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Here Comes…Daredevil                    Marvel    US    none
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[Clean up for 09/13/2023 content update]

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21 minutes ago, Mark J. Castaneda said:

Seems like there's a duplicate listing here, would this mean don't even bother keeping Fantastic Four, The (Pocket Books) #Bk 1?

The short answer is no. Indeed, Bk 3 in Fantastic Four, The (Paperbacks). This Series was published by Lancer (Books) and not Marvel. There were 2 book.

The Fantastic Four published by Pocked (Books) does need its own title.

PS Bk 4 in Fantastic Four, The (Paperbacks) does not belong there, either. This was a different title published by Marvel.

For now, just set up the new 'Fantastic Four, The (Pocket)' (or Pocket Books). I will need more research to try to untangle this mess. When I do, I will notify you on Slack.

 

[Clean up for 09/13/2023 content update]

There are a few corrections.

A) 'Spider-Woman (Book)' publisher Marvel is incorrect. The Publisher is Pocket (Books).

Should be either 'Spider-Woman (Pocket Books)' or 'Spider-Woman (Pocket)' with Publisher Pocket.

B) Title 'Stan Lee Presents the Incredible Hulk' and 'Incredible Hulk, The (Pocket Books)' are duplicate titles. Probably delete 'Stan Lee Presents the Incredible Hulk' (see next item)

C) Title 'Stan Lee Presents the Fantastic Four' should changed to 'Fantastic Four, The (Pocket Books) or 'Fantastic Four, The (Pocket)'.

All the other Marvel reprint in this 'set' of books are entered without the 'Stan Lee Presents':
Amazing Spider-Man, The (Pocket Books, 1st Series)
Amazing Spider-Man, The (Pocket Books, 2nd Series)
Captain America (Pocket Books)
Doctor Strange (Pocket Books)
Incredible Hulk, The (Pocket Books)
Spider-Woman (Book)

Note 1: As you can see most of these have (Pocket Books) in the title name instead of just Pocket. I am not suggesting they all be changed to just (Pocket) but at least be consistent when changing the titles (Spider-Woman and Fantastic Four) so they all use the same format.

Note 2: 'Stan Lee Presents' isn't used consistently with these books and looks more like 'trade dress' then actually part of the title name.

If you have more questions, let me know.

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[Picture Files]

Depends what Edition you have and if you want the Quick Start (small) covers or full-sized ones.

For the Archive Edition for full-sized covers.:

Go to the ComicBase website.  Select My Account (top left corner) then Registrations.

Click the green arrow under Download next to your active subscription.

Then click the Other radio button to get the downloadable picture files.

If you want the Quick Start covers, I don't see a download for them.  You might have to reinstall CB to get them?

[Clean up for 09/13/2023 content update]

No, it should be changed as the Publisher is incorrect. It is not 'Marvel' and should be 'Pocket' (books).

(which is why I didn't find it as I was looking for Publisher 'Pocket'...)

[Clean up for 09/13/2023 content update]

I only have the Amazing Spider-Man set of books but they have Stan Lee Presents (in small print) over The Amazing Spider-Man on the cover and Spine. The back cover has just The Amazing Spider-Man (Volume 2 and 3. One didn't have a number on the back).

The title page has Stan Lee presents over The Amazing Spider-Man and the indicia page has Marvel Comics' over The Amazing Spider-Man (#2 and #3. One doesn't have a number).

Since they vary so much, I would leave them (and change the ones need) to just 'Character (Pocket Books)' as a title. (Only added Books since the others have it).

PS While looking at the other Marvel character Pocket Books, I noticed that all the other have issue numbers Bk x except The two Amazing Spider-Man series. The just have a number (i.e. 1, 2, 3).

[Cover Scan Maintenance 2023-09-13]

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[Something Is Killing the Children (2019 Boom) #31I - Please Add]

I believe this is in the database as 'Something is Killing the Children' #31I. https://atomicavenue.com/atomic/item/1331195/1/Something-is-Killing-the-Children-31I.
This is based on the Item Description of 'FOC Reveal Variant' and Cover Artist Dike Ruan which matches what you are looking for.
However, the issue needs a correction:
The UPC is a duplicate on issue 31/H 84428400737531081 when it should be 84428400737531091.

[Invincible TPB (2023 Image) New Edition #1-1ST - Please Add]

I believe it is in the database but it may not be in the correct location.

see 'Invincible' Bk 1-8 https://atomicavenue.com/atomic/item/1242905/1/Invincible-Book-1-8th-printing (ignore the cover as it is the wrong one (should be for 'Inferno Girl: Red'))
It has the same UPC and Street Date.
The Problem is the other Bk 1 issues reprint #1-4 while this one reprints #1-7.
I 'think' similar situations (see some recent post regarding Marvel Masterworks) were handled with Variation.
So this maybe shouldbe Bk 1/A (at a guess).

