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Introduction to Fawcett Fridays in June 2017

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Yoc:
Hi Gang,
Here's the first batch of new Fawcett books now up on the site!  Our thanks to Len for the first two:

Master Comics 039 (ifc fiche) -upgrade
Whiz Comics 014 (4 fiche)

And thanks to Kracalactaka & a nonny moose for their work on a very poor copy of this book:

Young Eagle 005 (Fawcett 1951)(c2c)(Kracalactaka-a nonny moose).cbz

We got a great surprise addition to today's debuts from dsdaboss!

Slam_Bang_Comics_06 -dsdaboss.rar

Stay tuned for more next week!
:)

darkmark (RIP):
Fawcett's my fave GA company.  Can I hope for some Captain Midnight and Don Winslow here?

Poztron:

--- Quote from: Yoc on May 30, 2017, 09:02:14 PM ---Hi Gang!
Welcome to our Fawcett Mini-Flood or Fawcett Fridays for June on DCM.
All this month on each Friday we hope to debut two or maybe even three Fawcett books for you to enjoy.  And if we are lucky perhaps a few surprises might show up from other scanners out there when they see what we are up to here.  ;)

--- End quote ---


I'm all for having Fawcett Fridays and filling in many of the gaps in DCM's Fawcett comics archive. Fawcett did some interesting stuff... especially the CC Beck Marvel material.


But that said, I will note that Fawcett is one of my least favorite GA publishers. (Sorry. Just being honest.) Why so? Well, a number of (mostly trivial) reasons:


1) Their custom of having the top third of the first page of each comic book they published feature the masthead/colophon information was an eyesore that plagued all their comics. (A similar esthetic flaw was Victor Fox's comics starting their initial stories in each issue with a two-color first page on the IFC.) I realize that probably both publishers did this in a bid to stop sleazy distributors from re-selling supposedly "un-sold" issues, for which Fox or Fawcett would receive nothing. But these were ugly solutions that almost no other publishers bought into.


2) I'm not a big fan of licensed film stars as comic subjects. C'mon, a lot of this material at Fawcett was mediocre at best. I'm not a big fan of much of the licensed material that filled up many Dell comics (or Harvey comics, for that matter,) either.


3) My subjective impression is that Fawcett comics' printing and coloring was not top-grade. (I have a similar opinion of the ACG (American Comics Group) comic books. I love many of their comics and artists (Ogden Whitney!), but I don't think much of their coloring limitations nor their overall printing quality.)


Well, that's enough for now, and probably too much.


Again, I'm all for the Fawcett Fridays, etc. The more completely we can fill out DCM, the better for our understanding of comics' history and art.  My thanks to everyone who contributes to the effort.

Yoc:
Hi Poz,
Thanks for sharing even if Fawcett isn't your cup of tea.  Like you not everything on DCM is something I'm dying to read either but as you say, we are shooting for everything in the public domain so any holes we can fill are very welcome!

In this Fawcett flood there will be a handful of holes filled including the first Negro Romance and some Slam-Bangs which is great!

Stay tuned!
-Yoc

Yoc:
New today and for the rest of the month - it's Whiz-Bang Wednesday!
We've managed to get enough of these precomics Fawcett books to give them their own day.  :)
Now up -
- Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang v03 #03 (1922-06)
- Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang v02 #17 (1921-02)

But remember - these are from a time when America was a different place with different sensibilities. 
These are not politically correct in any way and might be offensive to some of our members. 
And these were Not made for children.

-Yoc

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