tilliban and the German collectors uploads

[Yoc]

Thanks again T, glad you are feeling better.

[JVJ (RIP)]

Did you ever receive the box I sent, tilliban?

The silence is deafening.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[tilliban]

Not giving you the "silent treatment", Jim.
Nothing in sight so far, it's been just a week.
Don't reckon on it the next days either...
Will mail you immediatly.

[tilliban]

Proud to have uploaded the complete run of PENALTY!
(relax, it's just two issues...)

PENALTY #47
PENALTY #48

Courtesy of il JVJ collezione.
The last two crime comic books ACE ever published.
They're code approved reprints from Super-Mystery Comics, but still fun, because they show how censorship worked.
In many panels there are weapons missing, sound effects missing, cleavage is missing...
Interesting.

[Geo (RIP)]

Thanks for both of them.

Geo

[Yoc]

Thanks T they are fascinating aren't they?

[darkmark (RIP)]

We're glad to be Penalized.

[Roygbiv666]

...cleavage is missing...

Now that's censorship! So very, very wrong.

[tilliban]

And this one's mainly for closure.

WEB OF MYSTERY #29

Last issue, and missing issue on DCM, please mark it as COMPLETE SERIES!
But again in the last story there's approval fumbling at work.
Missing blood, missing knife.

My favorite - by the way - is the reworking of Bob Powell's pre-code horror classic "Colorama".
In the code version the optometrist isn't killed, and the onsetting blindness is explained to be only temporarily!
So we have a murder in the heat of the moment and punishing blindness (pre-code) vs. a just dissatisfying visit at the optometrist's (post-code).
Bummer!

[narfstar]

Doorway to Yesterday changes from Beyond 7 to Web of Mystery 29 gotta love the code.
Some differences in reprint are made. Page 2 panel 3 is changed from word balloons to top captioning. CODE CHANGES: Page 5 panel 5 kill to strike. Page 6 panel 1 is dead to is lost, panel 2 dead to done, panel 5 death to doom. Page 7 panel 2 death's head ring is changed to strange ancient ring, panel 3 red outfit is blue, panel 4 it crashes becomes "the plane has to make a forced landing, panel 5 is redrawn from showing the man's dead body and the pilot stating "only one man killed..in such a strange way..his neck was broken as he was hurled forward..his safety belt was defective!"  to the man holding his head the pilot says "only one man injured...only stunned..no bones broken...A most unusual kind of accident..his safety belt was defective!" Death's head is changed to ancient symbol. Last panel adds "Was this just a routine accident that frightened the stewardess to flight and Hank's episode a figment of his mind... or could there be another significance."

I need help. Can anyone identify where the other stories in Web 29 come from?

[Yoc]

Thanks Very Much T!  Fantastic work on Ace all around!  I'm sure glad you've joined the JVJ Scanners ranks. 

Narf, I've added a link to your above post in the Web 29 entry of the download site.  Hope you don't mind.

[narfstar]

Don't mind at all.
I identified The Whispering Nemesis from Penalty 47 as The Whispering Death from Super-Mystery v5#3

[Yoc]

Good to know Narf,
please be sure to leave a comment with the book entry when you've found original sources.  I always enjoy comparing censored vs uncensored versions.

[tilliban]

@narfstar.

My findings concerning WEB 29 reprints so far:

“Deep Into Darkness” – should be a reprint from FOUR FAVORITES # 25 or 27.
Don't know which, both are not up on DCM.

“The Doorway To Yesterday” – reprint from BEYOND #7 (November 1951), as we know already.

 “Conscience In The Witness Chair” (Paul Parker, UNsigned) – reprinted from FOUR FAVORITES  #29 (June 1947) as “The Unknown” (Paul Parker, signed) – reworked and censored (knife murder and blood removed).

[narfstar]

thanks Till I can add that  to GCD