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In some cases the series themselves already have a name, such as “the funniest adventures” by o.i.d. I also see that the publisher name is frequently used as a series name. It is especially messy when there are many different loose, special editions, as is the case with Donald Duck. But don't know if anything can really be done about it ...

I still go to comic shows and I am a Disney fanatic. I saw them in Houten last week-end from € 5.00 to € 15.00. Differs per seller and on which exchange you are. The maternity rent will probably also play a role in this.

This seems like a nice solution in itself. But it is still disturbing that there are 2 versions of the same book in it. In some cases you will now see 3 or 4 books with the same cover within a series, if there are also reprints in addition to an HC version. Somewhere I would rather see those different versions of a book in an underlying page, so that when you see a series overview you just see a neat chronological numbering.

In recent years I have always asked for 5 euros for Dagobert at comic fairs. They went off pretty well for that. Also tried to ask for more but that didn't work out. I have indeed seen that more was asked for songs in the 50's (early years), but I never got that for it. But I have to say that I haven't been at a comic book fair in a year, so I don't have a very recent experience.

The problem with viewing many series in a photo gallery is that it seems that there are double albums in it, while they are two different versions with the same cover: a Soft Cover and Hard Cover version.
Now to fix this sometimes “HC” is entered in the number addition field. This does not seem such a good solution to me because it is then entered twice that it concerns an HC.
What I want to do is if it says in the Cover field that it is an HC show this in the photo gallery after the number of the album in the album series. So eg “(7 HC)” or “(7 b HC)”.
Do you think this is a good solution?

Choosing logical album series names (subseries within a series) is another weak point in many series. It is important to standardize this. Does anyone have any good ideas about this? I personally think that we should at least use the name “Main series” for series where there is no discussion about the main series. This can possibly be further specified in “Main series SC” and “Main series HC” if they are issued in two versions.
Other names that we can use generically?

Something anyone can do is cleaning up album series. Logical album series within a series is another weak point in the catalog. You can always change an album series to another name. Once you have given an album a new album series name, you can choose that name from the dropdown on the other albums by typing a part of the name. This way you make them uniform and I can remove any remaining “empty” album series.
For example, Jilles has created within Franka the “Main series sc” which immediately shows the normal softcover series. And Ruh has completely cleaned up the chaos with the album series within Agent 327 around publishers L and M in this way. Tribute!

There are still plenty of errors in the catalog indeed. Series or authors that need to be merged because they are written slightly differently, names with a small mistake in them, empty staging areas to be cleaned up, items to be deleted etc.
The problem is that Marco and I are the only ones who can do this. Disconnecting the management functions from our entire admin system, for the benefit of the administrators, takes a bit more time than planned. We expect this to be possible early next week. Then many more people can get started with the cleaning.
A place where all substantive errors in the comic catalog are reported seems a good plan. Indeed, let's devote this topic to that.
By the way, the problem you mentioned has now been solved. I have moved the image and description from nr.0 in Strip Nieuws to StripNieuws. And Strip News then removed. Thanks for signaling!

Well done Jilles. Good to know that you can do that too, always handy :-)
And the condition of your own book does not belong in the catalog, but in the Notes field in your own collection.

Yes, it is indeed already possible to make a distinction within the series by including the language in the album series. As Jilles has already shown well with the Indian series indeed. It is less beautiful at Bommel where something similar has been done, but then all foreign ones together in the album series “Foreign releases”.
The disadvantage is that you have to save 2x the language: 1x in the album series name and 1x in the language field. We should actually prevent that. So make a selection option based on the language field. Let me think about it for a moment.

Chips fall where minced meat is used. Could this be the place where beauty flaws can be reported?
To start right away: there is an entrance StripNieuws with all magazines of that name and an entrance Strip Nieuws (note the space) with only number 0 of this magazine.
If there is another place where this can be reported, please let me know.
Jan

I removed that. Quality stories belong in the description to books in your own collection. Maybe the importer got lost for a while.

I remember that Ben Bits received a prize on a Delft comic day, but he was "unable to attend" and "someone" else received the prize

I took the liberty of adjusting and straightening the picture for Tintin au Congo.
In my opinion, description does not belong to a quality story, but that is a different discussion

Also take a look at: books - illustrators - Kresse. Lots of beautiful pictures

An example of a comment placed in the left menu can be found in the Indians series by Hans g. Kresse. I am entering the translations - also in my collection - and I give them the album series name: Indian series German (or something). I know a number of collectors who also have these books in their collection.
Jilles

I wonder what people here pay on average for Scrooge McDuck albums, especially those from the "early years" series. I see that often nice amounts are asked for it…

Promote your small-press releases here, so your self-managed books!

@ Rene
Then you might be able to make a distinction in language on the series / hero page in the left menu. For example in the case of Lucky Luke: you just enter it under the normal series / hero name "Lucky Luke" but indicate that it is English in the language. Subsequently, in the left menu in the row of series (Dupuis, Lucky Luke collection etc etc) a distinction can be made between Dutch and foreign series. I can imagine that you just see the row of series that you see now, but that you have a sub-heading “English” below it (which you have to get from the 'language' field) with the series that appeared in that language below.

Ik ben er ook een voorstander van om anderstalige uitgaven te vermelden. Ze zitten nu eenmaal in je verzameling. (Zou wel eervol zijn, René: een kast in iedere verzameling met daarop het bordje ‘OngeCatawikied spul’.) Ik ben ook voorstander omdat ik ook graag al mijn secundaire materiaal op termijn wil invoeren, en daar zit veel anderstalig spul bij.

I am also in favor of mentioning publications in other languages. They are in your collection after all. (Would be honourable, René: a cabinet in every collection with the sign 'Uncategorized stuff' on it.) I'm also in favor because I'd like to import all my secondary material in the long term, and that includes a lot of foreign language stuff.

Whether it's guessed right or wrong ... we never comment ... So many names have been mentioned over the years ... And this is another one that popped up a few years ago ...

Done. I expect a lot of posts from you there! :-)

Great suggestion! I create them immediately.
René

That's a good point. You can now indicate the language per album in the “Other language / dialect” field at the bottom of the list of characteristics that you can enter for a comic. Only do if it is not in Dutch.
Since that is known, in theory it is not necessary to distinguish between the series name (so Lucky Luke English is actually superfluous). Certainly because we will offer even better selection options in the near future where you can select on combinations of fields. Within the Lucky Luke series, for example, on editions in the English language of publisher Cinebook. Or on French Tintins in combination with Uncoloured when coloring.
But now that all the serial names are going to change, I think it is too drastic a step. But let's see if the extensive selection options are available. For now please fill in the field “Other language / dialect” where necessary.

Ah, I didn't know that article yet. Well found! That will be correct. Still Arco?