Gregory Hecht

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Exactly.

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.)

I stand corrected. First apparently did put out a $19.95 tpb in 1988.

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.

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.

I’m not aware that they have changed. But if they did, I’d bet it was something to do with punctuation.

Actually, the entry for Sheena: Fatal Exams appears to be the collected edition for Sheena, Queen of the Jungle: Fatal Exams. The entry for S:FE should be changed to Book #1 and moved to the SQotJ:FE title. [This was pointed out sometime last year, but apparently the change never got made.]

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.