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Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics - scanned by Titansfan, edit by Yoc.
Hi Gang!
Welcome to our Thirteenth Anniversary!Three years into covid things are finally feeling a bit more normal out there. Again, our condolences to anyone who suffered a loss due to covid or side-effects afterwards.
New challenges have taken it's place such as killer inflation driving the prices of everything through the roof. We hope people reading this are doing as well as possible and are enjoying all the work being done to bring you as many public domain comics as we can find.
This last year we gained
5070 new members and today sit with
95103 total!
We also added
559 new scans during the year and have
22444 total!
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As you will notice, DCM has so very much to be thankful for.
'Let me count the ways...' 
We had another good year of adding new and upgrading old scans for you all. Our 12th anniversary last year debuted
29 new scans.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to our big day! Some of our longtime scanners continued to share their new scans over the year such as
builderboy who tracked down more Ajax and Fiction House, always fun books.
Fett shared more missing Charlton books to add at random times. They are always pleasant surprises when they arrive.
Freddyfly also surprised us with some hole filling scans for the collection. As would
Superscan and
Pmack.
Thanks again to ALL of them!In
May 2022 we had a
Quality Comics Spotlight. Like our second
Fawcett Fridays during November 2021 we were able to focus on another publisher we've always felt deserved more love. We managed to add
46 Quality book scans that May. Special thanks to
SRCA1941 (Eric), King Faraday and Dave Hayward for their hard work making the Quality month of May happen.
You might notice,
SRCA1941 showing up a lot this message. Eric was very active with the site suggesting ideas for spotlights as well as scanning many of the books featured in them.
Thanks Eric, you've been super supportive of the site since our first day.Also in
May we started sharing many more
Spirit Sections. These were via
King Faraday and
Dave Hayward from black and white sources. I would call these placeholder scans. It's nice to have them on the site but we
hope to someday have colour scans of them down the road. The b&w scans don't hold a candle to real colour scans.
If anyone out there has some PLEASE consider scanning them or letting us do them for you.In
June WL list admins had to reconfigure the
Wanted Comics List. Our thanks to
A Nonny Moose and
Movielover for all their work keeping the list current and easy to use!
On
June 18, 2022, DCM staffer and resident scanner
Brian House (aka Rangerhouse) hosted his SECOND Annual Comics And Toys Show at his event space
'Copper Whale Winery' in Clyde, OH. Brian just recently had a THIRD show this past
June 18, 2023. Here are some pictures...
If you'd like to see some fun pics of Brian's cool set-up click on this Facebook link -
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In
June we had five issues of
Planet Comics arrive from
TF and Editor. Fox's
Murder Inc #15 finally showed up as well thanks to DCM staffer
Dave Hayward.
In late June
Gregg Whitmore and
Jestone got us a few more new scans including several Black Cat comics. Thanks very much guys! This lead to...
September when we had our
Harvey / Black Cat Spotlight! Gregg Whitmore and SRCA1941 worked with us on a mini-spotlight that debuted
24 new scans.
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Also early in September
Titansfan made his eighth trip to the LOC and scanned another pile of fun books. Soon new Fawcett and Harvey scans were showing up on DCM. Even before his first trip but certainly since he started them TF has been by far the
largest source of new and upgraded scans going live on site. DCM and ALL comic fans owe TF a
huge thank-you for all the work he's done over the years scanning and sharing so many books for us all!
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Titansfan shared the last missing issue of Fawcett's
Negro Romance #3! This was a rare book we were very happy to see debut on
September 4th.
In early
November we had our second
Quality Comics Spotlight, a 'Week of Quality'. featuring mostly Blackhawk books and some new scans from
SRCA1941. Other highlights were several collection hole fillers like
Crack Comics #10+17 from
Superscan and
National Comics #12 and
Military Comics #2 from Eric.
We had our
third Fawcett Fridays Spotlight November 2022 through January 2023 featuring Nyoka, The Jungle Girl. Titansfan and
David Miles would share
55 new Nyoka scans! SRCA1941 would again contribute to this spotlight with several new scans.
On
Christmas, we had a special scan to debut donated by
Michael T. Gilbert,
Roger Hill and
George Hagenauer.
Tops magazine #1 was a unique experiment published by Lev Gleason trying to appeal to a more adult audience of slick magazines. It only lasted two issues and are very hard to find. We're SUPER lucky to have Michael, George and Roger donating their scans to the site like this. Please be sure to check it out and remember they've produced a high quality reprint collection
(‘Tops: The Complete Collection of Charles Biro’s Visionary 1949 Comic Book Series’) with lots of extras if you'd like to learn more about the title and era.
Tops #2 debuts as part of our Anniversary event!Christmas also brought us more
Walt Kelly 'Peter Wheat' from his biggest fan and DCM staffer -
OtherEric! It's costing him a pretty penny but we are all lucky he's determined to scan them all.
agentdynamo's made his first of several new scans starting in early December. AD is a Better Comics fan who has been filling missing pages and adding all new scans. Welcome to the fold AD.
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Lou Mougin (Darkmark) - 11.27.1954 to 12.31.2022In early January we sadly learned of the passing of long time DCM member
Darkmark on Facebook. Lou Mougin supported us from the first days of GAC and on to DCM. He had an impressive resume as a comics historian and writer. He might be best known on DCM for the many fiche scans he uploaded which was a double edged sword for him. They fill many, many holes on the site and have been a great benefit for the owners and scanners of incomplete books but they're almost all frustratingly unreadable. We aren't sure of their origin but they only represent a fraction of the work Lou did in our hobby. If you'd like to read more about Lou and his professional work in comics you should
read his CBR obituary HERE. Lou was passionate about learning and keeping comics history alive. He will be
missed. Our forum post on Lou's passing
can be seen HERE.
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In early
February we had a fun surprise from SRCA1941 again. This time it was a missing issue of
Boody Rogers' big-foot fun book -
Babe 005 in a sharp 400 dpi scan
you can see here.
February 20, 2023 - we created a new
Giveaways and Promotional Comics section to house our ever growing giveaway books. This cleaned up our Misc. Fun section and prepares us for a future
Giveaways Spotlight later this year!
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New Comic donors to our cause:
Dave Dustin, paw broon.New scanners to the site:
agentdynamo, Arten, blast from the past, RETRO COMIC REPRINTS, tronvillain, Willie WilliamsNew collections to the site:
Jimmy Swinnerton's Canyon Kiddies (1922) from
rmdavidson.
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I like to include a reminder about our
WANTED COMICS LIST maintained by
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!
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Every year we can't stress enough 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.
Thanks so much 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.
Now go check our Thirteenth Anniversary Gift Books listed below!!
There's several new goodies to enjoy, have fun!
-Yoc
