Question on how comic book series are listed

[Sandro Silvestri]

I am new to ComicBase and have just purchased the Archive 2025 edition.  I have just started the process on inventorying 13 bins of comic books that I purchased from the late 1960 until roughly 1980.  So, I have a lot of comic books to process.

My problem is that I have run into a problem finding a couple of the comic book series.  For example, I can't find the series, Nick Fury and His Agents of SHIELD (from 1973).  I can see many other Nick Fury comic book series, but not the ..and His Agents of SHIELD series.

Any advice or suggestion on how to resolve this type of issue from those of you with much more experience than I would be greatly appreciate.

[Gregory Hecht]

The particular series you posted as an example is listed as SHIELD in the database.  IIRC the cover title for this series differs from the indicia title.  

It is instances like this one that motivated ComicBase to add the "Item Title" field to the database relatively recently.  So ideally this issue should be listed under the title SHIELD but should also have a entry in the Item Title field Nick Fury and his Agents of SHIELD.   If you can't find the title in the database and there is no UPC code available, try doing a Find using a key word.  Ideally* the Find should return a list of all of the things that contain that word in the Title field plus all of the things that contain that same key word in the Item Title field.  

If you are still stuck, you can post to the boards here for help.  

  

*Because the Item Title field is so new, it is possible that not all of the comics with mismatched cover titles vs. indica titles have something listed in the Item Title field.

[Sandro Silvestri]

Thanks for your help.  It is greatly appreciated as well as very helpful.  I was able to find the series in ComicBase as well as a couple of other that were giving me issues.  Next will be a hunt for the Spider-Man freebie from Marvel and the American Cancer Society :).

I have printed your tips and am posting where I am doing my inventory and ComicBase input.

Some of the comics that I purchased back in the day do have a UPC.  Unfortunately, my old UPC scanners appears to be dead.  I am considering buying a new UPC scanner, but need to do some research on what will work best with ComicBase.

Regards,

ss

[Steven L. Dasinger]

Is this https://atomicavenue.com/atomic/series/350/1/SpiderMan-Storm-and-Power-Man  the Spider-Man American Cancer Society you are looking for? You will need to determine which issue best matches what you have.

PS For a scanner, I would recommend the one that Human Computing offers (as long as it is not out of your price range). It will definitely work with CB with out a problem.

[Gregory Hecht]

I also recommend the barcode scanners that Human Computing has for sale.  

[Sandro Silvestri]

Thanks, All.  I'll check out the Human Computing barcode scanners.

And the link to the comic book was very helpful. 

Best to all.

ss