But the book you are looking for IS in the database.

[How do I save my cataloged comics as a CSV text file?]

The process is fairly straightforward. Do you help with it or do you think you got it for now?

Pretty much select the fields you want, check Export only titles in Stock, and Include Field Headers (not required but adds the column names, change Item separator to TAB (you will have much less trouble) then click Export and it will ask you where to put the file.

[How do I save my cataloged comics as a CSV text file?]

What is your edition? Express, Professional, Archive?

The reason I ask is the Archive and Professional have both Import and Export capability. Express only has one of those (and I don't remember which).

Check under menu item File and see if Export is available.

If it is, I would strongly suggest using TAB separated text as the Comma separated has a few problems.

If you don't happen to have Export capability, If you do Find for all your issues (Qty >= 1), you can select / hi-light all the fields in the grid view then use windows CTRL+C to copy it and then CTRL+V to paste it into the spreadsheet.

If you need more details, let me know where you need clarification.

[need to reset the program that "view unrecognized items" uses]

It may be best to email support for faster response.

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(NOTE: They are so small, I would just delete them. If not, you may or may not need to match the covers to the variations.)

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[Idea + Design Works Publisher Name Change]

Idea + Design Works Publisher Name Change
(I think Pete was going to mention this in the last Live-stream but...)
An editorial decision was made to change publisher Idea + Design Works to IDW.
For the most part you may not notice as it just required a name change of the folder name in the Pictures folder.
However, where Idea + Design Works was used in the Title name, if you own issues in them you will need to manually move your inventory to the new name. (i.e. 'Fallen Angel (Idea + Design Works)' changed to 'Fallen Angel (IDW)').

[Incarnations of Immortality]

On 9/2/2023 at 8:15 PM, William Steel said:

I noticed last week that CB added Piers Anthony's novels On a Pale Horse, Bearing an Hourglass, etc. as separate entries instead of under the series banner Incarnations of Immortality. I see the link for the series, but I am curious why not combing them together. And should this be the standard for similar series.

NOTE 1: The following comments only apply to Book types (specifically prose books).
NOTE 2: When adding Publisher, I did not take the time to try an follow the byzantine changes when they went out of business and/or merged with other Publishers.

After entering a few thousand books (with some 'mistakes' at the beginning' while on a learning curve). I have found it best to list the books as individual Titles with the Overall Title Name link used for the 'overall series' name for a few reasons.

1) Different Publishers.

During the time the books are printed, they can have different publishers.  
I have also found it is a 'bad' idea to combine different publishers under one title, in general (see below for one possible exception).
In the 'Incarnations of Immortality' series, They started with Publisher 'Del Rey', then switched to 'Avon' / 'William Morrow', and finally (so far), 'Mundania'.  If all were in one title, you would need Notes to keep them straight.

2) Problems with assigning Item Numbers.

You can get 'duplication' of numbers requiring the use of arbitrary Variations to distinguish them.
Some made up examples.

a) Initially, Publisher X puts out a 1st printing of a HC.
Later, Publisher Y gets the rights and puts out another 1st Printing HC of the same book.
If combined in to one Title, they both can't be HC. you would need to use HC (which at the time would have been correct for the first one) and later HC/A (since it is a 1st printing it can't be HC-2) even though it isn't really a variation.

b) 'Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Del Rey)' Hardcover was published with 4 different covers. They are entered has HC/A, HC/B, HC/C, HC/D. If/When another publisher acquires the rights and prints the book again, it 'could' be added to the 'Del Rey' series but what would its issue number be? If shouldn't be HC/A-2 as it will be a 1st printing for the other company. It could be just HC (unless they also printed different covers). It could be HC/E with notes. None of those option are not optimal.
Or
It could be in its own title with the different publisher and there would be no problem assigning its Item Number (also, both would come up on a Title search).

NOTE: One exception to a Title only having one Publisher is when the Print numbers are uninterrupted.
For example 'Berkley' was bought/merged with 'Ace' around 1987/88. A Book is printed by 'Berkley' with 1st, 2nd, 3rd printing, then 'Ace' took over and continued with printings 4th, 5th, 6th, etc. In this case, I would place all the book into one Title with Berkley as the Publisher with Title Notes (preferred) or Issue Notes about the publisher change. Otherwise, it will look strange to see an 'Ace' Title that starts with 4th printing and people will wonder where the first 3 printings are (or mistakenly add them). (However, if 'Ace' had reset back to 1st printing, I would make a second Title.

3) Easier to Find

If a Title 'Incarnations of Immortality' was created with all the books place in it., a Title search for 'On a Pale Horse' would not find anything. You could try a search on other fields (Storylines, Notes, Item Title) and, if any of those fields had the information, it could be found (with some work).

