Gregory Hecht

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.

In the online content update report, the new Comic Book title DC Finest: Batman : The Kiling Joke and Other Stories has an unwarranted space between "Batman" and the colon. The title should be indexed as DC Finest: Batman: The Kiling Joke and Other Stories . On Atomic Avenue, this error does not appear. No way to know if this is an error until it is published and we can see the indicia, but the new Comic Book title Doctor Fate by JM Dematteis is missing periods for "JM" and a capital "M" in "DeMatteis". I see that on Atomic Avenue the title is formatted as "J.M. DeMatteis" which is different from the online update report. In the online content update report, the new Comic Book title Three Stooges, The : Little Stooges has an unwarranted space between "The" and the colon. On Atomic Avenue, this error does not appear.

Yes, thank you. Apologies for the error.

IDW is apparently cancelling issues #4, #5, and #6 of The Hunger and the Dusk: Book Two. If those issues turn up in the queue to be added to the database, they should be added. The collected edition for this series *will* be published, so that item should be added to the database when it is solicited.

Sounds like it is a little bit like what Blitmap was doing, where no two copies of a particular issue had identical covers. Is there a way to streamline the listings for this title similar to how you guys approached indexing Blitmap?

Any updates on this? This is still listed in the Comics category.

Any updates on this item? This is still listed in the Comic category.

I have seen sketchbooks show up in the Magazine category and in the Book category. So I suspect that up until now there has not been a strict policy on where sketchbooks should go. (this isn't to say that there shouldn't be a policy... I definitely think that there should be a discussion about it, at the very least) I do like the idea of being able to search for "Adam Hugues Sketchbook" (for example) and bringing up all of his sketchbooks that are in the database. I will say that I do know of a couple of instances where an artist had more than one sketchbook in a single year, and also a couple of instances where the year of publication is not listed anywhere on the sketchbook. So numbering sketchbooks by the publication year might not be a universal solution. I do agree with you that sequential numbering is not the answer. I wonder if something like the "Item Title" field in the Comics category might be the answer here.

Dark Horse has cancelled Anansi Boys #8 and the hardcover collection of the series. They are not planning to resolicit. Issues #8/A and #8/B should be deleted from the database. The hardcover was solicited, so if that ends up in the editorial queue for a content update it should not be added into the database.

Newly added Book title National Lampoon Comics: the contents of this appear to be comics based on an Amazon preview (and the CB title description calls it an "anthology of comics"), so I suggest that this should be moved to the Comics media category. Newly added Comic title Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (Walt Disney’s…): based on the cover scan, this looks to be a duplicate of the already existing comic title Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck. Newly added Comic title Unforegettable Con, The: note that this contains a spelling error (should be Unforgettable Con, The ). Newly added Comic title New York Comic Con: What is this? Is this a convention program, a comic, or a promotional pamphlet of some sort?

The Notes field for 21 Down Deluxe Set #1 still need to be corrected.