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DCM Download Site => New Uploads => Topic started by: Yoc on July 22, 2011, 09:30:30 AM
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Hey gang,
Let's all welcome DCM German member Tilliban's First Scan - a wonderfully gory Canadian precode horror comic -
Journey Into Fear 020!
Tillian uploaded it twice, the first a MASSIVE 300dpi version that is almost too big for one file on DCM but wow it looks Nice!
The second version a much smaller 19mb one for those on a bandwidth budget. ;)
Thanks T and I hope we get to see more!
-Yoc
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And now Another new one from T!!
Hand of Fate 008!
Enjoy!
-Yoc
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Dear DCM-Gang!
Let me say that I am a big admirer of your fine work.
Being from Germany and living in Cologne the DCM is the MAIN source for us europeans to ever lay an eye upon those comic books.
My hobby are precode horror comic books - and I run my own (german!) website about them:
http://fifties-horror.de/
>:D
In my opinion every owner of old comic books should donate scans to the DCM.
I'm specializing now in hunting down unscanned issues.
Be prepared to see some more next month - BAFFLING / BEYOND / SPOOK / HAND OF FATE / WEB OF EVIL aaaand JOURNEY INTO FEAR #21.
I know how to tease.
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Thank you for the scans, Tilliban, and looking forward to more.
Not every owner of old books is able or willing to scan them, but for every new one like you who we find that is the collection grows. So thanks again.
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Welcome aboard T, and thank you again for the ones you've given so far.
I am and I'm sure others are looking forward to your next scan.
Geo
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Yep, T knows how to tease for sure!
That list has me drooling here. ;)
Welcome T and we certainly agree with your opinions on scanning.
Without those like you - most of our collection here would be lost forever.
-Yoc
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Welcome and thanks for sharing with us.
rangerhouse
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Looking forward to more pre-code horrors in the months ahead.
Thanks
Joe
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It's not like I would tease you on evil purpose.
But I'll be off to summer holidays to Spain tomorrow.
Furthermore I do not own a scanner!
Shame.
I have to ask a friend of mine to share his office for a few hours. Hope to work some sessions in mid-August.
Then I have to rework the scans with a MICROSOFT OFFICE PICTURE MANAGER (yuck!) software.
No PHOTOSHOP for me, o no.
That's why I can only choose file sizes of 400 K or 4.000 K per page.
I'll settle for the small size - they come out nicely in your (by the way) FANTASTIC "Preview"-Viewer.
How'd'you do that?!
Did you programm the thing or is it some readymade feature everyone could get?
Just gettin' the facts, ma'm...
See you next month!
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Darn shame you have to rely on that software T. Oh well...
BTW - you might consider scanning at the larger size and resaving them smaller using free software like the one I recommend - IRFANVIEW. http://www.irfanview.com/
You can set it up to resave a file at a smaller size under advance settings and it will do batches of scans if you have them all in a single folder. Just remember to do a backup of all your original jpgs first so you can try different settings and not worry about losing your originals. Also - it's never a good idea to resave a jpg more than once. I suggest do some tests, figure out your settings and then apply them to your files so you resize and save each only once. If you'd like some more pointers you know my email address.
Doing this you could have your larger original scans saved for possible future use and still share a smaller version here in DCM.
Just a suggestion - your current scans are fine for viewing but it sounded like your software was limiting you more than you wanted or needed to have.
Thanks again and have fun on your holidays!
-Yoc
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It's not like I would tease you on evil purpose.
Then I have to rework the scans with a MICROSOFT OFFICE PICTURE MANAGER (yuck!) software.
No PHOTOSHOP for me, o no.
That's why I can only choose file sizes of 400 K or 4.000 K per page.
See you next month!
Tilliban - I have a spare (legal) copy of Photoshop Elements that came with one of my scanners. Would you like to have it? I think it's version 6 or 7. Not real modern, but it is still an excellent program and it's free... I'd be happy to drop it into the mail if you send me a Personal Message with your address. I'll steal a few bucks from the JVJ Postage fund.
or you can just email me at jim@bpib.com
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Jim, I am truly moved by your offer.
Why not exhaust that ol' DCM postage fund and send me one of those "scanning machines" you Americans claim to have invented.
(won't sell them to the Russkis, I promise)
Joking, of course. Been reading too much 50s comic books.
Golden Age indeed.
Yeah, I'm back from southern Europe and will try YOCs method first.
So hopefully we'll see another horror upload around the weekend.
I'll keep you posted.
The man who came in from the heat (i.e. Spain!).
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PS Elements will make your life so much easier, Tilliban,
It's really no great effort or expense to send you the copy. I send stuff all over the world, so it's pretty much a part of my basic skill set. Send me your address by PM and I'll actually be HAPPY that someone is using the software instead of it gathering dust in my office.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Spook Detective Cases #22 is now up and live.
Thank you T for the upload.
Geo
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Dear Jim,
fabulous news: your PHOTSHOP ELEMENTS arrived - and I took to 'em like that duck to putrid water from the 1950s.
Used it for my new upload:
BAFFLING MYSTERIES #5
Sad to say, this book contains no real highlights, except maybe for this delightful one-pager called "Baffling Mysteries" (page 24).
In this comical ditty two pranksters disguise themselves in ridiculous fashion with bed-linens to scare a ferryman.
They jump up and scream: "We are Death!"
SAY:::: WHAT???
Instead of falling on his butt laughing, the ferryman carries them off to Hades.
Maybe the right thing to do...
So all the best from Germany (where this story ist supposed to take place).
On Halloween. There is no Halloween in Germany, but who am I to correct fun literature like that?
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Now up, thanks very much T!
:D
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You're welcome, tilliban,
PS, even at the Elements level, is a pretty neat program. Glad to help.
Now I'd beg to differ with you about Baffling Mysteries #5. It's got Mike Sekowsky, Ken Rice and even Gene Colan. Granted, not the best work any of these men did, but nothing to sneeze at, either.
(|:{>
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Hot patootie!
You know the artists of ACE magazines?!
Grand Comic Database knows next to nothing.
I've been trying to crack this tough nut - and indexed BAFFLING #5 with a George Appel story.
Am I wrong about that?
Please tell me, which stories from #5 are Rice / Colan / Sekowsky.
I wanna learn to identify ACE artists.
I bow to the wisdom of one the greatest art spotters in comic history.
Yours very truly
T.
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Hot patootie!
You know the artists of ACE magazines?!
Yes, tilliban, I know most of them.
Grand Comic Database knows next to nothing.
I've been trying to crack this tough nut - and indexed BAFFLING #5 with a George Appel story.
Am I wrong about that?
Appel is definitely involved. I tend to think of this style and "Guttwirth/Appel" as both seem to be there. Who's doing what? I can't say.
Please tell me, which stories from #5 are Rice / Colan / Sekowsky.
I wanna learn to identify ACE artists.
First story is Sekowsky inked by either (or both) Vince Alascia or Jim McLaughlin.
Second story is Guttwirth/Appel
Third is Ken Rice - a great artist who worked primarily for Ace and is often mistaken for Lou Cameron.
Last story is Gene Colan inked by ?
I don't know who does the two fillers. They are reminiscent of Sol Brodsky a bit.
I bow to the wisdom of one the greatest art spotters in comic history.
Yours very truly
T.
Feel free to tone it down a bit. I'm just a guy with a knack. I studied at the feet of Hames Ware and Jerry Bails and learned from lots of other guys. The biggest hurdle to learning how to ID artists used to be getting a chance to see the comics. Now you've got access to tons of them, as well as a Who's Who and the GCD. Start learning. You don't need me nearly as much as you might think.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Dear Jim,
Thank you very mucho for your info concerning BAFFLING #5.
Uploading now
BEYOND #5.
Using your tutorial I would say:
DEMONS OF WALPURGIS MOUNTAIN (last) should be Sekowsky.
ENIGMA OF THE UNSCHEDULED PASSANGER (third) eludes me – any ideas?
THE FRENZY OF SHEILA LORD (second) is one of those rare Gutwirth/Appel concoctions again.
BIG TOP NIGHTMARE (first) looks familiar, (from ACE-story “When Black Wings flap” in BAFFLING#9) can’t put a name on it.
By the way: Ken Rice is very good indeed – and I would never confuse him with Lou Cameron.
; -)
All stories from Beyond#5 are quite nice. My favourite is “Demons” though, located again in a German/Austrian village where people have names like “Eric”, “Hans”, “Fritz”, “Karl” and “Bertha”. Which is allright, by the way. But do they have to have family names like “Zwiebelbart” (Onion beard)? And must that village be named “Grausam” – which means nothing less than “cruel”. Sets the right tone for the whole piece…
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Thanks very much T, the book is now on the site.
:)
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Tilliban:
BIG TOP NIGHTMARE (first) looks familiar, (from ACE-story “When Black Wings flap” in BAFFLING#9) can’t put a name on it. Lin Streeter
TRUE TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL #1 - Frank Giusto (?) inked by Vince Alascia.
THE FRENZY OF SHEILA LORD (second) is one of those rare Gutwirth/Appel concoctions again.
TRUE TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL #2 - Vince Alascia.
ENIGMA OF THE UNSCHEDULED PASSENGER (third) eludes me – any ideas? - Richard Case
DEMONS OF WALPURGIS MOUNTAIN (last) should be Sekowsky.
FWIW.
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Huzzah and Thank you again.
Will be pestering you some more next month with more stuff from ACE!
Upcoming will be another issue of BEYOND and two more HAND OF FATE.
When I get them scanned, of course.
Next week: a quality surprise...
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Loving these horror issues T, thanks very much for sharing them!
:D
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Dear DCM-Gang!
I wanna delve big-time into the horror comic books from the house of ACE.
Do some research about this company.
Does anyone know if there's any kind of information ever been published?
Articles in ALTER EGOs, PRICE GUIDES, COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACES or other magazines?
As you well know I live in a land far far away (Germany) and I really have no clue...
Relies on your abundant knowledge:
Tilliban
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From 1989-1993 New England Comics Press published 11 issues of a title called Tales Too Terrible to Tell (and then Terrology for the final two issues). It mostly reprinted, in black and white, pre-code horror stories but there was also a serialized history of pre-code horror comics by editor George Suarez that ran in every issue. The first three issues were a general history with lots of facts and figures and then he started tackling the various publishers in more detail with one or two examined each issue. Unfortunately he never got around to Ace before the title was cancelled. The whole series was supposed to be eventually collected in book form but as far as I know nothing ever came of it.
