Gregory Hecht

Try the "Rebuild Lists" function (also located in "File Tools") and see if that makes the problem go away.

The UPC for that issue is listed in the database as 76194135745400141 Does that match what is on the actual comic you have on hand?

https://atomicavenue.com/atomic/item/911412/1/The-Green-Lantern-6th-Series-1-Variation-D

Hi folks -- Pete needs some time to catch up on CB stuff, so he is pushing today's Livestream (7/6/2022) to next week.

Are you trying to delete your AA inventory from the CB14 database? Or are you trying to open the CB14 database with CB22 so that you can actively update and maintain that AA inventory?

Daredevil Epic Collection #12 has been cancelled. It will apparently be resolicited in the upcoming July catalog, but there are rumors that the cover price may be different. So my recommendation would be to delete the listing for this issue for now and keep an eye on the skies for the new solicit.

The database lists issues #5 & #6 for the title Real Heroes (Image). I fairly certain that those issues were never published.

Depending on the scanner that you are using, sometimes you need to increase the distance between the scanner and the bar code to increase the likelihood that the scanner will pick up all of the bar code digits (particularly those last few "supplemental digits" such as in your case). Sometimes holding the scanner 12" or more away from the barcode gives a more accurate read.

Just a heads up for folks that haven't listened to Wednesday's Livestream (6/15) yet that there may or may not be a show next week (6/22) as @Peter R. Bickford is might not be available.

This week's update added the title Conqueror Worm (Comics Experiences, Edgar Allan Poe’s...), The. The way the title name is structured looks... weird. Comics Experiences is the publisher, but there also needs to be the attribution to Poe. And there are already other "Conqueror Worm" titles in the database. But is this really the best way to name this title in the database? Thoughts? (And it might be moot anyway, since it looks like this is a duplicate of the existing The Conqueror Worm (CEX) title...) Also added was the G.i. Joe, a Real American Hero: Best of Storm Shadow title. Note that the "i" in "G.I. Joe" should be capitalized.

I can confirm, the Marvel Vision title did not contain comic stories. It was a magazine.

The database lists the magazine Illustrators as a US title. That magazine is published by Book Palace which is actually based in the UK.

The database includes the title Sci-Fi Classics Comics. The correct title is actually PS Artbooks Presents Classic Science Fiction Comics which fortunately already exists in the database. The items listed under Sci-Fi Classics Comics should be moved to PS Artbooks Presents Classic Science Fiction Comics. And then Sci-Fi Classics Comics should then be deleted.

Well, here is something interesting to note: When I try typing GI Joe a Real American Hero into the search bar on ComicBase, the Marvel/IDW title comes up easy-peasy just like it is supposed to. But when I try doing the same thing in the Atomic Avenue search bar, that title does not show up as one of the suggested titles in the drop down. The GIJARMH Artist's Edition, GIJARMH Complete Silence, GIJARMH Saturday Morning Adventures, GIJARMH Serpentor Uncoiled, GIJARMH Snake Eyes: The Origin, and GIJARMH vs. The Six Million Dollar Man are the only suggested titles. If I type in A Real American Hero, the dropdown gives me the same choices... but clicking outside of the dropdown and then clicking the GO button, I get a number of additional titles that *should* have shown up in the search dropdown but were MIA. So just a heads up to @Mark J. Castaneda, @Peter R. Bickford, and the HC programming team that the Atomic Avenue search tool still has some kinks in it that need to be ironed out.

I saw this when I was going over the content update list and looked it up. Apparently Red Calloway is the name of a character in the comic rather than a creator or IP owner, so the convention is to present it as "Red Calloway's Big Bang".

This week's update added the title Archie's Coloring Book to the Comics category. Is this a book or is this a comic? The titles I want to see you ashamed, I will borrow her, Shinju no Nectar, and More than a couple, less than a lover were also added. Just to verify: does the lack of capitalization in the database match the indicia for these? The book title American Claimant/Pudd'nhead Wilson, The was added to the database this week. Should that be American Claimant, The/Pudd'nhead Wilson ? (The nitpicker in me is genuinely curious to know how the "/" punctuation affects the titling of this one.)

