Fred Slota

No, I am not saying that. The bags each have two items in the bag. For example, the one in m hand, received free from my store has: #14, a square-bound soft cover magazine, Issue #14 / Fall 2024 on the Spine, featuring Alien: Romulus on the cover. (There is no printed cover price) SE-23, a stapled soft cover magazine, Summer 2024 at the top of the cover, featuring Netflix Animation Preview on the cover. (There is no printed cover price) In each case, the polybags appear to contain 2 different magazines, one a regular issue (#2, 5, 7, 11 and now 14) and one a Special Edition (SE1, SE2, SE3, SE6 and now SE 23). I have only ever seen these issues offered at my store as polybagged pairs, never as unbagged issues. If they have ever been first-offered as stand-alone, unbagged issues, I am unaware of it, but it may have happened. Of course, there will be loose issues, as I'm sure some people have opened the bags to read the issues. I have considered the bagged vs. non-bagged difference, and ComicBase's handling of it, as an annoying systemic problem when dealing with bagged solo issues (like Robin III), or issues bagged with inclusions (like X-Force #1), but now, with the bagging of 2 issues in one bag, I think this is a horse of a different color and makes an even stronger case that CB needs to change how they handle this. If ComicBase and AtomicAvenue want to continue to treat their entries as representing individual, unbagged issues, then my suggestion is The Item Description should never mention the polybagging (or the inclusion, or the second issue) Rather, the Notes field (of both the regular and the SE) should mention this issue was originally offered polybagged with the other issue Ownership of bagged pairs will have atypical database entries and atypical storage. AA sales of bagged pairs will require special notes and will pollute the valuation data for those issues Alternatively, I suggest ComicBase and AtomicAvenue recognize that bagged items are separate entities from unbagged items, and my suggestion is Every physical bagged item would have two variants in ComicBase One for the unbagged issue, with an Item Description of the loose book with appropriate Notes (Den of Geek #2 as "sold polybagged with SE-1" and Den of Geek SE-1 as "sold polybagged with #2) One for the bagged issue, with an appropriate Item Description, (new Den of Geek #2/A as "Polybagged with SE-1") Owners can accurately record their bagged and unbagged variants and their storage will reflect that. AA sales will clearly separate bagged vs. unbagged sales, and valuation of said variations will be separate and clean as well.

Thought experiment... ComicBase (and Atomic Avenue) assume all entries are for singular, bare books. Den of Geek #2 has a current value of $5. SE1 has a current value of $10. If I make an Atomic Avenue listing for Den of Geek issue #2, and specify that it is polybagged with SE1 for $15 ($5 + $10), and the sale goes through, what will happen to the valuation of issue #2 in ComicBase in the future? (Incidentally, all 5 of the above each have an item on sale, at above $5, for polybagged pairs, so this is less a thought experiment and more an actual experiment in process.)

A couple of constructive suggestions... Keep a copy of your modifications in one of the CustomFields, allowing you to compare and recopy and resubmit if necessary. I've found it necessary multiple times. I generally wait for 2 weeks, 2 update cycles, before wondering at what has happened to my updates. When sending a large batch of updates for a related purpose, I tend to e-mail support to give them a heads up that its coming, and to work through issues when they don't all make it through.

Clarification... At my store, they only carried polybags with 2 magazines inside, Issue #2 (Suicide Squad on cover) and SE-1 (Jupiter's Legacy on cover). Similarly, bagged pairs of 5&SE2, 7&SE3 and 11&SE6. I don't know if they were ever initially provided as separate, unbagged issues. Was the #2 ever offered separately? I don't know. Was the SE-1 ever offered separately (you suggest it was)? I don't know. ComicBase wants to pretend that the bagged/unbagged distinction doesn't exist. Look at Robin III: Cry of the Huntress. 6 -SC variants, all initially bagged, all with official cover scans showing them in bags, yet no mention of the bags in either the Notes or Item Description. Inventorying, selling, buying or valuing bagged vs. unbagged, CB & AA can't help you. Sometimes ComicBase pretends it cares. Look at X-Force. #1-A through #1-E, sold bagged with one of 5 different cards, all with cover scans showing them in bags, with the cards, yet again no mention of the bags in either the Notes or the Item Description. You can see that the different cards produced different values for the sets, but what is the valuation of an unaccompanied, unbagged #1? CB doesn't care. Want to sell one? Have to pick one of the five flavors, but declare it sans card, which mucks up the valuation for actual issues with that card. Back to Den of Geek. Me personally, I would create three entries - one for the bagged pair (using an appropriate variant tag), and one each for the unbagged, separated mags (each with appropriate Notes/Item Descriptions). But, that's not how CB rolls. I think the entries for #2 and for #SE1 should represent unbagged, separated magazines. Mention of the bagging should be in the Notes field of both entries, with the Item Description only describing the individual book. That this will confuse anyone trying to sell or buy bagged pairs of issues, and distort the valuation of these issues, meh, who cares (besides me)?