I know that a few years ago Roy Thomas was trying to track George down to see if he would be willing to reprint/finish his pre-code horror history in Alter Ego but again nothing seemed to have come of that.
Even though he never apparently finished the history those TTTTT books are worth tracking down (I believe that they are all still available from New England Comics-- for less than cover price!!) and reading for what information he did put out there. I occasionally see his work referenced by some of the bloggers who touch on pre-code horror comics.
A couple of interesting Ace facts I can throw your way from George's facts and figures is that Ace was the third most prolific pre-code horror publisher with a total of 97 comics (well behind Atlas-399 and ACG-123 and narrowly beating out Harvey-96 and EC-91). Another fact was that Ace was the sixth publisher to jump on the pre-code horror bandwagon (behind Avon, ACG, Atlas, EC and Fox) with their first title coming out in September 1950 (the majority of publishers started publishing horror titles in 1951 or 1952).
The only other book that I can think of off the top of my head that might help you is Mike Benton's The Illustrated History of Horror Comics which had some info the various pre-code horror publishers. It came out about twenty years ago, IIRC.
Best
Joe
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Dear DCM-Gang!
I wanna delve big-time into the horror comic books from the house of ACE.
Do some research about this company.
Does anyone know if there's any kind of information ever been published?
Articles in ALTER EGOs, PRICE GUIDES, COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACES or other magazines?
As you well know I live in a land far far away (Germany) and I really have no clue...
Relies on your abundant knowledge:
Tilliban
Do you ever get to Paris, Tilliban?
I will be there from Sept. 23 through Nov. 7. I can bring my Ace data cards and if you want to schedule a "lesson" I'd be happy to spend a day or two looking through scans and helping you to learn the styles.
Just a thought...
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Hi T, if you get a chance to visit Jim you'll be in for a treat from all I hear!
I've started a new topic in the links section you might enjoy related to your quest for more historical background info
Check it out here - http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,2906.0.html
-Yoc
Dear DCM-Gang!
I wanna delve big-time into the horror comic books from the house of ACE.
Do some research about this company.
Does anyone know if there's any kind of information ever been published?
Articles in ALTER EGOs, PRICE GUIDES, COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACES or other magazines?
As you well know I live in a land far far away (Germany) and I really have no clue...
Relies on your abundant knowledge:
Tilliban
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Dear Joe!
Thank you for reminding me about the tales of Mr. Suarez.
I've got them and he never dealt with ACE. Sadly.
But I'll use the information you mentioned.
Dear Jim!
What? You're spending six weeks in Paris?
That's an offer I can't refuse.
Paris is a 4-hour-train-ride from Cologne. Small europe!
I'll start planing and contact you via private mail.
Dear Gang!
My newest upload is now
WEB OF EVIL #19
Enjoy!
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Actually it is going to be closer to SEVEN weeks this time, Talliban.
Our apartment is situated about half-way between Gare Saint Lazare and Gare du Nord. Easy bus ride from either and a direct Metro connection from GSL. We'll have to figure out how to meet.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
ps. If anyone is thinking of getting a new box of comics to scan, you've got only three weeks before blast off.
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Thank you for your latest upload tilliban, much appreciated.
It's available for downloading in full c2c form now.
Geo
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What does "c2c" excatly mean?
Is it essential to tag my files with it?
Thanks for an answer:
T.
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Cover to cover, in other words everything, the whole issue.
Also marked as ctc by some.
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Marking a book c2c is purely optional. I normally don't bother unless I'm upgrading an earlier scan, so people know it's an improvement over an earlier version.
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Marking a book c2c is purely optional. I normally don't bother unless I'm upgrading an earlier scan, so people know it's an improvement over an earlier version.
Agreed. However, on the flip side, I feel it IS important to note whether a scan you're uploading is missing any pages (or has partial pages), especially when it's the only version available.
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Good points Snard.
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Hi, Gang!
Just something I had lying around.
Pimped it up and uploaded it to your "archives"-section.
Looks nice - ripped it from your files anyway...
Madam Satan (MLJ, 1941)
New full comic book for the ACE division following in the next hours!
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...aaaand uploaded now is
HAND OF FATE #12
Another ACE in the hole, or better: This time an ACE with holes in it.
Cause some fool kid cut out characters, it's a pity, but if I can live with it, so will you...
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. is getting private mail asking him who did what.
I'll use the information for a big indexing run on Grand Comics Database.
Sometime in the near future (winter at the latest).
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Great work T!
And I applaud your extra attention to adding data to the GCD with Jim's help.
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A new one just today: Weird Terror 006 (INC), compiled from Karswell's blog "The Horrors Of It All".
Just the four stories, no ads, plus cover.
Geo
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I don't take credit for WEIRD TERROR #6.
It's all Karswell's.
Heard that there could be more complete WEIRD TERROR issues coming...
Am working on a revised and improved version of a Master Comic.
Coming around this week...
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Sorry, question again:
What does (INC) mean?
Like in my post
WEIRD TERROR 006 (inc)...
Thanks for an answer...
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I can't guarantee it in every case, but probably "incomplete."
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For DCM purposes - 'inc' mean incomplete.
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"inc" means "incomplete" -
Should have guessed that one!
Am uploading now
DARK MYSTERIES 015 (c2c of course)
On my computer the existing file with just 3 stories is defective.
Please check.
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Thanks very much T, love seeing these getting the C2C treatment!
:)
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Hi, gang!
Wanted to tell you that I changed my profile picture.
It's hard to recognize, but that's me with a copy of ACEs BEYOND high up in the Swiss Alps!
A new trend is born:
Shlepping valuable comic books on mountain tops to be torn by windfall and gnawed upon by goats!
Whaddya think?
:D
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Hi T,
Cool pic!
I like the idea. It reminds me of that stuffed animal taken around the world for pics. I forget what it was now. But yours is perfect for DCM, etc.
:)
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I'm reminded of an old Infocom contest, where they gave a prize to the best picture of someone with one of their games on the Great Wall of China. As I recall, they got a pile of entries, and one of the winners was just a boot toe and the corner of a game in front of the Great Wall's...encyclopedia entry.
So yes, I do envision the potential for a "strangest place you've read a comic" contest.
Oh, right. To fill in the blanks, Infocom was a software company in the late '70s and early '80s that made their name on text adventures like the "Zork" series, which were generally well-written, irreverent, and came packaged with an assortment of "feelies," physical artifacts to help bring you into the game.
Should you young'uns want to know the frustration of having to guess what the programmer wanted you to do without any viable hints available on the screen, rather than installing Windows 8 (sorry, couldn't resist), you can give this a shot:
http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/zork1.html
(Yes, it's pretty much legal. Activision licensed the game for redistribution a long while ago as a publicity stunt for an otherwise-forgettable game.)
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Hmmmm,
I wasn't thinking of repeating the "comics in strange places"-idea, but... but... but...
I'll be in Paris next month, maybe with a comic book on top of the Eiffel Tower.
:o
Will be meeting Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. there, who brings me some DCM-missing ACE horror books.
So the next months will bring new uploads of BEYOND / BAFFLING / HAND OF FATE and the one last issue of WEB OF MYSTERY.
For this week I proudly present from my own "collection" of 15 comic books:
SPOOK #30
Tadaaa!
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Sounds like your trip should be a lot of fun T.
Send us a pic of you and JVJ if you can along with your Eiffel Tower shot. :)
Certainly looking forward to more pre-code horror from you!
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Just back from La Poste, Tilliban,
Where I shipped to you the following.
BEYOND # 9, 13, 18, 20, 25, 26, 27
WEB OF MYSTERY # 29 (a Sept. 1955 issue, should be just reprints, but no one knows the contents)
BAFFLING MYSTERIES # 8, 10, 16, 22, 25
HAND OF FATE # 9, 13, 17, 18, 20, 24, 25a
Good luck. I will see you in October (24th ?) and we can discuss the artists on these and on any other ACE horror issues.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
JVJ Publishing / Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
125 rue Legendre / Paris 75017 France
Ph. 01 42 63 99 93 ou 06 80 96 46 79
jim@bpib.com www.bpib.com
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Looking forward to these guys.
I guess this makes Tilliban another of the esteemed JVJ Scanners now.
;)
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Yes, indeed, I am working on my trip to Paris.
Will be telling you more soon.
The french postillion did not make it through the german lines - yet!
In the meantime I uploaded another one of my own ACEs:
BEYOND #15
It displayed itself -Blam! - instantly on the DCM homepage.
Does no one control me anymore?
I'm shocked.
With instant uploadability comes great responsibility.
I'll use it wisely:
T.
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Just back from La Poste, Tilliban,
Where I shipped to you the following.
BEYOND # 9, 13, 18, 20, 25, 26, 27
WEB OF MYSTERY # 29 (a Sept. 1955 issue, should be just reprints, but no one knows the contents)
BAFFLING MYSTERIES # 8, 10, 16, 22, 25
HAND OF FATE # 9, 13, 17, 18, 20, 24, 25a
Good luck. I will see you in October (24th ?) and we can discuss the artists on these and on any other ACE horror issues.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
Figuratively makes my mouth water.
JVJ Publishing / Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
125 rue Legendre / Paris 75017 France
Ph. 01 42 63 99 93 ou 06 80 96 46 79
jim@bpib.com www.bpib.com
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My mouth will be dry when I'll be holding these books in my hands...
:P
Having joined the ranks of the JVJ scanning crew, I'm still looking to complete the ACE horror canon.
We are still missing THE BEYOND #1 - JVJ hasn't got a copy.
And as I just discover...
... the file for BEYOND #23 on DCM is defective, am getting an preview error.
But how could 2163 people have viewed the file?
Maybe they just viewed the error message...
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And as I just discover...
... the file for BEYOND #23 on DCM is defective, am getting an preview error.
But how could 2163 people have viewed the file?
Maybe they just viewed the error message...
It's the file format that won't show the preview, "CBR", the file will download and be viewable with the viewers on your computer though.
By the way we are "fixing" these files one by one for the online preview viewer. It just takes time to get to each one that doesn't work with "Preview".
