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New title added to Books: The Frazetta Pillow Book This title has one item listed, TPB #1. Is this book actually part of a numbered series? (I ask b/c there is no number on the front cover scan and there are no other items under the title.) New title added to Books: The Lost Frankenstein Pages Two items listed under this title: TPB and #0/A. That seems an odd way to list these items when the only difference between them is the signed, loose bookplate. (See this thread for more info) I would have assumed they would be listed as TPB and TPB/A. New title added to Comics: Marvel All-On-One (3rd series) This is the first series with this title. (Perhaps somebody in the CB editorial bullpen was thinking of "Marvel Two-in-One" while setting up this title?) New title added to Comics: Metal Hurlant (Humanoids 2nd Series) This looks like a duplicate of the comic title Metal Hurlant (2nd Series) that was added to the database very recently. One of the two titles needs to be deleted.
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Grim Reaper Report for 05/2025
Gregory Hecht replied to Gregory Hecht's topic in Content and Corrections
Minky Woodcock: The Girl Called Cthulhu Book #1 has been cancelled, so it should be removed from the database. I know that a hardcover collection has been solicited, but that should be listed as Book #1/HC. I do not know if the trade paperback will be resolicited or not. -
DC has indicated that Shazam (6th series) Book #3 has been cancelled. No mention as to whether it will be resolicited. Book #4 was listed in the DC solicits that just came out but it has now disappeared from the Lunar and PRH websites, so expect that one to be cancelled and/or rescheduled as well. For now, Book #3 should be deleted from the database and Book #4 should not be added.
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The following new books were added to the database: • Charlie Brown Christmas, A #1/HC • Comics, TV, Movies—and Children #TPB 1 • Super Dictionary, The #TPB 1 Are these books actually part of a series? The first and the third on the list, I am pretty sure the answer is no. For the second, multiple years of publication are given but only one book is listed in the database. Depending on how you want to handle the additional versions, the number might be dropped for that one as well.
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Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Marvel) is listed as a Comic Book title. It is prose with illustrations, so it should be moved to the Book category. • Under this title, there are two items listed: #1 (which is the softcover edition) and #1/HC. Both of these list $8.95 as the cover price. That price is correct for #1, but the cover price for #1/HC should be changed to $14.95. Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Dark Horse) is a more recent edition of the Marvel book. As such, it is prose with illustrations, and so this title should also be moved to the Book category. I am not familiar with Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Miller), but it looks like another edition of the Marvel book (attributed to Wrightson on the cover, same cover illustration, mentions an intro by Stephen King). So I'm thinking that this should also be moved to the Book category. The Lost Frankenstein Pages is listed in the Comic Book category. It is a collection of illustrations and preliminary artwork that Wrightson did as part of his work on his Frankenstein adaptation. It is primarily an art book rather than a comic book. This title should be moved to the Book category. • This book as two versions listed in the database, #1 and #1/A. My understanding is that this book had a print run of 2000. All copies were signed and numbered by Wrightson. In addition, 1200 of those copies also got a loose bookplate that was signed and numbered by Wrightson (bookplate numbers apparently did not necessarily match the signature number inside the book). It might be worth mentioning in the Notes field for #1 that it is also signed and numbered. [For those who are interested in the minutiae of another person's collection, I offer this: I recently purchased a copy of this book, and at the time I made the purchase there was no mention of a bookplate or signature. The copy that I received was signed by Wrightson as #603/2000 which, as it turns out, was sold by Heritage back in 2008. At that time, that copy was associated with bookplate #51 but, alas, I must report that over the intervening years this copy of the book has been liberated from its bookplate.]
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Erroneous pricing does happen on occasion in ComicBase. This is inevitable for a variety of reasons, especially when the program lists such a large number of items for which I suspect many of them (especially obscure issues) don't necessarily have a lot of transactional data to track in a given calendar year. (As I understand it, CB mostly uses Heritage Auctions and Atomic Avenue for tracking values; automatically tracking eBay transactions can be difficult for a variety of reasons.) If you find specific items in ComicBase that are you believe are substantially divergent from current market values, you can use the Request Price Check feature in the program to alert the folks at Human Computing. Note that the HC team will want you to specify where you are getting your information, and they will prefer to see data regarding completed transactions when possible.
