Morrismoss Uploads

[Morrismoss]

Hi all,

So I did tonight my first upload scanned by me (It's about time)
Charlton "Fightin' Navy 77" (not beyond #90)
I have a bunch of Charlton War comics (found on a french countryside flea market.
Certainly a souvenir from a nato base in the 50/60's)
but unfortunately only two fit on DCM (The 2nd one is already posted)

EDIT: forget that part  ----------------------------------------------------
Now I have some few others to upload that I found over the web.
I have a question for 5 of them:
Exciting Comics 10 (64p)
Exciting Comics 11 (c2c)
Exciting Comics 16 (c2c)
Exciting Comics 19 (c2c)
Uncle Sam Quarterly 02 (c2c)
They are baddly tagged (big colored "GM" letter bottom left of each pages)
by the original scanner so I was wondering if it was ok to upload them anyway.
You might already know these files and hate the tags as much as I do. Tell me.

Then to come I have found missing on DCM:
Quality ---- Blackhawk #52 - Love Secrets #32 - Uncle Sam Quarterly #1
Fawcett --- Rocky Lane Western 47
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Anyway as I haven't been very much talkative here and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank
everybody here for doing what you do. Every time I download a comic i say "thank you"
bending my head over the keyboard. Being in France, for many years, I only new that some of these comics
existed through article in magazines, usually illustrated by small black and white repro of the cover.
So frustrated at the time I'm now so glad to be able to read them.

Voila
Best
Morrismoss

[Morrismoss]

I've just found the topics about GM scans and blackhawk 52
sorry for asking an already answered question:)


MM

[jfglade]

 At least you had the good sense to ask. Those GM scans keep turning up like bad pennies. Thank you for the "Fighting Navy" book. Interesting to know its history.

[Yoc]

Yes,
Thanks for checking MM.  Those GM scans are repeatedly uploaded by members trying to help with fills.
There's some argument about their being legitimate 'new works' and therefore under copyright to the seller 'GM' but for now we are keeping them off the site.
Looking forward to your own scans though - just remember the golden rule - Nothing after Dec 1959.
And when in doubt, just ask here.  

-Yoc

[narfstar]

And if you have anything that is public domain after that we would be happy to take it at GAC 

[Morrismoss]

I'm not sure I get everything here narfstar.

I thought DCM site was a new version of the CAG site and that CAG was not active anymore.
(I didn't even check I admit) I remember a few month ago a post on CAG saying that it was moving
here, so then I changed my bookmark to this site and never went back checking on CAG.

So after seing your post I went back and ooOh surprise it still active!!!
I'm sure I'll read the explaination somewhere in a post

As soon as I realized that I've tried to uploaded this file on CAG download site
(I tought that was what you asked in your message)
 ... but now I'm not sure I had to or if it worked because I didn't have a "confirm" button after doing the preview.
Was it ok or is it bad?

Now I have another question: Yoc says nothing after dec 1959. I have Fightin' Army 30 from june 1959
But it's written in Fightin' Army section that we can't upload any beyond 20 ... and there is a #26 there
So according to Yoc I can upload it, but according to the message I can't...

Tell me what to do

MM

http://mapage.noos.fr/battlerbritton/newbie_01.jpg

[Geo (RIP)]

Anything up to December 1959 is good. I'll have to change that since it's not right on the last number, (should be #32, Nov. '59). So go ahead and upload it to the site, all is good, OK MM.

And thanks for pointing that out on Fightin' Army. Looks as if I will have to check all of them out to make sure on the ending issue. Thanks again on this matter.

Geo

[rangerhouse]

thanks for the scanning!

[Morrismoss]

Voila
freshly scanned Charlton - Fightin' Army #30 uploaded.

MM

[Yoc]

Now up, thanks MM!

[jfglade]

 Your scans of those Charlton issues look better than the books themselves ever did; Charlton had notoriously poor printing, or at least did in the sixted and, especially, the seventies.  I've enjoyed both of the Charlton books you've added.

[Morrismoss]

I agree with the fact that the Charlton printing are often crappy and seriously out of focus.
especially as you said some titles from the  60 and 70's.
But the printing of the few Charlton I have from 1959 to 1964 seams pretty decent
(except for some color displacement and most of the covers out of focus, the page are ok.
I can assure you that the scans I did here are somehow close to the original ... I'm not a  magician:)
I scanned them with no particular effect except putting the clearness to best on epson settings.
I used FastStone image viewer tool to crop and resize and didn't change the contrast or color.

I always had the feeling that Charlton was a cheap editor (on the contrary of Dell or Gold Key with whom
it shares a lot of titles) not only for its printing but also for the drawing quality.
When I look at the drawings I have the odd feeling that It was done fast in big amount and I can
visualize an artist sweating at his table to keep up the scheddule.
It's the kind of editor who has one strategy to survive: fload the market at all cost.
I hope the artists had the compensation to make a good living out of it.

MM

[John C]

Oh, I don't know, MM.  I'd put most of Western's (the group behind Dell and Gold Key) superhero books side by side with the most awkward of Charlton.  Heck, Tony Tallarico did the art for most of the horror movie hero.  Case in point, one of my favorite articles on comics...

http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics122.html

Seriously, about the only difference in quality between this and a typical issue of Son of Vulcan, say, is Charlton's cereal box printing press and mechanical lettering, no?

(Disclaimer:  I have a soft spot in my heart for crap like this, down to "A. Machine"'s lettering.  So I make this comparison with affection.)

[Morrismoss]

ahahah thank for the link John you made my day.

"But enough of the formalities your training is to begin now!"
 ... you don't know if he looks at his watch or if he puts a giant hand on wolf dude's shoulder!
I see it's the same guys who did the Dracula at Dell ... piece of modern art too.

You're sure right about this, the content is generaly at the same level .As I said, it's just a feeling.
The very notable difference are the beautiful painted front covers at gold key.

Lettering machine" was my nightmare when I was a kid, It was hard to read. It was the speciality of
publishers named Artima/Aredit who where reprinting Marvel material such as Hulk or Conan with the mention ... "For Adult only".

Again thanks for the "Stupid comic" website, I'll spend the rest of the month on it:)

[John C]

Again thanks for the "Stupid comic" website, I'll spend the rest of the month on it:)

Yeah, that's what happened to me.  Thank goodness I was between jobs at the time...

(And yes, that was much more an excuse to giggle at the absurd Dell heroes than picking a fight.)