Geo
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Hi T,
Prime user is doing a fantastic job helping us re-upload broken or misnamed files as we speak.
I'll add this Beyond issue to the next list I send him of needed fixes.
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Alors, Monsieur V.
The parcel is delivered.
The Ace is in the hole.
Gentlemen, start your scan-gines!
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Looking forward to them T!
:P
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And thus begin the JVJ scanning festivities.
The first one out of Jim's collection is now uploaded:
HAND OF FATE #9
I'll follow with at least one issue per week.
At the beginning of 2012 ACE horror comic books will be complete on DCM.
Or, as the great austrian mime Arnold S. put it, "Christmas comes early this year".
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Thanks T, the scan looks great!
I'm very excited about your taking so many Ace books to scan.
Did you get your picture on the Eiffel Tower with a book?
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And thus begin the JVJ scanning festivities.
The first one out of Jim's collection is now uploaded:
HAND OF FATE #9
I'll follow with at least one issue per week.
At the beginning of 2012 ACE horror comic books will be complete on DCM.
Or, as the great austrian mime Arnold S. put it, "Christmas comes early this year".
Nice scans on the Ace book. I rather like the Hand of Fate series.
I look forward to seeing what else will be included in the Early Christmas material.
Thank you and John.
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Naaa, the Eiffel Tower caper will take place end of october.
But expect to see 3 or 4 more ACE books till then.
Yay!
It's happening, folks.
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Have you noticed the new uploader "sundancetrance"?
(he put HAUNTED THRILLS #10 on the site)
He's an email-acquaintance of mine.
Another crazy german!
I urged him to scan his DCM-missing horror comic books.
According to MY files there should be following six more in the next weeks.
(he's got that famous WORLDS OF FEAR #10, rrrrrrrrrrr)
Nice.
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Hi T,
I sure noticed Sundance's post!
Thank-you for introducing him to DCM and thank him for sharing his books!
We'd love to hear from him here as well.
Looking forward to more from Sun,
-Yoc
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Have you noticed the new uploader "sundancetrance"?
(he put HAUNTED THRILLS #10 on the site)
He's an email-acquaintance of mine.
Another crazy german!
I urged him to scan his DCM-missing horror comic books.
According to MY files there should be following six more in the next weeks.
(he's got that famous WORLDS OF FEAR #10, rrrrrrrrrrr)
Nice.
That's wonderful news. It looks like we need more crazy Germans.
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What?
You want more crazy germans?
Be careful for what you wish...
:D
Some more craziness loaded up:
BAFFLING MYSTERIES #8
The second one of Jim's books.
Is it common practice to mark this in any way in my download description?
And if, how so?
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Thanks T!
For Jim's books we mark them with '-JVJ' at the end on the site.
I'll correct yours now.
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Up and running now is
BEYOND #9
from the files of Dr. J.
Soon we'll be entering the ACE Cameron-phase!
I will notice his appearances in the download-description...
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What?
You want more crazy germans?
Be careful for what you wish...
:D
I'm an American which is to say I'm a mongrel, but my father's side of the family is Crazy German so I'm not too worried.
You and Sundance are uploading some great books and I appreciate it.
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Thanks T, nicely done!
:)
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Hi T,
I sure noticed Sundance's post!
Thank-you for introducing him to DCM and thank him for sharing his books!
We'd love to hear from him here as well.
Looking forward to more from Sun,
-Yoc
Hi everybody,
here is the other crazy german :-)
After using DCM for a couple of years downloading tons of pre-code Horror/Sci-Fi/War books it was time for me to give something back. So stay tuned for some more books this autumn. Thanks to Till(iban) who encouraged me to finally start scanning. I am also indexing for GCD (using my real name Wilhelm Dohmeier). I am crazy for pre-code-Horror since the seventies, when I discovered the first (and for a long time only) german EC-Horror -publication named Der Beste Horror aller Zeiten (The Best Horror of all Times), the german edition of EC Horror Library of the 1950's (Nostalgia Press, 1970). Excuse me for my not so propper english. It's good enough for reading old horror comics but not well enough for higher level conversation.
All the best,
Will aka sundancetrance
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We will look forward to them Will.
Geo
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Welcome Will, and no worries, you English was more than good enough to be understood.
Feel free to post messages anytime you like. We look forward to seeing your future scans!
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Sundancetrance has added another scan today -
Strange Fantasy 006 (no ads).
One of our members mentions this book is missing the 5th page of the story "Death on Ice".
Is there any chance of adding that?
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You see?
It's like an avalanche going down.
I recruited "sundancetrance" and now he is trying to get a third crazy german to share his collection.
Hopefully this thread will soon be named "Crazy germans uploads".
Working on it:
Till & Will
(aka "tilliban" & "sundancetrance")
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Sundancetrance has added another scan today -
Strange Fantasy 006 (no ads).
One of our members mentions this book is missing the 5th page of the story "Death on Ice".
Is there any chance of adding that?
sorry no chance. These are older scans of a book I only owned for a couple of days.
Therefore another one today: Tomb of Terror # 13 c2c enjoy !
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Ok, thanks Sun. No harm in asking.
And thanks very much for the latest - a c2c scan as well. We encourage c2c scans when at all possible.
Take care,
-Yoc
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Ok, thanks Sun. No harm in asking.
And thanks very much for the latest - a c2c scan as well. We encourage c2c scans when at all possible.
Take care,
-Yoc
Yoc, Your asking is welcome. It's a pity that I didn't checked the scans while I had the book. Same goes for the ads and text story. That was 2 years ago and i had a very slow scanner which means a boring long time scanning one whole book. This won't happen again, scanning books of my own collection using an new higher quality/speed- scanner. I prefer c2c too. Nearly all of my books are complete, just a very few are coverless or/and have missing centerfolds. I checked the DCM scans which are incomplete and will add some missing pages from books I have in my collection.
The next book is already scanned and will coming up soon. It's an incomplete one, missing both, Cover and CF. Crummy, but all comic-stories are complete. After that much nicer scans will coming up soon :-)
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Hi Sun,
If you need covers I strongly recommend joining HERITAGE AUCTIONS and searching their archives section. Thousands of front and back covers scanned at high resolutions too.
-Yoc
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"Tomb of Terror" #13 is a very entertaining book to judge by the first two stories (I'll finish it later tonight). Interesting that it is a science-fiction change of pace issue. I can't help but wonder if it wasn't a test to see how well a collection of Science-fiction/space stories would sell for Harvey. Obviously, Harvey's change of direction to material for younger children as the result of the coming Comics Code would have squelched that idea.
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My turn again to post something.
It's...
HAND OF FATE #13
Haven't read it yet, but there seem to be really nice stories from Streeter, K. Rice, Zansky and probably Sekowsky (JVJ has to confirm).
Low grade comic books like this are perfect scanner fodder.
They actually look better when digitalized.
;)
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For what it's worth the final story in the issue ("Fate's Final Scoop") looks like Sekowsky pencils to me.
Best
Joe
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Thanks, josemas.
I'll be meeting Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (aka JVJ) next week to spot ACE artists.
Will then be indexing all ACE horror comic books on Grand Comics Database.
(work has begun already)
Your input is welcome.
Maybe I'll contact you concerning stories which we cannot decide upon...
Can tell you more via PM if you're interested.
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Hi T,
If you want you can start a new Ace Horror Artists Spotting topic on the forum or use PM's as you suggested.
Have fun with Jim!
-Yoc
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It's up to me again. My Pre-code of the week is another one from Harvey:
CHAMBER OF CHILLS # 16
Have fun, he,he...
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oh sneaky message SDT. Now up!
And how about that cover? I suspect it might have looked more like the toc image but they chickened out.
Thanks very much for the share SDT!
You've been bumped to VIP status. Congrats!
:)
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It's up to me again. My Pre-code of the week is another one from Harvey:
CHAMBER OF CHILLS # 16
Have fun, he,he...
That "Cycle of Horror" cover story is genuinely ghastly, and exactly the sort of thing that Dr. Werthem was trying to warn my parents about not long before the Comics Code sanitized American comic books. I had only the vaguest of recollections of that particular story, which I still think about as "the one where the rats eat the man." Having a chance to re-read it and see what I remembered and what I didn't was very interesting, perhaps even theraputic. That's the second horror story you've posted from a Harvey comic which I remembered reading when I was quite young, and it is becoming harder to associate that part of the company's history with Little Lotta, Hot Stuff, Little Dot, Richie Rich and so on. Thanks for unearthing those books.
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I have those kind of memories from the old 70s gore filled Eerie Publications, Skywald and Stanley magazines Jon. And I've been collecting scans of them for the same reasons. Today my memories have less of the gore than what was really there.
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Hi everybody!
That story "Cycle Of Horror" is one of my favorites!
Drawn by the master of sleaziness, Al Eadeh himself...
After reading this you wanna wash your hands - wonderful.
I am back from Paris with a fresh upload of
BEYOND #13
Spent joyous and insightful hours there with Jim Vadeboncoeur, JR. looking through a BIG stack of ACE horror comic books.
We updated his art spottings on these.
Will be spending the next week indexing them on Grand Comics Database.
And continue to upload horror books every other day.
So enjoy!
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I still wouldn't touch those books with a barge pole! You can have them all.
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Thanks T!
:)
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No comic books, but here's Tilliban in Paris:
(http://www.bpib.com/paris/2011-Fall/Tillman_2061.jpg)and here's Jim:
(http://www.bpib.com/paris/2011-Fall/Jim_2062.jpg)Great fun over three days.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Thanks for sharing guys. I half expected a precode horror comic somewhere but hey, its fun to see you guys got to meet.
:)
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Hi Yoc, thanx for bumping me up!
Right in time for halloween Alex Toth is setting the standard with ADVENTURES INTO DARKNESS' first issue (#5). Enjoy!
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Thanks SDT and I love the new avatar you've added. Nice!
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Thanks SDT and I love the new avatar you've added. Nice!
I confess that I have stolen it from an unknown artist. It comes from an huge stack of psychedelic trance art, specially used for goa party decoration (another labour of love of me). I think it perfectly fits my nick.
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I can't say I've heard of goa party decorations but if that's one they must be better than most of the stuff we get in Canada. Looks great! :)
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Hi Yoc, thanx for bumping me up!
Right in time for halloween Alex Toth is setting the standard with ADVENTURES INTO DARKNESS' first issue (#5). Enjoy!
