Steven L. Dasinger

It doesn't appear to be in CB yet (they can get all variants, especially when they are from 'specialty' stores (like Unknown Comics)). I think it would be the next variant letter as Anl 1/H with an Item Description of Unknown Comics Foil Virgin Variant Cover by David Nakayama, a UPC of 75960620691900119 and a current Cover Price of $40.00 Information from Unknown website https://unknowncomicbooks.com/products/foil-scarlet-witch-annual-1-unknown-comics-david-nakayama-exclusive-virgin-var-06-21-2023?_pos=2&_sid=f39c4d5df&_ss=r

CB does not make any distinction between Direct market and Newsstand issues.

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I think CB relies on Windows settings for font sizing. What I would do is: Set the computers/monitors up in their original configuration (with the old laptop). If the Fonts are back the way you expect, go into Windows Display Settings and make note of all the various settings (mainly Scale and Display Resolution (but there may be others). Then, set the computers/monitors up in the new configuration (with new laptop). Go into Windows Display settings and compare the values from the old laptop. Hopefully, there will be a difference that can be corrected. If not, then Support is your best option.

While you can technically drag/drop covers to a Find result display (what is displayed after running a Find), and that result has multiple Titles/Issues, I would strongly suggest NOT doing it (especially for someone new to CB) as it is extremely prone to error and confusion). Here is why. A) Drag/Drop a Single Cover Scan 1) Click on an Issue of the Title you want to add it to (It could be any Issue for that Title, as CB just needs to know the Title name). You will know if it is ready when the display title at the top of the window changes to the correct Title you want. 2) Drag/Drop the single cover scan anywhere in the Find result display Grid (the issue you are over does NOT matter as CB will use the Title at the top of the window as the location to place the cover scan. Result: That single cover will go to the Correct Title. (unless you forgot to highlight the correct Title/Issue in which case it will go to the wrong Title). Sounds relatively simple and it will work like a regular Grid display (except for the extra work of selecting/highlighting an issue for the correct Title to let CB know where to place the Cover scan). HOWEVER, if you try to drag/drop multiple covers the results will NOT be what you expect or want. B1) Drag/Drop Multiple Cover Scans 1) Like a single Cover scan, you have to make sure the Title displayed at the top of the window is the correct Title. 2) Drag/Drop, the multiple titles to the Grid area. You don't have to put you mouse pointer on any specific issue as CB uses the Title that is displayed at the top of the window for the destination for the FIRST COVER in the list of multiple covers you are processing. After that first cover is (correctly) place, CB automatically changes the Highlighting back to whatever Title/Issue is first in the Find result display. This changes the Title name at the top of the window and ALL of the other Cover scans will go to that (incorrect) Title. (And you really have to pay attention to notice that is what happened.) Result: You have 1 cover scan in the correct location and all other Cover scans in the wrong location. This bad result when adding multiple Cover scans through a Find result display is made disastrous Is you are REPLACING multiple Cover scans. B2) Drag/Drop Multiple Cover Scans to Replace Other Cover scans (i.e. replacing smaller or incorrect covers). Steps 1 and 2 are the same as B1. 3) When replacing an Existing cover, another window is displayed comparing the original cover and the replacement cover asks if you want to replace that single cover or ALL of the covers that are being processed. If you select ALL, the first will work successfully but ALL of the others will replace (delete) the covers an incorrect Title. NOTE: The window to compare the covers ONLY displays if the scan are different sizes. If they happen to be the same size, you will NOT even be given the chance to cancel the process. The original cover will just be deleted and replaced by the new (probably incorrect) cover. Result: You have 1 Cover scan successfully replacing a Cover scan in the correct Title but ALL other Cover scans being process will will DELETE cover scans in an incorrect Title, replacing them with wrong Cover scans. And unless you have the Archive Edition, you can't download the accidentally deleted covers to replace them. NOTE: When asked if you want to replace a cover, if you select Yes, just the one Cover scan will be process and the next will open the same window. In this case the coves will NOT match but there is no indication which Title the original (possible replacement). You are left wondering why the covers don't match (and if you think about it instead of mindlessly clicking 'Yes' you can cancel out of the process). Simply put, unless you know what you are doing and are willing to deal with the mess that can be made (assuming you even notice the mess at the time it happens) do NOT use the Find result grid to add Cover scans.

