Is this why there are some many "skipped variants" in the database (for example, some title one week having 11/A, 11/B, 11/D, and 11/E issues, but no 11/C)? I have to admit that's one of my biggest pet peeves, and I'd almost think it's not worth entering placeholders in the database until they're actually in-hand (but I get that's not practical given the scale of what comes out each week...)