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Digital Comic Museum => Welcome and Introductions => Topic started by: Yoc on October 02, 2010, 09:58:37 AM
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Hi there!
Welcome to DCM, a home for Public Domain comic scans up to the end of 1959.
Recently a news site used this headline and it got us wondering just how old is the average member here?
"One in Four Comic Readers over the Age of 65, Simba Information Study Reveals"
(You can read the article here: http://tinyurl.com/26vd229 (http://tinyurl.com/26vd229))
So, if you don't mind sharing... how old are you?
-Yoc (age 43)
DCM Admin
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Heh. I'm old enough to know better than answer "how old are you" and "what are you doing this weekend." The latter, invariably, because an uninteresting answer leads to chores.
It occurs to me that this might not be the gap it appears to be. Heading to the CIA World Factbook, they have a handy-dandy page with an appropriate breakdown per country for us:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2010.html
For the United States, say, if we neglect the under-15 crowd (who we're repeatedly told lack the required literacy skills to be comic fans and would rather play video games anyway), then over sixteen percent (about one in six) of the remaining population are over 65. Canada's over 18%. The EU clears 20%. That's the general population, mind you, as the CIA apparently doesn't bother to keep separate numbers on comic book fans, for some reason.
Factor in that comics are something of a dying medium, with companies' apparent disinterest in bringing in younger or even NEW fans, not to mention their distaste of digital distribution, and 25% doesn't seem surprising at all.
(OK, I might be 36...)
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I'm a 53 year old school teacher. With the popularity of the movies I have seen a rise in interest in comics. I have had more kids look at the comics I have on a comic rack in the back of my room.
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Well I am about to turn 45... ugh... oh well. Daughter just turned 18... ugh... where did it all go?... and how much time of that did I spend reading comics? LOL
G7/Les
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I just turned 62. I have an brother who is twelve years older than I am, and much of my love of comics came from the fact that his comics were always around until I learned to read and he got married (at age 18, and is still married to the same woman).
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Well, I was afraid to be the oldest.... It's not the case!.... ;)
I'm 46 and I'm very proud to have a son (18) who is mad about comics like me!
The problem is that we've no more bookcases at home!
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Unfortunately Pipo we can not all do what JVJ did with his book room. I have boxes here and there and everywhere
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I like how the "Additional Information" ends-up only being the cost of the report ($1,295.00 for just the download).
I found it interesting that it's phrased "one in four adult comic readers is 65 years of age or older" and not "one of four comic book readers ... ". Also, using "comic" without the word "book" attached to it kind of opens things up a bit. Without knowing exactly how they came-up with this "one in four" number (because I'm not seeing any type of explanation anywhere), how do I (or anyone else) really know it's comic book readers and not simply a lot of grandparents buying "Peanuts" or "Garfield" books for their grandkids? I'm not saying their phrasing is wrong, but it certainly can be misleading.
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I'm 35. Been reading comics since I was a kid -- mostly whatever Marvel books I could find on the newsstand at the time, then I moved on to collecting older Silver Age books, and now I find myself reading mostly Golden Age titles online. (I think my inner child is aging backwards through time or something. ;)
-- Kevin Yong
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I recently turned 36 years young. When I was in Jr. High, I collected some Marvel titles but moved away from comics towards novels in high school and college. Six or seven years ago, I was lured back into comics when I discovered trade paperbacks and graphic novels in my public library. I do keep up on a handful of new titles (Scalped, DMZ, Powers, Fables) but find myself reading mainly golden age and underground comix just as much if not more than new material.
As far as comics appeal to the young goes, both my 5 and 7 year old read comics, and I'd hate to slight the industry too much for the state of children's comics because I think good things are happening. Both my kids love the RAW toon books like Benny and Penny or the Johnny Boo books which are available in the kiddie section of our library and which I think is a great format for getting children interested in comics. Also, the Boom Kids comics are a ton of fun, and my kids also like to read Harveys, or I like to read them old Dells. There's more material available right now for kids than there has been in a long time. As far as Marvel or DC's appeal to children goes, I'll be honest and say I could care less. They aim their comics towards their target demographic, 30-something fan boys willing to pay 5 dollars an issue and mine a small and blindly loyal audience for all it's worth.
I think comics offer much in terms of exciting children to read and also as a format that helps children learn to sound out effects, understand sequential images, and decipher dialogue. Educators and parents are more open to this than ever, so I'm optimistic about the future of comics and comics for kids no matter what the demographics say or what is on offer from the big 2.
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Good observations darwin. There has been a resurgence in kids titles. Just look at the companies to recently jump on the band wagon. I doubt these are selling well in LCS but the probably doing very well in Borders, B&N etc. The popularity of animated movies has helped the comic industry probably more than the superhero movies.
These movies appeal to young and old alike and so do the comics. BTW it also appears from this poll so far that we have a younger membership than I would have thought. The under 50's seem to be winning and pulling ahead. That is good news for the industry when all us old farts die out ;)
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I almost missed this one. Thanks go to Yoc for pointing the poll out to me. I’m one of the old guys I guess at 63. There, that wasn’t so hard. I’m sure there are older fans than I still around but a lot of them aren’t online. I have my son to thank for that as he convinced me to buy a computer back in ’96 when I thought I was too old to learn. He, by the way, nor his older sister ever showed interest in comics. It must skip a generation is all I can say. (I'm working on my granddkids now to rectify that situation!)
Well most of the the paper collection is long gone with a few decent exceptions, for one, to include a somewhat ragged copy of Showcase #4 which I clearly remember pulling off a spinner rack at the corner store back in '56. And with great thanks to DCM and via other online means it’s thrilling to know that many of the comics I formerly collected are available once more now in electronic form. It has been my distinct pleasure to have contributed many of these here and elsewhere myself. :)
--Loftypilot Dan
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I'm with you on that Dan, (am the same age) and just retired this past August. It seems I have more to do now then when working, (and Jim (JVJ) warned me about it before I did, hee, hee).
Glad to see another old timer aboard and I did the same with my great grand child to get him interested in comics. We may just revive paper comics yet Dan. ;D
Geo
Mod for DCM
(One of the many hats I wear now days ^-^)
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Greetings from Pennsylvania! I'm 51 years old and been a comic book reader since I was 3 years old(that's 1962 for you young people).I'm happy to be here,and look forward to getting to know many of my fellow comic book fans!
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Welcome Rinso, I am an ex PA from the Johnstown area. Do not like PA cold or taxes so now I live in TN
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Hmm, looks like I'm the youngest one so far at 27.
Other than some comics given to me at Christmas when I was really young, I didn't buy my own until I was 9, and then started seriously collecting at 10. That was also the year I became interested in the Golden Age through a handful of Superman reprints. I also became obcessed with the next "oldest comic in my collection." The older the better. Over the next few years I managed to pick up a later issue of Heroic Comics and Atlas' Men in Action, and later on some issues of Classics Illustrated, and Captain Marvel Jr. #110. Then, when I was 16, we got the internet and I discovered online auctions. I bought a Fox Blue Beetle and another Captain Marvel Jr., but I still didn't know much about the Golden Age outside of DC's characters and the Marvel Family. I certainly had no idea of the depth of the Golden Age. Then one day I was home sick from school and discovered Two Tub Man's cover site, and Bill Nolan's Pure Excitement Comics. I started The Golden Years site soon after that, and my Golden Age collecting and knowledge gathering exploded. By that fall I had a small handful of PD books and began All-Amazing Comics which was the catalyst for the collection I have today.
-Eric
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Thanks for sharing you story Eric.
Nice to learn how your site was born. It was one of the first sites I found and the very first I ever wrote a fan letter to many years ago!
Thanks for sharing the new scans as well.
:)
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I'm 32 and have collected comics since the early 90s boom. I got into comics not because of all the animated series that were going on at the time (spider-man, batman, x-men, etc) but because of the trading cards that Marvel and DC had just started to get into publishing. A friend of mine showed me some of the cards he was collecting and it just took off from there. I think I've only stopped and started collecting comics twice, and both times were for financial reasons. I've always had a special place in my heart for the Golden Age of comics, especially when a writer brings a character back from the depths of limbo that hasn't been seen for a dozen or more years.