A few pointers. If you are not sure where the Pictures folder is located you can use menu item File->File Tools and select 'Manage Pictures and Movies'. By default it is C \Users\Public\Documents\Human Computing but you can change it to be a different location. Note: When changing the Pictures folder location, you want to select the folder that CONTAINS the Pictures folder and not the actual Pictures folder. Alternately, if some covers are shown, go to a Title with covers then, on the large cover display (top left corner), right-click and select 'Show Picture File'. This will show you where the pictures are located. To add the Cover scan to CB, it needs to have a .JPG extension. When naming the cover scan use type the Item # as shown (in Grid View), changing any '/' to a '-' (due to windows file name constraints. Examples: Item # File-name 1 1.jpg 1/A 1-A.jpg Bk 1 Bk 1.jpg As Fred mentioned, the drag/drop method is the best way to add cover scans and let CB create the Title folder in the correct location. Go to the Title you want to add cover scans to, select the cover to add, left-click and hold the button as you drag/drop it in CB's grid area. NOTE: it can be anywhere in the grid area. It does not have to be on a specific line in the grid area. You should be able to create your own Title folders, but the rules for them are more complex than naming cover scan files. There are more special characters than ':' that need to be replaced and articles ('The', 'A', and non-us equivalents) are at the end of the name except if they come after a ':' when they are left at the beginning. Title: 'The Avant-Guards' Filename: is 'Avant-Guards, The' Title: 'The Legend of Jamomere: The Blue Wizard' Filename: 'Legend of Jamomere, The: The Blue Wizard' As mentioned previously, it is best to let CB name the Title files. If you are still having problems, more detailed information may be needed. Also when adding Books, be careful of the Binding. Mass Market Paperbacks (MMPB) are approx 4.25 x 7 inches (plus/minus a little bit). If the softcover book is larger or smaller, it would be a Paperback (TPB).

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It looks like the newest CB update (25.5.1) 'Adds support for Avery 5167 and 5266 Labels for title dividers'.

The support email address is support@comicbase.com

I am not sure an automated system would work. At the time of the Update, the process doesn't know the reason for the change that would cause 'orphans' (covers on disk with no matching issue in the database). The way I think the Update process works is: NOTE1: I am just referring to times that would cause Cover 'orphans and ignoring other data changes): NOTE2: When mentioning deletions below, CB will only delete when Qty is 0 (at issues level or Title level). Copy of the CB Master Database is downloaded. A process runs that compares the Master Database with your Database. If the Title exists in both and the Title/Publisher are the same, it is ignored (No Title change) If the Title exists in your Database but not the Master Database, your Title is deleted. If the Title does not exist in your database but exists in the Master Database, the Title is added. NOTE1: The New added Title could be in the same or a different Type. NOTE2: A deleted issue may have a new issue added as a replacement or just deleted as the duplicate is already in the database. Similar logic at the Issue level. In Both: no change. In yours and not Master: deleted. Not in yours but in Master: added. When processing, there is no relationship between the Deleted Title/Issue and the Added Title/Issue for CB to know what covers to Delete/Rename/Move. A new column or two could be added so this relationship is known at Update time but the Editors would need to manually add this when approving changes. The old Title/Issue would need to be recorded. Even then, if a Title/Issue is being deleted, due to a duplicate already in the database, there would be no Title/Issue to note the relationship to. You could add this information to the correct Title/Issue duplicate being left in the database, but that would be a manual process. You can get the program to do most things but the complexity, processing time, and maintenance cost have to be considered. Also, the process would break one of the tenets of CB. That is to delete nothing that you 'own'. This would include the Cover scans since they may be ones you scanned. If not deleted, a process would need to be added to check for an existing cover and rename it and if not existing then to download to the new Title/Issue (for the rename both the Old and New Title/Issue would be needed).

