All familiar names to me, and probably among the oldest scanners who would be represented here. I started collecting scans around 1999. Scans of PD books didn't seem to be as common in the early days. Some DC, Quality and Fawcett were about the only things that I ever noticed on ABPC, but then again, my newsgroup access and following was spotty. Most of the really early scans I took were from Yahoo Clubs. Most of those were typically very low res., and I doubt any are here.
I used to keep track of scanners when I downloaded a book. Some other names I have (or remember), from ABPC, on my earliest CDs of comics (which I started burning around 2002 I think) are bumblebeeman(sp?), Mark Stratton, Scan Man, Brain Death, Billy Batson, CigarMan43, Old Wayne, Punkrat, Roy Raymond, misterjoel, Laszlo Jamf, teto7totoro, Mac Raygirl, Sgt. Mike, Doc Quantum, Hary Peters, Bob Hughes, King Faraday, ae660, Pmack, and phabox. That covers through around 2005, when I started downloading from GAC, and didn't feel the need to keep records of scanners anymore.
bumblebeeman (if I’m remembering the name correctly), and CigarMan were ones that I know I remember from the really early days. I think Brain Death and Punkrat were around pretty early too. Most of my earliest downloads have long been lost to hard drive crashes, but I don’t think I was keeping good records back then either. Marble River was the one I followed most closely, because he was posting scans I could use in All-Amazing Comics, and my other books (which is what I started keeping records of scanners for). Most others were posting DCs, Dells, or other things I couldn’t share, or thought I couldn’t share. As I said, it seems like it took a long time for the public domain material to start being posted in any great quantity.
-Eric
