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Hi Gang!
Here we are at our
FIFTEENTH Anniversary!! 
This anniversary features the debut of a historically interesting first issue -
Circus, The Comic Riot #1.
You can read an intro for it at this link.A huge
thank-you to everyone that has stuck with us since day 1 in 2010 and some of you I know were with us way, way back when we were on staff as part of the original first site,
'Golden Age Comics.UK' (GAC). (Click here to see how it originally looked in 2009.) This was before our friend Mark became the current owner and renamed and redesigned it to the very cool
CB+ site.
If you include the GAC years (2006-09) we've been sharing comics for 19 years straight! Pretty damn impressive if we say so ourselves.
This last year we gained
17959 new members and had
94709 total on March 28th. (We've culled out a LOT of spam accounts again this year.
We also added
378 new scans during the year and have
24848 total!Notable events over the last year...We had another amazing anniversary event last year with
34 new scans going live to mark our special day!
Thanks again to
SRCA1941 (Eric) for making the day extra special supplying several of the new books! He also upgraded many needing some extra work to complete.
Click here to read all about last year's 14th Anniversary event.Lyzardegod started our new year off with a bang. So many were collection hole fillers as well. If we listed them all as he shared them each month you would see him everywhere in this message! He ended up having a
great year with
40 new scans!
LG highlights included: completing the runs for
GI War Brides (Superior), War Battles (Harvey), Battle Attack (Stanley Morse), Fighting War Stories (Story) along with other various books! We LOVE seeing titles being completed like this...
great work LG! New face on DCM
RAYTUS shared his first collection on DCM as part of last year's anniversary gifts. He's since shared
30 total at this point! If you enjoy Kirby, Meskin and Prize Comics, you can find them all in his
'CNCC Classic Comics' folder in our Anthologies/Collections section. His collections are very involved and work intensive requiring bleaching of his original comics and computer recolouring. Thanks again to Raytus for all his work and generosity sharing them on DCM.
Raytus also shared raw scans of some missing books for the collection including
Prize Comics Western 118, and
Young Love 9+56.Scanning legend
TITANSFAN shared a few new scans, mostly for the Misc/Adult Humor section, but also
Babe, Darling of the Hills 010 (Prize), Big Chief Wahoo 07 (Eastern), and Jo-Jo 021 (Fox). Thanks as ever to TF for all his
incredible work over the years scanning and sharing thousands of books on the site!
The mysterious
INABUICK shared
15 missing books this year. He's been focused on the IW reprints mostly.
May 2024 highlights include...
Los Pollos Hermanos sharing
Popular Comics 47+55.
SRCA1941 sharing
Daredevil Comics 079 (LevGleason); and
Wotalife Comics 001 (Green) from
SuperMack;
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Perhaps the nicest news for the year was when new rookie star scanner
Mark Bowen arrived and started sharing some very rare books and fills for incomplete books. We've gotten to know him well and he's as nice a guy as you could hope to meet and very enthusiastic about preserving and sharing comics! He's been scanning books from a private collection using a digital phone camera and spending many, many hours correcting his raw pictures for sharing. Proving even a smartphone with a good camera can do a good scan in the right hands. He fears no page curl unlike myself.
Mark Bowen highlight scans include...
Captain Marvel Adventures 014 (diff ver) w/
RedRyder edits,
Farmers Daughter 02-04 w/
ComicWanderer edits which completed the run,
Battle Attack 02+06 w/
lyzardegod edits to help complete the run!
And some nice precode horror books like..
Chilling Tales 016 (c2c) w/
Cclay edits,
Shocking Mystery Cases 050 (Star) w/
Cclay edits,
Haunted Thrills 009 (no text story) w/
Cclay edits,
Weird Comics 004 (Fox)And just today
Capt. Marvel Jr #1!Many thanks and welcome aboard Mark!***
Starting sometime in April 2024 we noticed the DCM site was getting very hard to use. Time outs and downloads would often take multiple tries to work. the problems became more common until we decided in June it was time to find DCM a new host. We found a new host June 24 and started the move process. The site was hit-and-miss during the change over but we were done for July 1st, 2024. We still have some bugs to sort out but we like to think it's not nearly as bad as it once was before the move! If you see any errors connecting to DCM please use the Ctrl-F5 keys to refresh your browser. It might even take a few tries but we are still here.
June 2024 was a busy month for upgrades. Thanks everyone! It helps to finally get these books off our Wanted List.
In
July 2024,
Darwination shared a new version of
Down with Crime 001 (Fawcett). He also shared
Ellery Queen 04 (Superior) in
August.
Titansfan and David Miles shared
Big Chief Wahoo 007 also in
July.
In
August 2024,
AtomicSteve shared
Super Pup 005 (Avon) with us his first new scan for the year. But he was working on a
BIG book still to come!
