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Hi Gang!
It's our Twelfth Anniversary!We started the past year still suffering through the Covid-19 pandemic and all the terror that included. Our condolences to anyone who suffered a loss. Thank goodness several vaccines were created and today, hopefully, everyone reading this message have been fully vaccinated and life is feeling a bit more normal. A new 'normal' I guess.
Here on DCM we continued our mission of sharing all the public domain comics we can find for free.
This last year we gained
4306 new members and today sit with
91120 total!
We also added
786 new scans during the year and have
21976 total scans.
New Comic donors to our cause: AtomicSteve, Keith Hammond, psattler67, Stephen LipsonNew scanners/editors to the site: the coot, Brian Muehl, netuse00001, CmxDC, Golden1, Gregg WhitmoreHere are some highlights from last year:We managed to add some pretty impressive books this year. Our anniversary last year included the debut of the
DCM Spacehawk Collection with many new edits and an introduction by
SteveD. On the same day we debuted new higher resolution re-edits of several comics which featured the Spacehawk stories.
Rangerhouse shared some nice books with us including new
Catman Comics.
Builder Boy highlights included
Fantastic Comics #1 and 15.
Hufflepuffle and
srca1941 added more
Blue Beetle as well.
Freddyfly continued his work on upgrading his oldest scans for everyone. Thanks for all your work Len!
3Face also returned with scans from his Canadian Whites collection. We rarely get those so it was a nice surprise when he offered them. Face also did some work on old GM scans for us.
In
March we expanded our
Misc Fun section adding a new
'Adult humour digests' sub-folder which
ComicsCastle has busily filled with scans from his impressive collection. This new Adult humour section has become our fastest growing part of the collection thanks to all the work of CC!
In
April we also added
'Politics (non govt giveaways)' and
'Platinum Age misc' sub-folders to
Misc Fun. Those books printed before the mid 1930s that might be anything at all as long as it contains a majority of illustrations. CB+ regular
Lyons has shared some fun platinum scans with us there. Our Political giveaways collection is also expanding. Thanks to
ComicsWanderer and
TeddyK for their help with finding them.
In
May and
June,
SRCA1941 was busy doing some high resolution rescans of his
Jackpot Comics #1 (MLJ) and
Blazing Comics #4 (Rural Home) featuring comics first (likely) Asian hero, The Turtle! SRCA1941 also filled a hole with his all new scan of
America's Best Comics #4 (Standard). As you'll see
SRCA1941 was quite busy this last year. Thanks Eric!
Perhaps the best news last year -
Titansfan was able to continue his LOC work again last
June,! TF had another super successful trip and we're always very thankful for his hard work there. A week later, new scanner
CmxDC sent us a nice variety of
57 public domain books but the highlight was his high-res scan of ME's
Ghost Rider #1! Between them we managed to debut or upgrade
many books on the site.
Thanks guys!In early
July,
Stephen Lipson shared a fun, rhyming VD giveaway with the site. Warning about the pitfalls of a
'Sidewalk Romance' (VD) in 1950.
July, also saw a Fawcett hole filled by the new scanner
Golden1 how shared a scan of
All-Hero Comics #1.
On
August 8th, DCM staffer and resident scanner
Rangerhouse held his 1st Annual
Comic & Toy Show at his own
Copper Whale Winery/Vineyard/event space in
Clyde, OH. Here are some pics from the day. And if you are on Facebook check out his latest news here -
https://is.gd/qAAXpnHere are some pictures of the event!
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Later in
August teto7totoro shared scans of a very old
psattler67 book -
Mutt & Jeff #9 (1924)Long time member
FETT shared more of his Charlton collection with us filling several holes over the year. Titles included were - 'I Love You' and 'Romantic Story.' Fett also shared several scans from his Stanley Morse collection.
In
October we had our delayed
FTP Access Month. Logistics and lowered returns might mean it was our last one. Thanks again to our loyal donors out there for helping with our monthly overhead!
Also in
October we were trusted with several western books to scan from
Keith Hammond via Facebook. These filled a couple holes and upgraded some other books.
Brian Muehl scanned some of Keith's books.
We had our second
Fawcett Fridays in
November 2021 with several new scans from
SRCA1941 and
Keith Hammond. I shared a few higher resolution rescans as well.
For
Christmas 2021 DCM staffer
OtherEric shared two new Walt Kelly 'Peter Wheat' giveaways. Anytime we can see new Kelly is a great day!
Jetstone showed up again in January 2022 with a handful of new digital picture scans from his collection.
We also got another Samson (Fox) issue from
BuilderBoy who has a special affection for the publisher. We hope to see more in the future.
We updated our
Wanted Comics List banner in
January to try and find new sources for missing books among the golden-age comic collectors out there. Which leads to below...
+++A reminder about our
WANTED COMICS LIST maintained by DCM members
Movielover and
A Nonny Moose. To anyone out there with a collection of Golden Age Comics,
please give the list a look. You might have something we are missing or could use an upgrade for on the site. Please consider scanning or letting a trusted staffer scan your books for you. You can use the
CONTACT US link if you want to contact us about the idea or if you have a question. We would love to work with you on something for the site!
+++Earlier this
March we got a precode horror fill from all new scanner
netuse00001. A very nice surprise!
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New archives this year came from
Roygbiv666:
Strongman Archive (Holyoke),
Commander Steel Collection (Canadian White)---
Every year we have to stress how blessed we have been for our amazingly generous
Financial Donors that deserve all our gratitude. We wouldn't be here sharing all these scans if it weren't for financial donations that pay our server bill each month. A special thank-you to
carnassial,
Custer Beaton,
Rocket Riley and
kozmo who have been exceptionally generous with their donations to the site. Thanks guys!
To all our
Comics donors, scanners and editors - thank-you all for everything you do to make DCM the wonderful site it has become.
Here's to another great year,
-Yoc