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40 years old. It's funny how the comics I read as brand new in the 80's are now re-released in collector's editions. I love the way new technologies like the internet, scanners, etc.can allow us to enjoy books 50, 60 even 70 years old.
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Ha! I feel young! My age category includes 26 year olds.
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Over 65 ..Retired antique dealer spending WAY too much time reading all you guys have posted here
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57. I started reading American comics from the silver age but there used to be plenty of raggedy older comics around in those days too. I wish I still had all those old comics now!
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69 years old - but I feel a lot younger since I discovered DCM
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Ha!
Well said Jimpy. Enjoy your second youth here.
:)
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Just turned 40 a while ago... been collecting since the moment I saw Batman #234 on the shelf. That great Neal Adams cover seized my 2 year-old mind, and Ive been hooked on comics and related art ever since. I love that there are sites available where I cannot only share the art I love, but also preserve it for future generations.
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Hi! I'm an ancient 46 yrs old (soon to be 47). I still read current comics, but love to buy (when I can find/afford them) old charlton horror comics. The creativity that went into them was to me) fantastic. I used to save the charltons as my last reads as a kid in the 70s; I'd plow through Batman and Daredevil et al., and my charltons would be my dessert reads! (The style only worked for me in the horror; could not appreciate charton's war and humor mags...).
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Be sure to check out Charlton's pre-code horror comics (e.g. The Thing). Some of the early Ditko material is amazing.
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You may be the youngest member, Yusef, or very close to being the youngest.
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I'm creeping up on 48 this summer. Growing up I always was interested in the Golden Age comics and heroes, spurred by reprints in DC and Marvel comics and the annual JLA/JSA crossovers. Over the next 40 years I just resolved, that unless I became a multi billionaire I would never really get to read the bulk of what had come before me that I was so interested in, so once more I was just born too late.
Thanks to all the hard work you folks are doing here, that ain't so anymore. Thansk so much for sharing all your hard work and time at making all these golden age treasures available to the public at large.
I just kicked in a small donation, and I plan to do so regularly. You guys are great!
Jeff O.
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Hi everyone
I am 51 years old. I have lived fourteen years in the U.S.
My comics collection goes back to the 60's, from the Greek market only.
Also I publish my own work and that of others in Greece.
I want to congratulate you for your work.
greetings
Nikos
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Welcome Nikos enjoy your stay. If you have any work that you can authorize to be online we would be glad to put it up at GAC.
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Welcome Nikos enjoy your stay. If you have any work that you can authorize to be online we would be glad to put it up at GAC.
thank you
I have a s.f. magazine and I would enjoy the idea of posting it on DCM.
First I would need to translate it into English, and that would take some time...
The printing rights and the copyright would remain solely with me though?
Because it is to early to become public domain.
greetings
Nikos
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Great! I do not know if DCM would want to host but GAC would.
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DCM has a 'nothing printed after 1959 rule'.
The staff has never talked about sharing PD books where we Do have the permission of the copyright holder.
Best to share it on GAC for now.
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Great! I do not know if DCM would want to host but GAC would.
Friends you would have to give me some time, since it is 40 pages long of translating.
What is the site of GAC for this job?
Also a question is if what is put up by DCM is all public domain. If that is the case then one can reprint those comics or parts of them, without obligaqtion?
have a nice weekend, Nikos
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Nikos, basically, that's it, but...
The short version is that public domain basically means open ownership. So, at least in the United States (I'll explain in a second), each of us "owns the rights," and can do what we want.
Outside the United States, the same probably applies, but check your local laws to make sure that your local laws recognize the idea of a public domain and that the copyright laws don't magically (and stupidly) apply to foreigners. I think Greece is smarter than that, but one never knows what anybody's politicians have been bullied into passing in the name of globalization.
Also, when it's your own neck on the line, always check the copyrights for yourself anyway. If it's here, we probably checked the rights, but a lot got grandfathered in (as in, "everybody else calls it public domain") and something can sneak through as a part of the comic without our noticing. Plus, if someone mistakenly sues you, your own research will carry much more weight than "some guys on the Internet said it'd be OK." And if you're wrong, your research will limit the damages.
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Nikos, basically, that's it, but...
John hello
thank you for all the information.
greetings,
Nikos
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I am 53 at the moment.
Been reading comics forever. As a youngster only bought them used at garage sales and Salvation Army stores.
It did not dawn on me until I was about 13 that I could go down to the drugstore to purchase them new!!!
B.
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Hallo to everyone !
I began reading comic books when I was seven years old. Tarzan drawn by Russ Manning and late Jesse Marsh were my favourite artists.
Rustykid
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Hallo to everyone !
I began reading comic books when I was seven years old. Tarzan drawn by Russ Manning and late Jesse Marsh were my favourite artists.
Rustykid
Both are great artists and welcome to DCM. Please enjoy your stay with us. Jump in on the posts when you feel the need.
Geo
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Well,just 62 years young, distinctly remember my Aunt raiding my stuff on a visit and confiscating my FF#1 and burning it because it would "make me a juvinille delinquent". My parents had a fit, I had been reading comics since I was 5, and was a straight-A honor student. Could have probably paid for my graduate schooling with that one. Aunt was told to mind her own business and my room was locked thereafter whenever she showed up.
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Well,just 62 years young, distinctly remember my Aunt raiding my stuff on a visit and confiscating my FF#1 and burning it because it would "make me a juvinille delinquent". My parents had a fit, I had been reading comics since I was 5, and was a straight-A honor student. Could have probably paid for my graduate schooling with that one. Aunt was told to mind her own business and my room was locked thereafter whenever she showed up.
I also lost a lot of comics being torn to pieces, but then again such is war, we loose some good ones..
forgive the ignorant, greetings
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Im 33 from Liverpool,England.i love horrror and scifi comics from the 50's.i love the E.C.Comic style.i love this site.so happy i found it. :)
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Welcome PM, there's lots of fun stuff here you'll enjoy.
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hey guys, i'm newbie in this forun and i want know how can i download Avengers comics. thx
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hey guys, i'm newbie in this forun and i want know how can i download Avengers comics. thx
You can't, at least not legally, and not anywhere we'll talk about here. They're illegal to distribute, and since parent company Disney has really big lawyers, you're probably better off just buying'em when you can afford them.
We deal exclusively with comics in the public domain (meaning no copyright entanglements to feed the aforementioned lawyers), focusing on those prior to 1960.
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Yep, you're in the wrong place for 'current' books Dylan.
But give us a look - you'd be surprised how many cool things you can find on DCM.
Like Wolverine? Take a look at Hangman Comics in the MLJ section.
There's a GA equivalent to almost any modern hero you can name. And you might find the modern one is strikingly similar to the GA one. Try Lev Gleason's DareDevil and see if you think Marvel was 100% original in their version.
-Yoc
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So, how old are you, Dylan?
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what progaam do we need to run these comics files. my adobe reader is not running it. where i find this program :-/
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Chem, you'll find suggestions here:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,1808.0.html
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,1836.0.html
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Chem and others, Please read the FAQ in my signature. It covers about any question you could have.
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"Greetings & Salutations!" I'll wager a stack of Golden Age comics (not really!) that there are more comic book readers in their late 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, maybe centurians out there? Bet if we could teach people 65 and older to use a computer and show them this website, our numbers would double or triple! Respectfully yours, Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California
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Hey Sarge welcome aboard. I am an Army vet 74-78
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Hey Sarge welcome aboard. I am an Army vet 74-78
Thank you, served 1959-1962 myself and my older brother a male nurse went to Nam in 1970 and stayed three tours, advancing from 2LT to CPT in less than 3 years, stayed CPT until 18 years later when he made MAJ and then LTC after being in Desert Storm. My grandson's father is Chinese the grandfather was one of the "Boat People" after 1975 coming out of Vietnam. Jimmy Luong was able to read at age 2 and stayed glued to a computer. Jimmy's father Jason Luong was born in Las Vegas about 1983? I do not care a lot for the new comic books that are too slick, not like those I grew up with in the 1940s to the late 1950s. "Bringing Up Father" (Maggie & Jiggs) was my favourite and George McManus was brilliant! Liked George Baker's "Sad Sack: and "Alley Oop" too! "Little Orphan Annie" and "Krazy Kat" could not be done by those who followed those great artists. "Dick Tracey" continue after Chester Goulde bought the farm! Katzenjammer Kids were good, wondered how many artists did those strips? Thank you for replying, brother! :D
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Love early Dick Tracy and Alley Oop. I read K Kids in their later years and did not like the strip at all. Never gave me the desire to look up the early ones. I also love early Phantom and even later ones.