Wonderful. I love Toth's work and I like the issues of "Adventure into Darkness" which I've seen, so I'll be reading that issue directly.
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Okayokayokay, YOC, here are your pictures.
:D
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/8145/arctriomphe.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/412/arctriomphe.jpg/)
(http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/1518/toureiffel.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/toureiffel.jpg/)
Do you recognize anything?
That's me clowning around with an issue of HAND OF FATE.
If you see nothing, then I am just too stupid to upload photos.
:-/
Anyone wanna try to do it - you have the links...
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Thanks T!
Great pictures! ^-^
For future reference you need to just copy and paste the link that says "Forum Code" from the ImageShack page that shows once you've uploaded your picture to them. It's in the 'Links to share your image:' square in the bottom left.
No need to use the Insert Image picture frame icon here like I told you. Sorry, it's been a long time since I tried this myself.
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Hah, it worked!
Some way or another. Impressive pictures.
I know the comic book, but what are these buildings?
Hihihi.
And because it's HAND-OF-FATE-week, here's another one uploaded:
HAND OF FATE #17
Courtesy of Jim V.
See you soon.
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Hi everybody!
.I am back from Paris with a fresh upload of
BEYOND #13
Nice issue. I enjoyed it and look forward to more Ace books.
Thanks you.
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Thanks T!
:)
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It's actually kinda sad that NASA abondened their space flight program.
No more "To infinity and beyond".
BUT.
We can turn back our clocks and delve into the ACE-age.
To insanity and BEYOND.
(though it's an issue of Baffling I uploaded, a mystery? Yessofcourse)
BAFFLING MYSTERIES #16
There's a signed Cameron story (3) in it, but I think the stories by Rice (1) and Zansky (2) are drawn better and executed much nicer.
But he'll grow, that Cameron guy.
As I observed with Jim in Paris, these three (and throw McLaughlin in the pot) will race each other for quality artwork in future issues.
Or maybe all that champagne and caviar got to our heads...
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Thanks very much T!
:D
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Hi everybody,
too much party this weekend. So I didn't have the time to scan an whole issue. Instead of this I fill in some missing pages. Most interisting will be the centerfold for Avon's Witchcraft #3 which includes 2 comic pages. The other ones are a very low grade cover of Dark Mysteries # 14 and one missing ad from Black Magic # 3. Next week I will back with a whole c2c book
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Thanks Sun, they're now up! If someone would like to also upload c2c versions that would be great.
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Thanks Sun, they're now up! If someone would like to also upload c2c versions that would be great.
I'm on it. Now upping the first one.
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All three are now uploaded. Just awaiting approval. ;D
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Now up, thanks for the help Cooper!
:)
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Welcome, coop!
Nice work, but there's a mistake.
Your Dark Mysteries 015 is Dark Mysteries 014.
I commented that in the download description.
One of our administrators has to rename the file...
Which will be no problem.
Thanks for joining our little upload-shop of horrors.
:-*
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Now fixed, thanks for the heads up T.
:)
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That's weird. All my records indicate it was uploaded as Dark Mysteries 014 (c2c).
Thanks for the welcome tilliban, though I've been uploading here for awhile. I'm gonna take Yoc's suggestion and start an upload thread.
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It's the beginning of the carnival season in my hometown of Cologne (Germany).
Many people dressing up in a funny way and getting drunk.
I get my kick out of
BEYOND #18
Now up.
Wishing all the best with this dressed-up smiley:
O0
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Thanks T and happy carnival season. ;)
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It's crime time this week. Be prepared for
STARTLING TERROR TALES V2#4
At least it has one of these crazy colorful horrified covers by L.B. Cole. It's also a bit like carnivalesk, is'nt it, Till?
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Very nice, thanks SDT!
:)
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Greetings, ghouls!
(wanted to try a fresh approach adressing precode horror fans, har har)
Feast your eyes on:
BEYOND #20
Beautiful cover art by Lou Cameron, but no story inside.
That is quite some rip-off, welcome to the fifties!
But you get nice stories by Ken Rice and Chic Stone.
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Thanks T!
:)
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Hi folks,
this week I had an hard job on WORLDS OF FEAR #5. The book is terrible trimmed and was very difficult to scan. Hope you like the result.
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It's available for downloading.
Thanks sundancetrance.
Geo
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Nice work on a difficult book SDT.
Thanks very much for sharing it.
:)
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You guys have been just awesome with all these pre-code horror books.
Keep it up!
Best
Joe
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Huge thanks for WOF #5! Gorgeous scans of a gorgeous book. Thanks for struggling with a difficult copy; it certainly doesn't show in the product.
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Hey, Will, you did it!
WORLDS OF FEAR #5 is brilliant.
I noticed the trimming only when you mentioned it.
Seems I'm not that good an observer...
It's a nice and much needed scan, so don't worry.
And I know - and YOU know that there's more in store.
So, good people at the DCM - be ready for some surprises to come!
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Sir! Sir!!
Please step away from the ACE horror, sir!
And put your hands where I can see them...
all three of them... thank you.
Let's take a break and feast our eyes on the mad workings of the Iger studio.
STRANGE FANTASY #10
Scanned from my personal copy.
ACE horror will be back next week!
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Let's take a break and feast our eyes on the mad workings of the Iger studio.
STRANGE FANTASY #10
Scanned from my personal copy.
ACE horror will be back next week!
Great horror comic, Talliban. The artwork isn't first rate but it doesn't need to be because most of the stories certainly are. I especially liked "Bloody Mary" and the ending of the last story. Very nice cover on the book as well. The book is much better than anything I would have expected from Farell.
Thanks.
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Thanks very much for all the great precode horror you guys have been treating us to.
Great work! :)
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Ok boys and girls, I just finished my last scans for this year. Be prepared for probably my rarest book. It's featuring the most awesome Saunders cover of all time, everybody guesses it ?
Next week i will go for a 2-months trip to southeastasia. So you all have to wait until february for my next book. In the meantime Till have to fight alone on the pre-code-horror-front. I am sure, he will come up with more great stuff. Strange Fantasy # 10 was a very pleased surprise, Till.
All the best to everybody,
Will
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Hmm, I'm not sure which book you are about to share Sun... but it sounds exciting.
Two months in SEA, wow! Have fun but be careful too.
:)
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And it is Worlds of Fear 010 c2c, and it is now available for downloading.
Thanks Sundance for it.
Geo
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That remains an amazing cover, doesn't it?
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That remains an amazing cover, doesn't it?
It certainly does. It's far more memorable than anything in the issue, although the contents aren't bad.
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One of the best for sure - great work Sun!
:D
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I knew what sundance had up his sleeve there.
Wow!
One of the most sought-after horror books.
Nice finishing touch for your first round, Will!
I'll stay online and entertain you with the rest of ACE horror - and some small surprises as well.
On today's menu:
HAND OF FATE #18
Contains the maybe finest story Ken Rice ever did - the last one ("The Spectral Executioners").
It's not a Cameron, probably influenced by him though.
These ACE artists are getting better by the issue now...
So, stay tuned.
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Very nice, thanks a lot T!
:)
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Nothing special, but I uploaded a PRIZE crime book which I had laying around.
So, Blammo!, scannerfodder:
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #57
There's Bill Molno in it, as far as I can tell - and Jack Kirby's version of the TRUE story of Wilbur Underhill, better known to you all as "The Tri-State Terror"! Ceased his activities due to his death in 1933.
Asked JVJ to send me a batch of ACE crime books. So there may be more crime underway!
Will return the next days with a new horror book, of course.
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More Prize! Thanks T and I'm looking forward to the Ace titles.
:D
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JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #57
There's Bill Molno in it, as far as I can tell - and Jack Kirby's version of the TRUE story of Wilbur Underhill, better known to you all as "The Tri-State Terror"! Ceased his activities due to his death in 1933.
Definitely Molno on the second one, Tillman, but it's Mort Meskin (not Kirby) on Tri-State Terror and that's Marvin Stein on the cover and the first story.
FWIW. (|:{>
Will send Ace Crime next week.
Asked JVJ to send me a batch of ACE crime books. So there may be more crime underway!
Will return the next days with a new horror book, of course.
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Ayayayayayay...
That's why I'm just an amateur.
Mistaking Meskin for Kirby.
Found a hidden signature for Sy Grudko though...
(in “Wanted: Ghost Writer” - Beyond #18) - fourth line on the newspaper in the splash.
Jim, you mentioned his name - and he's really there.
Maybe he did most of the 1952 one-page fillers...
For today let's enjoy this fine issue:
BAFFLING MYSTERIES #22
It's a grey and rainy autumn day here in Germany and I feel like having been drawn by Louis Zansky...
And thanks for bringing on the ACE crrrrime.
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Another ish of JUSTICE TAKES A CHEESE GRATER TO THE FACE OF THE GUILTY! ;-) Thanks, guys!
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It is always a RELIEF, Tillman, when someone discovers a sneak that confirms an ID that I have made. Does anyone realize just quite how weird it is to look at these old comic stories and think that I know who drew them? It's tres bizarre - very nerve-wracking as I'm verbalizing a combination of gut-feel, past experience, name memory and artistic/stylistic knowledge. And I know that those abilities seem rare in comics fandom. Why is that? And how long will I be able to do it before the memory goes. It's already (as Tillman will attest) getting harder and harder to dredge up the names that go with the styles - and there's no "reference" books that will take you from a style to a name. Sigh...
Maybe I should quit while I'm still able to see Sy Grudko and remember his name.
Crime books in the mail tomorrow.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Ahaaaa.... the
HAND OF FATE #20
has been busy again.
Turning pages, working a scanner and uploading itself on the DCM.
Great issue with finest artwork by Kenneth Rice, Lou Cameron, Louis Zansky and Chic Stone.
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That's one talented comic book!
-Eric
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Thank you for your latest upload tilliban.
Geo
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I' m feeling awful today - flu attack!
But ot get ONE thing done today, here's
BEYOND #25
Enjoy.
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Sorry about the flu T,
thanks very much for the book though!
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Ha, am up and running again.
So today I present a scan of
BAFFLING MYSTERIES #23
Contains TWO reprints, sadly, but a fabulous lead-off werewolf story by Zansky.
This is my own copy, by the way, bought it before I knew that Jim has them all.
