Gregory Hecht

The database includes the title Sherlock Holmes in the Case of the Missing Martian (published by Eternity in 1990) and Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Missing Martian (published by Caliber in 2022). The Caliber title is actually a trade paperback collecting all four issues of the Eternity title. With that in mind, the following updates shouuld be made: • issue #1 from the Caliber title should be moved to the Eternity title as Book #1; and • the Caliber title should be deleted.

Hi folks -- No Livestream today after Server Hardware and OS Issues teamed up to battle our heroes at Human Computing HQ. (Fortunately, no trips to the Lazarus Pit are necessary, everybody just needs a little time for their healing factor to kick in.) So kick back with some of those Thanksgiving leftovers and some of your favorite comics, and we expect to back next week.

"any content corrections" Content corrections that are pretty routine (including cover scans) can be sent directly from your database. Cover scans that don't upload from your database can be sent to support via email. There isn't a mechanism for sending deletions of titles or issues from your database. So those should either be emailed to CB support or posted on the message boards. Any sort of correction that seems unusually complicated, which has some level of uncertainty associated with it, or which might benefit from discussion from CB users (for example, "I can't find this... is it in the database?") should be posted to the message boards. @Mark J. Castaneda can correct me if I am wrong on the above.

One might argue that situation would be an incentive to buy more comics on Atomic Avenue!

Plus things like Amazing Heroes and even one issue of Comic Book Artist were comic sized, but they are clearly magazines and not comics. As you say, categorizing by size leads to obvious problems.

It isn't a question of size or physical format that makes something eligible for the Comic Book category, it is a question of what the content is.

There may well be items that were cataloged in ComicBase prior to the creation of the Book and Magazine categories that have escaped (so far) a move to the appropriate category. In the case of The Amazing World of Superman, that contains articles but also several comic stories. More than half of the pages are comics, so I assume that is the reason why HC decided to keep it in the Comic category.

Yes, correct on both counts. It has caused some consternation amongst users as things like Who's Who and OHOTMU have been moved over to the Magazine category, but in the long run I think it will make more sense. And (finally!!!) Atomic Avenue now handles magazines (and books) much more easily than it used to, so selling "formerly-comics-but-now-magazines" items is much easier than in the past. There will always be items that seem like they have a foot in both camps, but you can always post here on the boards to get help in sorting it out from the HC editorial team and from other CB users.

I am reviving this thread. The title Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites was deleted, but (as per my 4/11 post) it never should have been. I have resubmitted this title from my database. Also, the Beasts of Burden: The Gathering Storm Book #1/HC persists. It should be deleted for the reasons that I laid out upthread. EDIT: Never mind, I see that when the BoB: Animal Rites title was re-added, the URL at Atomic Avenue changed. So the title is there. What is missing is the softcover version of the book, and that should be included in the submission that I made from my database. My comments re: BoB: Gathering Storm HC still pertain. Thanks!

I agree! And, yes, my understanding is that is indeed the intent of that new field.

I just took a look at the ComicBase website. Other than cover images being included with the Archive weekly updates, it is not clear at all on the website that the content information for weekly updates is different for the different versions of the program.

At this week's Livestream, @Peter R. Bickford talked a bit about how the database should handle items that are sold as a set but which are separable in some way. You can catch the discussion at this link. Here are some different scenarios, each of which might require different editorial handling... 1. Two comics, magazines, and/or graphic novels originally sold together in a polybag. The polybag can be removed and now you have two separate items. 2. A comic sold in a polybag with a trading card, poster, statue, action figure, or temporary tattoos. The polybag can be removed and the items can be separated from the extra items. (e.g., X-Force #1, many different issues of Topps comics) 3. A comic not polybagged but had bound-in trading card (or other item, such as a flexidisc record). The cards can be removed and the comic is still intact. 4. A comic sold as an extra with an item not normally tracked in the database (e.g., a record that includes a comic). 5. A Kickstarter publication of some type that is sent out to backers with additional tchochkes and which is NOT polybagged.... and later on an IDENTICAL and indistinguishable copy of the same publication is made available through regular retail outlets without any of the tchochkes. There may be other scenarios.... I especially encourage @Mark J. Castaneda and @Peter R. Bickford to add any other permutations that they have come across and feel that they need to handle editorially.

The database lists issues #3/A and #3/B for the comic title Frankenstein Undone. I don't think that those issues were ever released as the title was suspended when the Scott Allie stuff hit the fan again. Those two issues should be deleted from the database. (The first two issues -- including variants -- were released, so those should stay in the database.)

This week's update added the comic title The Return of Mark Hamill. That should be cataloged as Return of Mark Hamill, The. Also added was the comic title Rudetoons Sketchbook. Based on the title, it sounds like this contains pin-ups rather than actual comics. If that is true, then it might need to be moved to the Magazine category. Can anybody verify the contents? The title Gold Peanut, the was also added. Should that actually be Gold Peanut, The [note capitalization]?

The database includes the titles Startup and Sitcomics Presents Startup. The latter matches the indicia, so the former should be deleted.

You can also get the same error message if the CB server is down. AFAIK, you don't need an active subscription to submit data corrections.

The database title Conan the King: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus lists three issues: #1/HC, #1-A, and #1-B. There were only two versions of this book. The issue #1-B has creator credits that refer to the Jason Aaron series collection, not the original 1980's series but (oddly) has the cover of #1-A. So #1-B should be deleted. The credits and covers for #1/HC and #1-A are correct (albeit prelim artwork is shown for #1/HC).

The title Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs’…) from Dark Horse lists two issues: issue #1, which apparently contains reprints from Dell/Gold Key; and Hardcover #1, which includes the first 127 Sunday-style strips from an online Tarzan comic strip (definitely not Dell/Gold Key reprints). Although these two Tarzan items were both published by Dark Horse, it seems a little odd that they are lumped together. The hardcover just came out a couple of months ago, so I thought I would ask the editorial team if this is how we want to leave the title (before it sits around so long that the "it's too late to change it and mess up everybody's inventory" rule gets invoked).

The new update (9/28/2022) just added back the incorrect and duplicative Marvel Novel Series. Marvel Novel Series should be deleted again. (The longstanding title, Marvel Comics Novel (Pocket), is still in the database and should remain.)

When the new CB2023 comes out (which is very very soon, according to the most recent Livestream), you could change the Media Type for the prop keys to be Newspaper. Then, when you do weekly content updates, make sure that your settings are for the Newspaper category to be not updated. Not the most elegant solution, I know, but it should work for you. Perhaps the best solution would be for CB to add a Media category of "Other" that *NEVER* has anything in it in the master database, but users can use it for whatever other stuff they collect (e.g., DVD/Blu-Rays, trading cards, statues, prop keys, etc). Since the master database wouldn't ever have anything in that category, the content updates would never disturb whatever individual users decide to track there.

Here it is at mycomicshop.com

https://atomicavenue.com/atomic/item/221264/1/XMen-2nd-Series-Annual-1995

That definitely makes much more sense, especially given the title in the indicia!

The 1972 date tells me that is almost certainly not an issue of Captain America but is actually a reprint book of some type (possibly Marvel Super Action or Marvel Triple Action). Edited to add: I have been able to verify that what you have is a copy of Marcel Super Action #2, which contains a reprint of Captain America #101.

I am not seeing it listed under Star Trek (5th series). Not saying that isn't a reasonable place for it, I'm just saying that it isn't there in the master database.