Gregory Hecht
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The database contains the title Avatrex. Based on the cover and the indicia, this is a misspelling of Avatarex. In fact, the issue listed under the misspelled title is a duplication of Avatarex (Grant Morrison's...) issue FCBD #2016.
The title Avatrex should be deleted.
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OK, these have been submitted. I only have the "marble" version, so somebody else will need to submit the UPC and cover scan for #1/B (otherwise #1/C and #1/B should be identical).
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15 minutes ago, Steven L. Dasinger said:
"Titillating Tales of Dolly, The!" is incorrect as it displays just like that ("Titillating Tales of Dolly, The!").
It should be "Titillating Tales of Dolly!, The" to display properly as "The Titillating Tales of Dolly!".
Yes, that's what I was thinking.
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This week's update added the book title Titillating Tales of Dolly, The! The placement of the exclamation point after "The" looks odd, it ideally belongs with the word "Dolly". What is the editorial policy on how to handle this sort of thing?
The situation from last week regarding the book title Adventurous Decade, The: Comics in the Thirties seems to have been sorted out. The old comic title of the same name still needs to be deleted, however. (I also suggest moving the cover scan from the comic title to the book title.)
The new comic title Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Goodnight, Goblin King was added. Should that be cataloged as Labyrinth (Jim Henson's...): Goodnight, Goblin King or as Labyrinth: Goodnight, Goblin King (Jim Henson's...) ? (Also a reminder to @Mark J. Castaneda that we're still waiting on feedback from last week regarding Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books.)
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So #1-B for the silver and black (with notations) and #1-C (again, with notations) for the DM marble variant?
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Any updates on this?
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This week's update added the book title Adventurous Decade: Comic Strips In The Thirties, The. The actual title for this book is Adventurous Decade, The: Comic Strips In The Thirties which, as it turns out, is already in the database. The new title (the one with the "The" at the very end) should be deleted.
New book titles that were added include Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover (DAW) and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover (Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust). Should those have been indexed as Darkover (Marion Zimmer Bradley's…) (DAW) and
Darkover (Marion Zimmer Bradley's…) (Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust) ?The new comic title Kernel' Corn Trains a Champ looks like it has a stray punctuation mark in it. Also, the title appears on Atomic Avenue search results (the dropdown list of suggestions when you type Kernel into the search box) but brings up an error if you try to click through to the title page.
Time 2: The Satisfaction of Black Mariah was added back into the database. As described over in this thread last spring, this is an incorrect duplication of a long-existing entry.
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This title was added back into the database this week. 😡 A reminder that it is a duplicate of First Graphic Novel Book #12 which has been listed in the database for a very long time (since the Earth was cooling). I suggest a friendly note to the submittor so that they know what's up with this.
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Bleeding Cool reports that the deal between Heavy Metal and WhatNot/Massive has collapsed. Consequently, the relaunch of Heavy Metal [listed in the database as Heavy Metal (3rd series) ] won't be happening and orders for the solicited issues will be cancelled. That means Heavy Metal (3rd series) should be removed from the database.
Note also that the Bleeding Cool article contains a link to two additional variants for what is listed in ComicBase as Heavy Metal (2nd series) #320. So those variants should be added to the database.
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Word on the street is that Marvel has canceled orders for Spider-Man Brand New Day Omnibus. Don't know anything about plans to resolicit in the future. For now, at any rate, the existing title should be deleted from the database.
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This week's update added the comic book title Opps! All Babes. Based on the cover scans, it looks like that should really be Oops! All Babes.
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This week's content update added the book title 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I suggest changing this title to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Bantam) because the book has been in the public domain for some time. There are likely to be numerous publishers who have printed editions of this book over the years, and because of that context it isn't clear to me why this particular version shouldn't have publisher identifier in the title.
The book title Superman: Last Son of Krypton was also added. There is a comic book title in the database with the same title (presumably a holdover from before the creation of the different media types in the database). The comic book title should be deleted.
The book title Scorpion was added. There is a pre-existing comic book title in the database with the same name. Is this a problem? (These items appear to be entirely different items, so this isn't the same problem as the Superman: Last Son of Krypton title that I describe above.)
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My database is showing the publication frequency for the Bleeding Cool magazine as "Daily".
While the website publishes on a daily basis, it looks like the magazine was published somewhat irregularly but on a roughly bimonthly basis.
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If you mean "no" to Patrick's minimum print run question, I'd say that you are probably right as long as the item has multiple copies. I suspect that the single copy comics that I wrote and drew as a pre-teenager that exist only as single, original copies wouldn't qualify... but something that was actually produced as multiple copies is probably fair game, even if the "print run" was low.
So I would say "yes" to Patrick's question about sending them in from his database.
