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Offline ashley_au

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Hello DCM members
« on: March 03, 2012, 03:48:26 AM »
Hi, my name is Ashley and I live in Melbourne, Australia.
I am most interested in EC horror comics and golden age Science Fiction.
I'd also appreciate recommendations from members.
I found DCM on the links page over at ComicRack (http://comicrack.cyolito.com/links)
Thank you DCM for making this material available.

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Hello DCM members
« on: March 03, 2012, 03:48:26 AM »

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Re: Hello DCM members
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2012, 02:36:03 PM »
Welcome Ashley.
Lots of horror and SF on the site!

Enjoy the scans.

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Re: Hello DCM members
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2012, 11:41:09 PM »
Hi, my name is Ashley and I live in Melbourne, Australia.
I am most interested in EC horror comics and golden age Science Fiction.
I'd also appreciate recommendations from members.
I found DCM on the links page over at ComicRack (http://comicrack.cyolito.com/links)
Thank you DCM for making this material available.

 EC material isn't available here but, as Yoc said, there is a lot of pre-code horror books here. I recommend you take a look at the horror books from Quality (only one title, "Web of Evil"), Ace ("Beyond": "Hand of Fate"' "Baffling Mysteries"), Better/Nedor/Standard/Pines ("Adventures into Darkness"; "Unseen"; "Fantastic Worlds" (more sci-ri than horror). I don't personally like the Harvey horror books but they do have a lot of fans so you might want to sample an issue or two of "Witches Tales" or "Chamber of Chills."  From a historical perspective, you'll probably want to look at Avon's "Eerie" (arguably the first horror comic) and American Comics Groups "Adventures into the Unknown"; "Skeleton Hand" and "Forbidden Worlds."

 Fiction House's "Planet Comics" is probably the most historical (and one of the most entertaining) science fiction comics. Ajax-Farrel and Ziff-Davis have quite a few short lived sci-fi titles you might want to take a look at.

 Have Fun!

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Re: Hello DCM members
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2012, 01:36:26 AM »
Thank you jfglade for the considered response.
I'm going to try Web of Evil first, having not heard of it until now. I also found tilliban's post regarding the “Ace Horror” website, so I'll be having a look at Hand of Fate too.

Cheers  ;)

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Re: Hello DCM members
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2012, 02:38:09 AM »
As has been said, we don't have EC material here since it's not PD.  But you might want to grab Buster Crabbe #5 for a Williamson science fiction story under a Frazetta cover.  ;D

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Re: Hello DCM members
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2012, 03:37:31 AM »
Thanks also for the recommendation. Wonderful cover art!