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Introducing myself in this thread.. Hello World!
How old... does it matter for reading comics? I hope to be always young for this activity :) (my grandfather still reading comics, although he has problems to understand some text :))
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Hello Moon
Look down upon our little site and enjoy
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Hi. I'm Dave and I'm 40 years old. I guess I fall into the 75% that isn't over 65. A link to this site was posted on the 11 O'Clock Comics forum, so I thought I'd check it out.
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Welcome D!
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Please enjoy you stay with us here D.
Geo
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Woo! I seem to be your target audience.
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That's one way to put it, Scott. It's about time you turned up here.
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Ha!
The german feller (me) will be 48 this christmas.
Got hooked as a kid on the german edition of MAD and the EC Library some years later.
Am specializing in pre-code horror for two years now.
Running a german website (www.fifties-horror.de), but will be installing something new in english as well next year.
DCM is a fantastic organization.
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What "old"????? I am NOT "old"!!!!! OK??????
Well, I am near my v4.1. But it is like the Mac OS X: the higher number, the better!!!!!!! ^-^
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I'm 42, and I started reading Marvel Comics (Silver Age) in 1978 (in Italian edition), and in 1987 (in English).
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Hey, Yoc!
It seems to me that the average age of responding readers is now a bit younger than when the poll began. Would I be right in this observation ? Do you still have access to earlier pole result to compare ?
Deni
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Sorry Deni,
the poll is real time only. I can't see any older results.
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UNDER 18! ;)
love OlD COMICS SO MUCH better then todays :D
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Great to see younger readers keeping a love for "the classics" alive
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UNDER 18! ;)
love OlD COMICS SO MUCH better then todays :D
Nice to see not only new blood, but new young blood.
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What?!
Someone under 18?!
Years of age?!
Can I see some ID please?
;)
That is really more than we can hope for - the youth of today discovering the golden age.
Fantastic.
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18 is younger than when I STARTED buying comics! Sigh, that was so 46 years ago. Welcome. You're bound to learn about these cool comics quicker than I did.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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I was buying comics, or having comics bought for me, when I was 5 or 6. And when old enough to be given pocket money, I would buy a comic on the way back from the Saturday morning pictures. These would have been British titles as American comics weren't distributed until 1959. The comic habit has stayed with me, something which didn't happen with many friends and acquaintances, who just let them go. It's heartening to find young fans on here. There is so much to read and learn and despite the few new titles I buy regularly, they don't have the same feel, smell, look and potential for enjoyment as old British and American comics. But then, I'm biased.
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Nice to see not only new blood, but new young blood.
I hope it’s not new Youngblood™. :)
Besides, I do not find it so strange. Even recently I have made acquaintance with a canadian girl which was then 17 (now she's 19) to which I sent a few italian disney stories from the 1950s (the few translated into English) and she not only loved them, but she also made very thoughtful cricitism, comparing them to Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy) which is her favorite character (she bought and watched all the 1963 series).
Not strictly golden age comic books, but nonetheless "golden to atomic age" in period, by northamerican standards. ;)
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Nice to see not only new blood, but new young blood.
I hope it’s not new Youngblood™. :)
Besides, I do not find it so strange. Even recently I have made acquaintance with a canadian girl which was then 17 (now she's 19) to which I sent a few italian disney stories from the 1950s (the few translated into English) and she not only loved them, but she also made very thoughtful cricitism, comparing them to Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy) which is her favorite character (she bought and watched all the 1963 series).
Not strictly golden age comic books, but nonetheless "golden to atomic age" in period, by northamerican standards. ;)
I was actually making a musical pun and referencing an old Coasters song, "Youngblood," which Leon Russell recorded toward the end of the case of Jim Beam. I know about that series, but I gave it a miss.
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I know about that series, but I gave it a miss.
I guess in the long term the sensation brought back then by "Image Comics" will almost entirely fade away. :)
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I hear you on that,narfstar...I hate the cold myself,and really don't like PA politics,but it's where I live for now,lol. :) Just to update,I'll be 53 in April...plus I have 2 sons,28 and 18...the oldest loves comics and hip-hop.
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What?!
Someone under 18?!
Years of age?!
Can I see some ID please?
;)
That is really more than we can hope for - the youth of today discovering the golden age.
Fantastic.
Just take my word for it!!! :P ;D
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I am about a nice round 30 years old. So neat to be at a -0 age you feel like you belong in two decades at the same time!
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I am about a nice round 30 years old. So neat to be at a -0 age you feel like you belong in two decades at the same time!
That won't last, but enjoy it while you can.
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Hi, This is Sudip from India. I am 32 years old.
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Hi, This is Sudip from India. I am 32 years old.
Welcome to the site, please enjoy your stay here with us. Lots of goodies to choose from, we are sure you'll find something you'll like.
Geo
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Hi, I'm from Italy, and I'm 38.
I found this amazing site looking for some "Carrie" cartoon by Wood Cowan, or everything else by him.
I remember reading (actually just look at the images) Carrie when I was a kid, but now I could'nt find it anywhere in Italy or on the web, except for the few on the Barnaclepress site.
http://www.barnaclepress.com/list.php?directory=Carrie
(I'm also wondering if his strips from the 1920s and 1930s were in public domain, in here the Copyright stands for 70 years after the death of the author, basically nothing I'm interested in is in public domain >:( )
Looking forward for your system to allow me to the download section, for now I'm enjoying the forum, thank you, and ehm... sorry for my english ^-^
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In the USA they would be in public domain. Newer stuff in US is based on after death also which is stupid. It is much easier to hunt down a public record than track someone's death. Anyway welcome aboard. If you have visited many US sites you will find that your English is probably better than most Americans ;) Since you like Carrie check out Fritzi-Ritz and Mopsy. Also recent Out Our Way dailies have been added to Ella Cinders, Betty and others in the newspaper section that you might enjoy
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Looking forward for your system to allow me to the download section, for now I'm enjoying the forum, thank you, and ehm... sorry for my english ^-^
This is the first I've ever seen of Carrie.
Luth, you should be able to download once you register and activate your account. It says you have done both on our end.
If you see an error please use the CONTACT US link at the top of the download site and Copy and Paste the error message you are seeing.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/support/index.php (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/support/index.php)
Thanks,
-Yoc
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Okay... I'm gunning for the title of oldest member/contributor. Anyone out there beat 74 years young? Do I get an award??? Or financial contributions toward the cost of a new zimmer frame!
I'm joking, of course.
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You got me beat by a couple of decades whizfan.
So what were the first GA comics you remember reading as a kid?
Do you see any of them on the site here?
Best
Joe
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Welcome to this wonderful site, whizfan! Sorry, but I've got you beat by a few years, though we're both from the golden age of comics. Yet, I'm probably not the oldest guy here. From your moniker, the Fawcetts were your favorite comics? Mine, too.
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I don't think I ever said but I'm 62 and after a day in the garden, I feel it. Fortunately, prawn risotto, green salad, olives and a few glasses of rather nice French rose' have sorted me out nicely. Needless to say I didn't grow up with American comics, apart from the odd newspaper supplement. More Rover, Wizard, Hotspur, Eagle, Victor, Marvelman, Phantom and much more.
Sudup, I've been using a few Indian blogs to find Indrajal, Diamond and other Indian lines. There was some really good stuff going on there and if anyone is a Phantom phan you have to check out those sites.
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I love the Phantom and have several scans from different countries
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Can't be certain, but probably a Fawcett Captain Marvel title. My schoolfriend clicked onto comics years before I acquired the taste and collected anything and everything connected to the Big Red Cheese. Once seen I, too, entered Fawcett Comics fandom, collecting any super/costumed character titles they published.
Thanks, then, to DCM for archiving the wealth of comic titles published down the years. I view and download daily.
Do you?
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Hi,
Sorry I haven't replied before now: took me ages to work out how to use the forum.
A fellow Fawcett collector is a joy to behold: we both had/have taste. I still have a couple of Fawcett titles I'd love to share with fellow DCM members, but can't for the like of me work out the procedure for doing so?? >:(
You're older (I prefer "younger") than me by how many years?
