“Ace Horror” website

[tilliban]

(it is more of a coincidence, really, but I dedicate this as a Valentine’s to our beloved DCM)

For a year now I have studied Ace’s horror comic books.
I have read them all. I have scanned all the missing ones and uploaded them here at the DCM.
I have spotted all the artists (with encouraging help from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.).
I have indexed all of them at Grand Comics Database. And I have poured all my thoughts and findings into a new website:

Click here -> ACE HORROR! or See link at the bottom.

This website is meant as a demonstration how to present comics history on the internet.
What you can accomplish by combining data from DCM and GDC.
How to keep the spirit of these comic books alive, how to cherish their memory and how to showcase wonderful artwork by unduly forgotten artists.
This is gonna knock your socks off…
Enjoy.

[josemas]

Very nice job sir.

Excellent Valentine's Day gift to us all.

Appreciate both the fine job you've done on the Ace website and your work scanning the books for everyone here at DCM (as well as your accompanying banter on the forum).

I'm seeing and learning so much more on this company thanks to you (and JVJ) these last few months.

Best

Joe

[Yoc]

Hi T,
I can't find the site.  Your URL didn't include any '.com' or whatever.
Could you post it again and I'll fix your first message.

[josemas]

Click on the tiny link at the very bottom of his post Yoc.

Best

Joe

[Geo (RIP)]

What I liked best about that site was this:

Ace Magazines 1940-1956 53 Titles 673 Issues
Ajax-Farrell 1951-1958 58 Titles 305 Issues
Amerian Comics Group 1943-1967 62 Titles 1,230 Issues
Avon 1945-1955 126 Titles 386 Issues
Charlton 1943-1986 382 Titles 6,479 Issues
Comic Media 1950-1954 14 Titles 103 Issues
D.S. Publishing 1947-1951 17 Titles 75 Issues
Fawcett 1940-1954 149 Titles 2,383 Issues
Fiction House 1939-1954 30 Titles 826 Issues
Fox 1939-1951 144 Titles 665 Issues
Harvey 1940-1994 368 Titles 7,053 Issues
Hillman 1940-1953 24 Titles 407 Issues
Key Publications 1951-1956 30 Titles 150 Issues
Magazin Enterprises 1943-1958 79 Titles 579 Issues
Prize Comic Group 1940-1961 36 Titles 830 Issues
Quality 1938-1956 64 Titles 1,670 Issues
Star Publications 1949-1954 50 Titles 269 Issues
St. John 1947-1958 131 Titles 875 Issues
Story Comics 1951-1955 6 Titles 67 Issues
Superior 1945-1956 144 Titles 659 Issues
Toby/Minoan 1949-1955 58 Titles 298 Issues
Trojan Magazines 1950-1955 6 Titles 60 Issues
Youthful 1949-1953 19 Titles 109 Issues
Ziff-Davis 1948-1957 57 Titles 201 Issues

Geo

[Yoc]

Ok sorry T.
I missed the 'Link at bottom' part.
I'll still make the middle one a working link for you.

[tilliban]

Thank you, YOC, as always.
I maybe able to construct a big horror website, but am just too stoooopid to set a link right.
(sigh)

[Yoc]

No worries T.
You've got a great looking site here!

Btw, there's a typo in this sentence -
"It’s a sad footnote of comic history that the avant-garde of Ace left business in 1955. So did fellow colleagues George Appel, Richard Case, Al Eadeh, Maurice Gutwirth, Lin Streeter und Bill Walton. Never drew a comic story again. Not necessarily on voluntary terms."

This sentence needs a space added -
No wonder this artist has been mistaken for Gene Colan or Bernie Krigstein. There is a „flow“ to his illustrations which wehave seen in these other masters

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David Hajdu’s “The Ten Cent Plague" list of artists that left the field has been cited as quite suspect as well.  I think JVJ pointed out some problems with it when it was published.

Take care,
-Yoc

[tilliban]

I am grateful if you point out those "Germanisms" to me.
Will correct that, can't just now. Experiencing glitch in the edit-mode. Hmmph.

[Poztron]

A fantastic web site! While my opinion of the Ace comics may be a notch down from yours, I totally agree that those comics are under-appreciated and deserve more attention. Your new site provides that. An excellent public service.

[edmandu]

Excellent job!

Thanks much for sharing.