A last minute addition to this month's Grim Reaper report that I wasn't able to get around to yesterday while it was still May 2022: Clobberin' Time has been cancelled, apparently the plans are to resolicit at a future date.

What are the steps that you are doing to generate the pop-up screen that you are showing in your most recent post? When you open up ComicBase, it should automatically open up the database that you had open when you last quit the program. It shouldn't be going to a back-up database unless that is the one that you had open when you last quit ComicBase. You can also see a list of the databases that you have had open most recently. Go to FILE --> RECENT DATABASES to see that list. You can select from the list and open up the database of your choice from that list. If you know the name of the database you were working on during those 8 hours, you should be able to open up the database that you were using during all of that work. Another question for clarification: have you done anything to try to force ComicBase to keep your databases someplace other than the normal default location that ComicBase chooses on its own? You aren't trying to use ComicBase on something like OneDrive or similar service, correct?

Just to clarify, the "Check for Updates" function checks to see if there are content updates from Human Computing (for example, info regarding new comics that were published over the last week or so) and updates to the ComicBase software. If you have been using that function 4 or 5 times a day while working on the same database, you shouldn't be discovering that you need to download new content or software updates each time. There just aren't that many updates in a single week, let alone in a single day. However, each database gets updated independently. If you have two databases and you run a content update on database #1, only database #1 will be updated. Database #2 will not be updated unless you run "check for updates" while database #2 is open. If you have been creating brand new database files 4 or 5 times each day and you run "check for updates" on each database, then each of those new databases will undergo a content update.

During yesterday's Livestream, @Peter R. Bickford was asked about this title specifically. He indicated that it may need to be revisited and get moved to magazines.

This week's update added the title Star Wars Leia, Princess of Alderaan. Is that punctuated correctly? (I kind of assume that there should be a colon between Wars and Leia.)

Are you referring to the 1988 reprint comic? If so, then that is in the database under the title Action Comics, issue #1 (5th printing).

They're dropping like flies today. All orders for Power Man & Iron Fist Epic Collection Hardball (listed in the database as Power Man and Iron Fist Epic Collection #4) have been cancelled. No indication yet as to whether a resolicit is forthcoming.

Marvel has cancelled all orders for the Amazing Spider-Man #1 replica edition (in the database as ASM #1-B) and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 replica edition (in the database as ASM Annual #1-A). Marvel is apparently planning to resolicit these at some point, but for now they are dead.

This week's update added the book title She-Hulk Goes to Murderworld: A Marvel: Multiverse Missions Adventure Gamebook. Is that title punctuated correctly? The comic book title Big Nate: Very Fiunny! was added. That should of course be spelled as Big Nate: Very Funny! The title Spider-Man's Greatest Team-Ups was added. Based on the date, price, and cover scan, this looks to be a duplication of Spider-Man: His Greatest Team-Up Battles. I don't know which of the two titles is correct, but I think that one of them needs to go. The following issues were added to the title Snowpiercer: #4, #4/HC, #5, and #5/HC. • #4/HC and #5/HC are duplications of the already cataloged Snowpiercer The Prequel comics. Those books don't have a vol. 4 or a vol. 5 on them anywhere (not on the cover, the spine, nor the indicia) and their title on the indicia page is indeed Snowpiercer The Prequel. So for sure the new #4/HC and #5/HC entries for the Snowpiercer title should be deleted. • I assume that #4 and #5 are trade paperback versions of the two Snowpiercer The Prequel hardcovers. However, I don't have those so I cannot verify whether their indicia states "Snowpiercer" or something else, nor whether they bear the volume numbers of 4 and 5 anywhere. It would seem to me that this info would clarify where the issues that were added as #4 and #5 should be cataloged.