Fred Slota
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Comics, K-Z
Kia Asamiya's Dojinshi Sketchbook
Michael Neno's Dream
Mike Zeck's Classic Marvel Stories Artist's Edition
Mort Drucker's MAD Show-Stoppers
Nicholson's Small Press Tirade and Other Works: 1983-1989
Paul Terry's Comics
R. Crumb's Carload O'Comics
Ronald Searle's America
Sam Glanzman's USS Stevens: The Collected Stories
Schulz's Youth
Shade's Cover Girls
Shade's Goodtime Girls
Shade's Superhero Sexcapades
Virgil Finlay's Illustrations for Weird Tales
Many "Walt Disney's" titles (as opposed to "Disney's")
Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics
Will Eisner's 3-D Classics: Spirit
Will Eisner's Quarterly
Will Eisner's The Spirit
Woron's Worlds
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I suggest that CB add a step to the process by which they generate weekly content updates, where they run a few screening tests on new titles, in an effort to prevent adding malformed titles.
- Test for initial "A", "An", "The", etc.
- Test for initial creator possessives, "Stan Lee's"
- Test for proper/improper directional apostrophes, quotes, etc.
- Test for proper/improper dashes
- Test for proper/improper spacing around punctuation
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Thought I'd do a search for possible initial possessive titles that might need retitling.
My initial search gave way fewer results than I expected, and I realized that CB mostly uses ’ and not the ' directly typable from my keyboard.
Search for I.[Title] LIKE "%'%" returns:
- 11 results in Books
- 502 results in Comic Books
- 0 results in Magazines
- 0 Results in Newspapers
A couple of finds searching for (I.[Title] LIKE "%’s%") and not(I.[Title] LIKE "%(%’s%)%") (typed by hand, probably has the wrong ', don't copy-and-paste)
Comicbooks (searched through the J's...)
Akira Toriama's Manga Theater
Alberto Breccia's Dracula
Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets
Anna Malle's Dirty Deeds
Bill Stern's Sports Book
Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders
Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders (Magazine Enterprises)
3 assorted that start with Bru-Hed's
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang (Fawcett)
Clive Barker's Nightbreed Archive
Ed Wheelan's Joke Book
Frank Brunner's Carnal Delights
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism
Frank Miller's Sin City: The Making of the Movie
George Pal's Puppetoons
Gris Grimly's Tales from the Brother's Grimm
H.P. Lovecraft's Beauty and the Beast
H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
Ippongi Bang's Canvas Diary
Jack Kirby's Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth
Jack Kirby's Marvel Heroes and Monsters
James Kochalka's Sketchbook Diaries
James Lloyd's Other Stuff
Jim Starlin's Dreadstar Omnibus
Joe Matt's "Jam" Sketchbook: Feb. 1995to Ma 1998
John Buscema's Marvel Heroes
John Byrne's Marvel Classics Artifacts Edition
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
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Thanks for that. Given the graphical choices on the E-mail, I hadn't noticed that line as a link.
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My at minimum wasn't that the note, as a whole, should go in Item Title; just the cover misspelled title.
In the example given, for that issue, Item Title would have "Marvel Calender"
Isn't the point of "Item Title" to help direct the user into finding the correct title when the title on the cover isn't the official title?
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At minimum, should notes about cover misspellings have the appropriate information carried into the new field for alternate title names (apologies I forget the field name)?
Database purist that I am, assuming that info is carried into the new field, I would recommend that the note be removed from Notes...
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I just started getting them the other day, and given the volume of my postings, I was suspicious that I didn't remember seeing them before.
So, to be clear, there is no "Mark as Solution" button available, and I should ignore e-mails referring to them?
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I'm getting more e-mails asking me to validate the solution posts on more threads. Would love to comply. How?
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Might be an interesting exercise for HC to do a check for dupe UPCs in modern times.
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I think the series ended with 6?
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Searched for Title LIKE "%X-Men%House%"... Title on top has the corrected capitalization, Title in the grid has the wrong capitalization.
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Which question was that answering, as "2023" were possible options for both?
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Follow-up question - What is the proper way to enter the Years for a miniseries that started in 2023, will end in 2023, but not all issues are out? "2023"? "2023-Present"? "Present"?
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Submitting some corrections.
Question - What is the proper way to enter the Years for Iron Man (7th Series), which started in 2023 and is ongoing? "Present"? "2023-Present"?
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Finally got around to changing this manually. The title now shows with fully-capitalized Roman Numbers in the Titles list, and as the Title on the screen when I am looking at Issues of that Title.
Noticed someone had left a note to Comicbase about the capitalization in the Notes field of one of the issues. Decided to search the database for any others, so I could clean them out and submit the cleaned issues. Search only found 1 instance, so that's good. However, I noticed that in the search results grid, the wrong capitalization is still showing in the Title field of the grid. Would a list rebuild correct this?