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Hi Whiz fan,
There are trusted members on the site that would be wiling to scan your books for the collection and return them to you.
Let us know if you'd like to pursue the idea.
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Well, I'm brasilian and I'm 28.
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Welcome Altemar always glad to see younger fans interested in the golden age
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Hello,
The first comic I read and owned, was a DC comic called Strange Adventures.
This was published in 1950 when I was 4 years old.
Willie (66) and still loving comics.
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Cool, and I bet you'll find lots to read here Will.
Welcome to the site.
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I was born in Sept of 1970 and the first comics I remember owning were some issues of House of Mystery, Archie and Richie Rich back around '75 or so that my cousin gave me. Bought my first issue of Superman in 1979 and still have it and have read Superman ever since.
Since finding this site I am becoming quite the Fawcett Captain Marvel fanatic and also a fan of Daredevil and Fighting Yank ;D
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I'm three years older than you SMS. I too was weened on Archie as well as Scrooge comics. My first buys were Archie Superhero Digest #2 and Ghost Rider v1 #26 both in the summer of 1979. Before that I only had hand-me-downs or books my parents approved.
Give 'Prize Comics' and 'Frankenstein Comics' a try.
btw, I too still own those first two purchases I mentioned.
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Welcome Altemar always glad to see younger fans interested in the golden age
12 years old and LOVE old comics!! ;)
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Welcome 'Old'. You're our youngest member as far as I know.
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Welcome Altemar always glad to see younger fans interested in the golden age
12 years old and LOVE old comics!! ;)
That's great. More power to you. Which one are your favorites?
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67 years old next year. A big fan and lover of the comic books mainly western(Alan Rocky Lane, Tex Ritter, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Straight Arrow, Zorro etc. My soul an memory are with them always. Thanks. My real name's Ezio. Greetings from Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Well..., I thought I was still young until recently. Our son leaves home for college in a few days. S I feel older. Then in Oct. I'll turn the big "Five O." I'm sure my wife will rub it in. (she's a few years younger.) She made me a cake on my 25th that said. "Happy quarter century." I'm sure I'll get a "Happy half century" cake this year." Ugghh. Oh well.
I have loved comics for as long as I can remember. Thanks for sharing...
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I'm 69 years old and and have been reading comics since I was about 6 or 7. My mother used to read them to me before that. Down at the street level in my apartment building was a mom and pop store. They sold new comics for 5 or 10 cents but the best thing was that they would buy used comics for a penny each from you and would sell them to anyone who wished to wade through the pile for 2 cents each. I spent many happy hours wading and reading. I mostly read Disney comics but also enjoyed others like Archie and Plastic Man, Superman and most of the animal characters comics. I still enjoy reading all these today.
ThatBuff
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Welcome Buff lots here for you to enjoy
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Well, I guess I am one of the older comic book readers. I will be turning 75 in a couple of months. I remember back in the 40's, friends of mine and I would go down to the corner drugstore and sit on the floor and read the latest comics until the owner told us to either buy or leave. Captain Marvel and Superman topped the list. I also liked the Classic comics which gave me an appreciation for the classical works of the past. I later got hooked on Mad magazine with it's political satire and current events. I am looking forward to viewing some your collection.
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Well we may not have Superman, CI or Mad but we do have the Big Red Cheese, Superior Stories and Nuts and others
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Welcome Bobby, give Nuts! a try. Not 'Mad' but one of several competing mags in the same vein.
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Hi all.
I'm a bit dilatory in introducing myself, having apparently joined DCM some time back but first really playing around with it last week. For the last couple of years I've been experiencing my second childhood as I've rediscovered all the reading pleasures of my youth -- although my wife insists I never left my first childhood since I never entirely gave up reading comic books. I've been having a ball reading through and downloading some of the great Fawcett Comics, mainly remembering them from DC's reprints in the 1970s, and discovering the greatness of titles beyond the Marvel Family. Unfortunately, I have no Golden Age comics to scan and contribute to the site, but I heartily thank those who have shared their treasures with the wider world. I maintain a couple of blogs about my various readings, mainly "Random Ramblings of an Absent-Minded Professor," but also "Spinner-Rack Memories" and "The Perry Rhodan Reading Project," if anybody's interested.
Cheers,
Kent Hare
EDIT: Oops ... somehow I overlooked the age part ... 50 years - kgh
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Welcome Kent.
I had a pretty good Perry Rhodan collection but realized I would never get caught up so I traded them in. Good series though.
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Sixty one.Life long avid reader. Got the bug as a kid reding comics. Looking forward to renewing the pleasure I got whenever I aquired a new comic. I'm a big fan of old time radio and this website looks like a treasure to me.Hope to chat with many of you as I have a lot to learn about vintage comics.
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A warm welcome to you RB. You'll find a lot here to keep you busy for years.
Please enjoy your stay with us here, and do join in when the need comes to you.
Geo
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40 for newbie am I,i have no more..but let do it...
Thank you very much
Tator :-/
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Welcome aboard Tator, please enjoy the site. Lots to see and read.
Geo
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Going on 43 at the end of the year :P
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Welcome to the crowd. lady. Hope you don't mind all us nerdy old men that hang out here. Feel free to join in convos.
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Hi, all
I am under 18........... 8)
and i LOVE old comics :-* ???
SOOOOO much better than nowdays ;) LOL
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Good to see some younger readers preserving our traditions.
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I am from Bangladesh and the resource here represents my childhood when comics were cheap and available even in a place like Bangladesh-- well back in the 70's it should have been harder to find comics. Good to find a site that takes me back to my childhood.
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Welcome Sharier enjoy
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Hi there! I'm just 20 but a big curious about these classic comics ;)
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You do not have to remain curious anymore. You can find out almost all you need to know now.
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Hi there! I'm just 20 but a big curious about these classic comics ;)
I'm delighted to see that the idea of old comic books still appeal to people who are just a few years older than I was when I first started to trying to collect "classic" comics. My curiousity was inspired by Playboy magazine publishing Jules Feiffer's introduction to book Playboy Press was about to publish, "The Great Comic Book Heroes," back in 1965; well, that and a much older brother who remembered growing up with golden age comics.
What made you curious about "classic" comics?
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Hi, I am 19 years old and have had some sort of DC comics craving ever since I saw the last Batman. ^^
Thank you very much for creating this site, it's kinda hard to find these in France...
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That is exactly the purpose of DCM.
To make these books accessible - to all the comic book lovers who happen NOT to live in the US.
As a German I know how hard and expensive it is to get your hands of any old comic book from this era.
We promise to keep the good stuff coming.
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Yep as tilliban said we are open to all those who enjoy PD comics.
And you'll find treasures here that should fill your craving for old
comic books. Please enjoy the site KnK.
Geo
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I am 56 going on 57 in December of this year. You all may remember me from the Good Guys and Gals of the Golden Age. Glad to be back here. Don't know if I have much to add here. Lots to look at though. :-)
Richard Boucher
PR Publications:
The 1st Heroic Age, The Good Guys & Gals Of The Golden Age, The Greats Of The Golden Age Reprints, TM & C 2012 PR-Publications a division of TamRic Inc.
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Hi Richard!
Please feel free to join in on any topic or start your own.
We'd love to hear more from you. :)
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Thanks Yoc, and I am looking through my books to see if I have anything to contribute. What is the status of Non USA comics other than Canadian, UK and Aussie books? I have mostly Non English titles like Fantax and La Arana Verde and the like. Let me know.
Richard Boucher
PR Publications
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Hi Richard,
We'd love to share anything you had that we were missing or could use an upgrade.
We're staying away from non-English books for now.
But I believe they might be welcome over on Comic Book Plus (formerly GAC) -
http://comicbookplus.com/index.php
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Hello!
I am a 20 years old young lady.
I am very interested in comics and recently, I was looking to read some older ones and I happened to find this wonderful website!
Thank you DCM! ;)
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Welcome CE.
Lots of stuff here to enjoy!
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I will check over there. Anyone in particular I should speak with? Let me know.
Thanks Yoc
Richard Boucher
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MarkWarner is the owner and Narfstar is one of the admins there. PawBoon is another active admin.
