The barcode scanner isn’t recognizing my Elfquest hardcover collection of The Final Quest that came out on 11 Feb.
Hi there! We are working hard on getting missing catalogs with HC, TPB and Manga imported into our core. Adding these is course parallel to or other core related tasks. We won’t be adding your missing book(s) right at this moment. They will eventually get added of course. At this time there is not an estimation as to when all of the missings are added to core (The last few missing catalogs were processed within week).
We ask you to refrain from posting any HC & TPB’s here for now that are distributed to your comic shop or online retailer. Adding them from our forum takes more time compared to importing. I can imagine this frustrating for you, we hope you can understand that the situation which caused this to happen.
This is quoted from our newsletter:
It’s no surprise that the fall of the biggest comic distributor had a massive impact on the comic book industry as a whole. The ripple effect it created even had an impact on us, as the Diamond Previews were an important source of new release data. We patched the wound of missing comics almost immediately when publishers started to switch to different distributors. Our partnership with CovrPrice was a big help with this too. However, although not noticeable at first, it created a hole with missing manga, trade paperbacks and hardcovers for upcoming releases.
A few months ago, we asked CLZ web-developer Joe to create new tools to deal with the various new data sources we now have access to. And that has now been done! The journey to that goal definitely came with its own set of problems but he has made it work somehow (Joe truly is a coding wizard). He even worked on perfecting the way our data managers can edit and adjust new releases based on their FOC dates.
Our content managers Rowdy, Justin and Taco are now using the new tools to get new comic data in Core quicker and even before FOC dates strike. This will have the most effect on upcoming TPB’s, HC’s and Manga, but regular comics will also appear in our CLZ Core earlier!
Again sorry for the inconvenience!
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Do you know if there’s a place where we can see the new content being added to the core? Also, when will we know that we can start posting again in this section for missing content?
“Do you know if there’s a place where we can see the new content being added to the core?”
Not at this moment. If you could help me with finding out in which months catalog/previews your book could be ordered, it could be added for you that way.
“Also, when will we know that we can start posting again in this section for missing content?”
We have everything from the January catalog/previews up until the most recent one. We’re missing the ones before that. I’ve imported August and September which are releases for the next couple of weeks/months. To be honest HC and TPB’s are released in such a different matter that it’s kind of hard to pin point which catalog I should import. I couldn’t give you an answer on that for now. But if you could provide the month it was in the previews in your post, I could add it for you.
I think it was in the September 2025 sollicitations Dark Horse December 2025 Solicitations - Comic Releases
Added As “ElfQuest: The Final Quest HC”. Thank you for posting!