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Offline K1ngcat

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Greetings from the UK
« on: March 14, 2016, 06:57:26 AM »
Hello DCM!  I discovered your site after following links from Paul Tumey's "Coles Comics." I'm now officially an Old Age Pensioner, and pleased to find so many of the titles I enjoyed as a youngster (mostly through UK or IW reprints) are represented here.

As a young man I yearned to be a comics artist and draw superheroes, but in this country, apart from Dan Dare, everything we had was Humour, War and Football comics. I went for "training" in a London Studio but it consisted mostly of making the tea and picking up parcels, the closest I got to superheroes was doing one-colour overlays on early Marvel reprints.  Disillusionment followed!

I'm very impressed with your collections, and I've tried downloading some of your excellent Fiction House Spirits.  However I find #1 is a Zipped RAR file, unlike the other four, which download as Sequential Image Display files.

I've tried opening the file with 7-Zip but all I get is a collection of single pages which won't read with either Preview or CDisplay.  I'm not very tech-minded, so I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

In the meantime my thanks to you at DCM for bringing so much enjoyment to comics fans, myself included.

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Greetings from the UK
« on: March 14, 2016, 06:57:26 AM »

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Re: Greetings from the UK
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2016, 11:54:23 AM »
Hi K1ingC,
Spirit1 is in 'rar' format.  All you should have to do is RENAME it to cbr and any comic reader app can read it.  Many you don't even need to rename it.
If you want to change it to CBZ format take those individual jpg files into a folder, name the folder Spirit 1, and with 7-Zip create a zip file of the folder.  Rename the zip file to cbz and use it like normal.

Enjoy the scans!
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Re: Greetings from the UK
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2016, 07:39:39 AM »
Hi Yoc

thanks for the tip.  Fiction House Spirit #1 successfully renamed, muchas gracias.  :)