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So, I'm now getting e-mails asking me to mark post that gave the solution. The E-mail directs me to click a "Mark as Solution" button on the appropriate post.
Umm, I'm not seeing any buttons of this type.
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The ability to generate reports of all issues, owned and missing, of Titles that I Own, grouped by Title, sorted by Issue, is very useful at completing Titles.
Wouldn't it be nice to generate reports of all issues, owned and missing, of Storylines that I own, grouped by Storyline, sorted by Part, to aid in completing Storylines?
In order for this to work usefully, it would be helpful if the things reported in the Storyline field were separable between "This is the name of the multi-part Storyline Series", "This is the name of this chapter of the multi-part Storyline Series", "This is the name of this Issue's standalone Storyline" and "These are the names of the individual tales in this anthology Issue". You know me, I would love to separate this into separate fields.
Thankfully, the current task can be mostly accomplished without this, by recognizing the difference between Storyline entries that are unique vs. those that are repeated in multiple different issue entries. For example, the Storyline "Funeral for a Florist! (text story)" appears in a single issue, In the Days of the Mob #1, while the Storyline "Funeral for a Friend" occurs across 8 different issues (and is the shared with a 2-parter in Transformers, The (Marvel UK), not to be confused with the single issue Storyline "Funeral for a Friend!" in The Transformers #26). Obviously, some editorialization would be needed.
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Clarify, for those listening to mid-conversation posts focusing on one detail or another, and thus helpfully providing incomplete answers.
Ideally, I'd like to get at least
Title, Publisher, Years, Issue, Quantity, Condition, Price, Cover Date, Street Date, Storyline, Wanted, Custom Check Boxes, each as separate fields
For both Owned and Missing issues, of Titles that I Own.
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I'm back to working on my Hole Finder Project, for which I need information about both Owned and all Unowned Issues for Titles that I own.
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2023 is for series that ended in 2023, while Present is for ongoing series, yes?
I think some cleanup is needed.
Partial list of false Presents
Amazing Spider-Man (5th Series)/(6th Series)
Black Widow (7th Series)/(8th Series)
Iron Man (6th Sereis)/(7th Series)
Justice League of America (2nd Series)/(5th Series)
Teen Titans (5th Series)/(6th Series)
Thor/Thor (6th Series)
Uncanny X-Men (3rd Series)/(5th Series)
Wolverine (6th Series)/(7th Series)
Partial List of 2023 that might be Present?
Batgirls
Batman Incorporated (3rd Series)
Deadpool (8th Series)
Fantastic Four (7th Series)
Gambit (8th Series)
Ghost Rider (11th Series)
Human Target (4th Series)
I am Batman
Immortal X-Men
Iron Man (7th Series)
Justice Society of America (3rd Series)
Marauders (2nd Series)
Savage Avengers (2nd Series)
Spider-Man (4th Series)
Star Wars (3rd Series)
Strange (3rd Series)
X-Force (6th Series)
X-Men (6th Series)
X-Treme X-Men (3rd Series)
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Argh.
An idea how often this has happened, how many titles this effects?
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I'll look into these in a little bit. Thanks.
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I think ComicBase should add the concept of Prime Issues.
Prime Issues are non-variant first print issues if they exist; if they don't then they are variant A first print issues. This would exist for all types, whether Regular, Annual, Book, etc.
Identifying Prime Issues would allow ComicBase to do a variety of things:
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Titles can indicate how many issues are in a Title.
- Titles can indicate if you have a complete set of Prime Issues.
- Titles can indicate how many Qualified Issues are owned, how many are missing, and what percent of completeness you have.
- You could generate reports of Title Completeness.
- You could search based on "Titles >= 90% complete" or "Titles missing <= 3 Prime Issues"
- You could add these to Wanted.
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Additionally, Qualified Issue Ownership could have four levels
- Prime only
- Prime or any variant, first print only
- Prime variant only, any print
- Prime or any variant, any print
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With Prime Issues and Qualified Issue Ownership levels, ComicBase can identify ownership holes
- can search for "Prime not Qualified Owned run <= 3"
- You could add these to Wanted.
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Titles can indicate how many issues are in a Title.
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The Export feature has a checkbox for Export only Owned Issues, but I'm looking to process information for Owned Titles only.
An exported Item Checklist Report allows me to select all Owned Titles and get some information about owned and missing issues, but I'm looking to get a little more information.
At a minimum, I would like to get Cover Date and/or Street Date. Wanted and Storyline would be good, too.
Export, including everything, returns too much information to load into Excel.
Any thoughts?
Fun with ellipses...
in Content and Corrections
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Triple period vs. Ellipses