish between newsstand and direct market versions of comics unless there is some difference other than the absence or presence of a bar code or diamond box. So if you submitted items as "DM" variants, they may not have been accepted into the master database. (I am only speculating. I have no inside knowledge.) If you want to distinguish your DM variants, they'll probably have to remain unrecognized, and their listed values won't be updated. As for the "MJ" variants, I'd think they would be accepted, as I see quite a few of those in the database and don't know of an editorial reason for them to be rejected. Have you tried submitting those entries again (with the "Submit New or Corrected Data" feature)? Maybe there was some technical reason they weren't transmitted before, or maybe you forgot to submit them after adding them to your own database. (Just speculating again.)

Some sites show the solicitation cover, but it looks preliminary. Even the publisher's website shows the regular and signed editions with the same cover as above. https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-The_Art_of_Ramona_Fradon

I'd like to see more guidance on this, too. I think artists' real names have been preferred over pseudonyms in ComicBase in the past, but that policy may have evolved. I also know that work has been done recently to standardize names in the creator fields to include characters like é and ñ. But I'm not sure how much standardization has been done for other naming quirks. Many artists use pseudonyms and different forms of their names at different points in their careers. Maika Sozo is sometimes credited that way, but other times as Sozomaika. The artist whose real name is Danai Kilaidoni has been credited variously as Dani K, Dani Strips, DaNi, and Dani. The real name of Disney cartoonist Vicar is Víctor José Arriagada Ríos. Jackson Guice and Butch Guice are the same person. Chynna Clugston Flores was credited as Chynna Clugston-Major during her first marriage, and I think I've also seen just Chynna Clugston. The artist known as Jok is not the artist known as Jock. There's Stanley Lau, Artgerm, and Stanley "Artgerm" Lau. The artist Justine Frany is more often credited as simply Frany, especially lately, but it isn't like her first name is a secret. I think the correct style for InHyuk Lee is just that, but I see In-Hyuk Lee (with hyphen) all the time in ComicBase. Those are just a few quick examples; there are plenty more (like Lesley Li, Leirix, Leirix Li, Lesley "Leirix" Li...). Sometimes I'm not sure how to handle these naming differences, and it would be nice to have a reference that included the preferred form in ComicBase as well as the pseudonyms and variations. Of course, that means dealing with thousands of names and variants thereof, so it may not be feasible. Ideally the credits in the comics would be consistent, but in reality they're not.

Right. Strike my second sentence.

They appear to be correctly matched in my database, and on Atomic Avenue. Are you missing an update?

That's Vampirella (7th Series) in ComicBase.

Will the extra capitals in those titles be fixed?

Some new comic book titles have been added that don't follow capitalization standards: Behind The Line Cheech And Chong’s Chronicles: A Brief History of Weed Learning To Use Energy Marvel-Verse: Ant-Man And The Wasp Marvel-Verse: Guardians Of The Galaxy Marvel-Verse: Jane Foster The Mighty Thor I would normally expect these to be: Behind the Line Cheech and Chong’s Chronicles: A Brief History of Weed Learning to Use Energy Marvel-Verse: Ant-Man and the Wasp Marvel-Verse: Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel-Verse: Jane Foster the Mighty Thor I'd also expect a comma after "Foster" in that last title, but I haven't seen the indicia.

Dawn of DC Primer Special Edition 2023

I've seen this for other titles from Avalon, as well as GBP wrongly shown for "Fleetway Quality" publications that were published in the 1980s in the U.S. (for an example, see Judge Dredd (Vol. 2)). I've submitted fixes sometimes, but I'm not sure how well they've stuck; nor have I gone looking for mismatches on titles I don't own any copies of.

Clearly a decision was made to separate Scout's various imprints. Personally, I'm not sure that was necessary, especially for existing titles, given the limitations imposed on correcting other types of faulty listings. But I'll roll with it.

Wow, I never noticed the Circulation field.

Appears to be a duplicate of 1-E.

Thanks. I'm not sure at this point how my Pictures folder and the location specified for the folder got so screwed up, but I've reset it to use the default location and I'm now in the process of consolidating different versions of the folder to that location. Thumbnails and pictures are working as they should.

That seems to have no effect on whether thumbnails load. Nor does switching to album view.

OK, so here's what happens. I go to a title that I haven't visited since upgrading my hard drive. No images are loaded. No images will load at all, until I select a row. Then the thumbnail shows up. If I click the thumbnail, it shows the full-size image. The image at the top remains the generic image for the publisher. If I leave the title and then come back, the image at the top changes to the one I've loaded. So ComicBase can find my pictures, but it will not do so until I select a row in the grid. Obviously, I would prefer that they show up without my having to take that action.

It's a new WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB SATA III internal drive. I don't know what all of that means, but I had it installed at a local shop and I'm reading it off the product box. I don't know how to check the firmware version. (I don't see anything clearly labeled Firmware Version in Device Manager.) Windows says the drivers are up to date. Windows Update is supposed to check for updates weekly. I'm not having issues with any other software or applications. A thumbnail comes up fast when I select a row, but no thumbnails are shown for rows I haven't specifically selected.

This part is still happening. Has anyone else experienced this?

It appears there was a Kickstarter for this series and Marcio Doug is indeed one of the variant cover artists. More issues and variants should be listed. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vampocalypse/jungle-captive-1-2-and-3-adults-only-jungle-adventure-comic

I suggest adding a Credits field for Translation and Dialogue. Such credits can arguably go in the Writer field, but also arguably don't really belong there. This field would be useful for translated manga, manhwa, and European comics (including many Disney comics with translated stories).

Update: Somehow the app started showing which issues I own again the next day, without any further intervention on my part. I'm not sure why, but I'll take it.

My ComicBase Mobile app seems to be tied to a blank database and won't let go of it. Earlier, I could switch to my actual database in the drop-down, but it didn't seem to actually switch. Or if it did switch, it still wasn't showing me which issues I own when I went to a given title. I only have one database (the correct one) listed under Backups on the ComicBase website. My profile on the website showed two databases earlier, but it wouldn't let me select the erroneous one for deletion. So then I deleted the good one and they both disappeared. Then I sent a new backup to the cloud. Now it only shows that one. I uninstalled and reinstalled the Mobile app. It appears to see the new backup I just saved (and only that one), but It still isn't finding my comics when I search. The name, date. valuations, and numbers of items on the splash page are correct, but when I search titles, it's not showing me which issues I own. I went to a small convention this afternoon, and this made hunting a bit difficult. Is there a "phantom" blank database screwing up my account somewhere, or is this a glitch in the Mobile app? What can I do to fix it?

Yes, I would not make wholesale changes in cases like these.

This is the David B. (Beauchard) whose work I've seen. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/b_david.htm