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I am an avid Golden Age comic book collector. I started collecting comics when I was much younger and I had an extensive collection. Not knowing what the true value of my collection was, I sold them at a ridiculous low price; would you believe Detective No.27 sold for $15.00 and I thought that it was a great deal. However, with the internet, times have changed and I now know better.
Today my collection consists in great part of Fawcett Publication comics. I have the complete Captain Marvel - Mr. Mind Serial collection as well as many of the first Captain Marvel Adventure comics. I also have various other publisher comics that I cherish. All my comics are in the VG+ to FVF condition.
condition.
I am very pleased to have come across your site and it was by pure coincidence. I really did not know that such a site existed. I will certainly use it and contribute to its success.
Al
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Welcome bobcat. If you worry about lowering the condition of you books by scanning you may want to consider sending them to Rangerhouse. He has a set-up that takes good care of book. We hope you can fill some holes or even replace some fiche with paper scans.
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Hi Al, welcome to the site.
That's a heartbreaking story about selling off your old collection so cheap.
Yes, if you are interested in safely having some of your books scanned without crushing them in a conventional consumer scanner Rangerhouse has a professional level scanner which takes digital pictures of each page. He's scanned thousands of comics for JVJ and some other members of the site. He's 100% trustworthy.
Enjoy the scans here and if you need any help, etc about anything just let me know,
-Yoc
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My love for the comic books are forever. Mainly the cb of the 40, 50 and 50's years. My favorites are of the 50's years. The best year in the world. Never forget it
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Welcome V!
Lots of 50s books for you to enjoy here.
Take care,
-Yoc
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HI!! i am a 13 year old living in Australia.I LOVE old things (movies,books,comics radio shows) ^-^
I am weird because of that but who cares!!! ;)
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Welcome you are right at home with us old weirdoos. Enjoy yourself and feel free to join in conversations on the forum. We would love to hear your perspectives.
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HI!! i am a 13 year old living in Australia.I LOVE old things (movies,books,comics radio shows) ^-^
I am weird because of that but who cares!!! ;)
There's nothing wrong with being weird.
I've been weird all my life. Call yourself an artist and you can be officially weird!
Narf is rigth: Welcome to the club.
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I've been weird most of my 57 years on this planet,, why change now?
Mr Goldenage...... Welcome weird one.... :-)
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Hi folks--
Used to be Johnofthe Golden Age but lost cookie and wasn't able to get it back. It has been several years and I don't use the email I originally registered with. Will put new info in a safe place against cookie loss.
My favorites--going clear back to about 1945--Marvel Family and the Phantom (unavailable, of course).
Do not like what passes for comic books these days.
John
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John, if you ever have trouble you can always use the Contact Us link on the site.
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I'll round up to age 57.
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I'm in my extremely late 40s - 51.
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Im 54 years old and will alway love and read comics! smg5559
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Welcome SMG a have you by a couple of years but you are in a large group of baby boomers here
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Hi There,
I am a 60 year old manager in an insurance firm. I'm a culture junkie endlessly fascinated by the media. I started reading comics when I was 7 years old. I still prefer the cleaner lines and uncluttered comics of the 60s and 70s.
Bigguy60
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You are not the only one bigguy. Most of us are nostalgic for those halcyon days.
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Hi,
glad to be counted in. I am 34 years old (young), and love comics, though I do not have a vast collection by any means. Seeing the declining numbers of comic book readers in statistical studies makes me sad. Wish there were more people like us.
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Welcome Z.
You win for 'most buff' avatar.
Congratrs. ;)
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:o Just joined, and already am a winner :D Thank you Yoc, hope I can be beneficial to TDCM.
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Welcome Rinso, I am an ex PA from the Johnstown area. Do not like PA cold or taxes so now I live in TN
thumbs up..:)
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welcome jazzy
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Hi am 23 comic fan.I read lot of new comics, but they are (of course) no match for classic ones.8)
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Well Sorcer8 welcome to the site, please enjoy our collection.
And feel free to join in on the conversation anytime.
Geo
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Welcome and right you are.
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Just found your site via Kim Kommando's newsletter and I hope that it turns out to be one that touches some old comic book memories such as - The Flame, Miss Fury, Supersnipe, The Blue Beetle, etc.
Obviously I am somewhat older than many other enthusiasts since I actually had these comics when I was a kid. So the direct answer to the question is that I am 78.
It will be fun taking a look at those goodies from the distant past and will make some comments once I have had the opportunity to do so.
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You will find all here for you to enjoy except Supersnipe who is not PD
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Im sure you will find something that will please you, and welcome aboard to DCM.
Geo
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Ekardman.
Are you a magician?
:D
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I am 13 year old Aussie girl turning 14 in four days ;)
I love old comics I think that the new ones are rubbish!
I love old B&W movies (about 85% to 90% of movie I have watched are B&W :P
I listen to American OTR (Old time Radio) :)
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Of course I share your opinions, girl from down under.
New comics ARE rubbish.
Step into our time machine!
I recommend the horror books - they are so wacky, they defy belief.
BELIEF DEFYING WACKY STORIES - would have made for a great title...
No one dares to dish out this kind of chutzpah anymore.
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How did you stumble across even the concept of Golden Age public domain comics? Which is good, I'm just curious.
I am 13 year old Aussie girl turning 14 in four days ;)
I love old comics I think that the new ones are rubbish!
I love old B&W movies (about 85% to 90% of movie I have watched are B&W :P
I listen to American OTR (Old time Radio) :)
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Welcome Loveshorses. I am a Freshman math teacher. Too bad you are not in my class since we share the same interest. I do have a girl in class you would probably be good friends with.
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Hi! My name is Gernot (pronounced GRR-note), and I'm a B-I-G fan of Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age comics, having grown up on a LOT of DC's reprint comics of the 1970's. I also moderate a Superman, DC Comics, Justice League, and Golden-Siilver-Bronze Ages Message Board elsewhere.
A poster sang the praises of this site so much, I decided to visit and sign up. I look forward to many visits in the future! :)
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Glad you enjoying the site Gernot, we have a lot to offer and it will take years to see it all.
Welcome aboard.
Geo
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I have to check out these posts more often. I would have missed this. I am as old as my tongue but older than my teeth (store-bought these days..lol). Turned 56 this past April and like quite a few of us, started at a very young age (abt 3) to devour comic books. Being the youngest of 6 you would think that I had lots from my siblings but not a one read them that much and I had to get my fix from a few neighbour kids. When I went with my mom grocery shopping I would plunk down at the magazine rack and she always knew I would stay there until she had to drag me home again. When I was 8 I started my own paper route and now I was able to buy 1 or 2 on collection day. I was always jealous of Lana Lang and Gloria Gladd as I wanted Superboy or Richie to be my boyfriends. I am so glad to have found this site that allows me to read and collect to my hearts content and even redown-load as many as I want since I have to replace the hard-drive I had all my books on that died when I moved. Cheers-Net
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Same age as me :D
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Once a fanboy always a fanboy even after 40 plus years.
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True that Freddy
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Welcome and much happy reading!
Richard here representing the West Coast, 58 years in December. Golden Age fanatic for super heroes/heroines from around the world, currently visting figuritively sort to speak Italy at the moment as country of interest.
Mr Goldenage
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49 :'(
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Welcome yingko you are a young pup here.
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Good day, all. My name is Loren MacGregor, sometimes found on the Net as Churnworks.
Actually, I've been here a couple of years but until the most recent tweak, my home PC did not like the forum software. Seems OK now!
I'm 62, been reading comics sice they were still 10 cents new on the stand, and can remember that appalling day when I had to pay two whole cents more for some of my favorite comics.
I read DC and Marvel interchangeably in those days, pre-Silver Age. I've always loved the older comics for their sheer invention and rough-and-tumble stories and art. As I became more discerning, I began to see the differences in the art and look for the "good artists," trying to identify them amid the myriad house names under which they were disguised -- and I learned to stark looking for the advertising signs, commercial trucks, books in shelves, etc., where the artist's name was sometimes worked into the text.
Parenthetically, that's one of the reasons I love the JVJ comics -- I look forward to seeing the 3x5 card when I reach the end of the story, to see whether we agree on the artists!
Coming back from a deep financial hole, so no donation quite yet, but as soon as I can, I'll be throwing some change into the hat, in gratitude for the hard work which has paid off in hours of enjoyment.