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@Mark J. Castaneda Thoughts on what I proposed in the OP for this thread?
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This week's content update added the following Book title: NIght Broken (Orbit). That should corrected to Night Broken (Oribit) [note change in capitalization]
Also added was the Book title Invisible Man, The. There is also a comic title with the same name. Is this a problem?
The Comic title Jack Kirby’s Starr Warriors: The Adventures of Adam Starr and the Solar Legion was added. Should this really be Starr Warriors: The Adventures of Adam Starr and the Solar Legion (Jack Kirby's...) or Starr Warriors (Jack Kirby's...): The Adventures of Adam Starr and the Solar Legion ?
New titles Strange Places Presents No Man’s Land and Strange Places Presents: Resident Alien were added to the Comic category. One of these has a colon in the title, the other does not. Are both of these titles correctly punctuated?
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6 hours ago, Mark J. Castaneda said:
I'll let the editorial team know to look into current value for Infinite Crisis #5. thanks for the heads up.
Keep an eye on Infinite Crisis #3 as well. That is apparently the very first appearance of Jaime Reyes (Infinite Crisis #5 is his first appearance in costume).
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On 6/18/2023 at 5:50 PM, Lance Fittro said:
Any interest in notes being added for comics seen in movies or television shows? Not films based on comics, but instances where a character is clutching a Superman comic, or there is a shot of a newsstand with comics on display?
I was watching Black Mirror today, and in S06E05 "Demon 79" spotted a copy of Power Man and Iron Fist #54 peeking out from under a bookshelf at 41:55, which sent me down a rabbit hole. Probably not a collecting niche I will ever pursue, but could be a fun game to play during a livestream. Are there notes like this already in the database that I've overlooked?
There is a long-running (if sporadically active) thread on this very topic over at the Collectededitions.com/Marvel Masterworks fansite message boards.
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That link is for the first issue of the 1986 series starring Ted Kord. I thought Jaime Reyes first appeared in issues of Infinite Crisis (cover dated 2006).
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This was covered in a Livestream a few weeks back. It only affects new DC floppies IRC. No plans to go back and renumber older DC issues.
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If you want go by indicia, then the answer is pretty clear: the new edition should go under the title Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (as I proposed in my OP).
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1 hour ago, Michael R. Wagner said:
Is the new volume a reprint of this book?
To answer your question in a super-picky way: no it isn’t a true reprint. It is a new edition: further restoration of the artwork, colors restored to the color guides of the original comics, and new set of bonus features in the back.
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Ordinarily that would be correct, but a number of later printings/versions of that volume have been placed under the Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man title that I linked to in my OP. We can’t move those books now, they have been there for years (and they should be listed someplace as they technically are not duplicates, they are new editions of the original book and reprinting a thereof). And I don’t think it makes sense to jump back to the old title at this point, especially since it is possible that this wave of MMW reissues could go beyond what the original books covered (I.e. go past what is listed in the original Marvel Masterworks title in the database).
I may be wrong, but I suspect that the original title really is just for the original run of the MMW books which only had the trade dress (hardcover “marble” dust jackets). Anything after that (I.e. starting with the Comicraft covers) goes into the separate MMW titles bc for a time the numbering of the original MMW series was abandoned. It wasn’t until after the Comicraft trade dress was dropped that the sequential MMW volume numbering was resumed, but when that happened it was confined to just the marble dj variant trade dress (the s&b dj trade dress kept to the title-specific volume numbering).
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Marvel has begun publishing new editions of old volumes of their Marvel Masterworks books. The first of these to come out is Amazing Spider-Man vol. 1 (and I have to say that it looks beautiful, especially compared to the original 1980's release of this book). All of these reissues will have silver & black dustjacket and DM-only "marble" dustjacket versions.
The indicia states that this book is "4th edition, 1st printing." The back of the dustjacket has "MMXXIII" so that this edition can be distinguished from other versions even if it is still in shrinkwrap.
How should this book be handled in the database? I am suggesting that it be listed under the Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man title as #1/HC-3 (for the s&b dj version) and #1/B (for the marble dj version). Normally the marble dj versions get the "A variant" designation, but for this particular book there are already A variants (the Comicraft cover dress editions) with multiple printings.
I would suggest that in the Notes for each of these would contain "4th edition, 1st printing." I would further suggest that the Item Description field indicate type of dustjacket and the MMXXIII notation.
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There have been recent discussions about standardizing creator names in such a way that all of a particular creators' works are returned from a search of the database but also somehow indicating when a pseudonym has been used. I am guessing that nicknames won't be included (Smilin' Stan Lee would be just Stan Lee and Jack "King" Kirby would be just Jack Kirby)... but that is just a guess on my part.