You slightly misunderstand the request I was making. I was less concerned with the data integrity issue with replacing either a 0 quantity or sane quantity with an insane quantity ; I was more looking to streamline the process to perform the actually intended act that the UPC scan was meant to do in the first place

And this is why I question ComicBase's bag-agnostic stance. Issue 2, Item Description "Polybagged with Jupiter's Legacy Special Edition" (Ancillary problem - should be Den of Geek SE 1, yes?) Issue 5, Item Description "Polybagged with Vikings: Valhalla Special Edition" (Ancillary problem - should be Den of Geek SE 2, yes?) Issue 7, Item Description "Polybagged with The Sandman Special Edition" (Ancillary problem - should be Den of Geek SE 3, yes?) Issue 11, Item Description "Polybagged with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Special Edition" (Ancillary problem - should be Den of Geek SE 6, yes?) Issue SE 1, Item description does not mention polybagged with Issue 2 Issue SE 2, Item description does not mention polybagged with Issue 5 Issue SE 3, Item Description does not mention polybagged with Issue 7 Issue SE 6, Item Description does not mention polybagged with Issue 11. Questions - Were the above issues 2, 5, 7, 11 ever also first-offer available in separate, unbagged form? Were the above issues SE1, SE2, SE3, SE6 ever first-offer available in separate, unbagged form? Is the Price valuation for Issue 2 contingent on it being still in bag? Contingent on being sold with SE1? Is the price valuation for SE1 its standalone value? Or as a set? Currently, the value for Issue 2 is $5, while the value of SE1 is $10. If I'm selling an Issue 2 on AtomicAvenue out of bag, on its own, do I have to specify that in some field to inform the seller that this is not polybagged with SE1? If the seller doesn't specify, and the buyer receives an out of bag, on its own Issue 2, has something wrong taken place? If I'm selling an Issue 2 on AtomicAvenue in bag with the included SE2, would a 'fair' price be the current listed $5 for Issue 2, or $5+$10 = $15? Currently, neither Issue 14 nor SE 23 makes any claim of having been polybagged with anything. I am holding an Issue 14 polybagged with SE 23. Do I enter it in my database as Issue 14, update the Item Description to "Polybagged with Den of Geek SE 23" and submit the update? If this Item Description is accepted, can that cause problems with current or future AtomicAvenue listings for others when that new Item Description is pushed into their databases? Do I enter it in my database as newly created Issue 14-A with the Item Description "Polybagged with Den of Geek SE 23" and submit as a new variant? Should I also say that I own SE 23? Or is that assumed when I claim to own either my above-described modified #14 or my above-described #14-A?

Has this ever happened to you? You have a stack of books and are searching and modifying quantities with the aid of a bar code scanner, and not using Add by Barcode. You scan a book, change the quantity, and scan the next book without refocusing the cursor on the Search Bar, and so have entered a 12-17 digit number in the quantity field for a random issue? Would it be possible to detect that this has happened, that you have entered a preposterously large quantity value, and deduce that you were searching for that number rather than entering it as a quantity? Revert the quantity field to its original value and either automatically search for the new issue or pop-up the suggestion to search? Yes, you can escape the value entered, re-focus on the search bar and re-scan the issue, but a faster option might be helpful.

Oh, BTW, the Find Window will usually reopen in the last position, even when on my right monitor screen. I'm uploading new scans, so I'm running and re-running an Advanced Find for (I.[Marked] = TRUE) AND (I.[PictureHeight] IS NULL) which I rerun after adding pictures, title by title (avoiding issues when my search has multiple titles with identical issue numbers). Reopening the search window, whether by clicking the magnifying glass, or reselecting Find | Advanced Find, and the Find window reopens where I last left it, which was fully but off center in my right monitor. So, at least one aspect of ComicBase is able to maintain a repeated window location in one of my secondary monitors.

So, after setting my pictures directory back to the standard one and turning the "download new covers automatically" back on, which involved three pop-ups opening on my laptop instead of my right monitor, I go to check for updates... Check for updates small pop-up in the center if my right monitor. Comicbase 2025 Archive Edition window with animated logo large pop-up in the center of my right monitor. ComicBase 2025 Archie Edition "A new content update is available. Download it now? Y/N" pop-up in the center of my right monitor. Click yes. Update Options window appears int he center of my right monitor. Click Update. Downloading Update appears in the center of my laptop monitor. Move to the right monitor. Processing Update appears in the middle of my laptop monitor. Just some more information about different window location behaviors to help.

