Gregory Hecht

New book title added: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in America The master database apparently has two identical issues under this title, so one of those entries needs to be deleted. Also, the entries are listed as TPB #1. Do we know for sure that this is a numbered series? New comic issues added: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time "Z variants" What is the story behind these? Why were these variants given the "Z" designation? Shouldn't these have gotten the "A" or "B" designation since at least one of those is still available for these issues? Just because "Zero Hour" begins with the letter "Z" does that mean we can arbitrarily skip all of the letters of the alphabet? Or is there a retailer (in Colorado or elsewhere) that was marketing these issues as "Z variants" when they were first published? [based on what I am seeing on mycomicshop.com, it looks like these variants were part of a collector's set of all five issues... but even they aren't referring to these as "Z variants"]

This doesn't seem to have been addressed in today's content update. It may be simplest to keep the standalone title The Venus Interface (Heavy Metal’s…) . There is a precedent of a skipped issue in the Heavy Metal title in that issue #56 is listed but noted as "Not published." Issue #122 might be handled the same way. [I don't know the history behind CB's listing of HM #56, but my guess is that it was a similar situation where a special issue got double-listed in the database for a time before it was noticed and dealt with.] Regardless, the duplication really shouldn't be left unaddressed.

Resurgence of the Valiant Universe Omnibus and Road to Resurgence of the Valiant Universe Omnibus have both been cancelled by the publisher. They say that they will resolicit, but until that happens these items should be deleted from the database.

The Section Zero hardcover is listed as Book #1/HC under the Section Zero title. The Notes field states that it collects issues #1 through #3 plus additional material. The book actually collects issues #1 through #6 plus additional material, so it should be moved to Section Zero (2nd series). [The original series did not complete the first story arc; the second series reprinted the first series and then proceeded to complete the story.] Also, the book is marked as "Volume 0" on the front cover, the spine, and the indicia page. So this book should be indexed as Book #0/HC under Section Zero (2nd series).

Does information in Custom Fields and Custom Checkboxes travel with an inventory item when it is moved in this process? Doing a quick look at one of the items in my inventory that got moved, it appears that this does not happen. I use custom fields to tell me Storage Location, whether an item is autographed, and if there are any additional items stored with the item (e.g., Kickstarter extras such as bookplates and postcards), and I don't want to lose that info when an item gets moved around.

I know that condition “a” was not met for any of my five mismatches. In each of my cases, there was a matching magazine title that was already in existence from prior content updates. So if “a” and “b” conditions must both be met for the mismatch to occur, then something else must be happening to cause the mismatch. I did a spot check on a couple of the UPCs and didn’t see matches, but I should double check that (and while doing that I will keep in mind that it is the EAN+5 code that matters).

I had a similar experience with a recent content update: Avengers Spotlight (2nd Series) -> Heroic Age Magazine Season One Guide -> All-New, All-Different Marvel October Previews Second Coming: Prepare -> 1939 Daily Bugle Spider-Island Spotlight -> Heroic Age Magazine X-Men: Curse of the Mutants Spotlight -> Heroic Age Magazine In each of the above cases, the issue that I had in stock should have gone to a magazine issue with the same title as the original comic entry. Instead, a new issue #1 entry was created under an incorrect destination magazine title. (I actually wound up with three different issue #1 listings under Heroic Age Magazine… none of which was correct) I haven’t investigated, but I suspect it may be a case where multiple items in the database have identical UPC numbers.

The Overstreet Price Guide was mentioned earlier today on Pete’s Slack, and it got me thinking (a dangerous thing, as cliched as that sounds)……. Do people even pay attention to Overstreet any more? How relevant is Overstreet since as a physical book it can only contain a fraction of English language comics that have been published? If people want to get an idea as to the value of a particular comic book, is Overstreet still the first place that they go? It was definitely the most common reference when I went to cons, antique shows, and flea markets in the 80’s and early 90’s. But that was in the pre-Internet days, and we’re more than quarter century past the start of the Home Internet Age. What seems to be the common practice now, both in terms of what you personally do and what you have seen other sellers doing?