Tch.
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Thanks again T, glad you are feeling better.
:)
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Did you ever receive the box I sent, tilliban?
The silence is deafening.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Not giving you the "silent treatment", Jim.
Nothing in sight so far, it's been just a week.
Don't reckon on it the next days either...
Will mail you immediatly.
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Proud to have uploaded the complete run of PENALTY!
(relax, it's just two issues...)
PENALTY #47
PENALTY #48
Courtesy of il JVJ collezione.
The last two crime comic books ACE ever published.
They're code approved reprints from Super-Mystery Comics, but still fun, because they show how censorship worked.
In many panels there are weapons missing, sound effects missing, cleavage is missing...
Interesting.
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Thanks for both of them.
Geo
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Thanks T they are fascinating aren't they?
:)
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We're glad to be Penalized.
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...cleavage is missing...
Now that's censorship! So very, very wrong.
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And this one's mainly for closure.
WEB OF MYSTERY #29
Last issue, and missing issue on DCM, please mark it as COMPLETE SERIES!
But again in the last story there's approval fumbling at work.
Missing blood, missing knife.
My favorite - by the way - is the reworking of Bob Powell's pre-code horror classic "Colorama".
In the code version the optometrist isn't killed, and the onsetting blindness is explained to be only temporarily!
So we have a murder in the heat of the moment and punishing blindness (pre-code) vs. a just dissatisfying visit at the optometrist's (post-code).
Bummer!
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Doorway to Yesterday changes from Beyond 7 to Web of Mystery 29 gotta love the code.
Some differences in reprint are made. Page 2 panel 3 is changed from word balloons to top captioning. CODE CHANGES: Page 5 panel 5 kill to strike. Page 6 panel 1 is dead to is lost, panel 2 dead to done, panel 5 death to doom. Page 7 panel 2 death's head ring is changed to strange ancient ring, panel 3 red outfit is blue, panel 4 it crashes becomes "the plane has to make a forced landing, panel 5 is redrawn from showing the man's dead body and the pilot stating "only one man killed..in such a strange way..his neck was broken as he was hurled forward..his safety belt was defective!" to the man holding his head the pilot says "only one man injured...only stunned..no bones broken...A most unusual kind of accident..his safety belt was defective!" Death's head is changed to ancient symbol. Last panel adds "Was this just a routine accident that frightened the stewardess to flight and Hank's episode a figment of his mind... or could there be another significance."
I need help. Can anyone identify where the other stories in Web 29 come from?
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Thanks Very Much T! Fantastic work on Ace all around! I'm sure glad you've joined the JVJ Scanners ranks. :)
Narf, I've added a link to your above post in the Web 29 entry of the download site. Hope you don't mind.
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Don't mind at all.
I identified The Whispering Nemesis from Penalty 47 as The Whispering Death from Super-Mystery v5#3
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Good to know Narf,
please be sure to leave a comment with the book entry when you've found original sources. I always enjoy comparing censored vs uncensored versions.
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@narfstar.
My findings concerning WEB 29 reprints so far:
“Deep Into Darkness” – should be a reprint from FOUR FAVORITES # 25 or 27.
Don't know which, both are not up on DCM.
“The Doorway To Yesterday” – reprint from BEYOND #7 (November 1951), as we know already.
“Conscience In The Witness Chair” (Paul Parker, UNsigned) – reprinted from FOUR FAVORITES #29 (June 1947) as “The Unknown” (Paul Parker, signed) – reworked and censored (knife murder and blood removed).
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thanks Till I can add that to GCD
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Nice work with those code-approved files, narf!!!
And now:
A christmessy celebration courtesy of that Calif of California: Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
FOUR FAVORITES #2
Forget Supe, Bats and that underwater feller with that underwater haircut…
Heeeere’s Magno, Lightning, Vulcan and The Raven!
Hoboy.
They’re battling giant injuns, mobsters in a tank and a creep that crossdresses as a werewolf.
Holy smokes!
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Thanks T!
I've added a note to your JVJ uploads in the description area that these are from the JVJ Collection just to be clear to the members who might not know it and wonder what -JVJ means when they see it.
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I timed this upload as another christmas surprise:
HAND OF FATE #24
Contains one of ACEs finest stories: "The Man Who Would Be Fate".
By VIP artist Lou Cameron.
I set a high value on story WRITING as well as drawing.
And this story is most impressive.
January will see the last of the available ACE horror comic books up on DCM.
Will intersperse with the occasional crime book or other horror, some cheesy books no one expects as well...
:P
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Thanks T!
So you got Jim's box of crime books then?
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Crime wave hits the internet!!!
:o
Yehehes, Jim sent me a box full of dozens of crime books (threw in some western and war) - all ACE - so it's gonna be a big crime fest the next weeks. Starting with the last pre-code issue
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #44
This is an all-reprint issue from I-don't-know-where.
Looks like a case for... narfstar!
Maybe.
I'm going to upload them chronologically backwards.
Cause my ACE horror work is almost done. Then I'll be in the year 1955.
So I take on crime from there and go back to the year 1948.
From there on I will be studying some other books taking me forward into the year 1955 again.
So I'm pretty much stuck in a pre-code-loop.
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Thanks T, looking forward to seeing these.
:)
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We are now just one issue away from a complete run of HAND OF FATE gang!
Great job everyone!
:D
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Crime wave hits the internet!!!
:o
Yehehes, Jim sent me a box full of dozens of crime books (threw in some western and war) - all ACE - so it's gonna be a big crime fest the next weeks. Starting with the last pre-code issue
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #44
This is an all-reprint issue from I-don't-know-where.
Looks like a case for... narfstar!
Maybe.
I'm going to upload them chronologically backwards.
Cause my ACE horror work is almost done. Then I'll be in the year 1955.
So I take on crime from there and go back to the year 1948.
From there on I will be studying some other books taking me forward into the year 1955 again.
So I'm pretty much stuck in a pre-code-loop.
Didn't I include my index cards for all these, Tillmann? Please say YES! I don't see them in my files and I seem to recall including them in the box... You should include the card for each issue at the end of the scan - IF you have the cards, that is. Please advise...
Peace, Jim (|:{>
And Happy New Year to all.
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Yes, please include Jim's index cards at the end of the files T.
And in the description area of each upload would you also include
'From the JVJ Collection, scanned by tilliban' as well.
Thanks!
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Yes, please include Jim's index cards at the end of the files T.
And in the description area of each upload would you also include
'From the JVJ Collection, scanned by tilliban' as well.
Thanks!
Allright, fellers!
I got all your cards, Jim, just didn't realize they are a nice bonus at the end of the scan.
Will do! Absolutely.
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Hi T,
yes, it is absolutely a must to include the cards with the scans so their info can be discussed and eventually updated on the GCD site.
If you wanted me to add the missing cards to the scans already on the site you can email me them and I can take care of it for you.
-Yoc
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Hi gang,
T here has scanned and added to the Last Page the missing index cards from Jim.
Updated books include -
Four Favorites 002 -JVJ
Crime Must Pay The Penalty 044 -JVJ
Penalty 047 -JVJ
Penalty 048 -JVJ
You only need to check the Preview and go to the last page to get them for those that have download these.
Thanks to Jim and T for providing them.
:)
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Last day of the year, everything must go!
Double uploader today:
BEYOND #26
Has all of ACEs great ones: Rice – Zansky – Cameron – McLaughlin.
On the crime side of things we have
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #43
And there’s Louis Zansky twice – whew!
That again is an all reprint matter, so we see a young Louis Zansky here – double whew!!
@Jim – I have an amateur question here.
Your index card says “FBG” – whose name is signified by these initials?
Checking out of 2011, as we Germans wish on this day:
“Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr” (have a good slide into the new year)!
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Thanks T, another great set of uploads!
And a Happy New Year to you as well.
:)
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@Jim – I have an amateur question here.
Your index card says “FBG” – whose name is signified by these initials?
Fred B. Guardineer
(|:{>
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A most happy new year to you all at the DCM!
Here's my new year's treat for all you number-one-collectors:
FOUR FAVORITES #1
Brought to you by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. - the man with all the books.
This is the oldest comic book I ever held in my hands.
September 1941, old as my mother!
Fun art all through - and an interesting crotch shot on page 32.
:P
And that werewolf creep again, drooling over a halfnekkid görl on page 33.
Whips and chains and bondage as well, what's really going on here?!
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Thanks T for the Four Favorites #1 and JVJ for sharing the book.
Geo
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Fantastic, lovely to finally see this one scanned T!
Thanks very much to you and Jim!
:)
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Thanks T for the Four Favorites #1 and JVJ for sharing the book.
Geo
Amen.
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And more thx for the Eight Favs! really super to finally get these first issues!
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Geo wants to pimp up that FF#1 with another cover scan and a back cover.
Hooray!
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Thanks, it took a bit longer to clean up the front and back cover then I thought, but I'm uploading the upgraded copy of it right now. Hopefully shortly it will be back up.
No problem with doing this for you Tilliban, anytime and thanks for giving the permission to do so.
Geo
Done!!
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And the beat goes on with
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #42
It's a great issue from December 1954 with all the ACE greats on board: Ken Rice, Louis Zansky, Jim McLaughlin PLUS one by Al Camy.
Two reprints, two original stories.
Muuuuch more crime going down (or up?) here in the next weeks.
This is more a threat than a promise...
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Thank you for you latest upload T and JVJ.
Geo
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Welcome to a ACE crime/horror double feature.
First up is another great issue:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #39
The Cameron lead story is nice, but even more beautiful and gripping are the follow-ups by Zansky and McLaughlin.
Second book for today is
BAFFLING MYSTERIES #25
Last missing issue! Mark it complete-o, Mr. Admin-Man.
It’s a strange book, cause code-approved. All reprints from earlier ACE horror books.
First story (a boxer’s tale) seems uncompromised, in the second the title has been rendered harmlessly from “Mark Of The Sinister Cat” to just “Mark Of The Cat”. On page 2 a knife thrown at a cat is drawn smaller and more out of range. On page 4 facial transformations are not shown anymore. Same goes for page 6, where it’s just six hairs standing on end of the woman’s head which are left out!
Grand finale on page 7: “She must die!” is changed to “She must pay!” and another reference to death is cancelled. The man stabbing the woman is gone. And the last panel has new text: “I don’t understand” replaces the former phrase: “That she-devil is destroyed at last”.