I don't know if this is asking for too much inside baseball, or letting us peek behind the curtain too much, but is there any interest and/or use in having an evaluation on the strength of the price valuation of individual issues? I'm picturing something that could convey the differences between the reported price of a book with 50 transactions this week vs. 1 transaction this week vs. 1 transaction 1 year ago vs. its only history being that someone submitted its information to ComicBase 6 years ago.

Is there any concern for clashes between existing (or future) titles and the assigning of Item Title to cover-changed titles? For example, 2013 saw the Batman titles do a month of weekly x.1-x.4 numbered villain-featured stories with Lenticular and regular variant covers, and each of these issues overwrote the regular series title on the cover. Take Batman & Robin (2nd Series) #23.1, which graffities the title on the cover with "Two Face #1". I would think this could be Item Titled "Two Face" (Side Note - what to do about the "#1" vs. "#23.1"... Item Title sounds like it shouldn't also have an issue number in it, and there's no other field for an alternate issue number). At the time, there were no other "Two Face" titles. But now, 10 years later, we do have a "Two Face". For me to Item Title this Batman & Robin one off as "Two Face" might seem like it has a connection to the new series, which it doesn't. Any thoughts?

I have other programs that have no problem remembering that they were closed when full screened on the side monitors. I typically operate with Chrome full screened on the left monitor, and as long as that is the last Chrome window I close, when I later launch Chrome, it opens full screened on the left. I actually am slightly annoyed by the reverse issue with most programs. I tend to leave my laptop on my desk, hooked up to both monitors, but I normally don't turn on the right monitor most of the time. If I last used File Explorer or Excel on the right monitor, when I launch it later, it opens on the turned-off-but-still-connected monitor, forcing me to shift in my seat and reach to turn that monitor back on to move the window back off that monitor. So, there shouldn't be a problem with ComicBase remembering where it was and reopening in the same place.

running 25.1.1.1973, Thumbnails now load and reload fine in Add by Barcode (and publisher logos look fine, too).

Let's test that. Laptop currently running with both auxiliary monitors on. Launch ComicBase (2025.1.1.1973). Splash in center of Laptop Screen. Opens full screen on the Laptop screen. Move to the right aux monitor and Full Screen on Right. Close ComicBase with X button, closes after backing up database (backup progress popup in Aux monitor) Relaunch ComicBase. Splash in center of Laptop Screen. Opens full screen on the Laptop screen. Move to the right aux monitor and Full Screen on Right. File | File Tools. File Tools window opens in the center of the laptop screen. Move to the right monitor. Dismiss File Tools window. File | File Tools. File Tools window opens in the center of the laptop screen. Move to the right monitor. Manage Picture and Movies. Window opens in the center of the laptop screen. Move to the right monitor. Dismiss Window. Manage Pictures and Movies. Window open in the center of the laptop screen. Dismiss both windows. Setup |Preferences. Preferences window opens in the center of the laptop screen. Move to the right monitor. Cancel the Window. Setup | Preferences. Preferences window opens in the center of the laptop screen. Cancel the window. Double Click an issue (in ComicBase full screen in the right monitor). The Issue information window opens in the middle of the laptop screen. Move to the right monitor. Cancel the window. Double Click an issue. The issue information window opens in the middle of the laptop screen. Cancel the Window. File | Exit. ComicBase (backup progress popup in Aux monitor). Nope. Not happening for me.

As a smaller cover, will that auto-download, or will I have to delete that scan to get the newer, smaller scan?

Incorrect UPC for #5/A, and I presume the other variants. incorrect: 70985304068200511 correct: 70985304017000511

Just upgraded to v25, and it continues to happen.

A little conflicted on the scan for this book. The back does have the title, and marvel slug with issue number, important issue information, as well as the UPC and attributions, but is it really an integral part of the cover?

So, I run a multi-monitor setup, and get annoyed by every single pop-up. Usually, I run ComicBase on a secondary monitor (which is wider than my laptop and shows more columns in the grid) with other things happening in the primary laptop screen, and every single popup and sub-window opens in middle of my main monitor. Change settings - main monitor. Check for updates - main monitor, Add by Barcode - main monitor. Would it be possible to have these windows open in the window that the program is actually running in?

Yes. In my case, the cropping is made more noticeable, since I believe I had a smaller preliminary cover scan already which is scaled correctly as the thumbnail, so when the new scan is downloaded and the new thumbnail is generated, your eye notices the change of scale

That is the parenthetical I mentioned in passing in my third sentence. That is not the main point of my posting, which I described in my fifth, final sentence.

Updated 7/C scan submitted.

1/I submitted

Wouldn't submit new scan. Here it is...

Will have to wait for my next new book run