Gregory Hecht

This item is still hanging around. I have located my copy, and the following corrections should be made: 1. KEEP William Stout: Prehistoric Life Murals (that title matches the indicia). However, the item in the database is listed as a TPB. That is incorrect, the book is a hardcover. 2. DELETE Prehistoric Life Murals. This title does not match the indicia and is a duplication of William Stout: Prehistoric Life Murals.

The database lists an entry for TPB #1992 under the title Classic Comics Calendar. That item should actually be listed as Calendar #1992.

Somewhere along the line, Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites was deleted. As per my post above, Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites should be kept in the database. The Beasts of Burden: The Gathering Storm Book #1/HC should be deleted. (The book contains several stories in addition to "The Gathering Storm" *and* the book carries a different title on the cover and in the indicia -- "Animal Rites" -- and not the "Gathering Storm" title).

Does issue #4 for Jungle Comics (Blackthorne) exist? I'm not seeing it listed in the usual places, but it is listed in CB without a scan.

Those variants were apparently cancelled. They may elect to have Living Vampire variants at some future date (closer to the date for the Morbius movie, perhaps), but the ones with APR20---- codes from Diamond were all cancelled. Similarly, the "Sneaker variants" and "Dark Marvel" variants were also cancelled. Note for Mark: the link above contains a list of all of the individual variant comic issues that were cancelled. You'll want to delete any of them that are still lurking in the database. (Time to dust off the Ultimate Nullifier!)

The database lists an entry for Beasts of Burden: The Gathering Storm Book #1/HC. The description and scan look just like the Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites hardcover. BoB:TGS Book #1/HC should be deleted.

Thanks to a typo during a search in my own database, I discovered the following titles all have the word "official" misspelled: Rick & Morty Offical Coloring Book: should be Rick & Morty Official Coloring Book Unmasked (The Offical John Bolton Magazine and Newsletter): should be Unmasked (The Official John Bolton Magazine and Newsletter Warcraft: Durotan: The Offical Movie Prequel: should be Warcraft: Durotan: The Official Movie Prequel

Yes, two separate items. (Hence the two indicia pix 😉 )

Here are the indicia for the two comics. The Spawn #10 is as the Kickstarter advertises: the first half of the book reprints Spawn #10 in b&w and the second half has story notes and b&w reproductions of the covers. The "supplemental book" is also as described: lots of sketches and studies for Spawn #10, the kinds of things that often end up in promotional materials that often get listed in the database as an "ashcan."

I ordered only one copy of Cover D (regular version) and the Supplemental Book. So I can verify the contents of those for sure.

Mark, can you please take a look at the Spawn #10 Expanded and Remastered Kickstarter? How should we handle these issues in the database? I assume that these should be listed as second prints of the original Spawn #10 even though the contents are not truly identical? By my count, I am seeing 13 different variants of this comic: regular color covers A through D; gold variants for each of those (these have similar b&w artwork as for A through D); signed and numbered platinum variants for each of the regular covers (these have similar b&w artwork as for A through D but entirely different cover logos); and a deluxe signed and numbered with entirely different artwork than any of the A through D covers. So, I guess they should be listed as Spawn #10 2nd print Variant A through Variant D for the regular covers, Variant E through H for the golds, Variant I through L for the platinums, and Variant M for the Deluxe? The site also mentions a "Halloween Variant (Make-Up Edition)" and a Sketch Variant. I'm unclear as to whether or not those were actually printed. There is also "Supplemental Book" which is comic-sized and contains preliminary artwork and that sort of thing, all related to the new version of Spawn #10. How should that be listed in the database? Should it be Spawn #10 2nd printing Ashcan? These Kickstarter items have been shipped out and are starting to show up in backers' mailboxes, so I expect that there will be a need to catalog these into the database soon, it would be a good idea to have a plan in place now rather than later.

The indicia for the book says "Published by First Second." I think that the :01 is just a graphic. So my opinion is that all of the items from that publisher should be listed under "First Second".

The database includes a listing for the issue Cerebus in Hell? #2021. Aardvark-Vanaheim actually describes the book as Cerebus in Hell? 2021 #1. In other words, the comic is issue #1 of the title Cerebus in Hell? 2021. If you look at the small white type along the lefthand edge of the cover, you will see that is how the book is titled. That is also how the comic is listed on the back cover advertisement for all of the various Cerebus in Hell one-shots that Dave Sim has been cranking out. There is also a tiny indicia box on the last interior page which says: Cerebus in Hell? 2021 NUMBER ONE. First Printing.