The next story is heavily retouched, please see for yourself: “Flee The Other Self” (Ken Rice) used to be: “It Is Written: I Die Tomorrow!”. In many balloons the Leroy original text has been doctored in handlettered changes. The best part: The Fate character (it’s a story from HAND OF FATE) has been redrawn in many pictures (probably by Louis Zansky) to look like the doppelganger of the protagonist!
The end is just fantastic: Paul falling down a man-hole, killing himself and drifting face-down away through the sewers? Not anymore! He is pulled out of the water and gets to live!
Mopping up with a harmless Colan-story where just the last panel morale has been shifted away from terms like "bizarre" and "insane".
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Please list from wence cometh the reprints so we can compare. thanks
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Will do it when I come around to this book on GCD, but you get a preview of course.
;)
“Riddle Of Pete Dunn’s Last Fight” (Jim McLaughlin) – reprint from BEYOND #6 (September 1951)
“Mark Of The Cat” (Lou Cameron + Rocco Mastroserio) – reprint from WEB OF MYSTERY #7 (Februar 1952) – Original title: “Mark Of The Sinister Cat”
“Flee The Other Self” (Ken Rice) – reprint from HAND OF FATE #9 (February 1952) – Original title: “It Is Written: I Die Tomorrow!”
“Night Of Strangeness” (Gene Colan + ?) – reprint from BAFFLING MYSTERIES #5 (November 1951) – Original title: “Terror In The Coal Pits”
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Thanks very much T!
And with BAFFLING MYSTERIES #25 we now have a complete series on DCM!
(minus the odd missing page here or there)
Great work by all the scanners!
:)
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Thanks T I will try to come up with another comparison file but right now I am working on a milehigh bonanza. I have many of the books scanned thanks to my document feeder :D The Squeeks series will soon be complete. Not a big one but another one. Lots of other fun stuff. I recommend Two-Bit the Wacky Woodpecker
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Uploaded today is the next crime book.
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #38
This is a "normal" scan now, compared to the existing "mini-sized" one.
I don't know squat about this book, all the info is on Jim's card at the end of the scan.
Seems to be an almost complete reprint of CMPTP #3.
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Thanks T, we always welcome upgrades.
:)
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R.I.P. Stanley Morse
Soon as I learned from the "Obituaries" section that notorious horror publisher Stanley Morse passed away, I delved into my digital files and brought this up.
WEIRD MYSTERIES #8
It's half apart and incomplete, but the three best stor... (let me rephrase that concerning it's a Morse mag)
... the three most interesting stories are there.
The four-page-quickie "Premonition!" is actually pretty good!
I'm strangely proud to add the infamous psycho killer tale "I Killed Mary" to our database.
(in comparison to the 1970 Dick-Ayers-version "I Chopped Her Head Off!" this is kindergarten)
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Thanks T!
:)
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And - blammo! - on with the ACE crime books.
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #37
is up. This is the second issue in a row (after the uploaded #38) consisting exclusively out of late 40s reprints!
Strikes me as odd. Presenting old material in mid 1954.
Again they are most dynamic reprints (Rudy Palais, Syd Greene and a real funky Warren Kremer story).
But they didn't dare pulling this off with their horror books.
Hm hm hm.
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Thank you kind Sir.
Geo
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Bzzz bzzzzz bzzzzz... call me the busy bee!
With
HAND OF FATE #25a
another ACE series is COMPLETE!
Yay.
There's a numbering glitch in the ...dings... general map, though.
It says "issues published:18" but there are 19 to download and none of them a double.
Please correct to "issues published: 19" - it's that damn double number 25.
:P
... and while you're at it, another "mistake": "8-25b", please...
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OK T, I've changed the information on the double #25 issues. Your's is #25A (Nov) and the other #25B (Dec) by the way. And the count is 18 total issues I believe.
Hopefully that takes care of it.
Geo
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issues published - 19 is the correct number. Thanks for catching it T.
Now fixed and great work on finishing this one off for everyone.
:)
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I love to count my beans!
Gonna mix some western and war into our ACE crime spree.
So here is (first of two)
HEROES OF THE WILD FRONTIER #27
Which is actually the next issue of Baffling Mysteries (who died with #26).
Lead story really is Cameron, I couldn't believe it at first sight.
Very toned down, strangely inked, rather boring, ahem...
But a nice Zansky following and a most unique and puzzling collaboration of McLaughlin + Ken Rice.
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Thanks T.
Or maybe it's the 'Mighty T' now?
;)
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Thanks T.
Or maybe it's the 'Mighty T' now?
;)
Sounds like "my titty" to me.
???
On with the crime show:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #35
Finally all fresh stories, about time, folks.
Great jobs by Cameron, McLaughlin, Zansky and Streeter.
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Thanks again T for your latest upload.
Geo
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This is it, end of the line, folks.
BEYOND #27
The last of the ACE horror books I borrowed from Jim to scan.
Sadly, the series BEYOND is NOT complete.
Issue #1 is missing and #4 is incomplete as it is.
We'll see about that in the future.
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Thanks T, great job done on these.
Geo
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Yep, very nice job on these T!
:D
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Why do I have to think of soccer when I upload one of these?
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #34
And, wow!, what an issue. A reall killer-diller!
(expression I picked up from comic books)
All of Ace's BIG 4 of the fities are in it:
McLaughlin, Cameron, K. Rice and Zansky.
Plus special bonus on page 38 of scan:
Handwritten commentaries by Cameron himself - from his correspondence with maitre Vadeboncoeur.
You better believe it, bubba!
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Thank you T!
And to as your question, I don't know.
Geo
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Thanks very much T!
I've added your last message to the download page for this as well.
Great fun!
:)
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@GEO: Didn't mean to confuse you.
PENALTY is an expression from soccer.
Soccer is the European form of football.
So here's another one:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #33
With an all new mix of artists. See JVJ's index card on last page.
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Thanks T!
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Let's diversify, people!
Here's one of those rare ACE war comic books:
WAR HEROES #3
No index card for this one.
I say it's a clear-cut Molno on first, McLaughlin on second, "Ace" Baker on third - but:
QUIZTIME for the last spot: Who is this?
This guy did four or five ACE horror stories - Jim and I speculate this could be our "phantom" artist Mario Rizzi, but no one ever saw an art sample of Mr. Rizzi.
Is there a signature on the post-box-like device in the splash?
Does it say "Susan"? Does this make any sense?
Jim, please have another look.
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Thanks again T as always.
:)
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Let's diversify, people!
Here's one of those rare ACE war comic books:
WAR HEROES #3
No index card for this one.
I say it's a clear-cut Molno on first, McLaughlin on second, "Ace" Baker on third - but:
QUIZTIME for the last spot: Who is this?
This guy did four or five ACE horror stories - Jim and I speculate this could be our "phantom" artist Mario Rizzi, but no one ever saw an art sample of Mr. Rizzi.
Is there a signature on the post-box-like device in the splash?
Does it say "Susan"? Does this make any sense?
Jim, please have another look.
Still a big "?", Tillmann, sorry. I will point out that "Ace Baker" is actually swiping some George Tuska panels in this story. Just look at those top two panels on page 5!
Keep up the good work.
(|:{>
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Nom de chien!
(expression French people use in fifties comic books, never heard it elsewhere, that's part of the charm)
Nom de chien!
Still no confirmation on Rizzi.
I'll keep my eyes peeled.
(another strange expression)
Peel someone's eyes?!
???
We're talking horror comic books here.
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Crime Time:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #32
Interesting line-up with Jim McLaughlin, Sy Grudko, Howard Larsen and Dick Beck.
Who could possibly resist a crime comic book with story titles such as:
"Beautiful Babe + Crime King = Murder!"
"The Big Shakedown"
"Murder's Double Poison - Big Joa and Little Joe"
or best of all:
"The Punk With The Itchy Fingers"
More next week from your punk with the itchy scanner.
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Giddyup, ya cowpokes!
There’s been a lot of western uploaded recently, but I too can’t help it.
It’s a scanning stampede with TWO issues of Ace’s western romance:
WESTERN LOVE TRAILS # 8
WESTERN LOVE TRAILS # 9
Missing issue #7 will follow in the next weeks.
WLT8 has an index card, WLT9 does not.
So it’s western quiztime and here are my guesses:
Looking at the #8 line-up (Ed Moline, Brewster & Walsh, King Ward and Louis Zansky) I speculate for #9 this line-up: Louis Zansky, Ed Moline, King Ward and Brewster & Walsh.
Just hafta shuffle those artists around…
That’s the main trick with art spotting.
;)
Jim even does it without using his hands!
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Wow, great work T!
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Pretty damn good, Tillmann,
Zansky has a puzzling inker here and I don't know who it might be. And the last is penciled by Charles Nicholas, not Brewster - I'm pretty sure. He's VERY evident on pages 4 & 5. Also, I tend to disagree, upon reflection 25 years later, with the Moline ID on WLT #8. This is much better than Moline and not nearly as "influenced" by Raymond by way of Moldoff. Today I would credit Kisses At Wildcat Ranch to Frank R. Sieminsky (best guess) and an inker (?). [I only do this to confuse us all.]
Keep on keeping on. (|:{>
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Thanks again for your insight, Jim!
Am putting these data for WLT now on GDC.
And uploaded here now is
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #31
Collect 'em all, folks!
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Thanks T!
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jriddle73 has upgraded the Madam Satan Collection originally added by tilliban.
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Time for a crime surprise.
Not another ish of PENALTY, but
TRAPPED #2
As Jim speculates on his index card, it's an all-reprint issue.
The fun with ACE comics is, you know when it's a reprint.
Because they switched completely to Leroy lettering in the summer of 1952.
Any book after that date with handlettering has got to be a reprint.
Though I don't know from where... We may know when all the PENALTIES will be indexed.
And I concur with Jim, it IS Marty Rose - and the missing one should be Sy Grudko.
No idea about the cover, though!
Very strange and clumsy - look at the gangster's feet.
Small wonder the police is catching up with him.
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Great stuff, thanks T!
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Say, tilliban, I see you posted Trapped #2 (and thanks for that). By coincidence, I've got Trapped #3 on top of my to-scan pile, but if you happen to have that in the hopper, I'll do something else.
