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  1. •  This week's update added Star Wars: These Are the Droids Your'e Looking For.  The apostrophe is in the wrong place in this title.  

    •  Also added this week:  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Novels (Pocket) and Star Trek: Voyager Novels (Pocket).  The items listed under each of these titles are in the database as tpb.  Are you *sure* that these aren't really mmpb?  It has been a long-running common error for mmpb novels to be submitted as tpb, and I suspect that this is the case here.  
    (This error might go away if ComicBase chose a format other than tpb as the default when creating a new book...)  

    •  Harry Potter: A Magical Year is listed under Comics.  Based on the description on Amazon, it sounds more like an art book than a comic or graphic novel, so maybe this should be listed under Books?

    •  Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Caliber) was added.  Isn't this the same thing as Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep?  The scans for these match and show that they were published under Caliber's Tome imprint.  

  2. I have been running CB within a Parallels-based virtual Windows machine for many years.  No issues.  (Although I should add that my MacBook Pro pre-dates the new M1 chip that Apple is using.  Given Parallels great track record, I wouldn't be too concerned, but I cannot provide any comments on that kind of set-up that are based on firsthand knowledge.)  

  3. Just came across the entry for Marvel Masterworks: Captain America #13/HC and I see the same problem here.  I have not looked very far for more examples, but my spidey-sense tells me that there could be quite a few.  

    It would be nice if Mark or Pete could chime in to tell us whether they have instructed the content editors to trim down these kinds of submissions when they receive them.  If we don't hear anything in the next couple of days, maybe we should raise this issue at this week's CB Livestream.  

  4. If (AND ONLY IF) the title you are moving the issues into has NO ITEMS IN STOCK, here is an easy hack for you.  

    Let's suppose you are moving something in your database from a comics title to a magazine title, and that you have no items in stock in the magazine title:

    1.  Delete the magazine title (the one you want to move your inventory into)

    2.  Go to the comics title (the one you want to move your inventory out of)

    3.  Change the media type for the comics title from comics to magazine.  

    4.  When you do your next content update, the update process will clean up the new magazine title that now includes your inventory.  

     

    There are variations on the above that you can do (such as deleting issues with no inventory in the destination title) prior to moving your existing inventory into there.  

  5. 15 hours ago, CHARLES CAROLLA said:

    i have added notes to some copies of books in my collections (print runs, certificates).   i can log in the the webiste and the program accepts my login but the download covers and submit new or corrected data options are not active.  how can i submit this information

    Try it again just in case it was a server issue when you last attempted.  (I have made some submissions this afternoon, and they seem to be getting to the server just fine.)  

    If you are still encountering issues this afternoon, the problem is likely local to you and not the HC server.  Make sure that you have the most recent version of ComicBase.  If that checks out and you are still having problems, drop an email to support.  

  6. On 5/6/2021 at 3:39 PM, Gregory Hecht said:

    The lenticular?  No, that was the only variant that didn't have a picture on the cerebusoverload store.  It exists since it was listed for purchase on the store site, but they don't have an image for it.  

    I *finally* got around to getting the supplemental book submitted as Spawn #10-L.  Used the artwork file from the cerebusoverload store.  There is no cover price, so I used the price at the store ($40.00).  

    The store also had a cover image for the lenticular version (10-K in Comicbase) that it did not have back in the spring, so I uploaded that as well.  

  7. True. 

     

    That issue definitely isn't an "error misprint" as claimed in the Notes field.  IIRC the Special Edition was how Marvel published the issue for the newsstands (Quasar was direct-sale only at that time).  

  8. 3 hours ago, Lance Fittro said:
    Out of curiosity, have you guys developed a strategy yet for Kickstarter / Indigogo / etc comics projects as far as determining if/when projects that are fully-funded are actually fulfilled, how those are dated in the database, and how to handle covers which may differ from the preview art shown for the campaign? Info on "funded" projects that may or may not have made it into the real world seems tough to come by. Perhaps showing them with "Preliminary Artwork" on the covers, as with Diamond issues that have been solicited but not yet printed? Entering issues once I have them in hand is one thing, but I'd like to also be able to use ComicBase (and by extension AtomicAvenue) to help identify and track down some of these interesting comics that were not solicited through traditional distribution channels.
     
    I've bitten on a handful of Kickstarters lately that I will scan and enter when they arrive, but passed on many more, not to mention those that came previously before I was paying attention. When I do enter them though, do you guys prefer the Notes to read "Funded via Kickstarter," "Self-Published via Kickstarter," just "Kickstarter" or something else? 

    I don't think that Kickstarter products get entered into the database unless one of the following two things happens:  (1) a ComicBase user receives the comic and submits the info for it from their database [I did this recently for Heavy Rotation, for example]; or (2) the comic gets solicited by Diamond. 

    And, in the case of pathway #2, if there is a different version or variant that corresponds to what Kickstarter backers received, that version won't be in the database unless or until a user submits it.  

    I don't think that anybody from HC trolls through all of the Kickstarter campaigns for the purpose of pre-entering those comics into the database.  First, I doubt that there is a method for doing so that is time efficient, an important point given the massive number of edits and corrections that flood into HC each week.  Second, not all funded Kickstarters actually end up successfully getting the promised comic into the hands of backers.  HC has a hard enough problem catching all of the comic cancellations that happen regarding comics that are formally solicited through Diamond and Lunar (and, soon, Penguin Random House), there's no way they would want to add to the problem by just adding in Kickstarter comics before they actually generate finished materials.  

    In terms of release date, I think it is just usually a "ca. 2021" notation in the Notes field (or whatever year the product actually arrived in the hands of backers).  You wouldn't want to date it in regards to the end of the Kickstarter campaign, that can sometimes be literally years before the actual product shows up.  And obviously street date becomes kind of irrelevant for most (if not all) Kickstarter items since fulfillment can take weeks or even months for the backers to get everything into the mail.  

    Cover art for Kickstarter items are typically based on scans of the actual comics, usually not the preliminary art on the campaign webpage.  

  9. Can we get a definitive ruling on whether IDW's Artist Editions, Artist's Editions, Artisan Editions, and Artifact Editions (and similar books from other publishers) should be catalogued in the Book or Comics category?  

    I *thought* that Pete indicated in one of the Livestreams that they should be considered Books (but I might be totally misremembering that).  The database currently has some of these listed as Comics and some of them listed as Books.  

  10. On 7/4/2021 at 7:42 PM, Gregory Hecht said:

    Wally Wood: Dare-Devil Aces, Commandos & Other Sagas of War is listed in the database as a book.  It reprints comic book stories, so it should be listed in the Comic Book category.  

    A reminder that this item is still hanging around.  

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