Jimpy Uploads!

[kusunoki]

Wow! Thanks, Jimpy. What a great book!

[jfglade]

I think that's the way to approach the British reprint titles, Yoc. I'm a Wyomingite, which is almost like being an American, but I'd like to see the British books as they were printed, whenever possible.

[Yoc]

Thanks for uploading the pages jimpy.
While I can't nail down exactly which issue I can tell you it's a reprint from
Hillman's Real Clue Crime Stories sometime after v3.
You can download any later issue and see the 'Crime File number' and similar layout is used in them like in your book.

Feel free to scan and upload the book.

[jimpy]

Hi,
I have now uploaded the whole comic. I designated it 'Real Clue' but you might prefer it as UK.
Jimpy

[Yoc]

Thanks jimpy!
I'll cross post it in both sections.  It's more work but people seem to want it that way.

I'm still trying to nail down the issue number and the source for the wonderful L.B. Cole cover.

[slinky]

Thanks Jimpy and Yoc! 

[jimpy]

Black Magic#13 British edition. Black and white reprint of US#unknown, Eerie#9, 1 Heap story. Some of the centre scans not perfect - the binding makes it difficult to read let alone scan. I was originally only going to upload the first half of the book, to avoid duplication in different sections, but as there is now a demand for British c2c versions, and as all the stories are PD, I scanned the whole comic and designated it UK.

[josemas]

Yoc

I appreciate your going to the extra trouble of working these British comics into additional files when appropriate.  Not only do the Brit fans here get the nostalgia rush of seeing them in their original form but all comic historians can see how these American comics were repackaged for overseas audiences.

Best

Joe

[Yoc]

Thanks jimpy.  I'll see if I can figure out which US Black Magic issue this comes from before I add it to the site.

[slinky]

Thanks Jimpy! 

[slinky]

Not mentioned in Denis Gifford's Complete Catalogue of British Comics or in The Comic Book Price Guide for Great Britain, so presumably quite a rarity!

[EDIT] Listed for sale as #1 so possibly the only issue of this title.

[Geo (RIP)]

Astounding Comic nn is now up with the Original cover scan I added from Crime-Fighting Detective #18, find it in the UK section. Sorry but I couldn't find the original 'Real Clue Crime Stories' that these stories came out of at this time.

Thanks Jimpy for sharing.

Geo

[jfglade]

I glad to see this finally. I'm really enjoying seeing American material as it was repackaged for another audience. I've also enjoyed seeing material I probably wouldn't have seen otherwise.

[jimpy]

Hi,
I see for some reason this upload cannot be previewed, and no thumbnail - any reason for this?
It was done in the same way as my previous uploads.
Jimpy

[OtherEric]

There is, but I have no idea how to adjust for it.  Maybe Yoc does.

The file is cross-referenced two places, both under Prize and under UK comics.  Hitting download on the Prize listing takes you to the UK Comics page, where you can actually download the file and the thumbnail works fine.  But the listing on the new books goes to the Prize listing, not the UK Comics page, so when the software looks for the book to generate a thumbnail it finds a link, not a book, so can't create the thumbnail.

So that's why it's happening.  I just don't know how to correct for it, short of deleting the file and re-uploading it in two places.  Which I will do if need be, but I'll let Yoc try to fix it first.