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Dear blast,
had to look in Jim's box - and it's there!
TRAPPED numbers 3 + 4 will be coming up soon.
So you can leave it to me.
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Thanks! Trapped #3 goes back to the bench, moving Avon's All-True Detective Cases #3 to the batter's box. (Unless you have that one, too.) :)
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No, that's fine, blast!
I just deal with ACE comic books, for the time being.
And now for something completely differnt:
HEROES OF THE WILD FRONTIER #2
Solid and classic western lore and artwork throughout.
(ah, you guessed it's not my cup of tea, didn't ya?)
And that's book two (of two) from another COMPLETED Ace series.
Yoc, do your thing.
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Crime piling up around here.
Everything must go!
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #30
On the third story there is that strange "swipe artist" again we encountered in ACE horror, Jim.
You give three suspects: Gates, Ravielli, Bean. From what I've seen and checked on GDC and DCM, I'd go for Louis Ravielli.
But I just know too little.
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All that romance and western and jungle uploaded these days!
Time for crime:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #29
Moving backwards in time, expect much more to come!
It's such a huge pile.
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Thanks T for your last three uploads and to JVJ for sharing his books.
Geo
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What an upload bonanza these days!
And what is missing. Crimecrimecrimecrime.
Got galore of this stuff.
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #28
Keeping DCM thematically balanced. Yours crimelord truly.
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Thanks T!
:)
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Was going to upload a war mag, but then again two others went up in the last days.
So it's western, folks.
INDIAN BRAVES #2
The only one I got (from Jim, of course), so we won't be completing this run.
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Thank you T for your latest upload.
Geo
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I love that Warren Kremer cover on Indian Braves 2, Tillmann. Did I not give you an index card for that issue?
(|:{>
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Sorry, Jim,
just got a card for "Indian Braves" #3.
This issue is already up.
And what’s that?
NO crime comic uploaded in the last five days?!
I can provide some relief here:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #25
My ACE horror website is just days away now. Am processing data, uploading images.
I think I’ll make it a special valentine to you.
My bloody valentine!
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Thanks goes out to both of you for the latest "Crime" book.
Geo
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Hi everybody,
I am back from SEA, coming straight from really hot summer into ultracold winter,brrrr. This stops me for nearly 2 weeks to start scanning chilly horror comics again. But now i finally finished my first book :
WEB OF EVIL #10
enjoy!
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thanks we will
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Thank you sundance.
Geo
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I loved Web of Evil #10. One of the reasons I pay close attention to the horror comics is because my olden brother was a fan of the genre and it was from his comic books (and the few I could beg my parents to buy for me) that I learned how to read. Some of the horror comics scared me a bit when I was four and five but it was a delightful sort of fright, and many of the stories stuck with me while the Disney and Dell books didn't (except Uncle Scrooge) and some other genres like war and teen humor. I remember some of the story and I'm always on the lookout for ones which I recognize to compare the memory with the real thing. Web of Evil #10 was obviously an issue I read because I remember "The Brain that Wouldn't Die." I saw it the same year that I started elementary school, and I undoubtedly had trouble with the text because what I remembered didn't quite make sense (or rather I didn't fully understand the ending but had a pretty good grasp on the rest of the story) and now I see that my then developing reading skills weren't good enough for me to understand the text of the last three panels. That's one less mystery now.
Thank you for posting the issue. It's a pity Quality only published one horror title because this issue and other issues of Web of Evil I've read were a cut above much of the competition. Up until five minutes ago, I thought the "brain story" which haunted me was from an EC book.
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Thanks for sharing that Jon and welcome home SDT!
Thanks very much for another horror title. As I posted in the sorta Complete list of pre-code horror index, - http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3151.0.html - we are doing very well with finding and scanning them for the collection.
I hope the weather there improves soon.
-Yoc
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Welcome back, Will!
It eluded me that you had WEB OF EVIL #10.
Nice surprise. I got three last horror scans lying around.
But I'm saving them. For a special occasion!
Soon, sooooon...
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WAR! What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing!
(except mebbe to be uploaded here from time to time)
WAR HEROES #4
No Jim-card goes with it, but I'd say it's Cameron-Rice-McLaughlin-Molno.
All with a question mark, cause all look a bit off.
And now I'm going to announce my special Valentine on the forum.
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I can't say that I see the Molno in the last story of War Heroes. Unless his style changed after going to Charlton. I often recognize Molno and it is mainly his noses. I see a face and think that is a Molno nose and I am usually right. The men in War Heroes 4 do not have typical Molno noses. Now JVJ may shoot me down and that is OK I am often wrong. Sometimes I can positively identify but not always and sometimes I can say no way but I try.
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Thank you T for your latest upload.
Geo
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Rubbing elbows with the underworld again and inching ACE's crime ladder down in time:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #23
There's still more to come.
And how do you like my new avatar dingus?
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Thanks T for your latest upload.
Geo
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Rubbing elbows with the underworld again and inching ACE's crime ladder down in time:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #23
There's still more to come.
And how do you like my new avatar dingus?
You should make it so that your old avatar shows through in the white space, Tillmann! That might be very cool. Put the old avatar on a layer below the new one in Photoshop and change the blending mode of the ACE layer to "multiply".
Let me know if it looks good (like I imagine it might).
(http://www.bpib.com/temp/avatar-test.jpg)Peace, Jim (|:{>
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I sometimes wonder, Jim, what is going around in your head.
Still finding the time to play with Photoshop.
This is a nice suggestion, but don't be offended if I decline.
I'd somehow have the feeling to be behind bars.
Or the ACE logo being a kind of keyhole where people are peeping through.
You may be the man behind all the books, but in my case it would just be weird.
But now for our message of the day:
All these romance books being uploaded - bah!
Makes me sick to my black... eh.. heart. Why was there never a comic book called "Evil Romances"?!
So let's have some contrasting crime instead.
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #22
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But now for our message of the day:
All these romance books being uploaded - bah!
Makes me sick to my black... eh.. heart. Why was there never a comic book called "Evil Romances"?!
Sorry if my romance uploads are giving you "heartburn". If JVJ has any "evil romance" books, I'll try to scan those in a future batch.
So let's have some contrasting crime instead.
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #22
Well, if more romance uploads will drive more of your uploads to compensate, then I'll keep going. But take heart (erk!), I have only have 44 books to go!
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I am late for my weekly book and it's not a horror book at all, but at least it has Terror in the name...
TERRORS OF THE JUNGLE #10 Sept. 1954
i will be back with some real horror next week. Not much horror books left in my collection ,which are not already posted in the DCM, but it seems that there will popping up some missing gruesome books in my mailbox in the near future,he,he
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Feel free to scan any book already on the site as well SDT.
Alternate versions are welcome as well.
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These STAR products are often bluff packages.
Screaming "Horror" and "Terror" on a fantastic cover (L.B. Cole of course) and inside it's... Rulah reprints or lame-o kiddie fare.
But welcome anyway. For today I'll throw in more of this:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #21
@sundance: Wha...?!
You got your hands on some more horror books! I am very excited.
I've actually stopped looking on Ebay - it's just futile to find low priced precoders, even in poor condition.
I don't mind.
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And for the sake of diversification, up now another reprint collection criminally called
TRAPPED! #4
Number 3 will be coming soon as well.
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Thanks T!
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And everything must go!
So here another issue:
WAR HEROES #5
There's no Jimcard going with it, so here are my guesses:
Cover by Jim McLaughlin, first story mystery artist Rizzi/Pious, second story nice and pure McLaughlin, third story is strange (I see Charles Nicholas in it, but who else???), last story nice example for a pure Grudko at the height of his abilities, alas.
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You're correct right down the line, Tillmann,
Definitely Nicholas pencils on third. Sy Grudko on fourth. The first remains a mystery.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
see you soon?
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Today we present more crime, of course.
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #20
I am baffled how GOOD Chic Stone looks in the lead story (in June 1951).
He's even slightly better than in his horror work from 1952 on.
There's a nagging suspicion in my head that he might be inking Mike Sekowsky here.
But that's probably just an attack of art spotting paranoia...
::)
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Sekowsky could have done the layouts if not full pencils. I think Sekowsky pencils would have shown through more
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I'm usually the last one to look at the art, let along discuss it, and I certainly don't have the practice a lot of you do, but the figures in the panels don't seem to have enough "mass" to be Sekowsky. I don't see any strain in the arms where people are leaning on things, the clothes look like they're floating rather than hanging, and even the panel with the guy being pushed, it's too static.
On the other hand, some of the faces do look sort of like his.
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Thanks T for your latest up with CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #20.
Geo
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Thank you for your input, guys!
As you all may know, the latin word for misdeeds is "crimen" - which evolved into the english word CRIMINY!
Yes, it's more from
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #19
Enjoy.
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Yoc, please work your magic!
With the upload of
WESTERN ADVENTURES #2
another Ace series is completed!
Nice book, by the way. Hot-blooded rawhide action, containing great artwork by Rudy Palais, Louis Zansky, King Ward et al.
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Just had a very pleasant correspondence with a Lou-Cameron-fan from Atlanta, Georgia.
He sent me this picture:
(http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/638/statonandcameron.jpg/)http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/638/statonandcameron.jpg/ (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/638/statonandcameron.jpg/)
The gent in the back is LOU CAMERON, alive and well.
In the words of my "source":
"Lou Cameron is 91 years old, lives in New York, and is very lucid and, I hear, opinionated."
That's just fantastic.
(as I'm still too dumb to post a picture, someone of you administrators please fill it in...)
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I'm not an admin, but here's the pic anyway :)
(http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/2310/statonandcameron.jpg)The trick is finding the actual image url, then the insert image button will work on the highlighted url.
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Thanks for helping Cooper - and isn't that great that Lou is still with us?
I wonder if he's been interviewed by AlterEgo? Anyone know if so, which issue?
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Hi everybody,
I am finally back with a real horror book:
MISTER MYSTERY # 14
The honor for this rare gem goes to my friend and DCM - member Whitewolf61 who leaves 3 nuggets of his collection to me for scanning. The other two books I will post within the next 2 weeks. Have fun.
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@sundance: What a jaw-dropper!
Can't wait to see it. Fantastic entry, Will.
From me and Jim there's another
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #17
(I'm holding back a nice horror book as well for DCM's second birthday...)
