Ami_GFX's uploads

[Yoc]

A hearty thank-you and mighty 'Welcome to the Scanner's Ranks' to
Ami_GFX for uploading Jungle Comics #153.

The first of we hope many more.

Congrats!

[darkmark (RIP)]

I'll second that, as I love Fiction House jungle books.  Thanks, Ami!

[Ami_GFX]

You're welcome, all. Scan number 2, Jungle Comics 156 is now uploaded. I tweaked the Jpeg image quality in the scanner software on this one and maybe set it to far which resulted in a much smaller file but not quite as radiant a scan. It still looks good and this comic is in much worse shape than the first one so I'm happy with the results.

[Geo (RIP)]

Thank you Ami for your upload, jungle books are alway welcome here.

Take care, look forward to your next upload.

Geo

[Yoc]

Many thanks Ami!
Interestingly you bought your book from bhcomics who also scanned it but incomplete.

freddyfly uploaded the incomplete bhc version and I merged just your ads with his to also make it c2c.
I made note that it's the same BOOK but different scans in the merged version.
Both are on the site.
I hope that's Ok with both of you.

32mb isn't overly huge while 7mb I think is on the small size.  20-30mb for a 36pg book would be the sweet spot in my humble opinion.
As the scanner how you do your scans in the end is completely up to you.  We are thankful for anything.

-Yoc

[darkmark (RIP)]

Glad to see these.  We're still exploring the Jungle!

[Ami_GFX]

I've bought a few comics from BHcomics and I just happened to check out what he had on eBay last Saturday and noticed the Jungle Comics and checked for them and noticed they weren't on DCM and got both for minimum bid--$20 with shipping for both. I scanned Jungle 153 at full Jpeg quality which gave me an original file of around 2mb per page. I reduced it by half with Image Ready and scanned the Jungle 156 with the Jpeg quality set to half which I thought would give me the same result but instead it reduced the files to around 10% of the size of the full quality jpegs. I'm going to go with full quality jpegs from the scanner from now on which gave much better quality and use software to process the image to a reasonable size after it's scanned.

[narfstar]

And we appreciate the efforts Ami

[Yoc]

Sounds like a plan Ami.  Under 10mb for a 36pg book isn't necessary and sacrifices detail.

bhc and Len have generously shared many scans with DCM.  bhc though doesn't do the non-story pages as you might have noticed.

Thanks again for helping fill two more holes in the FH collection.

[Ami_GFX]

Jungle Comics 160 is now uploaded. Another ebay find and another gap is filled in the Jungle collection.

[Geo (RIP)]

Thanks Ami, and it's now been released into the wild for everyones enjoyment.

Geo

[freddyfly]

Many thanks! We'll finish off this title soon! (gotta find a #8)

[Ami_GFX]

It's been a while and I haven't had much time to buy and scan comics the last year but here is a new scan: Crime Does Not Pay 44. I've noticed there are a lot of big gaps and incomplete issues in the Lev Gleason section and there are a lot of the missing issues for sale on eBay for reasonable prices. I've got Crime Does Not Pay 74 and Boy Illustories 53 coming in the mail this week. Won them together in one auction.

BTW, I am buying these comics solely for the purpose of scanning them and then reselling them. If anyone wants the originals, I would be happy to sell them to DCM members for what I paid for them.

[narfstar]

Thanks Ami from someone who has bough hundreds of comics just to scan. My problem is I never get around to selling them. Really need to get a batch together to sell

[Ami_GFX]

I don't have much extra space to store comics and the only comics I've been buying for my own collection are 60s and 70s Charltons that fill gaps that I didn't fill when I was a teenager. I usually buy lots and runs of these but most aren't PD.

The idea is to get the money back so I can buy more unscanned PD comics to scan. The problem is getting the time to scan them.