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Which Avery template are you trying to use? I don't think the Label list in CB dynamically created based on 'installed' template downloads. Instead, I think they are hard-coded to a set list. If you supply the information about the Avery Label you want to use, maybe it will get added to CB.

Submitting the correction can be done. Just have to be careful of the Item # (especially if you were going from Comic Books to Books as the Binding is not automatically assigned). But you should definitely let the editors know (email to support and/or this forum but the email is probably better) so the Title in the wrong Type can be deleted.

You can move a Title to a different Media Type by using menu item Edit->Change Series Media Type.. Navigate to the Title you want to move, then use menu item Edit->Change Series Media Type... and select the Type it want it moved to. NOTE: While you can do this in you database, it is best to notify the editors so they can make the change and it gets populated into all the databases in an update. You will have to manually move any issues you own after the Updated (which can be identified by 'Unrecognized Items').

I can think of two possible ways. 1) If you have the Archive Edition, and Advanced Find with a WHERE like: I.Title LIKE '%Batman%' and I.QtyInStock >= 1 Would display All issues you own for a Title that contains 'Batman' somewhere in the Title. NOTE: By removing the first wildcard character (the first %), it would look for Titles that started with 'Batman'. This may be too much to look through which is where the other option comes in. 2) Click on the Titles icon (in the upper right corner between the Arrow icons) or use CTRL+T to bring up the Titles window. At the top, you can click on the radio button next to 'Series in stock' to only list Titles with comics you own. Then Type in the text box the Title name you are looking for to get a list of Titles you own. NOTE: There is one difference between using the Titles window and using the Find search box at the top-middle of the main display. The Find search box will list possible titles from ALL Types (Books, Comic Books, Magazines and/or Newspapers) while the Title window will only display Titles for ONE Type (the Type you are currently displaying in the main display).

And one more addendum. If someone was using the Old database to sell on Atomic Avenue (AA), After switching to the newly created database, you (most likely) would need to remove the inventory posted from the Old database and re-post it from the New database. (I think AA using the unique database identifier number to keep things straight and the Old database and the New database would have different database ids.) I don't sell on AA so the above is how I believe it works without any actually having used the process.

Great. Just an FYI for anyone who reads this later. After Importing the 2024 values back to the old database, you would probably need to do what Pete suggested above by mass change Price to 2024 values or using Setup > Grading, double-click to edit and grade and click "Save". Either should set the Price either directly (mass Change) or through Calculation (Edit Grading).

Yes, the 2024 value is the base value used with the Grade (percentage (i.e. NM, G, F, CGC, etc)) to calculate the Price value (there is some rounding to get the final Price value (a little bit for small amounts and a larger bit for higher amounts). Depending on the Edition you have you may be able to fix it with a little work. The Archive (and the Professional, I think) can Export and Import Data (I don't know that the Express has both). You will find Export and Import under the menu item 'File'. 1) Export using a 'TAB' item separator, 'include Field Headers' and 'Export Only Items in Stock' with (at a minimum) columns: Title Item # Condition Qty in Stock Plus any other columns you might have data in like (but not limited to): Cost Custom fields (Check, Date, and/or text) NOTE: If you have issues in different Types (eg. Books, Comic Books, Magazines, and/or Newspapers), you will need to do a separate export for each Type. 2) After that, Created a New Database (don't copy any information when asked). Run the Weekly Update on this New Database (this will get your old database and the new one 'in sync' with new/delete Titles and Issues. 3) In the new database, use Import to locate the Export file and Import it (by using the Field Headers and TAB delimiter, everything should be set with the correct fields selected in the correct order for the data). Again, you will need to Import for each Type you Exported (and be in that Type during the Import (don't try to Import a file of Books to Magazines, for example). NOTE: After the Imports, you can check for Publisher 'Unknown Publisher' to find any Titles that couldn't be matched to the new database (there shouldn't be any in you Updated the new database. Just mentioning it, incase). Once done check to see if the '0.00' Price/2024 values have been corrected. If yes, with CB closed, you can rename databases to whatever name you like and start using the new one. PS, Theoretically, you could try the \Export with the Title, Item #, Condition and 2024 (Value Year 4) from the NEW (updated) database and Import to your old Database (or a copy for testing (or make a backup before the import)) which 'should' repopulate the 2024 values but I have not tested this.

