Gregory Hecht

Again, still there, unchanged.

New Book title: Neal Adams’ Classic DC Artist’s Edition Should that really be indexed as Classic DC Artist’s Edition (Neal Adams'...) ?

Well, there are reasons why the "Item Title" field was created. And situations like this is one of them.

New magazine title CLIJ was added to the database. Based on the cover scans, the title for this does indeed appear to be CLIJ. However, the title description refers to the title twice as CLIP, so that needs to be fixed.

The Shadowmen II title still needs to be deleted.

The title description still there, unchanged.

I'm not finding License to Kill as a title in my database or on AA (the latter reflects the master database). I am finding Licence to Kill in both my database and on AA.

New Comic Book title: Rube Goldberg Inventions Can somebody verify that this is comics? I suspect that this is prose with illustrations. I guess part of the question is whether one considers Rube Goldberg's invention single panel illustrations to be sequential story telling or not. New Magazine title: The Wonderful World of Marvel I notice that the title description for this is verbatim with wording from the mycomicshop website without attribution. As a former University professor that frowned upon plagiarism, I have to ask: is that allowed here? I assume somebody asked mycomicshop for permission to use their text?

As I understand it, automatching relies on matching up UPC codes. So old National and Quality comics won't work with automatching b/c those issues won't have UPC's. Something like GI Joe ARAH might work since (I assume) all of those issues have UPC's (at least the newsstand editions would, at any rate).

Dreadstar is similar, the title was published continuously but changed publishers from Marvel to First in midstream. The database treats this run as just a single title. But Tarzan starts out as Tarzan (Dell), then goes to Tarzan (Gold Key), then goes to Tarzan (DC). I don't know for sure, but I don't think that there was a break in publication for the title, so it seems that it may be fairly analogous to GI Joe ARAH. I am guessing that the CB editors handle this on a more or less case-by-case basis. To some degree, I am fine with this. For short run indie titles that might have hopped around amongst a couple of publishers during their brief lifespan, I think having multiple titles in the database is overkill. But for much longer runs (Tarzan, GI Joe ARAH) I can definitely understand the reasoning behind breaking things up by publisher. The situation for GI Joe ARAH has been in the database this way for many years now, so the rationale of "we don't want to mess up people's inventory" might be invoked here. But now we have the "automatching" function. @Peter R. Bickford @Mark J. Castaneda thoughts on this?

Under the New Mutants Omnibus title, issues #1, #1/HC, and #1/A are listed. As far as I know, only two variants of volume 1 were ever published and these appear to be fully represented by issues #1/HC and #1/A. There is no scan for issue #1 but it appears to be a duplicate of either #1/HC or #1/A. With that in mind, issue #1 should be deleted from the database. Also, Item Description fields for #2/HC and #2/A contain information that is really better suited for the Notes field. I've made this change in my database and added cover artist information to the Item Description field, and then submitted the changes. The UPC is incorrect for #2/A. I corrected that prior to my submission as well.

The database currently has the titles Shadowmen (Black Coat) and Shadowmen II under the Comic Book category. The Amazon entries for these titles (see here and here) indicate that they are biographies of comic characters and their creators with "150 b&w illustrations" and "330 b&w illustrations", respectively. So these appear to be prose books rather than comic books. I suggest the following: 1. Move Shadowmen (Black Coat) into the Book category as a numbered series. The existing Shadowmen (Black Coat) book should be #1 in that series. 2. The entry for Shadowmen II should become #2 in the Shadowmen (Black Coat) book series and the Comic Book title Shadowmen II should be deleted.

With today's update, it looks like the Geiger Book #1/HC entry was created. However, the Geiger (2nd series) Book #1/HC still needs to be deleted.

The comic title Geiger (2nd series) includes an entry for Book #1/HC. My understanding is that this collects issues #1 through 6 of the first Geiger series. (There has not been a hardcover collection of the second Geiger series yet AFAIK.) Consequently, that item should be moved to the Geiger title.

The database lists issue #1 under the Blade Epic Collection title. That item should be listed as issue #2. (Epic Collections are not necessarily released in chronological order; the volume that has been released this year entitled "Nightstalkers" is marked as "volume 2" on the back cover, so it should be listed as issue #2 in the database. This has been the standard practice for Marvel's Epic Collection trade paperbacks since the line started up years ago.)