Clean up for 07/30/2025 content update

[Gregory Hecht]

New Book title:  All the Strange, Strange Creatures Volume I
If this is a numbered series, should actually be listed as All the Strange, Strange Creatures #1/HC ?

New Book title:  Eighth Doctor Soucrebook, The
Note the spelling error.  This should actually be Eighth Doctor Sourcebook, The

New Book title:  The Star Wars Trilogy
This should be indexed as Star Wars Trilogy, The

[Randall J. Paske]

Buck Godot Zap Gun For Hire (1986 Starblaze Edition) was added as a new title in the Comics category. Leaving aside the nonstandard title entry, this appears to already be listed as Buck Godot, Zap Gun for Hire Bk 1, where the note is "Published by Starblaze Graphics."

Also in the Comics category, the new title Spider-Man by David Michelinie & Mark Bagely has a typo in "Bagley."

And in the new Magazine title Fred Perry Treasure Vault Sketchbook, Fred Perry is the name of the artist. Wouldn't this typically be listed as Treasure Vault Sketchbook (Fred Perry…) in ComicBase? It's less clear to me when there's no apostrophe s.

[Steven L. Dasinger]

1 hour ago, Randall J. Paske said:

And in the new Magazine title Fred Perry Treasure Vault Sketchbook, Fred Perry is the name of the artist. Wouldn't this typically be listed as Treasure Vault Sketchbook (Fred Perry…) in ComicBase? It's less clear to me when there's no apostrophe s.

If there is no 'apostrophe s' then it is not a possessive and would not have '(Fred Perry…)' added to the title. It is a Treasure Vault of sketches by Fred Perry. It is not his 'Treasure Vault'.

Since this is a pre-release, there is no real way to know that the actual title is. It could be 'Fred Perry Treasure Vault Sketchbook' or 'Treasure Vault Sketchbook' (or something else).

[Gregory Hecht]

The fixed content download that was posted Thursday 7/31/2025 appears to have only corrected the ability of the update to operate correctly, the data corrections noted above haven't been done yet.  
  
In addition to the above correction, I am also noting the following:

• new Book title: Second Doctor Soucebook, The
Should be indexed as Second Doctor Sourcebook, The   [restoring the missing "r" in "Sourcebook"]

• new Book title:  Tenth Doctor Soucebook, The
Should be indexed as Tenth Doctor Sourcebook, The   [restoring the missing "r" in "Sourcebook"]

• new Book title: Twelfth Doctor Soucebook, The
Should be indexed as Twelfth Doctor Sourcebook, The   [restoring the missing "r" in "Sourcebook"]

[Mark J. Castaneda]

Got to these posts late... will address all mentioned editorial tweaks with next content update.

[Randall J. Paske]

8 hours ago, Steven L. Dasinger said:

If there is no 'apostrophe s' then it is not a possessive and would not have '(Fred Perry…)' added to the title. It is a Treasure Vault of sketches by Fred Perry. It is not his 'Treasure Vault'.

Since this is a pre-release, there is no real way to know that the actual title is. It could be 'Fred Perry Treasure Vault Sketchbook' or 'Treasure Vault Sketchbook' (or something else).

I agree with your distinction, but ComicBase is not consistent on the matter. For example, none of the following titles from ComicBase contain the possessive apostrophe s in their actual titles:

Andy Panda (Walter Lantz…)
New Funnies (Walter Lantz…)
TV Funnies (Walter Lantz…)
Woody Woodpecker (Walter Lantz…)
Woody Woodpecker Summer Fun (Walter Lantz…)
Banana Splits, The (Hanna-Barbera…)

And there's the reverse issue, where possessive titles are not indexed that way:

Roy Rogers' Trigger
loads of Walt Disney's titles

And then you've got titles like this, without possessives but with ellipses:

Man O War (William Shatner Presents…)
Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, The (Michael Chabon Presents…)
Shadowland (Fantagraphics Books Presents…)

And there are also odd cases like these titles:

Snifter of Blood (Edgar Allan Poe's…)
Snifter of Death (Edgar Allan Poe's…)
Snifter of Terror (Edgar Allan Poe's…)
Snifter of Terror Season Two (Edgar Allan Poe's…)

While Edgar Allan Poe was a real person, these series do not adapt his writing and appear to treat him as an Alfred E. Neuman type of fictional mascot. And obviously Poe was not alive to endorse or "present" these titles. Thus, unlike a title such as Conqueror Worm, The (Edgar Allan Poe's…) that actually is based on Poe's work, I think these titles should be indexed as Edgar Allen Poe's Snifter of…, sort of along the lines of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Bart Simpson's Joke Book, or Tipper GORE's Comics and Stories.

But I sense that I am off on a tangent. Maybe it at least illustrates my bit of uncertainty.

P.S. Never mind the Fred Perry title. But it looks like Denis Kitchen's Chipboard Sketchbook should be Chipboard Sketchbook (Denis Kitchen's…).
 

[Gregory Hecht]

On 7/30/2025 at 5:37 PM, Gregory Hecht said:

New Book title:  All the Strange, Strange Creatures Volume I
If this is a numbered series, should actually be listed as All the Strange, Strange Creatures #1/HC ?

New Book title:  Eighth Doctor Soucrebook, The
Note the spelling error.  This should actually be Eighth Doctor Sourcebook, The

These two items escaped the 8/6/2025 content update.