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Hi Loren,
I'm not sure why the forum wouldn't work for you but we're glad you are with us now.
We agree, Jim's index cards are an invaluable resource. You should also check the Grand Comics Database (http://www.comics.org/) for more info on any other books.
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Parenthetically, that's one of the reasons I love the JVJ comics -- I look forward to seeing the 3x5 card when I reach the end of the story, to see whether we agree on the artists!
Well? Do we? CMWTK.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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You gotta love those JVJ index cards!
Cause I make him do them!
Harhar.
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Parenthetically, that's one of the reasons I love the JVJ comics -- I look forward to seeing the 3x5 card when I reach the end of the story, to see whether we agree on the artists!
Well? Do we? CMWTK.
So far! There's a couple where I have questions, so I'm trying to go through the comics I have where the artist IS identified (or where I can find a signature buried somewhere in the story) and double-check -- because as yet my artist-spotting skills are limited to the easy ones, like Kubert and Buscema, for example. Morisi I can spot fairly frequently. Rudy Palais, of course, is easy. But some others...? Eyes, hands, posture, unique poses. *sigh* Mostly, I just read, and am very happy to have the comics where I can enjoy them. (Who knew, when I started reading comics, that someday I'd enjoy GA material on my personal computer, my tablet, or my Nook?)
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http://I'm a 27 year old female Canadian.
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Hello,
I'm 66 years old, and remember a lot of these comics. They belonged to my uncle, who lived with us, but I loved them. Thanks for gathering all the together. I expect to spend many "wasted" hours here, reliving my childhood.
Jay Manning
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Welcome to the fold Jay.
:)
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hi thereeeee ;)
im newbieee hehe
wiiuuh good poll, dominated by middle age
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i died in 1989. i'm aint bea, dagnabbit!
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How old? Well, if you're in my group, three of you are under 65.
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Hi my name is Francis, i live in Québec and i'm an habs fan. I dont know that much about comics, i want to learn, so if you have any idea for a comic noob feel free to let me know. I'm 24 years old, i'll be 25 on july 1st.
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I'm 13 and have "read" comics since I was 3
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Well, I'm 39 and have been into comics since 1983..my father shared his old comics with me when I was young and I've retaken the bug in the last few years.
I've been through my phases, manga, super heros, mutants, and such, I keep gravitating to the old G.I.Combat that I can't find in the local shops, and there are a lot fewer now then there were a while ago...
I'm glad to see a community still holding dear these comics close to there hearts.
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Just turned 48 and have read and loved comics since I was 7.
Looking forward to digging around here and enjoying some Gold.
My son, 26, and daughters 24, 23 and 23, all grew up with my thousands of comics and enjoy and appreciate them.
I'm sure my grandchildren will too.
Being the oldest of 7, I'm amazed my other siblings don't partake. They did when they were younger, but hardly at all anymore.
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Hi I'm 52 and i just registered in this forum. I'm from Chile, SouthAmerica, so i think i have a little different reality from all of you. Sorry if i don´t write well, i´m doing my best. I always liked comics, most of them about superheroes. I hope to enjoy a lot reading all your uploads and to share something of mine too. Let me tell you an story; when a was a kid, you bought a comic, you read it, and then you could change it for another one, in special places called "cambio de revistas" for a cheaper price than a new one. That moment was special and magical in my memories. Greetings.
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Interesting!
Welcome to the site EJ, lots of heroes for you to enjoy here.
:)
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Welcome, Eljoe. As I research comics around the world, it seems there is a lot of interest in South America and in particular in Chile -- at least, I see a lot of discussion, and wish that MY language skills were better, so I could follow along! I am delighted to hear about the "cambio de revistas" as I've never heard of the term before. I just did a quick search, and found a reference on http://arkham--asylum.blogspot.com/2009/12/comics-editorial-novaro.html!
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Hello, thanks for this page and for this beautifull work: to recue the great clasic comics
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Welcome and glad your enjoying the site.
Geo
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Just turned 59 last December.
Richard'
Mr_Goldenage
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Happy belated birthday Richard.
:)
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I am a 62 year old accountant who is starting to think about retirement. This makes me feel very old but not too old. I had a HUGE comic collection which my wife made me sell when we got married (anyone else have this issue?) That is in the past and I am still married to her. My current collection is just reprints which suits me fine. I want to read them, collecting is secondary to me. This looks like a great site and I'm looking forward to reading a lot.
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Welcome SH.
If reading is your goal you couldn't find a better home.
Enjoy!
:)
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If anyone notes a discrepancy in the count, I removed my voted from 61-65 and added one to over 65 (sigh). That changed those two categories from a tie to two more for us oldies.
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If anyone notes a discrepancy in the count, I removed my voted from 61-65 and added one to over 65 (sigh). That changed those two categories from a tie to two more for us oldies.
:'( Gee Jon, I've been holding off for years now, and you had to remind me about it. Hee, hee ;)
Geo
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I'll be 55 this coming July.
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Hi everybody!
I´m near 44-on 21 Marz, yep!
Italian but living in Berlin.
I´ve a near Big Comics Bibliothek at home, (I´ve move all with me from Rome!) starting with Windsor McCay to today Authors!!
Happy to be hier ;)
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Hello I'm 37 and love comics since I remember myself :D
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I'm a 64 year old retired Air Force man. I grew up on comics, but lost track of them in high school when they changed. Stationed in Germany, I started reading the weekly British paper 2000 AD (Judge Dredd and related characters), but I missed the comics from the 40s and 50s that I remembered so well. This site is wonderful!
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Welcome to the site.
You're in for a great time catching up with them here I4!
:)
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Hi. I'm 63 yrs along my alotted continuum. I live in Western Australia. My love of comics developed during the 1950's and 1960's when we neighbourhood kids would meet each Sunday and swap our comics. Pretty much each neighbourhood did the same, so over time a pretty sophisticated barter system developed. We got to read lots of comics we couln't have afforded without our trading system. From memory an ordinary comic traded one for one. Annuals and 100 page special issues (eg. Superman Giant Issue) went for 4 regular comics. Rare and sought after items (eg German Secret Weapons of WW2) also cost 4 books. For some reason Phantom comics were poorly valued and went for 2 or 3 phantoms to each regular item.
I remember our teachers lamenting our comic adiction; how could we learn reading such diatribe? Then someone pointed out that in general comics were educational as well as entertaining; our literacy scores were above average and so was our spelling - although some Americanisation slipped into our British spelling thus spoiling the illustration.
I still love comics, especially the old ones from my misspent youth.
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Welcome Ian!
Sounds like you Aussie comic readers were a savvy bunch of readers!
Well argued with your teacher. I doubt they every believe that argument but I'm sure you are right on reading them. Reading, any reading, is only a good thing!
Seems these days kids only read when it's a misspelled Twitter message.... *sigh*
Enjoy the scans!
-Yoc
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I'm 57 since a few days. I love comics and of course, am more a european comics reader as I am French.
I started writing about comics since a few years. I did a lot of interviews of french authors in the 90' (I had the chance to do one of Bill Sienckiewicz).
I read a lot and am very interested in the evolution of comics, bande dessinée and mangas and the interactions between the 3 continents.
I just finished writing an article about Gustave Verbeck for the French Museum of Comics (CNBDI). It should be online next month.
I love all kind of comics as long as they are quality ones (very subjectiv I know :-D)
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Welcome Chris, thanks for voting.
Lots of quality books here. Have fun!
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Hi, there.
I'm old enough to have had my comic book collection, consisting of Silver Age Marvels issues 1-10 of Daredevil, JIM, Avengers, FF, AS (and many more) thrown out by my mom and young enough to want to try to replace much of my original collection. Have managed to acquire a lot of them, at a considerably greaterer cost, but the joy of collecting still remains...
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Welcome Jay and good luck with restoring your lost collection.
Meanwhile you can see a lot of books that predate the SA at no cost right here.
Enjoy discovering the wonders of the Golden Age!
:D
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I am 71. I found your site by googling 'Camera Comics, because I wanted to see what that. I'm a photographer, from Denmark, writing about photography.
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Please enjoy your stay with us here Sokkelund. There's lot's to see and welcome aboard.