Yes, I agree. Heavy Metal #215.5 and Heavy Metal: Sirens Special are duplicate entries. @Mark J. Castaneda I suppose that it doesn't matter too much which one gets deleted, but my vote would be to get rid of HM #215.5 just b/c it helps simplify the numbering for the main HM series. YMMV

Do you know if the indicia includes “The” or not? That makes a difference as to which of the existing titles in the database stays and which one gets deleted.

Although the title for this was corrected in this week's content update, there is still only one issue listed. There is both a trade paperback edition and a hardcover edition. Based on the cover price, it looks like the issue #1 that is listed for this title in the database is the tpb, so the hardcover still needs to be added. I've made the submission from my database.

This week's update added the following Books: • All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From Marvel Comics #1 • Eternal Warrior, The #1 • Gravity Falls: Don’t Color This Book! It’s Cursed! #1 • Jedi Doeth Return, The (William Shakespeare’s…) #HC 1 • Official Westeros Cookbook, The #1 • Sopranos, The: The Complete Visual History #HC 1 • Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek #HC 1 • Star Wars: Bestiary #1/HC • Superman: The Definitive History #HC 1 • Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas: The Ultimate Visual History #HC 1 • World of Funko, The: Harry Potter #HC 1 Are all of the above books actually part of a numbered series? I am suspicious that at least some of them are not. Also, non-variant issue #6 of Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 3) was deleted. Not sure why that would be. There should be both a regular (i.e., direct market) issue and a newsstand variant for that item.

OK, I can confirm that my collection and information searches match your findings up above. There are a total of 11 issues of Heavy Metal missing from the database. I have copied and pasted your info and added a couple of notes in red along with the issue numbers that should be used when you submit these to HC. Also, AFAIK there are no cover variants for these missing issues. I can also confirm that, based on editorial content printed in issue #259 (the first issue of what is ComicBase's Heavy Metal (2nd series) title), there were no issues published between the 35th Anniversary issue (#269 below) and the HM (2nd series) #259 issue (which is already in the database). So these should be the only missing issues. ************************************************* The missing issues are: #259 Jan. 2011 - Volume 34 #9 #260 March 2011 - Volume 35 #1 #261 Spring 2011 - Volume 35 #2 "Living Dead Special" #262 May 2011 - Volume 35 #2 (listed as #2 in contents page - should be 3) #263 July 2011 - Volume 35 #4 #264 Summer 2011 - Volume 35 #5 "War of the Worlds Special" #265 September 2011 - Volume 35 #6 #266 November 2011 - Volume 35 #7 #267 Jan 2012 - Volume 35 #8 #268 March 2012 - Volume 36 #1 #269 May 2012 - Volume 36 #2 "35th Anniversary Issue"

Without checking specific issues, I will verify that there is approximately one year of issues missing from the first Heavy Metal series in the database. I recently picked them up but had not gotten around to inputting the data. I will post here later today to compare what issues I have that are missing from the database and what you have noted above.

This still needs some clean-up. Presently the database lists *eight* issues under this title: #1/A, #1/B, #1/C, #1/D, Book #1/A, Book #1/B, Book #1/C, and Book #1/D. One of the sets of issues needs to be deleted. The scans for the "Book" issues are photos of the book sitting on a table, and aren't very useful. They are also missing the creator information (the "regular" #1 issue entires do have a complete set of creator information associated with them). So I wouldn't be terribly disappointed if the "Book" issues are the entries that get deleted. Also, I submitted a scan of the "B" version. (Three cheers for large bed scanners!)

The correct title for Watership Down Graphic Novel is Watership Down The Graphic Novel. The title on the cover and on the title page (it actually is not given on the indicia page) is in all caps, so I leave it to the CB editors to decide whether to capitalize "The" or not. There is no colon in the title. Please also note that there is a hardcover and a paperback version of this item.

Ditto.

Ooooohhh, glad you said something. I completely missed the point of your post. I thought you were talking about the uppercase vs. lowercase "U" Yes, you are definitely correct, the title should be Marvel Masterwork Pin-Ups rather than Marvel Masterworks Pin-Ups . Good catch!

