[Fun with apostrophes]

Had resubmitted, looks like there have been changes...

 

Out of my 50 or so, I guess these didn't meet standards for being reversed

 

Anna Malle's Dirty Deeds

Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders

Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders (Magazine Enterprises)

3 assorted that start with Bru-Hed's

3 publisher's forms of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang

Frank Miller's Sin City: The Making of the Movie

James Lloyd's Other Stuff

Paul Terry's Comics

Many "Walt Disney's" titles (as opposed to "Disney's")

Will Eisner's Quarterly

Woron's Worlds

[America (Ronald Searle's...)]

In rearranging the order of the possessive in this title, Ronald has changed to Ronalda...

[Magazine of Horror (H.P. Lovecraft's...)]

In rearranging the order of the possessive in the Comicbook entry, it now appears this is dual listed in both Comics and Magazines.

[Tales from the Brother's Grimm (Gris Grimly's...)]

In rearranging the possessive on this title, Mr. Grimly lost an 'r' from his name...

[Grimm Fairy Tales P/presents...]

P/presents still... present...

[5-ptych, or 3-ptych + 2-ptych?]

Going with 'overlapping cover'

[Batman (2nd Series) #50 and Superman (3rd Series) #50 variants]

Poking this thread to remind me to look through these issues for 'twin covers'.

[Clean up for 03/01/2023 content update]

I guess the distinction is that the Magazine, Youth, was not wholly Schulz's, yes?

[Super-secret, invite-only unlockable option for in-software cover submission override]

Because I like the thought of having things built-in to the program as opposed to having to work around the outside of the system.

Because if it did get implemented, it would be simpler to submit on the trusted user end, and I presume simpler to process on ComicBase's end, and would have less room for errors.  I have no idea how many e-mails they receive with outside-the-flow submissions, and if they come mainly form the same people or not.  It might be that there is utility to adding the feature in a way that it doesn't cause problems with the general user, and that this form of implementation hadn't been considered.

 

 It's a suggestion.  I make lots of them.  They're not all winners.

 

Yes, it would take some work.  A lot, I don't know.  The submission code is already there, with a check on image size; I don't know that it would take all that much to add a popup for override gated by a programable setting.

[Super-secret, invite-only unlockable option for in-software cover submission override]

If the problem is that the general public would misuse the feature, then make it a feature that's not available to all users.

[Landscape covers]

Thank you.

[Shipping death.]

I'm confused with what you are describing as the problem, and what you are suggesting as the solution.

 

3 different shippers?  As in, your order is for multiple items, being broken across multiple sellers, and thus being shipped in multiple shipments with multiple shipping charges?

 

As for your proposed solution, if I understand the proposal, how often would your seller(s) be local/co-local such that they could hand-deliver to a drop-off or shipping consolidation location?

[Landscape covers]

I don't begrudge the overlooked cases, and sorry if it sounds like I'm beating a horse that you think is already dead.  To be clear, it is acceptable for landscape-oriented covers to have landscape-oriented cover scans, regardless of the orientation of the internal printed material, yes?

[Comicbase should to add a hierarchy split between Issue Type/Number and Variation/Printing, with separate Notes.]

The database has lots of missing and incomplete notes, as the vast majority of them should carry across all printings and variations but aren't.  Best method for consistency, and for database size, would be to add a table separating Type/Number from Printing/Variation, having a single common Notes field per Type/Number, and a finely differentiated Notes field for every separate Printing/Variation.

[Rising Stars #1 4-ptychs]

There are, I think, two 4-ptychs (not triptychs) across variants of Rising Stars #1, one having a "Monster Edition" stamp on the covers.

 

1) #1/E & 1/H both show the unstamped third part.  I think 1/E should be the stamped part (see question 3)

2) #1/F shows the stamped fourth part, there appears to be no entry for the unstamped fourth part.

3) The unstamped variants appear to have Notes indicating "Forward by Neil Gaiman", while the stamped versions do not.  Is this a correct difference between the two variations?

[Street Fighter (Image) #10/A]

Item Description reads "Wraparound triptych cover".  unless there are 2 missing issues, I think this is a wraparound gatefold cover.

 

Am I right?

[DCeased or Dceased]

6 Titles, three "DCeased", three "Dceased"

[Copy issue identification as text]

Could also be used when highlighting other information in the grid, to automatically pre-pend issue identification.

 

Example, highlight several Item Description fields, right click "Copy with Issue Title & Type", paste a block of Title, Issue Type, Item Descriptions.

 

 

 

[Copy issue identification as text]

Works well if it's a search and has both Title and Item # columns...  

 

Avengers & Moon Girl	1/B
X-Men & Moon Girl	1/A
A.X.E.: X-Men	1/A

 

not so well if you're in a Title grid...

 

1/A

1/B

1/C

[X-Men (5th Series) #13/F]

Also also, 13/G has a wrong cover - collage instead of individual cover.

[Copy issue identification as text]

Add to the right-click menu for issues in the grid...

Copy Issue identification to clipboard.

 

Issue titles and Item numbers.

 

Would make reporting of issues with issues via forum or e-mail both faster and less typo-prone.

[Ability to submit cover scan corrections that are smaller or the same size as the existing scan.]

Yes... I understand we can do that...

I'm suggesting an additional in program way to do this that could fit better in the flow of user and the ComicBase editorial system.

 

Instead of the user copying the picture(s) into an e-mail, typing a message which might or might not contain typos or misinformation, and then requiring the editorial team to open the individual e-mails, read and understand the message, find title(s) and issue(s) in question and copy the pictures over.

[Ability to submit cover scan corrections that are smaller or the same size as the existing scan.]

As far as I know, there is no automated way to submit corrections of these kinds

1. Current scan is not cropped, either with extra edge graphics or the bare scanner bed.  Correction will probably be smaller.
2. Current scan is a collage when the book is only a portion of the collage.  Correction will probably be smaller.
3. Current scan is for the wrong book.  Correction might be smaller or same size.
4. Current scan needs a rotation.  Correction will probably be the same size.

I understand the normal process can avoid sending if the image is not larger, but a manual override can be useful in some circumstances.

[Landscape covers]

I understand the difficulties on consistency. 

I'm unclear on what this last statement is saying, though...  Are landscape-oriented scans for internally portrait oriented books acceptable?  And if so, is there a way to force a user correction submission for rotation, as that will generally be a same-size picture and not automatically submitted?

[Excel Hole Finder]

Apologies, I hadn't looked it up because I hadn't considered that it wasn't widely available.  Apparently, the spill formulas I used are available only in Excel 365 on the various platforms.  I knew they were new, but hadn't considered how new...

 

Thank you for trying.