Fred Slota

Did you know that the suggestions for searching for people's names is punctuation-specific? I didn't. Search for Cover Artist, start typing "J S" and there is an entry for "Campbell, J Scott", which did not find the books I knew existed. Because, they're entered under "Campbell, J. Scott", which you can only find if you start typing "J. S". 1) I think the search should ignore punctuation. 2) I assume the standard for data entry is to include the ".", yes? incidentally, there are also entries for "Cambell, J. Scott" and "Campbel, J. Scott".

...sigh... I'll rephrase my original question... Which is the correct store name to use in ComicBase?

Which is the correct store name? Finding both in Item Descriptions.

4) Amazing Spider-Man, The #800/P, Item Description "Midtown Comics Connecting Variant Cover by Francesco Mattina". Appears to be 2nd of a diptych, having a split Spider-Man on the left edge. Cover Date 7/1/2018. Might the 1st of diptych be Venom (4th Series) #1/V30, Item Description "Midtown Comics Connecting Virgin Variant Cover by Francesco Mattina & Will Sliney", also with a 7/1/2018 Cover Date? There is no image at the moment.

Clayton Crain has a 5-ptych of covers that have been rendered in several ways... The 5 different background colors versions, 796-800, variants A, I, I, E and U The 5 different background colors virgin versions, 796-800, variants B,J, J, F, V And white background virgin versions, 796-800, variants C, ???, A-3 & Q, ???, ??? 1) Is 798/A-3 a real book, or just a duplicate of 798/Q? 2) Are there/should there be entries for 797, 799 and 800 white background virgin variants?

Just noticed entries in the indexed Cover Artists lists for Arreola, Ken Lashley & Ulises Arreola, Ken Lashley and Ulises If I went through the various people fields and corrected "& and "and" and the like (and submitting for updates), will the indexing correct itself locally if I (and others after receiving updates) rebuild indexes, or is this something that needs to be done in house?

Question, is the database structured as I guessed at above, that rather than having the spelled-out title once, as a field in the Title Table, that the Issues Table has a separate highly repetitious and open to inconsistancies Title Field?

3) The 5-ptych cover conveniently collected in the gatefold cover of Uncanny Inhumans, The (2nd Series) #1/C... ?????, featuring Black Bolt Uncanny Inhumans, The (2nd Sereis) #1/B Uncanny Inhumans, The (2nd Series), #2/A All-New Inhumans #1/B Karnak #1/B 3a) Is the Cover Artist "Jim Cheung" different from "Jimmy Cheung"?

My eye was drawn to the one-off difference as I was scrolling. Ironically, the one-off is what should be the correct capitalization, yes? This is probably related to my earlier X-Men '92: House of XCII posting, as it is odd capitalization of title in a search grid.

The cover scan is an uncropped full scanner image.

2_ Action Comics #1054/B, Item Description "Super-Workout Connecting Card Stock Variant Cover by David Talaski"

Starting m campaign to clean up the recording of connecting covers, and right from the start, I find some holes that I think I could use some help identifying. Found 294 issues with "tych" in Notes or Item Description, 1,126 with "connect" (which might or might not be what I'm looking for), totaling 1,415 with overlaps. 1) The first issue in m list is 10th Muse #2/D, 2/F, 2/G, all with the same cover scan, all with identical Item Description of "1 of 4 interconnecting covers (leftmost)", yet 2/F is supposedly Gold Foil and 2/ is supposedly Red Foil. There are no other comics with "of 4 interconnecting". I'm guessing 2/D is the correct 1st; any idea who the other three were?

Scrolling through a Search Grid (Cover Artist "Arthur Adams", if you're curious to replicate), and my eye was caught by a shift in the data in the grid. Scroll back to identify it, and I find that amidst multiple issues with the Title "Guardians Of the Galaxy (4th Series)", one (Bk 5/HC) has the Title "Guardians of the Galaxy (4th Series)". I'm guessing that the Issues Table carries a full spelled out text field for the book Title, which should coordinate with the Official Title field in the Title Table, which in addition to being wasteful in space, is inconsistent in that it is not forced to match?

Politely suggest, someone looking up a book by the title does not care the number of titles found, and when the list is long and semi-alphabetic is not likely to look past the first alphabetic run.

*singing* One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong...

... and given the standard practice of Comicbase is to use "(nth Series)" ... and given that the first series, entered as "Timeless (Marvel)" was already published in 2022, so wouldn't help to clarify the situation. Given that the first series, "Timeless (Marvel)" already had the qualifier "(Marvel)", shouldn't the proper title be "Timeless (Marvel, 2nd Series)"?

Looks like the last one has been corrected to the fully researched proper typography. Thank you.

So, "B&V Friends Forever" is an anthology series with covers that all claim to be different #1s of comics with different subtitles. Poster child for the existence of the "Item Title" field, and all the issues have separate "Item Titles". And, when you use the Find bar to search for "Betty and Veronica Fr", they are all listed as suggestions, just like you would want. Except..... Let's ignore the first suggestion listed, which is inconsistently entered without a ":". I've submitted an update for issues 15 and 15/A. Why are the rest of the entries not listed in alphabetical order? They appear to be in three alphabetical subsets, for which I can't guess at an explanation. Why bother listing multiple entries for the same hit? Yes, some of the issues have variants, each entered with the same "Item Title", but when you click on one of these "Item Title" matches, you launch a find for "Item Titles" matches which will show you all the matches. No need for two entries for the same search that will generate a list of the 2 issues, is there?

"Betty & Veronica: Friends Forever" has been removed. Thank you. "Betty and Veronica: Friends Forever: Christmas Party" has been removed. Thank you. Question - When "Betty and Veronica: Friends Forever: Christmas Party" had existed as a separate title, it had listed a #1 and a #1/A, while "B&V Friends Forever" only has a #18. Was there a Variant A? Question - I see there is a new entry for 2023 title of "Betty and Veronica: Friends Forever: Rock 'N' Roll" with an issue #1. Should this be a new title, or issue #19 of "B&V Friends Forever"? If it's own title, might it be "B&V Friends Forever (2nd series)" instead?

My list of 50-or-so Titles with apparently leading possessives that probably need to be renamed from "Joe Smith's Book" to "Book (Joe Smith's...)" has not been addressed et, based on my quick survey of the first three titles.

Books - The Seventh Sigil -> Seventh Sigil, The

Poke poke... 😉

Justice League of America (2nd Series) now showing as 2006-2011. Thank you.

No longer any 1997 cover dates. Thank you.

Came up with this as a side-effect of discussing a slightly unrelated problem, thought I would cross-post this as an actual feature suggestion. When using "Add by Barcode" and an entered issue does not have a local cover scan, the software could do an automatic check and download of an official cover scan. Probably with an opt-in setting on the "Add by Barcode" window.