Gregory Hecht

IDW is apparently cancelling issues #4, #5, and #6 of The Hunger and the Dusk: Book Two. If those issues turn up in the queue to be added to the database, they should be added. The collected edition for this series *will* be published, so that item should be added to the database when it is solicited.

Sounds like it is a little bit like what Blitmap was doing, where no two copies of a particular issue had identical covers. Is there a way to streamline the listings for this title similar to how you guys approached indexing Blitmap?

Any updates on this? This is still listed in the Comics category.

Any updates on this item? This is still listed in the Comic category.

I have seen sketchbooks show up in the Magazine category and in the Book category. So I suspect that up until now there has not been a strict policy on where sketchbooks should go. (this isn't to say that there shouldn't be a policy... I definitely think that there should be a discussion about it, at the very least) I do like the idea of being able to search for "Adam Hugues Sketchbook" (for example) and bringing up all of his sketchbooks that are in the database. I will say that I do know of a couple of instances where an artist had more than one sketchbook in a single year, and also a couple of instances where the year of publication is not listed anywhere on the sketchbook. So numbering sketchbooks by the publication year might not be a universal solution. I do agree with you that sequential numbering is not the answer. I wonder if something like the "Item Title" field in the Comics category might be the answer here.

Dark Horse has cancelled Anansi Boys #8 and the hardcover collection of the series. They are not planning to resolicit. Issues #8/A and #8/B should be deleted from the database. The hardcover was solicited, so if that ends up in the editorial queue for a content update it should not be added into the database.

Newly added Book title National Lampoon Comics: the contents of this appear to be comics based on an Amazon preview (and the CB title description calls it an "anthology of comics"), so I suggest that this should be moved to the Comics media category. Newly added Comic title Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (Walt Disney’s…): based on the cover scan, this looks to be a duplicate of the already existing comic title Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck. Newly added Comic title Unforegettable Con, The: note that this contains a spelling error (should be Unforgettable Con, The ). Newly added Comic title New York Comic Con: What is this? Is this a convention program, a comic, or a promotional pamphlet of some sort?

The Notes field for 21 Down Deluxe Set #1 still need to be corrected.

This still needs to be done.

Marc indicated back in the fall that this was going to be taken care of (note his response to my post), so it is a little curious that this was either still hanging around or came back.

The latest content update added the title The Red Shetland Calendar to the Magazines category. As discussed previously on these boards, calendars should go in the Books category (there is a "Calendar" binding type in that category just for that kind of publication). The new comic title Autumn People (Ray Bradbury's...) was added to Comic Books. • The title should really be Autumn People (Ray Bradbury's…) [hard to see here on these boards, but the title that was added had three periods instead of the single character three dots[ellipsis]). • Everything I am finding online indicates that the title also includes "The" in it, so that needs to be fixed as well.

The database has never handled pseudonyms very well. It has been brought up multiple times over the last few years, I am hoping that @Peter R. Bickford will finally tackle this in CB 2026.

Currently AA does not support sellers posting scans of their actual copies for sale. Once long long ago (more than one year ago, probably much longer than that) I think Pete hinted on a Livestream that might change.

I would argue that the programming behind CB should be updated to sort that out properly.

Atomic Avenue might benefit from this also.

IMO it depends on the cover used in the reprint. If it is cover A, then I agree, the reprint should be #1/A-2. If it is an entirely new cover, then I would lean towards #1-2.

This week's update added Buster Brown's Safety Coloring Book to the Comic category. Does this have any comic story content? Does this belong in Comics or in Books? (Most coloring books go into the Books section, but Buster Brown did start out as a comic strip, so somebody with knowledge of the actual contents will need to weigh in on this one.) Also added was the comic title Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Frozen Gold. Is there a particular reason why this title wasn't formatted as Donald Duck: Frozen Gold (Walt Disney's...) ? [see also the discussion over in this thread]

My guess is that it would be the latter. Like you, my recollection is that the good background was indicative of being a 2nd print and that only the first printings of X-Force #1 were polybagged with a trading card. But maybe Heritage or some other authority has evidence to the contrary?

GCD indicates that the negative Cap exists for this issue but their wording avoids calling those issues second printings. GCD states 6 versions (bagged w/ five different cards, unbagged gold second print)… but then they go on to say that each has both positive and negative Cap versions which (based on their wording) means that there should actually be TWELVE variants listed. This assumes that GCD’s wording is technically precise, of course. The current CB listings don’t match the GCD description of the state of affairs for X-Force #1 and I would suggest that the use of the “2nd printing” descriptor for the negative Cap versions should be changed to something else. If the negative Cap versions aren’t indicative of second printings then they may indeed be much less common than other versions. Like you, I would expect the unbagged gold positive Cap to be less valuable than the first print versions of any type.

This is actually a situation where at least one of the issues of Zdarsky Comic News got catalogued under the Comic Book category and the update moves the entry to the Magazine category.

This week's update added the Book title Oldguy. Superhero. Based on the cover scan, it looks like this should really be titled Oldguy: Superhero . • Also, the item under this title is designated as "Single Issue Magazine". If this is a single issue magazine, why isn't it indexed under the Magazine media category? The title Dinosaur Comics Sketchbook was added to the Comics category. Does this actually contain any comic stories? If not, what media category should this go into?

I also recommend the barcode scanners that Human Computing has for sale.

Oooooh, I get it now. ? This whole time I thought that the Jupiter's Legacy issue was a copy of the Jupiter's Legacy comic book, but it is actually a magazine about the Jupiter's Legacy tv show. For situations where two publications are sold/distributed together in the same polybag (examples: Den of Geek magazines; Hero Illustrated magazines that contained exclusive comic issues), I agree with the first three bullet points and concede that the fourth bullet is a natural consequence of this approach. For situations where publications were polybagged with or without chachkis like trading cards rather than actual second publications (examples: Marvel's recent "red band" comic series; X-Force #1; a lot of the output from Topps Comics) I wouldn't be opposed to having the bag mentioned in the Item Description field. But the CB editors might prefer a more "one size fits all" policy. This merits some discussion, I think. The biggest hassle that I can foresee is whether to list more than two options for polybagged items that were distributed with chachkis (e.g., Jurassic Park #1 polybagged with cards; JP #1 unbagged but with cards; JP #1 unbagged and without cards). That could get to be a real PITA for those things that had many different things included in the bag (e.g., Superman #75). But probably the simplest way to handle it would be to say "polybagged with [stuff]" and "unbagged" leaving it to sellers to notify buyers in an appropriate field whether their unbagged copies come with [stuff] or not. At any rate, IMO this approach merits some discussion.

The particular series you posted as an example is listed as SHIELD in the database. IIRC the cover title for this series differs from the indicia title. It is instances like this one that motivated ComicBase to add the "Item Title" field to the database relatively recently. So ideally this issue should be listed under the title SHIELD but should also have a entry in the Item Title field Nick Fury and his Agents of SHIELD. If you can't find the title in the database and there is no UPC code available, try doing a Find using a key word. Ideally* the Find should return a list of all of the things that contain that word in the Title field plus all of the things that contain that same key word in the Item Title field. If you are still stuck, you can post to the boards here for help. *Because the Item Title field is so new, it is possible that not all of the comics with mismatched cover titles vs. indica titles have something listed in the Item Title field.

I hear you on that... I've seen plenty of solicitation listings for Marvel variants where no info is available beyond the comic title and issue number (no cover image, no artist name or theme). I assume retailers look at that kind of catalog listing, shake their heads, and think "Why the #%$@ should I order this for my store???"