Geo
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Hello, my name is Nemo and I'm 48. Exactly 40 years ago I spent the summer with my grandma and while exploring her basement I came upon a huge box of comics from the 50s, mostly Archie, been a comic nut ever since.
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Buzz, a big welcome to our site here, please enjoy your stay here, lots to see and it will keep you busy for a long time.
Geo
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Bonjour de France; j'ai 64 ans, je suis à la veille de la retraite. Je ne parle pas la langue anglaise. Alors je me débrouille avec translate de google, mais le sens des traduction sont parfois un peu étange, voir bizarre. Dons ne m'en veillez pas de ne pas m'engager dans des discussion, dont la langue n'est pas naturelle pour moi.
Cependant j'ai d'écouvert votre site par le site THOT, qui présente ainsi : "Digital Comic Museum (DCM) est un site web dédié aux Comics tombés dans le domaine public et publiés au cours de l'âge d'or (« Golden Age ») de la bande dessinée américaine (1938-1945). L'objectif de DCM est d'offrir un accès gratuit à des centaines de bandes dessinées publiées avant 1959, numérisées et téléversées sur la plateforme par les utilisateurs."
J'ai été très heureux de cette initiative de garder de l'oubli le travail lourd et difficile des graphistes de la bande dessinée. Car fanchement c'est pas un travail pour ceux qui veulent de venir riche. Je suis très attentif à la qualité du graphisme, du lettrage, et des style aboutit. J'aime bien de temps à autre éplucher le travail de nos ancêtres. Et on n'a pas fini d'apprendre d'eux, et de leur manière de faire.
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I'm about to turn 27 loved comics and tv series since I was a kid and helped that my cousin and uncle were collecting comics and figures
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Morning all! I'm from the Southern United States and sweet Primus, I feel like the baby of the group at 21. Oh well, age is just a number.
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Indeed. Welcome to all our new members.
Lots of fun goodies to enjoy.
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I'm a 53 year old school teacher. With the popularity of the movies I have seen a rise in interest in comics. I have had more kids look at the comics I have on a comic rack in the back of my room.
Wait! You have a Comic book Rack at the back of your room..?
Where were you when I was a kid?!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh never mind, I forgot I'm nearly fifty. :-[
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I'm new here, I'm limited to using my phone (because my computer is broke and old), and I'm 45. Nice to meet everyone. I went nuts in the past day or so and downloaded too much stuff. Namely, The Blue Beetle, Cat-Man, Captain Marvel, Daredevil (the original, which I just became acquainted with), various jungle girls, various horror comics and a couple Western comics.
I used to create my own comics using my notebook paper when I was young and naive. I more recently wrote prose story versions of some of these characters. Firegirl and The Kid Elite are the names of my characters. They are kids, obviously.
I somehow convinced my English teacher in high school to add comics to the magazines she kept on a rack in the back of her classroom.
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I'm 51 and I've been reading comics since 1974. The Avengers was my comic of choice, but any Marvel would do.
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Welcome guys, thanks for the votes. It's always fun to learn a little about the members using the site.
-Yoc
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hello
I have 41 years and i am french
I read some comics for my english 8)
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Okay. I'm 78, born on October 26 1938 Birmingham, England. I'm a retired Realtor and have lived and worked in New South Wales, Australia for 52 years. I live on the beautiful sub tropical Mid North Coast town of Port Macquarie. I've read comics for as long as I can remember. In the early 1940's it was Beano & Dandy comics, loved 'Jimmy & His Magic Patch', 'Desperate Dan' etc. In the late 40's and early 50's my favourites were Fawcet comics Captain Marvel, Marvel Family etc plus westerns. In the newspaper strips, I loved the time travel adventures of 'Garth' in London's Daily Mirror. At 78 I'm still just a kid at heart.
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Welcome David and congrats on your first edit! :)
Other than the very large page size (fixed on the version here) you've had a great start.
Oh and we always include the JVJ Postage Fund message as well in descriptions. Check out any recent JVJ book upload to see it.
Take care,
-Yoc
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Hi, I'm 62, living in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Surprisingly, I just discovered your website today: very cool idea. The first comic books I ever read were all Harvey's c. 1960-61, but I never kept them. In 1964 I bought my first superhero book, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1; I absolutely loved and saved it to read and re-read... until my mom discovered it in my room and said I was too young for "those kinds" of comics (I was 9). She made me throw it out, but not before I'd ripped off the corner rectangle of the cover, showing Spider-Man's face, so I could always remember what had entertained me so much. Two years later my mother finally agreed I old enough to revisit the hobby, and I've never stopped. I've also never lost that scrap of cover art.
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Thanks for sharing Buddy and welcome to the site. At least she didn't make you toss out a large number of books and did eventually relent.
You'll see a LOT of books to enjoy here but they'll all be from just before your era.
Have fun with the goodies!
-Yoc
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Bonjour
Je suis un retraité de 60 ans féru de BD depuis bien longtemps déjà, et collectionneur, donc en recherche de vieilles BD
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Hello. I’m 68 and have collected since 1956. My current interest is Golden Age DC, Fawcett, and Quality titles, one of which will be here. But I love Golden Age comics in general and particularly Reed.Crandall art, which I suspect may be here.
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Welcome WWF.
Yep, you will find Crandall for sure on the site.
And if you happen to still have any GA books still please check our Wanted List to see if the collection could use them.
The link is below this in my signature.
Enjoy the scans!
-Yoc
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Salut tout le monde je me presente happy j ai 60ans j adore les comics surtout bonnes bonnes lectures a tous
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Hi Im a grandma loves comic and teaching grandkids loved too. Thanks for accepting me!
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Welcome Sad and Zucade!
Enjoy all the scans. :)
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21 going to 22 in December :)
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boa tarde, tenho 65 anos, sou militar da reserva, leio quadrinhos desde criança.
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Just turned 59. 8)
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Welcome guys and many thanks to Everyone that has placed a vote in this very long running poll.
It's fun to see how the membership age groups break down.
-Yoc
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55, and I'm here as a high school English teacher looking for some creative ways to use these old comics to teach Dante's Inferno or maybe Persepolis as I move to an online format.
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Welcome aboard, O11W.
If you go here: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=699 you will find ready made adaptations. The content ranges from Shakespeare to Captain Blood, to Rider Haggard's She.
Superior Comics did four issues of similar adaptations. The highlight, to me, was Wells' The Invisible Man.
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=1072
This link will take you to All-Negro Comics from 1947. Not intended as a one-shot. But, after the first issue came out, the company could not buy any more paper. The listing has a link to a blog about the issue. https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=22625
Hope these help…
Erwin K.
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Thanks for helping out a new member Erwin!
All excellent suggestions. :)
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I am soon to turn 62. I grew up reading Silver Age comics, mostly DC and Marvel. I remember being upset when Marvel started serializing their stories- the comic books were expensive for a youngster.
I now realize that this change opened the door to far more complex characters and stories, so I think it was a good thing now.
I am mostly interested now in pre-code comics.
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At a young 67, I've decided to start reading comics that are older than myself and found the DCM here. A rabbit-hole site if ever there was one. I'm also buying newer comics, middle aged comics, some old comics (including 2 Canadian Golden Age), foreign comics, books, graphic novels, omnibuses, Marvel, DC and multiple Others. Having a great time, enjoying stories and art in my old age. I'll be back. Cheers, Tim!
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Welcome to the site Face and Dan!
Yep, there's LOTS of goodies to look at on the site. Sounds like you've got your own impressive collection there Face.
If you have anything on our Wanted List we'd certainly welcome a scan from you or help arrange for one.
Our Wanted List can be seen here:
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,6943.0.html
Have fun!
-Yoc
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Oh, I see you've already looked into scanning for the site. Wonderful!
Just let me know if you have any questions. You can 'Private Message' me via the word balloon icon under my avatar on the left.
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Proud of surviving to collect my SS. Started comics with my gramps reading me comic books and the funnies and later got my own cartoon character comics. I graduated to DC (Superman etc) but when I found Marvel (remember the MMMS), I never looked back until girls and Playboy started taking up free time.
Thanks so much for your efforts with this site.
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Welcome to the site Jaquess!