Do you mean Sidekick is not in the task bar tray area (normally lower right corner of screen)? If so, you can manually start it by either: Click on the Windows 'Start' button (lower left corner), and select All to get a list of all installed items. Scroll down to the 'C's and expand ComicBase (your edition). You should see ComicBase Sidekick. Click on it to run it. Or In the Search area (bottom left corner next to the 'Start' button' type Sidekick. Click on it to start the program.

What that is telling me is the Value Year 4 value (displayed as column 2024) is also 0.00. I would think the Update process would populate this column. A couple of things you can try (in case there is something in you database is not allowing these to get set) are: Use menu item File->File tools and try Optimize Database and/or Recovery Database. For Optimize Database, I would try the 3rd option (Full database integrity check). For Recover Database, it won't hurt anything and might find/fix problems (you can make a backup before running if you feel safer). One or both of these may or may not help (but won't hurt anything). If not, you may need to contact support and see if they can look at a copy of you database to see why the columns have 0.00 and won't correct with an update.

This is strange, I also have the 4K Archive Edition upgraded to V25.5.0.2076 and F6 brings up the Identification Labels report in all situations I have tried (with nothing selected, with rows selected without Qty in Stock, with rows selected with Qty in Stock, After Adding By Barcode (display items after saving)).

@Tom Carnduff I think the links should be fixed. Try downloading/upgrading the Professional Edition (the Express link was fixed).

Express and Express+ are basically the same. The + indicates an upgrade to include more cover scans. ("Over 200,000 cover thumbnails to help you identify comics and variants").

On eBay, there are two different versions (both with Publisher Red Hen Press). One published in 2016 with ISBN OF 9781597097413. Cover has Oldguy standing with his back to the view and one foot on a park bench. Cover has Vol. 1, $4.99 (it MAY be saddle-stitched (staple) but I can't find a copy that has a definitive picture). Does NOT have 'The Complete Collection' on the cover and is 28 pages. One published 2019 with ISBN OF 9781888996425. Cover has Oldguy walking toward the viewer. Description has it as a TPB with 88 pages. (This is the one on the Publisher website and the Google/Amazon previews) The publisher website has it as 'Oldguy: Superhero — The Complete Collection'. Google Books preview of 28 pages. it has Old Guy: Superhero, The Complete Collection'. Amazon Read Sample has just 'Oldguy: Superhero' on a single (title) page but 'Old Guy: Superhero, The Complete Collection' on what passes for an indica in a book. The cover seems to have a space between 'Old' and 'Guy' as does the pseudo indicia but the publisher, title page, the text in the Acknowledgement and all the chapter titles has 'Oldguy' with no space. Normally when a Title has one text over the other, there is an implied colon (or sometimes a comma). Since the Cover has the Text over Text and the inside uses a colon in all other places, there should probably be a colon in the title. The 'The Complete Collection' should probably be added (with either the long-hyphen or comma) as that is used by the Publisher and pseudo-indicia. This is all based on what I can find on-line from the Publisher and other sites. At a guess... Either two Titles: Title 1) 'Oldguy: Superhero' (possible 'floppy' comic format 'Staple') with 28 pages. Title 2) 'Oldguy: Superhero — The Complete Collection' (TPB) 88 pages. (with or without 'space' between 'Old' and 'Guy') (two Titles since the TPB (probably contains the 'comic' and additional information (an extra 60 pages). One Title with two Issues: 'Oldguy: Superhero' Issue 'Staple' ( ? ) for the 28 page issue. Issue TPB for the 88 page issue PS The one in CB appears to be the earlier edition ('floppy comic' style with 28 pages, and Man with foot on bench on cover. And I would go with 'Staple' as Binding as it is accurate (if it is saddle-stitched) and less confusing. If anyone has physical copies to verify or correct any of the above, I would defer to them.

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