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Automatically Renamed Titles and Issues Questions and Issues
Gregory Hecht replied to Fred Slota's topic in Tech Support
Yeah, Automatch is great except when it isn’t. Makes me hesitant to use the feature bc I don’t want to take a chance on missing these kinds of “left field” mismatches and end up with erroneous inventory data in my database. -
New comic title: Archie Meets Jay and Silient Bob That should probably be Archie Meets Jay and Silent Bob (fixing the typo in "Silent")
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Grim Reaper Report for 04/2025
Gregory Hecht replied to Gregory Hecht's topic in Content and Corrections
And, as expected, this morning I received notice that issue #2 of Defiant has also been cancelled. The more interesting part is that this notice says that this item will eventually be resolicited. So one of the two notifications is not entirely correct. Be that as it may, this title and all of its issues should be deleted from the database unless or until there is an actual official resolicitation. -
I just received notice that Defiant #1 has been cancelled. DSTLRY apparently says that they will not resolicit. I haven't received word about #2, but one would presume that issue will also be cancelled.
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Cover Scan Maintenance 2025-04-18
Gregory Hecht replied to Steven L. Dasinger's topic in Content and Corrections
FWIW the current update summary on the CB home page lists all or most of the changes reflected in your post, but not the MMW deletions. -
Cover Scan Maintenance 2025-04-18
Gregory Hecht replied to Steven L. Dasinger's topic in Content and Corrections
I haven’t run this week’s content update on my database yet, but all or most of these issues appear to be in the master database (based on what I see on Atomic Ave) at the time I am writing this. Has there been another update since you posted that restored the deleted issues? -
If I understand you correctly, you are asking for the following changes: • Create a new issue #280, move all existing info including cover scan from #280/A to #280 • Move all existing info including cover scan from #280/B to #280/A • Move all existing info including cover scan from #280/C to #280/B • Remove #280/C The problem with that is that somebody who has (for example) the Potocki cover in their inventory will end up having a database that says that they have the Mozchops cover in their inventory. Similarly, somebody who owns the English cover will end up with a database that says they have the Potocki cover in their inventory. It might be one thing if the contents page of #280 assigned A, B, and C variants to these covers and CB has them mixed up. But they simply list the covers without letters, so what CB has isn't contradictory. And, for what it's worth, CB lists the three variant covers in the same order as the contents page of #280.
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Can you explain which issues you are proposing to change, i.e., current designation for the issue and the proposed new designations? It isn't clear from your post.
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How often do prices get updated?
Gregory Hecht replied to Rock Harnett's topic in News & General Discussion
Prices get updated with each weekly content update. In theory, you might have comics for which there is no new pricing information (knowing that a month is a relatively short period of time and knowing nothing about the contents of your collection). Pricing information *generally* comes from Atomic Avenue sales and Heritage auction results, along with the occasional "price check corrections" for specific issues as requested by individual CB users. Also, be sure that you have your content update settings chosen to allow updates to the prices of items in your database. If you have certain settings checked, pricing information won't be updated. In such a situation, the value of your collection would only change as you add or remove items from your inventory. -
Clean up for 04/03/2025 content update
Gregory Hecht replied to Gregory Hecht's topic in Content and Corrections
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New Comic title added: Gunpowder n Is this an erroneous duplication of Gunpowder ? Also, both of these titles list Date of Publication as 2024, but the cover dates for issues #1 and #1/A are both October 2023. New Comic title added: 'Marvel Knights: The World to Come I assume that the apostrophe at the start of the title is a typo. Also, clicking to this title from the search bar on Atomic Avenue does not work (I assume that this is b/c it starts with a punctuation mark rather than an alphanumeric character.)
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I stand corrected. First apparently did put out a $19.95 tpb in 1988.
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A 19.95 cover price would have been very unusual for First Comics back when they were publishing. Without having done any research, my suspicion is that either somebody (improperly) grafted a more modern tpb to the First Graphic Novel title or incorrect issue info has been input into the First Graphic Novel #22 entry.
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Are you trying to submit changes to individual issues from your database or actual title changes from your database? if the latter, that has to be submitted either via email, this message board, or (if you are on it) Human Computing’s Slack. See this thread for more.
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I’m not aware that they have changed. But if they did, I’d bet it was something to do with punctuation.
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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"]
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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.