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    Clean up for 01/10/2024 content update

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    This week's updated added the book title Hellboy: Odder Jobs.  That title is still listed in the database as a comic title as well, but that is a holdover from the old days when there weren't multiple media categories.  The new title should stay, the older comic title should be removed.  
    Similar situation for Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors -- this week's update added a (correct) book title but the old comic title still needs to be deleted.  
    [And in the same vein, Hellboy: Odd Jobs and Hellboy: Oddest Jobs are still listed as comic titles, but those need to be shifted over to the Books category.]

    Also added was the comic title The Return of Mister X.  This is a duplicate of Mister X (Vol. 1) Collector's Set #1/A.  The cover prices for the two seem to be different, so I'm guessing that the new entry is simply a later printing.  In any event, this trade paperback reprints the first several issues of Mister X (Vol. 1) so I suggest that the new title isn't necessary and should be deleted.  

    The comic title Tuff Shit was added this week.  I thought that the CB policy was to use an asterisk for naughty words (such as f*ck), but maybe I'm an old fuddy duddy and missed the memo that the "s-word" is substantially more acceptable than the "f-word" such that it doesn't need to be censored.  (Then again, the liberal in me and the purist in me both say that the "f-word" shouldn't be censored in the database, but what do I know?)  

    Clean up for 01/04/2024 content update

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    In addition to the items discussed in this thread (a big thank you to @Randall J. Paske ? ), this week's updated added the book title Strangers in Paradise.  There is already a comic title Strangers in Paradise, so the new title (the book title) should probably be re-named to something like Strangers in Paradise (Graphitti).  

    Note also that somewhere along the line the scan for Strangers in Paradise (the comic book title) #1 got replaced with the solicitation image of the Graphitti book.  That should get fixed, too.  

    Also added to the database is the new comic title Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck from IDW last year.  Back in 2016 IDW released a book that appears to have had similar contents at the very least.  Can anybody verify whether the 2023 release is a new printing of the 2016 book with a new cover, or are the contents different enough that this warrants a new title in the database?  

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    Threshold series

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    The database includes the following comic book titles:  Threshold (1st series), Threshold (2nd series), and Threshold (3rd series).  

    The first and second series are related to each other, so their titles in the database make complete sense.  Threshold (3rd series) has nothing at all to do with the first two series by that name, its a completely different thing by different creators and coming out from a different publisher.  

    I recognize that Threshold (3rd series) has been in the database for a very long time, but I thought I would float up a trial balloon anyway to see if there was interest in re-naming Threshold (3rd series) to Threshold (Avatar).  

    Marvel Masterworks putting out new editions of old volumes

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    I see that the database includes one of the recent re-issues of Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man #2, but it is listed as #2/A (2nd print).  That issue should be deleted.  

    In keeping with our discussion above, the silver & black re-issue of that book should be MM:TAS-M #2/D and the marble variant re-issue of that book should be MM:TAS-M #2/E.  I will try to get those submitted in the next couple of days.  

    Unrecognized issues and unable to add them so that CB/AA recognizes them

    in Tech Support

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    Those titles have been moved to the Magazines category.  

    Multiple ways to fix this, either of the below should work for you.  Whichever on you choose, it should obviously be done in the database you are using to upload inventory to AA.  My instructions here are for the CBLDF Defender title, you will need to repeat these same instructions for the CBLDF Defender (Vol. 2) title.  

    STRATEGY 1: 

    1.  Do a search for CBLDF Defender. 

    2.  You should see multiple "hits", one of which is CBLDF Defender in the Magazine category.  Go to the Magazine version of the title.  Delete the title.  

    3.  Go the to the Comic Book version of the CBLDF Defender title.  Change the media type to Magazine.  

    4.  Upload your inventory to AA.  

    STRATEGY 2:

    1.  Do a search for CBLDF Defender. 

    2.  You should see multiple "hits", one of which is CBLDF Defender in the Magazine category.  Go to the Magazine version of the title.  Enter all of your CBLDF Defender inventory information on that title (don't forget to check the "For Sale" box where appropriate).  

    3.  Go the to the Comic Book version of the CBLDF Defender title.  Change all inventory under that title to Quantity In Stock = 0.

