Finding Hornsby & Halo and Rocketfellers

[Scott B. Cavin]

I cannot find Hornsby & Halo and Rocketfellers in Comicbase.

I can find it listed in Atomic Ave but nothing in ComicBase.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks 

[Steven L. Dasinger]

Since they are both on Atomic Avenue and in my database, it probably has something to do with yours.
1) Have you run the most recent Update Content? (29 May 2025).

2) Using the View drop-down box (top left corner), Check to see what Items to Show is 'checked'. If Owned Items is checked, change to All Items.

3) Using the Find text box (top center of the window) paste in 70985304168900111 (the barcode/UPC for 'Rocketfellers, The' #1/A) or 70985304166500111 (the barcode/UPC for 'Hornsby & Halo' #1/A) and see if they are returned. (even if you have 'Owned Items' checked, the Find should still display the issue.
NOTE: For The Rocketfellers, you would need leave 'The' off the beginning and use 'Rocketfellers, The' (but that would not be needed for 'Hornsby & Halo'.)

Also, it couldn't hurt to update to the newest build of CB: v25.6.3.4502.

[Scott B. Cavin]

Hi Steven 

Thanks for the response and the help.

Updated Comicbase to current build.

Made sure I was searching for all of Comicbase.

Searched by title and UPC number (Thanks for providing that) 

See screenshots attached.  

What I did notice was it is finding the title--see the small window/notice above the Grid/listing of issues but it is not an "active link" leading to another page.  

It seems like something is preventing the program from going to the listing.  I have something checked/unchecked and I can't find it.

One thing that might be an issue??  I am running Windows?Comicbase through Parallels for Mac.  I have not had any issues so far but this might be the one??

Thanks in advance for the guidance 

Scott

[Steven L. Dasinger]

Unfortunately, that text above the grid is a bug. Even when an item is not found, it displays a 'Find' result with the Searched used and the number found is the number of issues you happened to be on when doing the find (in this case Batman and Robin which has 69 issues).

So it isn't really finding it.

Try this. next to the text box, click the Find drop-down box and select Publisher. Then type Image in the box to find all titles for Publisher Image.

Assuming that returns a list, scroll through the list to see if either title is listed.

[Scott B. Cavin]

Thanks for the response

Searched Publisher/Image... see screenshots below 

Hornsby & Halo and Rocketfellers is not listed.

So very odd...

 

[Scott B. Cavin]

I also did a search for the writer of both series: Peter J. Tomasi.

No results found--see screenshot 

So So very weird???

[Scott B. Cavin]

With further investigation I have discovered that Writers/artist/etc are not listed or included when I go into Edit Comics??  Could be because I'm running Free Version?  Or all info was not downloaded due to streamlining download process?  

 

[Steven L. Dasinger]

I think I might have the answer.

ComicBase Free does not have weekly Content Updates.

That means the database is 'frozen' at what ever state when the install file was created (which includes the database). At that time, these two Titles were probably not in the database.

Did you just download/install the Free version or has it been installed for a while?

CB Free does have the Writer, Artist fields (at least in the screen prints on the website). When you edit an issue, there are a 3 'tabs' you can click on the top center of the window: General, Credits, and Other. Clicking on Credits should get you to the 'tab' where you can access credits.

 

[Scott B. Cavin]

That would explain the problem.  

But I downloaded Comicbase 3 weeks ago so you would think both series might be included??  

I don't mind paying for the basic if it will clear up the problem and especially if it becomes more of an issue in the future.

The artist/writer fields I found were all empty which would explain why a search for Peter J. Tomasi came up empty.  They may not populate those fields for the free version??

Anyway Thanks for the help Steven and I'll post if I am successful.

 

[Steven L. Dasinger]

If you get the Express (or higher) edition, then the Weekly Content Update will add those (and other) titles/issues.

Just to check, I created a New Database (which uses the default database that is part of the Install files). This New Database (before any Content Update) does NOT have the two titles you have mentioned, either (and I have the Archive Edition).

Not sure at what point that 'default' database gets refreshed but it has not been for awhile.  The Program part may be updated but the default database is older than that.

 

[Scott B. Cavin]

Thanks for checking.  &nbsp

Gonna to upgrade because everything points to that fixing the issue.

Huge Thank You for taking the time to trouble shoot with the free version