A big August surprise and wonderful addition
Hit Comics #4 which finally got a new paper scan from
Superscan and friendsSeptember gets busy with several collections landing, this time from
Prime user. First he compiled one for an early GA love of mine - the original
Ghost Rider Collection (ME) in five parts. He followed this up with a four part one of
Target and the Targeteers Collection (Novelty). And then a five parter for
Red Mask Collection (ME). All of these are in our
Anthologies/Collections section.
Dave H shared
Smash Comics 036.
In
October 2024 Jungle Comics 044 arrived from
SRCA1941. And
JonTheScanners upgraded more books for us.
Comicscastle showed up again with more risque humour books. CC's pace has slowed from his peak days in 2021-22 but he's still sharing one from time to time. This year he shared five issues of
Army and Navy Fun Parade. Another one is going up today.
For
November 2024 we landed
America's Greatest Comics 001 from
DrJohnnyDiablo.
Large Feature Comic v1 #17-Gangbusters from
MrTimely also shows up.
December 2024 was a busy month for us in a great way.
First new scanner
Mark Boersma arrives on the scene. Mark is another very nice guy like so many in our hobby. He's another collector/scanner happy to be sharing several very cool precode horror books with us such as -
Haunted Thrills 017,
Strange Mysteries 017,
Dark Mysteries 021,
Strange Mysteries 010 and just for a change,
Blue Beetle 049.
DCM co-presented a month long
BALLYHOO Spotlight, focusing the NYC humour mag from the early 1930s that would have a direct influence on the humour comics to come like
Mad. Master scanner
Darwination would guide us through the spotlight sharing several examples of the trend while talking about them on his blog.
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For Christmas 2024 we received several new additions to the collection! The biggest surprise was a rare Fawcett from professional writer
Paul Tobin! His raw scan of the rare
Master Comics #6 with a very nice edit by
Mark Bowen.
Other Christmas highlights included - SRCA1941 (Eric) was our star scanner sharing
12 books including
America's Best Comics 014,
Big Shot Comics 002 (paper),
Boy Comics 030,
Captain Marvel Adventures 029.
From
OtherEric our resident Peter Wheat expert and buyer bless him -
Adventures of Peter Wheat 58+63 as well as several
Spirit Sections.
AtomicSteve shared a long sought scan of the Pines giant 132 page (!!) book -
Complete Book of Comics and Funnies [Pines 1944] in two parts.
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We debuted a big surprise on
Boxing Day when
BuilderBoy shared his
FLETCHER HANKS 'The Complete BIG RED McLANE' Collection!. Hanks is likely known to many here for his over the top
Stardust and
Fantomah stories in Fox Publication titles. If you are a fan of crazy you'll enjoy this collection. BuilderBoy is a giant fan of Hanks' work and suggests there might be another collection coming down the road.
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In
January 2025, Casanova shared his his one and so far only scan so far -
Romantic Story 033.
Mark Bowen shared more new scans with
Farmers Daughter 02 -04, a nice Baker romance
Diary Secrets 028 and
Fantastic Fears 001.
OtherEric shared more always welcome
Spirit Sections.
Several more upgrades for this month as well.
Thanks guys!February 2025 was another fun month for new scans!
We had
Mark Bowen continuing his great work with
Coo Coo, the Bird Brain 060,
Captain Marvel Adventures 022,
Shocking Mystery Cases 050, and
Captain Marvel Adventures 025.
Mark Boersma shared
Haunted Thrills 008,
Fantastic Fears 007. And
Black Magic 009 (v02 03) and
War Report 03 (1953) in March.
LibraryManager arrives this month and shares three railroad giveaways as his first shares.
In
March 2025 we debut a couple of
highly prized key books (both very $$$) from two cover artist legends -
LB Cole and Lou Fine!Mark Bowen found a source for these that let him scan and share them -
Mask Comics #1, Weird Comics #2. We felt these two
deserved their own banner and an intro which you can read on this link.And in addition to those he also shared
Haunted Thrills 009 (inc),
Chilling Tales 016,
Captain Marvel Adventures 014,
QuietRiot debuted five books just before our March 28th anniversary, three of them completing runs for titles on the site!
Which leads to our big day on March 28th!Many, many thanks to everyone mentioned here and those that aren't for sharing their time and books bringing them to the site for reading and appreciating. Good and bad, they all deserve to be scanned before they disappear in a pile of pulp.
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New Comic donors to our cause:
Raylauncher,
New scanners to the site:
Casanova, LibraryManager, Mark Bowen, netuse00001, Quetzal, Paul Tobin, +++
We always like to end these post with a reminder about our
WANTED COMICS LIST maintained by
Movielover and A Nonny Moose.
To anyone out there with a collection of Golden Age Comics, please give the list a look. You might have something we are missing or could use an upgrade for on the site. Please consider scanning or letting a trusted staffer scan your books for you. You can use the CONTACT US link if you want to contact us about the idea or if you have a question. We would love to work with you on something for the site!
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Now go check out the special temporary
Fifteenth Anniversary Gift Section now up here!
There's a pile of new goodies to enjoy!
Here's hoping for another great year,
-Yoc
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