# Comic Notes — properties, images and sources ## Boolean ownership, ready for a future Base `owned: true` and `owned: false` are real YAML Booleans. They are not strings and not tags. `owned_count` is the count of physical copies on both series and issue notes. Series `owned_issue_count` is distinct owned regular issue identities. `regular_issue_count` and `missing_issue_count` exclude the BOTP #1/2 supplement. `issue_number` is always a quoted string, while `issue_sort` is numeric (0.5 for #1/2). `series_note` is a quoted Obsidian wikilink. `type` separates series from issue rows. No Base has been created. One note represents an issue identity, not a variant. The two Barbarella (2021) #6 copies remain in one note with two stable IDs and separate descriptions. `copy_ids` links back to `comic-books.json`. Missing issues have no invented copies. Change ownership through the bot if you want the authoritative catalog, Page and notes updated together; manual note/task edits do not automatically synchronize. ## Covers and original photographs Owned issue notes now embed the twenty photographs already uploaded by you into `assets/owned-covers/`. Exact filenames, sizes and SHA256 were verified by a read-only Enceladus query; no image bytes were transferred. `notes-research/owned-covers-t14u.json` records the copy-to-file map. These photos are **external dependencies**, not included in the export. Extract the notes into the existing Comic Books folder containing those assets. Relative embeds from each issue folder resolve via `../../assets/owned-covers/`. Missing issues retain clearly labeled public reference art. Reference cover credits are not automatically assigned to photographed variants. The Barbarella volume-three filename is linked to the recorded 2023 note without resolving its pre-existing identification warning. Earlier chat attachment paths were absent; the newly supplied vault images do not change that history. Only metadata/hashes were accessed, not image bytes. User photos are not available inside a standalone copy of the ZIP; preserve your existing assets folder. For 2021 #6, Cover C is verified first printing (t13u colophon plus t15u user attribution); Cover A remains unverified. ## Credits and story evidence Interior credits are extracted from each issue’s GCD-derived record, not inherited across a run. Publisher supplements use the role “Artist” when that is all the publisher specifies; it is not converted to pencils or inks. Unindexed/question-mark fields remain unverified. Cover credits and story colors are separate. ElfQuest interiors are black and white; #5 specifically credits Clem Robins for lettering. Every issue has a short original summary with a source and evidence type: bibliographic story synopsis, review-based story synopsis, retailer issue description, or publisher solicitation. A solicitation is advertised content, not a claim to have read the published issue. Story titles and actual release information may differ from solicitations. Spoilers are possible. No dialogue, full pages, or long copyrighted prose is reproduced. Research warning: the previously cataloged 2023 Barbarella #3 has a transcribed cover resembling the publisher’s 2021 #3. Both notes flag identification review; ownership has not been silently moved. A publisher page mislabeled as 2024 #1 actually contained #2 metadata and was rejected as #1 evidence. ## Provenance, licenses and updating GCD-derived bibliographic facts are attributed in the issue notes to Grand Comics Database and ComixCatalog, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cover artwork remains copyright the relevant creators/publishers. Use the sources for research, not as evidence of ownership. `scripts/build_obsidian_notes.py` is an offline deterministic generator. It reads `comic-books.json`, reviewed `notes-research/issues-extracted.json`, `original-summaries.json`, `cover-manifest.json`, `primary-evidence-t13u.json`, and `owned-covers-t14u.json`; it never contacts a remote computer. It backs up generated notes before replacing them. `scripts/validate_obsidian_notes.py` checks typed properties, counts, links, assets and ZIP hashes. To preserve manual edits, reconcile them into source data before regenerating; an existing output is backed up, not merged automatically. No remote vault write was attempted. Earlier manually copied five-series files were verified before these intakes; this expanded export is newer and staged only. Extract the ZIP at the root of the desired Comic Books folder to keep all relative image paths intact.