So, what's the diff between this and the Golden Age Downloads website?

[BountyHunter]

It looks the same, it smells the same, it's inhabited by all the same people.

I'm confused.  

[Yoc]

If you really can't tell BH, you haven't used either very long.
Neither cost you money so take some time and try them out and some should show up.

I think the forum does share some of the same people but certainly not All.  Neither site shares the same Staff.

We both started with a goal of sharing public domain comics but GAC has branched out beyond that.
They allow some post-1959 material while we are firm on the cut-off date.  They've also added Fanzines and even some movies I hear.  While DCM has managed to avoid any download limits.

DCM has been there a couple times when GAC had some problems and we'd hope they'd do the same if we needed it.

[John C]

Both sites are trying different things and evolving, so there isn't anything like a marketing checklist of "where should you be."  And both center on sharing public domain (mostly pre-1960) comics, so you might not find any of the experiments or differences compelling.

There's an overlap in population, too, as you point out, so there's not much mileage to get out of any sort of "us versus them" discussion.  Having been involved on "opening day" of both, it'd be a lot like choosing a favorite child.

[boox909]

What John and Yoc said. 

[Roygbiv666]

Maybe from a more historical point of view, GAC was like the Catholic Church, and there was a schism and DCM was formed.

GAC was hacked and DCM stepped up and helped repopulate files.

So, hopefully, we maintain friendly relations betwen the two and provide some online file redundancy to guard against catastrophic losses.

I also have to say, both groups are the most positive online presence of comic geeks I've seen, and that's supercool.

[Yoc]

There's a church joke in there but I'll leave it alone.

Meanwhile Roy has the most cute avatar going on either site!
I'd buy the doll if there were one! 

[Geo (RIP)]

Thanks Roy, that's the purpose of both sites, to share the wealth with everyone.
And not keep it to oneself or one site.

Geo

[JVJ (RIP)]

I don't know. They both give me money for postage and they both post my comics and they both have nice people. DCM has the tres cool "Preview" feature - which is MY absolute favorite. So that's the biggest difference that I can see.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

ps. thankfully, the Postage Fund donations have tapered off. Now let's use some more of it up.

[Yoc]

Yes, DCM is extremely proud of the Preview feature.  Three cheers for CaptDJ for adding it!

[JonTheScanner]

ps. thankfully, the Postage Fund donations have tapered off. Now let's use some more of it up.

I'm near finished with the scanning Jim.  I finished what you sent some time back, but I'm still working through your Rangers Fights and Cowgirl Romances which you had returned via me.  I think I have 5 or so more of those.

[Poztron]

Admin, feel free to delete this post if I step on too many toes...

I think of GAC and DCM as more-or-less mirror sites that both exist to share scans of public domain golden age comics with fans.

DCM feels to me as more of a group cooperative, while GAC is apparently 'owned' by someone with ideas about building social networking into the deal. That may well be a perfectly reasonable objective, but when member rankings and download tiers were suddenly introduced, that felt intrusive... and not coincidentally DCM emerged out of that change-over.

In any case, I respect both sites and generally try to upload any scans I manage to do to both of them. The participants at both sites definitely overlap. It's a small universe. But both GAC and DCM provide a marvelous public service and example of fan cooperation. My hat is off to both sites.

[BountyHunter]

One thing I noticed that's different is this site has more comics with Skyman in them.

[Roygbiv666]

One thing I noticed that's different is this site has more comics with Skyman in them.

Skyman has a very distinct costume, I likes it.

[Captain DJ]

Basically we opened and then did following:

* Fixed few of the old bugs that was annoying GAC site
* Added top 5 downloaded, top 5 rated etc boxes on front page
* Invested into the site and launched with no download limits.
* Invested into the site still not managed to fill our hard drives
* First to launch the online comic viewer
* Started adding comic covers to each comic on site where possible (using script so no slaves required)
* Still adding security updates and coding for future expansions whenever possible.