tilliban and the German collectors uploads

[Yoc]

Thanks very much T, love seeing these getting the C2C treatment!

[tilliban]

Hi, gang!

Wanted to tell you that I changed my profile picture.
It's hard to recognize, but that's me with a copy of ACEs BEYOND high up in the Swiss Alps!

A new trend is born:
Shlepping valuable comic books on mountain tops to be torn by windfall and gnawed upon by goats!
Whaddya think?

 

[Yoc]

Hi T,
Cool pic!
I like the idea.  It reminds me of that stuffed animal taken around the world for pics.  I forget what it was now.  But yours is perfect for DCM, etc.

[John C]

I'm reminded of an old Infocom contest, where they gave a prize to the best picture of someone with one of their games on the Great Wall of China.  As I recall, they got a pile of entries, and one of the winners was just a boot toe and the corner of a game in front of the Great Wall's...encyclopedia entry.

So yes, I do envision the potential for a "strangest place you've read a comic" contest.

Oh, right.  To fill in the blanks, Infocom was a software company in the late '70s and early '80s that made their name on text adventures like the "Zork" series, which were generally well-written, irreverent, and came packaged with an assortment of "feelies," physical artifacts to help bring you into the game.

Should you young'uns want to know the frustration of having to guess what the programmer wanted you to do without any viable hints available on the screen, rather than installing Windows 8 (sorry, couldn't resist), you can give this a shot:

http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/zork1.html

(Yes, it's pretty much legal.  Activision licensed the game for redistribution a long while ago as a publicity stunt for an otherwise-forgettable game.)

[tilliban]

Hmmmm,
I wasn't thinking of repeating the "comics in strange places"-idea, but... but... but...
I'll be in Paris next month, maybe with a comic book on top of the Eiffel Tower.
 

Will be meeting Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. there, who brings me some DCM-missing ACE horror books.
So the next months will bring new uploads of BEYOND / BAFFLING / HAND OF FATE  and the one last issue of WEB OF MYSTERY.
For this week I proudly present from my own "collection" of 15 comic books:

SPOOK #30

Tadaaa!

[Yoc]

Sounds like your trip should be a lot of fun T.
Send us a pic of you and JVJ if you can along with your Eiffel Tower shot. 

Certainly looking forward to more pre-code horror from you!

[JVJ (RIP)]

Just back from La Poste, Tilliban,
Where I shipped to you the following.
 
BEYOND # 9, 13, 18, 20, 25, 26, 27
WEB OF MYSTERY # 29 (a Sept. 1955 issue, should be just reprints, but no one knows the contents)
BAFFLING MYSTERIES # 8, 10, 16, 22, 25
HAND OF FATE # 9, 13, 17, 18, 20, 24, 25a

Good luck. I will see you in October (24th ?) and we can discuss the artists on these and on any other ACE horror issues.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

JVJ Publishing / Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
125 rue Legendre / Paris 75017 France
Ph. 01 42 63 99 93 ou 06 80 96 46 79

jim@bpib.com   www.bpib.com

[Yoc]

Looking forward to these guys.
I guess this makes Tilliban another of the esteemed JVJ Scanners now.

[tilliban]

Yes, indeed, I am working on my trip to Paris.
Will be telling you more soon.
The french postillion did not make it through the german lines - yet!
In the meantime I uploaded another one of my own ACEs:

BEYOND #15

It displayed itself -Blam! - instantly on the DCM homepage.
Does no one control me anymore?
I'm shocked.
With instant uploadability comes great responsibility.
I'll use it wisely:

T.

[jfglade]

Just back from La Poste, Tilliban,
Where I shipped to you the following.
 
BEYOND # 9, 13, 18, 20, 25, 26, 27
WEB OF MYSTERY # 29 (a Sept. 1955 issue, should be just reprints, but no one knows the contents)
BAFFLING MYSTERIES # 8, 10, 16, 22, 25
HAND OF FATE # 9, 13, 17, 18, 20, 24, 25a

Good luck. I will see you in October (24th ?) and we can discuss the artists on these and on any other ACE horror issues.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

Figuratively makes my mouth water.

JVJ Publishing / Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
125 rue Legendre / Paris 75017 France
Ph. 01 42 63 99 93 ou 06 80 96 46 79

jim@bpib.com   www.bpib.com

[tilliban]

My mouth will be dry when I'll be holding these books in my hands...
 

Having joined the ranks of the JVJ scanning crew, I'm still looking to complete the ACE horror canon.
We are still missing THE BEYOND #1 - JVJ hasn't got a copy.
And as I just discover...
... the file for BEYOND #23 on DCM is defective, am getting an preview error.
But how could 2163 people have viewed the file?
Maybe they just viewed the error message...

[Geo (RIP)]

And as I just discover...
... the file for BEYOND #23 on DCM is defective, am getting an preview error.
But how could 2163 people have viewed the file?
Maybe they just viewed the error message...

It's the file format that won't show the preview, "CBR", the file will download and be viewable with the viewers on your computer though.
By the way we are "fixing" these files one by one for the online preview viewer. It just takes time to get to each one that doesn't work with "Preview".

Geo

[Yoc]

Hi T,
Prime user is doing a fantastic job helping us re-upload broken or misnamed files as we speak.
I'll add this Beyond issue to the next list I send him of needed fixes.

[tilliban]

Alors, Monsieur V.

The parcel is delivered.
The Ace is in the hole.

Gentlemen, start your scan-gines!

[Yoc]

Looking forward to them T!