    4.  Upload your inventory to AA.  (The next time you do a content update on that database, the old Comic Book version of the title should be deleted if you have the proper settings checked off *AND* it contains no issues in stock.)  

    Reckless

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    23 minutes ago, Randall J. Paske said:

    Isn't the first book just titled Reckless?  With the latest update, that's an unrecognized title in my database. I moved my quantities of the second and third books to the new titles, but I think the first book should stay put. And the title should not have been deleted from the master database.

    Or have I missed something?

    That's a good catch, I didn't realize that the *entire* Reckless title got removed.  

    As you say, the Reckless title should exist but only have issue #1-HC under it for exactly the rationale you give.  All of the subsequent issues that used to be listed there should be under their own titles which is the case now for the second, third, and fifth books.  The fourth book (The Ghost in You: A Reckless Book) is still missing.  

    I have resubmitted Reckless (i.e., the first book) and TGiY:ARB.  Hopefully Mark can get the clean-up sorted out for next week's content update.  

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    Atlas Comics Library from Fantagraphics

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    The database contains the comic title Adventures into Terror (Fantagraphics).  The book's cover, spine, and title page all state Atlas Comics Library No. 1 Adventures Into Terror Vol. 1.  (The title of the book is not listed on the indicia page.)  Upcoming books from Fantagraphics include the following titles:
    •  Atlas Comics Library No. 2: Venus Vol. 2
    •  Atlas Comics Library No. 3: In the Days of the Rockets!
    •  Atlas Comics Library No. 4: War Comics Vol. 1

    Based on the above, I suggest that the Adventures into Terror (Fantagraphics) title be renamed Atlas Comics Library and that the existing Adventures into Terror book be listed as #1-HC under the new ACL title.  Future releases should be listed under ACL using the sequential numbering to which Fantagraphics appears to have committed.  

    Gotham by Gaslight deluxe edition

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    Also, in looking at the existing listings for the current Batman: Gotham by Gaslight title in the database, I see that issues #1-2, #1-3, and #1-7 all state that they reprint the original Batman: Gotham by Gaslight and also Batman: Master of the Future, but none of the other issues that are in the so-called deluxe edition.  So those items would need to go into their own title as well.  I don't own any of them, so I don't know how the indicia reads.  But I suspect that when we are all done there will be something along lines of the following in the databse:

    •  Batman: Gotham by Gaslight [the original 1989 one-shot]

    •  Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2nd series) [would cover the editions from 2006 through ???? that reprint B:GbG and B:MotF; currently listed as #1-2, #1-3, and #1-7 in the database]

    •  Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (3rd series)  [would cover the so-called deluxe hardcover and new trade paperback that reprint B:GbG, B:MotF, Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Gotham by Gaslight #1, and Convergence: Shazam! #1 & #2.  

    Also:  it also looks like issue #1-8 in the database is the same thing as the brand new "deluxe" trade paperback.  So that the info for that issue can be used to populate the info for Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (3rd series) #Bk 1.  

    Reckless

    in Content and Corrections

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    4 hours ago, Gregory Hecht said:

    I think that the original titles are all still in my database from when I purchased these ogns as they were not all lumped under one title initially. So it should be easy for me to find these in my database and send them in. 

    I submitted info for Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book , Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book , and Ghost In You, The: A Reckless Book.  I haven't had a chance to make scans.  I'm not sure when I will be able to get to those, so if somebody else can get that done easily, they should do so.  

    I thought that I have Follow Me Down: A Reckless Book, but apparently I don't.  ?  So somebody else will need to submit that item in its entirety.  

    Reckless

    in Content and Corrections

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    2 hours ago, Steven L. Dasinger said:

    Gregory Hecht, unless you have the actual books or just want to enter them, I can create the new titles.

    I think that the original titles are all still in my database from when I purchased these ogns as they were not all lumped under one title initially. So it should be easy for me to find these in my database and send them in. 

    Reckless

    in Content and Corrections

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    I noticed this evening that somewhere along the line the Reckless graphic novels by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips all got grouped under a single title.  I can understand the rationale for this, but I wanted to point out that these books are not numbered in the indicia, on either the front or back covers, or on the spine. 

    There isn't necessarily a big problem leaving them all under a single title, but I thought I would mention it in case it doesn't match up with the current ComicBase editorial policy.  

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