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    After watching the Foreign Comics Livestream Three Thoughts

    in Feature Suggestions

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    1) Many old UK comics were half a pence i.e. 0.005. This figure is rounded up by comicbase to £0.01. It would be useful to be able to have the price stay at 0.005p

    2) U.K. went decimal in 1971. With one British pound being made up of 100 pence. Before this UK currency was very odd, being divided into pounds, shillings and pence - £, s, d

    One pound was made up of 20 shillings (20s) or 240 pence (240d). One shilling was therefore equal to 12 pence or 12d. Comicbase currently can't handle this.

    3) Yugoslavia no longer exists but there are many Yugoslavian comics with the currency code for the Yugoslavian dinar being YUM. Comicbase can't currently allow these comics to be entered.

    Uploading Covers

    in Tech Support

    Posted

    Thanks Pete, you response gave me an idea. Both problems were solved by going to preferences and turning off "automatically download larger picture when viewing files".

    Somehow in my upgrading this got turned on.

    Now no writing over my pictures and also no more lagging. Yippee!

    Thank you.

    Uploading Covers

    in Tech Support

    Posted

    I am still having the issue where I upload a larger cover only for ComicBase to over write it with the original cover.

    I am on ComicBase Archive Edition 2023 with the latest patch.

    For example title Steven Universe cover 1-C and 1-D - the covers attached are bigger -but they keep being overwritten by the original smaller/prelim covers.

    I did the indexing that Pete suggested but I am still getting the issue.

    As a second issue when I scroll down through issues the main picture lags badly 1-4 seconds and sometimes does not update at all.

    1-C.jpg

    1-D.jpg

    Cover Uploads

    in Content and Corrections

    Posted

    Did the rebuild lists and this issue has resolved -many thanks.

    The only issue I have now is that when I scroll down through issues the picture in the main window lags i.e. the cover of the highlighted issue takes seconds to load.

    With the previous version of Comicbase it was pretty instant.

    I have a SSD for my pictures folder so its not my machine.

    Comicbase 2023

    in Tech Support

    Posted

    Since upgrading I have found that the grid is slower to load for nearly every title,(in some cases agonisingly slow to scroll down); when one of the benefits of a 64 bit program was it was meant to be much faster.

    I don't know if I have installed it incorrectly (it seemed to install smoothly), or whether its my PC which is 3 years old, or whether there is some other issue.

    Any ideas folks?

    Marvel Previews Series 1

    in Content and Corrections

    Posted

    Came across a box of these in my attic and decided to sell them.

    Thought they were worth small change till I looked on e-bay.

    The prices on e-bay for certain issues is astonishing i.e. issue 61  - between £70 and £600, many others have this range. Apparently 1st appearance and 1st small excerpts of the actual comics are the reason.

    Issue 54 (1st secret invasion), also issue 62, also issue 61 (1st Red Hulk).

    The prices in Comicbase are much much lower.

    Could someone at Comicbase HQ do a price check on this series?

    I watched the last live stream on amazing prices for comics/bits of comics.

    Are things now so crazy that preview mags are now worth serious money?

     

    Title Field Corrections?

    in Content and Corrections

    Posted

    If I go to modify title and either correct the year, or the description, or the comments, or the tags, and then click submit new or corrected data, do these corrections hit Comicbase HQ?

    If not how do we submit title corrections?

    I come across title descriptions and would like to submit them wherever there isn't one already.

     

    Marvel Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection - Hachette Partworks

    in Content and Corrections

    Posted

    I am wanting to sort this title out. At the moment a lot of them are missing, however before I start I would like some guidance on the numbering.

    The 1st issue released i.e. issue one was the Amazing Spider-Man Coming Home - however this is volume 21 (when you put them in volume order on the shelf the spines form a picture)

    The 2nd issue was the Uncanny X-Men, and this was volume 2.

    Issue 3 was Iron man Extremis, but this was volume 43.

    And so it continues.

    Do you want the numbering to be based on issue i.e. the order they were released or by volume i.e. the order they are put in on the bookshelf to form the spine picture?

    Roy of the Rovers - IPC

    in Content and Corrections

    Posted

    Got to this title which was a much loved British comic that I used to read.

    A lot of the covers are duplicates, or attached to the wrong issue number or date. I have tidied up issues 1-175 but some of the correct covers won't upload because they are smaller, thus leaving some incorrect covers. If the covers of these issues could be deleted in the next update -I could then submit all the correct covers.

    My main issue is that having got to issue 176, the date of this issue should be 23/2/1980 not 29/2/1980.

    Issue 177 should be 29/2/1980, 178 should be 1/3/1980 etc etc, Is there a fast way of correcting the dates of issues 176-860, or is the only way the laborious one at a time?

    I will pause indexing/correcting this title for now. Until I hear from you.

    There is however a lot of correcting still to be done.

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