:)
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Hello Everyone,
I'm 63 and been collecting comics since I was 7 or 8. When I was a kid my parents were stationed overseas and we lived on base. The on base houses used to trade comics with each other since the tv was in another language and it was a big source of entertainment for everyone. I never gave up the habit and have a big collection of comics and graphic novels. One day, I have to start selling them just to make room for the newer ones, lol.
Joe
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Welcome guys!
And Joe, if you still have a collection there please check our searchable Wanted List for us. You just might have something that is needed to fill a hole or upgrade a scan already on DCM.
Enjoy the scans!
-Yoc
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Hi. I'm new here but have a long history with comic. I'm 65yo and I started reading in abt 1959 and was a dedicated DC fan until sometime after CoIE. The change in the mythology, along with restrictive prices ultimately pushed me away. Glad to be able to indulge myself in the era I missed just barely, being born in 1956 I came 8n at the dawn of the Silver Age.
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Welcome to the site P!
Many goodies for you to enjoy here. Have fun!
:D
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I’m a 68 yo female nerd, started reading science fiction when i was 7. Lester Del Ray and Andre Norton were my favorites. I never read comic books back then—no money and a wonderful library only a mile away. easy walking distance in those days. The library was a huge Victorian granite building complete with stained glass windows, marble and decorative tiled floor, huge murals on the walls in the kids section, decorative wrought iron everywhere. The staircase between the floors was located in the tower section of the building. What kid wouldn’t love to roam such a treasure! I’m a huge fan still of Weird Tales and the like, and stretching out to embrace comics isn’t a stretch at all. I am very happy to find you!
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Welcome aboard CS.
That library sounds like a pretty special place.
Thanks for sharing and for you lovely donation.
Enjoy the goodies! :)
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I think of age as a question of mind over matter, because if you don't mind it doesn't matter.😂🤣
I have 45yrs of great experience 🤑🤓
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Ha!
That's a good motto to have. Thanks for sharing and enjoy the goodies!
:)
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45 years young here!
And it is true: the new generations have a too short attention span to be regular comic readers, not to mention general books. So is the sign of our times.
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68 rushing toward 69. My grandmother bought me my first comic in 1958. World's Finest 97
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Thanks guys!
And thanks for including your first comic RR! An always interesting topic.
Mine was a Scrooge McDuck, there were many, and eventually Ghost Rider 26 from 1979.
-Yoc
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Hello, I'm 57 years old. I"m brazilian and an Art teatcher.
Sorry for the bad english...
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The first comic I remember was my sister's copy of a very early issue of "Uncle Scrooge." My Grandmother read that to me when I was about four. Ol' Scrooge moved his fortune to a lake in the country to get away from the Beagle Boys. Trouble followed him.
I'll be 75 next month…
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My name is Antonio and I'm 52 years old, I'm looking for old copyrighted comic books
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I'm creating a YouTube channel to share old comics, like comics in video format.
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My first comic? Ask me an easy one, please. I saw and looked at both Dandy and Beano when very young. Saw, because my parents didn't buy me comics. The first one I bought though might have been an issue of Super Thriller comics - these featured Ace Hart. I'd have been 9 or 10. And a year or two earlier, on holiday, I saw what I later found out was a Frew Phantom. My dad wouldn't buy it for me. I'm now 73 and a huge Phantom Phan. (But I have a soft spot for Ace Hart)
American comics weren't distributed in the UK till late '59, although I still believe there is some dubiety about the actual date. American comics turned up in Scotland because there were American bases and some obviously were liberated, finding their way into local newsagents.
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Thanks for sharing Paw!
One day back when I was in my early teens I think, I found a Beano. 'Who the heck is this Dennis the Menace? Holy heck, he's a violent bully!'
I honestly couldn't understand it. I still can't grasp his popularity. I also found a UK comic book with a Jaws theme. 'Hook Mouth' or something like that. I liked that one.
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Olá! Tenho 57 anos...
Sou um amante dos quadrinhos autorais...
Abraço
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I am 72
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I'll be 60 next month, so it looks like I won't outgrow comics anytime soon.
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The scans help us keep a part of our youth alive.
Bless all the buyers, scanner and editors out there that bring these scans to the site.
-Yoc
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Souvenirs.... souvenirs...les bd sont une tranche de notre vie....
Amateur de kébir bd.
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Add me to your over-65 list.
The first comic I remember having was a Mickey Mouse meets the Phantom Blot issue. I know there was a series of Blot followup stories. But, I think I'm remembering the very first one from around 1939 when I was 4. The time is set by the year (1939) we moved from our old apartment where I remember reading (and re-reading) it. I never stopped
loving comics after that. The stories, cartoons and colors were all just great. And for a great price (10 cents!)
Through the years I accumulated a huge collection of Golden Age comics. But by early 1950s I decided to (horror-of-horrors) get rid of them and gave all of them away to young relatives and other kids. The comics had created a housekeeping nuisance for my mother with only limited space in our tiny apartment. Also, Girls and other teen distractions temporarily steered me away from comics.
But, by the early 1960s I remembered my old friends the comics and wanted to see them again. I re-accumulated some old Fawcett Captain Marvel, and other comics, most of which I have uploaded to DCM.
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Hi Larry,
Thanks for sharing your early comics memories. It warms my heart that you are a DCM member. DCM was started for people exactly like yourself that have fond memories or younger people with a curiosity for these old comics.
How many collections have been lost to our mothers or puberty?
I'm glad you found your way to DCM and get to read them for free. And of course our thanks for sharing your scans as well!
I've sometimes thought I was born thirty years too late. You bought many at cover price that today cost small fortunes to buy and likely as not come in plastic coffins to 'protect' them.
Our big 13th anniversary is just days away. There should be some goodies there for you to enjoy.
Stay well!
-Yoc
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I am 68. Was a DC fan from 1962 onward. I have scanned over 1000+ comics. Most are non-pd comics, but do scan one around every blue moon. Will have one for the birthday coming up.
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Thanks Jeff, for all your work and for the birthday gift as well.
:)
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olá, tenho 29 anos e o quadrinho simplesmente me salvou de mim mesmo!
Pretendo ter um filho, ou filha, e se ele quiser eu dou uma estante cheia deles! ^-^ ;)
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Welcome Kemonozaru and good luck with your family plans.
:)
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May 19 1954. 3 Daughters, 3 Grandkids. We never sold comics but have many hundreds of Silver Age DC and some Marvels. My Brothers job was to collect the Marvels and me, DC so we did not buy duplicates as children Yeah, he had ALL the best 62's.
Anyway, my Wife and I kept them for the 'kids' and they are safe and dry in a large cold cellar.
But they are delicate and should not be un bagged. They are with my 3 small Grand kids.
The Art and Stories are fantastic. These are not free downloads I know.
I got money if I can enjoy the books without touching.
When those kids find them and they will, Chaos will occur and I need another way.
Of course, the books are lovely on the outside and removing them from the bgs would rapidly diminish whatever value they have but nothing is more curious than a child like I was.
Anybody understand what I mean?
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Hi Everyone! I joined this website as a member in 2015, but have hardly participated in this forum until a few months ago. It seems that I already voted on this poll, but never made a text post.
I'll be 77 years old in a few days. I first had comic books read to me during the late 1940s and beginning of the 1950s, which were mostly bought by my older cousins who lived with us. I liked Funny Animal Comics and cartoony Human-figure comic books most (especially Disney, and mostly Carl Barks). I grew up in Canada and The Netherlands, and so, collected mostly Canadian, Dutch, and US comics, but also Danish, as I lived and worked part year in Denmark (for Danish Disney Comics) for many years. I'm mostly retired now, but I still write and storyboard a few stories a year for Dutch Disney comics. I also like mystery comics and "whodunits". I started buying comic books, myself in 1953, but I had a large collection of 1940s and early '50s comics before that from my cousins. This website and CB+ have brought a lot of fun and nostalgia to me, to read comics that I had never before known existed.
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Thanks for sharing Robb, you've had an interesting life with comics.
We're always happy to hear about our members and to hear the work being done here by everyone is appreciated.
Keep enjoying the goodies!
-Yoc
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Hey! I'm new here. I guess this is normal of posting comments I guess. I'm 24 years old and I just discover this website.
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Welcome CC!
:)
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I'm 85. I'm wondering how many people out there are older than me. :-/ :-/
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Welcome Joe.
There might be some, but I wouldn't think that many.
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