Milk-Bone Superman?

[Thomas Brockmann]

Has this freebie been added yet?

[Mark J. Castaneda]

Not sure what you're referring to. Is it a comic book? Can you a provide photo of it?

[Randall J. Paske]

It's called Superman: A Friendship Unleashed, though I'm not sure what it says in the indicia. If you search for that title on eBay, you'll get quite a few results. It came packaged with Milk-Bone dog biscuits.

[Steven L. Dasinger]

I found this indicia for the issue:

Milk & Bone Custom Comic is a strange title as a search for Milk-Bone probably wouldn't find it.

[Randall J. Paske]

14 hours ago, Steven L. Dasinger said:

I found this indicia for the issue:

Milk & Bone Custom Comic is a strange title as a search for Milk-Bone probably wouldn't find it.

Jeez, they're not helping. I know the CB editors like to go with the indicia, but sometimes even the indicia contains errors.  And I'd call this an error, as the name of the product is clearly "Milk-Bone" and not "Milk & Bone."

[Steven L. Dasinger]

If Publishers can mess with straightforward database cataloging, they will.

I am neither for nor against whatever Title is decided. I merely supply information.

[Gregory Hecht]

4 hours ago, Randall J. Paske said:

Jeez, they're not helping. I know the CB editors like to go with the indicia, but sometimes even the indicia contains errors.  And I'd call this an error, as the name of the product is clearly "Milk-Bone" and not "Milk & Bone."

Well, there are reasons why the "Item Title" field was created.  And situations like this is one of them.  

[Randall J. Paske]

On 7/10/2025 at 4:32 PM, Gregory Hecht said:

Well, there are reasons why the "Item Title" field was created.  And situations like this is one of them.  

Yes, but can the Item Title field contain more than a single entry? In this case, Superman: A Friendship Unleashed is rightly there, but Milk-Bone Custom Comic is not. I don't know if all text in that field constitutes one piece of data or if it's more like a credits field that can contain multiple pieces of data.

I'm all for the indicia taking primacy, but I'm not in favor of treating them as infallible. Occasionally they contain typos or mistakes that shouldn't be compounded by imitation. I understand that fixing a mistake in a title when adding it to the database might be seen as inaccurate, but there are other exceptions to exactly duplicating indicia--lots of annuals and specials, for example. But that's just my take.

[Randall J. Paske]

The mail carrier delivered my own copy of this comic since I last posted. It must be a second or subsequent printing, though it doesn't say so. (It does have a printing date at the end of the indicia, though, absent from the indicia provided earlier by @Steven L. Dasinger.) The "Milk & Bone" error got fixed, so now I think it's even less suitable to reproduce it in the CB title entry.

Here's the indicia from my copy:

[Thomas Brockmann]

@Randall J. Paske Wow, that's different... first I've seen or heard of a possible second/alternate printing of this comic. Did you order it from Milk-Bone or a third party?

[Randall J. Paske]

23 hours ago, Thomas Brockmann said:

@Randall J. Paske Wow, that's different... first I've seen or heard of a possible second/alternate printing of this comic. Did you order it from Milk-Bone or a third party?

It came straight from Milk-Bone.

[Randall J. Paske]

On 7/17/2025 at 7:36 AM, Thomas Brockmann said:

@Randall J. Paske Wow, that's different... first I've seen or heard of a possible second/alternate printing of this comic. Did you order it from Milk-Bone or a third party?

I should have added that I did hear something about them going back to press after the initial run of comics sold out. I believe I heard that on one of the comics-focused YouTube shows. But I have no idea of how many printings they've done, or how to distinguish them all. Let's hope that all the subsequent printings (if there's more than just one reprint) have a date at the end of the indicia like mine does.