Steven L. Dasinger

I would enter each book as a separate title, and use Overall Title Name and Book # (both Title level fields) to 'link' the books together. I also tend to add the Publisher to the Title as the same book could be published by different Publisher over time. Also, in general, Magazine type issue numbering doesn't work well for books. For example if you used 200108 for the 1st printing, what would you use for 2nd (and up) printings? 200108-2, 200108-3 when the 2nd and 3rd printings were NOT printed the same year/month doesn't look good. As an example: Title Overall Title Name Book # Retribution (Gold Eagle) Mack Bolan 1 Ambush (Gold Eagle) Mack Bolan 2 Stolen Arrows (Gold Eagle) Mack Bolan 3 NOTE: I am assuming a Publisher of 'Gold Eagle' as I found some issues on Ebay but without access to the book, it could be some other publisher. Also, the Book # I listed are just an example as I don't know the publishing sequence.

I checked that out. I took a NM issues in one of the higher ranges, changed grade to F and it changed its location to a different (lower) value range. If it was based on NM value, then it should not have changed range location. It won't hurt to run menu item File->Rebuild Lists checking the Item Information box (which recalculates totals among other things).

That does look like it is incorrect. Are you on the latest build of 1964? You can find out what Issue( s ) are in that range by double-clicking on the row of the Value Range. This will run a Find to display the issues in that range. PS When I look at my value statistics, it looks correct.

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This appears to be have fixed with b1964.

@Mark J. Castaneda Not sure if it helps but looking at the top left corner of the attachment, not only is there no cover showing, there is not even a Publisher Logo (or the default logo) showing. Is that normal on a Pro edition?

I am having a similar problem. If I use menu item Report->Wanted List, nothing happens. If I Right-Click and select Report Selected Title As->Wanted List, I get the report window and it works successfully. It appears (for me) that the Menu item Report->Wanted List is not working. PS If I use menu item Report->(select any report EXCEPT Wanted List) the report window appears and if the Drop-Down box is used to select the Wanted Lists report, it will work successufully.

I think this is the one Adam is referring to. https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN178390 which appears to be a reprint of 'Batman (3rd Series) #16. This variation isn't in CB.

Mark, if you have one (or more) of these British issues, can you determine/supply the Publisher? If you can, I will see about adding the title and Issues I can find.

Maybe someone else will have better luck but I can't seem to find it in CB.

Need more information. Do you have a publisher, issue number or cover scan (or link to issues) that can be used to help identify what you are looking for?

Not sure if this will get you what you want, but you can force a re-run of an update by pressing / holding the SHIFT key while selecting Internet->Check for Update. Or you can use File->Collection Statistics (F12) then click on the Download Update button in the top right corner.

The Mature designation is only at the Title level so there won't be any Issue level column. As for the 'View unrecognized Items' I can think of two ways that should work. The easiest is just use Internet->Check for Updates. This should just show the final Content Update window which has the Link. If you don't see the Link, then there is not anything unrecognizable. OR Look in the Logs folder located a C \ComicBase\Logs. Look for a file with your Database-name.CBDB Unknown Items <timestamp>.

A title is identified as 'Mature' by a check box in the Title information window. (see attached) A Find on Series Field 'Mature Readers Only' is Checked will get you a list of all the Titles with this checked. And, Yes, this includes publishes from DC, Image, Vertigo, Marvel just to list a few. If you want to see this check box, you can edit any issue (double-click on it), then click on 'Edit Title Information...' You can uncheck this box but I don't know the consequences. A) Would the check box get reset during a content update? B) I believe if you have issues in stock for a Mature title, it will still show up even if you remove Mature titles (but this is just a guess based on the philosophy of not deleting anything you own). C) Would updates be applied to a Mature title which was either unchecked or not deleted due to being owned?

It is possible, in an internal index, the Title may still exist. The Rebuild Lists for Series Information should clean that up (is it exists). Another less likely possibility is if you changed 'Items to Show' (this is done by clicking the 'View' drop-down box in the top left corner, hover over the 'Items to Show' item and see if 'All Items' is check or some other option). If the 'Only Owned Issues is checked, it may be in the database but not displayed. If nothing cleans it up, you can contact support to see if they can figure it out.

Does it show up in the Comic Book types as a title? (You can start typing 'Great History' in the Find search box at the top of the window to see if there are two entries (one Book and one Comic Book) If it does, do you have any owned issue? (Qty >= 1)? If you do you can either change it to 0 or just delete the issues (which will delete the title if all issues are deleted). If it doesn't, you might try 'File->File Tools Rebuild Lists and check at least the first box (Series Information). Checking the next box or two doesn't hurt. One other thing. When CB started using Unicode, they change all straight 'tick' marks ( ' ) to curved 'quotes' ( ’ ) and all ellipsis from 3 individual periods ( ... ) to a single ellipsis character ( … ).

The Grand Comics Database happens to have scans of the indicia for this series at https://www.comics.org/series/1195/

Doesn't really matter to me but the publisher is inconsistent. Early indicia has 'Sugar and Spike' while later indicia have 'Sugar & Spike'. The covers mostly have 'and' but '&' is not uncommon.

If you haven't tried it yet, File->File Tools contains a 'Recover Database' which will attempt to 'repair a damaged database and restore it to health'. Another thing you can try (depending on the Edition you have) is to Export (only items in stock) to a TAB delimited file. Then create a new database, run the most recent Content update, then Import the old data. NOTE: Include Field Headers to simplify the Import process. After the import, check for an Publisher with a name of 'Unknown Publisher'. If found, these would be any title that CB couldn't match from the Import file (there really shouldn't be any but it doesn't hurt to check).

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I believe it is located at What If…? (Vol. 1) SE 1. https://atomicavenue.com/atomic/item/159846/1/What-Ifhellip-Vol-1-SE-1

Despite being 'live' it is a repeat of yesterday's broadcast.

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Try Doctor Who (5th Series) issue SE 2013/A.

Can you post the solution? PS This Advanced Find can display issues that are duplicates based in Title, and Item # : Items Where: I.Title || I.IssueNum || I.ItemType || I.Variation || I.Printing IN ( SELECT A.Title || A.IssueNum || A.ItemType || A.Variation || A.Printing FROM ComicIssues A WHERE I.Title = A.Title AND I.IssueNum = A.IssueNum AND I.ItemType = A.ItemType AND I.Variation = A.Variation AND I.Printing = A.Printing GROUP BY A.Title, A.IssueNum, A.ItemType, A.Variation, A.Printing (add ,I.Condition) HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 ) Order By: ComicTitles.AlphabetizedTitle, I.ItemType, I.IssueNum, I.Variation, I.Printing If you have Multiple issues with different Conditions: I.Title || I.IssueNum || I.ItemType || I.Variation || I.Printing || I.Condition IN ( SELECT A.Title || A.IssueNum || A.ItemType || A.Variation || A.Printing || A.Condition FROM ComicIssues A WHERE I.Title = A.Title AND I.IssueNum = A.IssueNum AND I.ItemType = A.ItemType AND I.Variation = A.Variation AND I.Printing = A.Printing AND I.Condition = A.Condition GROUP BY A.Title, A.IssueNum, A.ItemType, A.Variation, A.Printing, A.Condition HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 ) Order By: ComicTitles.AlphabetizedTitle, I.ItemType, I.IssueNum, I.Variation, I.Printing