However, if the books are entered as individual Titles with an Overall Title Name of ''Incarnations of Immortality', a search for either of them would find them (the single Title book with its link to the series, or the Title lists of all the series books).
 

4) Consistency (I hope).

Since non-numbered series (i.e. Jack Reacher) of books shouldn't be forced into a made up title and need to be entered as individual Titles with Overall Title Name, to me, it seems better to use the same the same method for books like 'Incarnations of Immortality'. I have come across s set of books that have an overall series name with a number for the first ones then just Final for the last one (no number). Since you wouldn't know that 'last' book was not numbered, you would 'technically' need to go back and break it out into individual books or you would have to make up the last number (granted, it is sort of obvious but if that was the case, you could make up obvious numbers for Jack Reacher. To me it is all the same. Use the series name as an Overall Title and individual book Titles for (most) everything and (hopefully) there will be fewer problems in the future.

 

5) Publishers 'eccentric' behavior (to be nice about it...)

As some (most?) of you will know, if a Publisher CAN do something to mess up a cataloging system, the WILL do it, eventually.
By listing books in individual Titles with 'Overall Title Names', the problems they can cause will (hopefully) be mitigated (not sure they can be totally eliminated. They are publishers, after all. It is in their nature to do stupid creative things...

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For the most part, I am trying to prevent the pitfalls that have come up with Comic Books due to starting in one direction (which was fine at the time) but eventually started getting complicated as time past (by then it was really to late to change the system).
(As an example the Marvel Masterworks titles. There was an original print run, then a second print run years later (and maybe a third. Ideally, these different print runs should all be in different titles. But, they weren't and are combined in to one Title (per character) and you need a convoluted set of Issue numbers to try to uniquely identify them. Not blaming anyone. That is just have it evolved.  I am trying to take that into consideration and not get prose books into that kind of situation.

I understand wanting to 'group' like books together. I just think using the 'Overall Title Name' instead of putting everything into one Title is the better way of doing this.

[need to reset the program that "view unrecognized items" uses]

Not sure if this helps or not. Using Windows 11,
Open Settings.
Select Apps from the list on the left.
Select Default Apps.
Scroll all the way down and in Related Settings, expand Chose defaults by link type.
Scroll down to HTTP and click on the item (Mine has Firefox Url:Hypertext Transfer Protocol).
Select program to use.

Or

Have you tried closing CB and reopening it? (You can bring up the Content Updated window by selecting Check for Updates again.)

Or

Uninstall/Reinstall CB.

[Cover Scan Maintenance 2023-08-30]

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NOTE: 1.jpg doesn't match any covers in the TO title.

Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg
From: Pictures\D\DC\P\Power of Shazam, The- In the Beginning
To: Pictures\D\DC\P\Power of Shazam!, The (2nd Series)

Delete or Move 2.jpg
From: Pictures\R\Radio\Sparkie
To: Pictures\Z\Ziff-Davis\Sparkle (Ziff-Davis)

Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 11.jpg)
From: Pictures\T\Tundra\Tundra Sketchbook Series
To: Pictures\T\Tundra\Sketchbook Series, The (Tundra)

Delete 1-S.jpg (or rename to 1-O.jpg)
From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Mighty Morphin Power Rangers- Pink
(duplicate 1-S.jpg is a better quality cover of the correct 1-O.jpg)

[Content update picture check change?]

I think this would mean checking the 2,922 Comic Book pictures to see if they all need to be downloaded.

[Locked database promblem]

A couple of things you can try.

1) Open Task Manager (with CB not running) and see if there are any ComicBase apps running. If there is, Right click on and and select End Task.

or

2) Try rebooting your computer.

One of these two have fixed the problem when I have encountered it.

[Unrecognized Items: Mark Jewelers and Direct Market]

I just found a Uncanny X-men #129 with 12p on the cover where I can see the indicia.

Comparing this to the US version, the indicia is identical indicating to me that the insides were printed at the same time but different covers were attached depending on where they would be sold.

So, yes, it should belong in the UK Edition title.

[Unrecognized Items: Mark Jewelers and Direct Market]

I am not positive about this answer but I believe the 12p on the cover is more important as that indicates the market is sells in.

 

[Unrecognized Items: Mark Jewelers and Direct Market]

25 minutes ago, Margaret Walsh said:

X-Men (1st series): cover says 12p, not 35 cents.  So is that enough to be considered a variant?

No. This would go in title Uncanny X-Men (UK Edition) as issue 111 (which CB doesn't appear to have).

[Unrecognized Items: Mark Jewelers and Direct Market]

Yes, Mark Jewelers have been approved as a valid variant in CB.