Gregory Hecht

A heads up on something that will obviously affect how this issue is presented in the database: Apparently Daredevil (8th series) #8 is missing several page signatures, resulting in the loss of 16 pages of the comic. Marvel has indicated that a free reprint will be released on May 22. Apparently the problem affects all six variants of the comic. One retailer indicates is reporting that Marvel will be reprinting all of the variants.

The indicia, which is only on the Eternal Warrior side of the comic, states "Eternal Warrior Vol. 1 No. 26 & Archer & Armstrong". There is no issue number in the indicia following "Archer & Armstrong", but both covers (front and backside flip) are marked as issue #26. There is a note on the first page of the A&A story that the EW story should be read first. I will work on getting the submission in. I'll title it exactly as the quoted indicia above unless you instruct me otherwise.

Marvel Masterworks: Avengers #1/A and #1/HC are apparently duplications of Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers #1/D and #1/E, respectively. The Marvel Masterworks: Avengers title (the one with no "the" in the title) should be deleted.

Bumping this thread b/c A&A @26 and EW #26 are both still listed in the database as separate issues. These are a flipbook and should be handled in the same way as RL #28/GL #28. @Mark J. Castaneda @Peter Bickford

No, not "never." The folks at Human Computing don't always know about release date delays, so I suspect that they are dependent on CB users to submit updates/corrections for many of them (thus Mark's statement that "they get corrected over time").

Orders for The Darques: Soulside one-shot have been cancelled, with apparently no plans to re-solicit. The title should be removed from the database.

This week's update added the title Legend of the Five Ring: Poster Book. Based on the cover, that should actually be Legend of the Five Rings: Poster Book . Also added was the Book title Classic Marvel Super Heroes (Barnes & Noble). This is apparently a trade paperback written by Peter Sanderson, released in 2005. There also exists in the database a book title Classic Marvel Super Heroes. According to the CB database, this was also written by Peter Sanderson and published in 2005, but it is a hardcover and is listed under a different publisher. I suspect that these two books are the same thing, just different format (hc vs. tpb). Does it make more sense to keep them as separate titles in the database or to put them together under a single title? My preference would be the latter, but YMMV.

Also, it looks like creator names have been appended to the storyline titles for Abyss #1. AFAIK this hasn't been done before. @Mark J. Castaneda @Peter Bickford Is this a new editorial policy?

This update added the comic title Cottage Classics: Their Makers* & The Making. I see that there is a link to an Amazon product listing in the title description. Is that intentional? There is also an outside link in the title description for Das Kampf. Again, is this intentional? @Mark J. Castaneda @Peter Bickford Is there an official editorial policy regarding links to places outside of ComicBase and Atomic Avenue within the title descriptions?

To the extent that the conventions adopted by IMDB matter to what conventions CB has adopted, I would point out that IMDB doesn't move "The" or any other articles to the end of their titles. Just because "El" is part of the name of a place, that doesn't mean that it should exempted from CB's style conventions. "The" is part of the name of "The Grand Canyon," and if there were a book or comic entitled "The Grand Canyon" I would expect that the CB editors would file that title under "G" rather than "T". Your point about Los Angeles is relevant, however, and it does suggest that maintaining consistency of the CB conventions would require that the existing title Los Angeles Ink Stains should be filed under "A" rather than "L". Thoughts on this @Mark J. Castaneda @Peter Bickford ?

This update added the following title to the Books category: …And Then We’ll Get Him! (Gahan Wilson) Is this a primarily prose book or is this a collection of Wilson's cartoons? If the latter, then this should be moved to the Comic category.

The first of these books is entitled "The Bus" (with no volume number) but the second one is entitled "The Bus 2", so it would make sense to move them into the same title.

Is there a particular reason why Bus, The (Vol. 1) and Bus, The (Vol. 2) are separate titles? I would have assumed that these would be issues #1/HC and #2/HC under a single title such as Bus, The .

The convention that ComicBase has adopted is that returns to the numbering of an earlier series get those issues filed under the older title. That's not what I would have chosen to do, but that is what the folks at ComicBase decided to do quite some years ago.

The convention that ComicBase has adopted is that returns to the numbering of an earlier series get those issues filed under the older title. That's not what I would have chosen to do, but that is what the folks at ComicBase have decided to do.