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Fun with apostrophes


Fred Slota

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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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A couple of those titles might need to be examined as to whether they should be re-titled with the author in parentheses at the end of the title name.  

Also, I believe that Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism is a prose book, not a comic, so that needs to be moved into the appropriate category.  

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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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  • 2 weeks later...

Comic Books being my main concern, that's all I'm concerned with at the moment...

 

Item Description - 596! Maybe I'll do them later, but this might be easier to do at CBHQ...

Item Title - 42 cleaned and submitted.

Notes - clean.

Storylines - clean.

Title - 502 issues, but fewer actual titles - Title changes must be done at CBHQ.

 

My job is do...

 

Oh, wait... names sometimes have apostrophes...

Artists - 733 found!  Arghhhh...   That's too many for me.  Plus, given that there are probably repeated instances of particular people, and these names might be in many name fields, this is probably better handled with find-replace at CBHQ.

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I listed them above, but I'll send them on.

 

I searched through 

(I.[Title] LIKE "%’s%") and not(I.[Title] LIKE "%(%’s%)%")

and looked through the results and collected the ones I thought were possessives from creators, as opposed to possessives of characters.  There is no search that returns this list, as it falls to context and interpretation.

 

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Had resubmitted, looks like there have been changes...

 

Out of my 50 or so, I guess these didn't meet standards for being reversed

 

Anna Malle's Dirty Deeds

Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders

Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders (Magazine Enterprises)

3 assorted that start with Bru-Hed's

3 publisher's forms of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang

Frank Miller's Sin City: The Making of the Movie

James Lloyd's Other Stuff

Paul Terry's Comics

Many "Walt Disney's" titles (as opposed to "Disney's")

Will Eisner's Quarterly

Woron's Worlds

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