Why are 1984 Magazine and 1994 Magazine (both from Warren) listed as magazines? The content are comics in essentially the same format as things like the Creepy (Magazine) and Eerie (Warren) titles, so they should be categorized as comics. 1984 and 1994 are magazines only in terms of their construction, not in terms of their content.

Similar comment for the update from today (3/23) which added Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures Novelizations. Those are all listed in the database as tpb, but the dimensions listed on the Amazon site indicates mmpb size, not tpb size.

I've made the submissions. Cover price is something of a guess b/c the original cover price would have been on the dustjacket (which as I indicated above I do not have). Somewhere in my travels I believe I saw that they had an original cover price of $3.95, but if somebody is able to verify otherwise then they should submit the correction.

OK, will do. Can you also move the Fantagraphics reprint of Back Home to books? Thanks!

Not sure now you would quantify such a thing. (How many words of narrative are equivalent to one cartoon?) All of the cartoons are single panel cartoons, not comic strips. They are reprinted as either full page, 3/4 page, or 1/2 page (the book is roughly 6" x 9"). Most of the pages include a cartoon, but (guesstimate) maybe 25% of the pages do not have a cartoon. The book is definitely not all cartoons. That said, the narrative is about the cartoons and it provides extensive background for the cartoons (specific events or circumstances that inspired them, etc). Maybe Mauldin's opening paragraph in Up Front is an argument for this to be a comic: "My business is drawing, not writing, and this text is pretty much background for the drawings. It is not a book about my personal life or experiences. I don't think that would be very interesting to anyone by myself."

I have two Bill Mauldin books that I want to submit to the master database, Up Front and Back Home (I am fortunate to have first hardcover editions of these from my grandfather, though they are without dustjackets). Both of these books reprint lots of his cartoons (particularly Mauldin's Willie & Joe cartoons), but they also have a lot of text. The text is not incidental, it is extensive. The cartoons are also *very* plentiful. So an argument can be made either way as to whether these belong in the books category or the comics category. Any thoughts as to which is category most appropriate? (The database does include Fantagraphics' reprinting of Back Home in the comics category, but that wasn't likely to have been a deliberate decision... the book existed in the database long before ComicBase started separating titles into comics, magazines, and books categories.)

Battlestar Galactica (Tor) is listed as a comic, but it is in reality a series of prose novels. Be aware that the Notes field give some info as to which entries are hardcover, mass market paperback, etc.

This week's update added a lot of Blake's 7 and Doctor Who novelizations. Which is great, but they are all listed as TPB. Are these TPB or are they Mass-Market Paperbacks? I don't own any of them, so I don't know from first-hand information, but a spot check of some of them on Amazon indicates that many of these are 4" x 7" which is mmpb size, not tpb size.

Just posted on ComicBase homepage a few minutes ago today (3/17): Please Stand By No Livestream today, sorry!(Still waiting on some equipment to arrive, some third parties to do their thing before we can show off what we meant to today). If things change, we'll see if we can get one going later this week--otherwise, we'll pick it up at our usual time of 4PM Central next Wednesday.

I noticed that there isn't a new Livestream announcement on the ComicBase homepage for today. Does this mean that Pete is taking a break from the Livestream this week?

Your best bet would be to search in the database for the relevant title. In some vary rare cases, these kinds of issues ended up in their own separate title but usually they are grouped in with the regular "normal" issues. The Project Superpowers Chapter Two Prelude issue was given its own title. The database lists three variants. I am fairly sure that there was not a Wizard magazine version of that particular issue. There *was* a Project Superpowers #1/2 issue that was put out through Wizard, and that has been catalogued in the database with the first Project Superpowers title.

I know that these have been in the database for quite a while, but I'm going to pass these along anyway: 1. The database lists Astro City: The Dark Age. The indicia actually says: Astro City: Dark Age/Book One. [no "The" in the title] 2. The database lists Astro City: Dark Ages/Book Two. The indicia actually says: Astro City: Dark Age/Book Two. ["Age" vs. "Ages"] 3. The database lists Astro City: The Dark Age Book 3. The indicia actually says: Astro City: Dark Age/Book Three. [multiple differences: no "The"; slash included in title; "3" is spelled out as "Three"] [The last issue of this series actually has a typo in the indicia "Lastro City: Dark Age/Book Three" but I recommend that we not pay attention to that] 4. The database lists Astro City: The Dark Age Book 4. The indicia actually says: Astro City: The Dark Age Book Four. ["4" is spelled out as "Four"... but this time "The" *is* in the indicia and there is no slash. Obviously the Wildstorm editorial team wanted to see if we were all paying attention.]