Poztron's uploads

[Poztron]

Hi P,
Upload your BM26 page fills as normal and I can merge them but include exactly where they belong in the book in the description area.

They are now uploaded as normal. I hope my description of their location does the job.

I'm not sure what is going on with your TIFF files.  I generally keep each page as a PSD file until I'm ready to export.  It takes up a lot more room but sometimes you don't catch a problem until you are in the final export stage and want to go back to fix it.

I may try this PSD file save approach and see how it goes. I  think I've got the spare HD space these days handle the extra file space.

Anyway, thanks for your help as always.

[Yoc]

Thanks P!
The c2c version is now up!

[Poztron]

Next, I think I'll do Dark Shadows #3 (Ajax/Farrell under the America's Best Comics imprint of Steinway). It has one story that has pretty interesting art.

[Yoc]

Looking forward to it P.

[Poztron]

Dark Shadows #3 has now been uploaded. The usual somewhat funky condition (the covers detached themselves in the process of scanning, for instance), with some typical variation in page trim and image placement. Looks to me like Iger shop stuff and one story that might be Warren Kremer, though JVJ probably knows best. I suspect it is all reprinted from some comics years earlier. GCD doesn't have the issue indexed.

[OtherEric]

And now ready for download.  Thank you, Poztron!

I'm not sure if the story first appeared there, but the "Headline Heroine" story was used in Ajax Phantom Lady #3. 

[JVJ (RIP)]

cover - ? (Iger Shop, pos. Webb on the old man)
Exactly What you Ordered - Battefield & Shop pencils/Shop inks
Freddie - ?
The Racket that Failed - Max Elkan
Headline Heroine - Webb & Shop pencils/Shop inks
The Bigger They Come - Gerald Altman (signed) - looking extremely weird!

I doubt that these are all reprints, but it just a feeling, not based on any experience.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[narfstar]

You have to love a story as ridiculous as The Bigger They Come. I have a feeling Altman probably also wrote it. Why would I think such a thing. Just a hunch. Given Altman's art style and such it just seems to fit his sensibilities to have written it also.

[Poztron]

From Here to Insanity #14 is scanned. I just have to convert the tifs into jpegs and make a zip file and they will be uploaded. Probably tomorrow sometime. A marvelous gumbo of hack art, with some pages either Simon inking Kirby or Simon aping Kirby, not sure which.

[JVJ (RIP)]

From Here to Insanity #14 is scanned. I just have to convert the tifs into jpegs and make a zip file and they will be uploaded. Probably tomorrow sometime. A marvelous gumbo of hack art, with some pages either Simon inking Kirby or Simon aping Kirby, not sure which.

I had to laugh at the notion of Simon "aping" Kirby, Poz. My opinion is that he was incapable of such. The FHtI art is probably pure Kirby, scrounging for work at a bad time in comics history. Simon had split with Kirby by 1956 taking the Prize account with him. If you look at Prize Romance books through the late 50s, you'll get a good sense of what Simon was like solo. He did tons of undistinguished, boring stories that had no flair. As an artist, I consider Joe Simon a great business man, but his own art NEVER looked like Jack Kirby.

My 2¢

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[Poztron]

I had to laugh at the notion of Simon "aping" Kirby, Poz. My opinion is that he was incapable of such. The FHtI art is probably pure Kirby, scrounging for work at a bad time in comics history. Simon had split with Kirby by 1956 taking the Prize account with him. If you look at Prize Romance books through the late 50s, you'll get a good sense of what Simon was like solo. He did tons of undistinguished, boring stories that had no flair. As an artist, I consider Joe Simon a great business man, but his own art NEVER looked like Jack Kirby.

My greatest familiarity with Simon's art was in early SICK issues, and as I recall there wasn't much Kirby-influence present. But there may have been some. I need to scrounge around in that cupboard and dig out what old SICKs I have and look into this.

At any rate, I don't dispute your judgment on this. It may be well that the pages in question are Kirby dashing this stuff off (and maybe inking it himself in a hurry?)

The issue is ready to upload...I just have to move beyond the Firefox crash in the middle of my previous attempt to upload it.

[Poztron]

From Here to Insanity #11 has now been uploaded, though an "elder moment" had me labeling the upload as FHTI #14 and naming the file itself as FHTI_04. I hope that Yoc or someone else on the ball can correct those flubs. It not, I'll upload the file again with correct names.

[OtherEric]

Well, it's approved, but we need to update it.  As near as I can tell, I went over there BEFORE your last post to see if you had gotten it uploaded in the last 20 minutes, found it there, and downloaded it to personally check it before I approved it.  (Nothing personal, just a habit of mine.)  Then 3 minutes later when I went back to approve it, I found it was gone, and briefly worried before I realized Yoc had hopped in and approved it during those three minutes.  Then I hop back here and see you posting, asking if we can fix it.  Not sure on the file name, the labeling is easy and I"ll go do that next.

The real question is, what are we all doing up this late? 

[OtherEric]

Oh, and I was just reading about this issue a day or two ago in Alter Ego 86.  Ger Apeldoorn has the whole issue (minus 4 pages) down as Simon & Kirby but mentions he thinks it's almost all Kirby.  Overstreet just says Kirby.

[Yoc]

Thanks P, it's now up!


Oh bugger, I didn't see your problem P.

Hmmm, this presents a chance to try something Never Before Attempted In The HISTORY of DCM (or the other site)
   (Sounds scary eh kids?)

I moved Poztron's randomly renamed 'xxx.rwd' file (the site software does this automatically) out of the Downloads folder where all scans are placed once activated and back into the 'Uploads' folder.  I then Renamed it to 'From Here to Insanity 011.zip' and resubmitted it to the site all from the FTP and WITHOUT having to get Poztron or myself to re-upload the book from scratch!  Don't worry if that's all over your head, only the staff will really follow it.

So that means YES, it is possible to rename a file After it's been added to the site as long as you know the exact file size and date it was added to the site!

In other words P, your file is now fixed with a proper file name (as it appears when you download it) and a proper display name (as it appears on the download site).

Thanks for providing me with the inspiration to try this,
-Yoc