Point of clarification here: Normally the "U" would be capitalized since it follows a hyphen. I am not able to find the title of the book in the indicia. On the cover and in the title page, the title is given in via its logo which consists of all capital letters. The only place in the book where I can find that the book is called "Marvel Masterworks Pin-ups" is in the text of Craig Yoe's introduction. So with that context, I leave it in @Mark J. Castaneda's hands to decide whether to make this change.

Since the contents of the Clyde Fans book changes significantly starting in 2019 but then remains consistent, I am wondering if it would be better for the 2019, 2021, and 2025 publications to be listed under a title Clyde Fans (2nd series). If you go this route, then... • the 2019 book becomes Clyde Fans (2nd series) Bk 1/HC • the 2021 book becomes Clyde Fans (2nd series) Bk 1 • the 2025 book becomes Clyde Fans (2nd series) Bk 1/HC-2 This avoids using the A and B variations to designate hardcover vs. trade paperback editions. IMO this way of cataloging these collections would be a little bit "cleaner" than lumping all of them into a single title. (and, just to be clear, I'm good with the first three bullets in Randall's list)

Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Electrified Tesla Book #1 and Book #1/HC appear to be the same item: they have the same cover price and cover scan. I am also unable to find evidence of a paperback version of this collection, suggesting that Book #1 should be deleted from the database and Book #1/HC should be retained.

Heavy Metal (3rd series) was added this week to both the Comic Book and the Magazine categories. Since this will contain comics (much like Heavy Metal and Heavy Metal (2nd series)), the Magazine title should be deleted. New magazine title: Ricky (Dell) The title description reads "Fan magazine full ov photographs and short articles." That should be corrected to "Fan magazine full of photographs and short articles." New comic book title: Toxic Daughter: Chi-chan Should that be listed as Toxic Daughter: Chi-Chan (not sure if there is something in the indicia that dictates a lowercase letter after the hyphen)

Also added in the latest update was the Comic Book title Conan the Barbarian Colossal Edition. There are four cover variants of this one: • a Barry Windsor-Smith cover (which is listed in the database as #1/HC; listed as "A" in the indicia); • a John Buscema cover (not in the database; listed as "B" in the indicia); • a Jim Lee cover (not in the database; listed as "C" in the indicia); • and a Neal Adams cover (not in the database; listed as "D" in the indicia). I submitted the Buscema cover edition from my database as #1/A, but upon further reflection I think that the #1/HC should be deleted and the four cover versions should be listed as #1/A through #1/D just as they are in the indicia.

New titles added to the Comic Book category: Faro’s Fantasy Football Fable 22’ and Faro’s Fantasy Football Fable 23’ . If anybody has these, can you check the indicia to verify that the placement of the apostrophe in the title is placed after the number? (I'm wondering if these should really be listed as Faro’s Fantasy Football Fable ’22 and Faro’s Fantasy Football Fable ’23 ) New titles added to the Comic Book category: various Faro's Lounge [fill in U.S. state] Edition. Looking in the database, these include titles for the following states (some of these were added this week, some were in the database already): California Connecticut Georgia Illinois Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New York Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Looking at Faro's website (NSFW except maybe for @Mark J. Castaneda b/c he's doing *ahem* research 😂), he is advertising his "American Safari" publications as sketchbooks and not as comic books. So unless somebody can verify that these actually have comic story content (rather than just artwork/pin-ups) these should probably all be moved to either the Magazine or the Book category (not sure which... my guess is Magazine, but I assume Mark and @Peter R. Bickford will discuss and decide).

Marvel has apparently canceled the Spirits of Violence series. It isn't clear if this just because of a production delay or if the series is being re-worked in some way. For now, this should be removed from the database. DC has removed Death: DC Compact Comics Edition from its schedule. I'm not able to find this in the database, but that may be b/c it was scheduled for September release. If this is in the database, it should be removed. In a similar vein (and presumably for similar reasons), the facsimile edition of Sandman #8 has also been canceled. I am also unable to find this in the database. If it is in there somewhere, it should be removed.