Ach, there's no Jimcard for CMPTP#17 - so here are my guesses:
Cover by Zansky, then weird first story (Zansky inking Grandenetti?), the second is an Alascia inkwork (probably on Sekowsky).
Getting even weirder with the third one (another Sekowsky - or is it Walton now?).
For sure is only a last entry by Louis Zansky.
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And up go two more ACE books.
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #16
from yesterday, and for today it's
TRAPPED #3
And that's another series COMPLEEE-HEEETE!
The four issues of "Trapped!" are now together again.
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Thanks T and congrats on completing another series.
:)
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Art does not pay.
But
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #15
Up now. And will be continued...
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Thanks T.
Geo
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And it's quality crime time from ACE again:
MEN AGAINST CRIME #7
Enjoy.
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Thank you T for your latest up.
Geo
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...and finally Horror - time again :-)
Be prepared for another Farrell book
VOODOO #7
Thanx again to Whitewolf61
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Thanks guys!
:D
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...and finally Horror - time again :-)
Be prepared for another Farrell book
VOODOO #7
Thanx again to Whitewolf61
Many thanks for this excellent scan. Do my eyes deceive me or is that Boody Rogers art on the 2nd story in this issue?? Boody Rogers Horror strip? Wow.
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@sundance: Will, wie geil ist das denn?!
(sorry for the German outburst)
It pleases me so much to see an Ajax-Farrell-book going up (no matter what JVJ may think...)
They are so f***ing rare!
The biggest missing lot on DCM are those dear Iger-Shop-baddies.
Excited to see that "Goobye... World!" is in VOODOO #7 - with that fantastic splash.
(Suarez mentioned it in his horror fanzine "Tales Too Terrible To Tell")
I counterattack with another great ACE crime book:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #14
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Just amazing what an avalanche of comic book scans is going down here these days!
So here's my next contribution:
WESTERN LOVE TRAILS #7
And this means we completed another ACE mini series.
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Thanks T!
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Will this crazy crime spree never end?!
Here's
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #13
As far as I can tell, we will be completing this exciting series next month.
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I hope it wouldn't end, Till :-)
But here's the last whitewolf61 - book (at least for now), another Farrell -nugget:
FANTASTIC FEARS #8
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Very nice, thanks to you and WW61!
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Ah, well, hats off to you, sundance!
"Green Horror" is in FANTASTIC FEARS #8 - one of the most hilarious horror baddies ever printed!
Another nut job from the Iger shop.
Wonderful.
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Ah, well, hats off to you, sundance!
"Green Horror" is in FANTASTIC FEARS #8 - one of the most hilarious horror baddies ever printed!
Another nut job from the Iger shop.
Wonderful.
I just got around to reading that book a few hours ago (I'm far behind on the "new" material). "Green Horror" was less than horrific but I'm not sure it was meant to be humorous; I can see where it would evoke laughter or at least a chuckle or a snicker. "Fear in the Jungle," also in that issue, read more like something from one of the "Mad" imitations. It made great sport of the jungle genre and was intentionally humorous. I enjoyed both stories, and I thought it was a decent issue.
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@jfglade: Those guys from the Iger Studio (who packaged these horror books) just ran amuck with their fantasy.
Defying all the laws of nature, physics, gravity and reason.
I think it's great fun - and sometimes they did a little tongue-in-cheek.
I guess. I hope!
New up today another war helping from ACE:
WAR HEROES #6
Two to go, they will be completed. Promise.
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Thanks T, alway welcome to see another Ace book.
Geo
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@jfglade: Those guys from the Iger Studio (who packaged these horror books) just ran amuck with their fantasy.
Defying all the laws of nature, physics, gravity and reason.
I think it's great fun - and sometimes they did a little tongue-in-cheek.
I guess. I hope!
New up today another war helping from ACE:
WAR HEROES #6
Two to go, they will be completed. Promise.
I think there is quite a bit of tongue in cheek humor in many horror comics. I just usually don't see the humor displayed so obviously as iit is in that parody of lords of the jungle. I also find a lot a deliberate humor in grade B American horror movie, although many of the more recent ones are taking themselves too seriously. I think horror should be great fun, not an exercise in repulsion and disgust and horror comics usually didn't cross the boundry into humorlessness. Keep them coming.
Take care,
Jon
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That's right, Jon!
Horror needs a bit of irony, else it's just splatter.
The EC comic book hosts did it the cleverest way.
Their imitation were a lot more cynical (compare any MISTER MYSTERY book) and forgot about the tongue-in-cheek.
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They say it's your birthday - and I upload what I want to.
So here's
STRANGE STORIES FROM ANOTHER WORLD #2
A nice Fawcett horror book I bought dearly.
And it's a good one (quite gross) I might add.
So let's have a big round of applause for everyone here at DCM - and let the festivities begin!
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Thanks very much T, I'm still doing a bit more work on my end before we can get the party started but stay tuned.
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Let's not forget about our crime books.
We continue our ACE series with
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALYTY #12
And before easter #11 will go up. From there on we'll tackle our countdown to the series' completion.
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Thanks for the up T.
Geo
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Hah, fooled ya.
I threw in a different ACE crime book.
MR. RISK #7
This is a first issue of a two-issue run.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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And we are closing the gap between numbers 10 and 20.
With
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #11
Last ones will be going up after easter. I'm signing off for a week.
Going for a skiing trip in the Alps, if the Alps will let me. Break a neck and see you soon.
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Have fun T and be careful. Seriously.
:)
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Ach, we scanners live a carefree and swinging life.
Bruised my knee badly - though not by skiing, but hitting the bedpost in my room at night.
Anyway: I'm back after a sleepless night in a 40-year-old and overcrowded bus.
And glad to upload the second to last ACE war book:
WAR HEROES #7
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thanks T!
I guess I should have said 'be careful sleeping!'
;)
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Great news for all the fans of pre-code horror.
Not only is my Parisian Pow-wow with JVJ planned and canned for the weekend (when I will get all the missing horror books from STANDARD), but I throw in a book of my own now:
JOURNEY INTO FEAR #21
And I do this just to tease Jim with some "Superior" artwork.
Harhar.
See you with the funny pages!
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Thanks T and I hope your visit with Jim is as much fun as your first meeting.
I'm sure you'll have lots to talk about.
:)
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Thanks for the uploads.
Is anyone planning on scanning the few remaining Harvey horror issues? I seem to remember that JVJ has them all and was wondering if they were on someone's to do list.
(in looking over my
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Thanks for the uploads.
Is anyone planning on scanning the few remaining Harvey horror issues? I seem to remember that JVJ has them all and was wondering if they were on someone's to do list.
Good point. But since there's so much Harvey online, I did not consider it a priority. Will keep it in mind...
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I am back from my meeting with JVJ which was nothing less than fabulous.
We wined, we dined, we talked and burned three comic books from Gilmor.
Kidding!
I brought back a big stack of Standard horror books and ALL of the Premier Magazines (41 books).
Question to our administrators:
Will I sort them under "Small publishers" or are you setting up a "Premier section"?
For the time being I uploaded it to "Smallies".
Our celebration begins with the first issue of a MAD-clone. Heeeeere's
NUTS! #1
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Thanks T!
I'll start a Premier Magazines section within Small Publishers.
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I am back from my meeting with JVJ which was nothing less than fabulous.
We wined, we dined, we talked
It was great fun. But in truth, I wined and Tillman beered.
;)
(|:{>
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It was great fun. But in truth, I wined and Tillman beered.
If they can make dandelion wine, they can make wheat wine...
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@Yoc: Thank you very mucho for setting up that nice Premier section!
@Jim: Not true. I wined AND beered, to be precise, and would have schnapsed as well, but we didn't come around to that.
As a sign that I do not bear a grudge over that incomplete remark, I am uploading a book of my own. Dedicated to all the comics historians I beered with:
DARLING LOVE #2
From MLJ/Archie. Got this before I knew that Jim has got it himself, too - of course.
One down, fivethousandthreehundredsixtyseven to go!
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Thank you T, those romance books seem to draw the downloads.
Geo
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those romance books seem to draw the downloads.
Wha... really?! Ack!
:o
Got tons to come. Just wait and see.
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... but in my unforeseeable folly chose to upload a crime book for today:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #9
Still got ACE scans lying around...
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Thanks T, we forgive you.
;)
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And for today I felt that western was missing.
So I chose not one of Jim's books (they'll be coming the whole year through), but instead
DEAD-EYE WESTERN Vol.2 #1
52-pager from Hillman I auctioned off Ebay last autumn. Enjoy.
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Thanks 'Partner' for the western T.
Geo
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And up goes the second Premier Magazine.
MYSTERIOUS STORIES #3
which is a code-approved (watch out!) mystery book.
Artwork is mumblebrumble OKAY (Woodbridge on first story still the best), scripting is lame!
Always breaking it gently to you...
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And throwing in now something from Artful/Comic Media:
ALL TRUE ROMANCE #7
Please check for truthfulness.
(this issue was indexed on Grand Comics Database, but totally wrong; different contents, very strange; corrected that)
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Thanks T!
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Crimetime again with
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #8
Feel like next up will be a western or war book...
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Thanks much T.
Geo
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I'm on a roll here.
A war book it is for today:
WAR HEROES #8
From Ace.
Please someone mark this series as COMPLETE in our menu.
All eight issues are up now.
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Thanks T, will do!
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And here comes another Rrrromance book from Jim.
DEAR LONELY HEARTS #7
File under Comic Media. Next up will be a horror mag!
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Thanks again T, keep it up.
Geo
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And here is the first of Jim's STANDARD horror books:
THE UNSEEN #5
There exists already a scan without all the ads. Which is nice, who needs the ads?
Anyway:
This is now the c2c version.
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Thanks T for the upgrade on it.
Geo
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Let's not forget our countdown to completion:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #7
now up. Three more issues to go.
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Thanks again T!
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Actually, it's 4 issues left to go.
because issue numbers 1, 2, 4 and 6 are the only ones missing.
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Actually, it's 4 issues left to go.
because issue numbers 1, 2, 4 and 6 are the only ones missing.
Ach, if it only were THAT simple with golden age comic books, dear eerie10...
This long run of CMPTP ends with #2, but there is a #1 which is called #33 (because it took the numbering over from FOUR FAVORITES).
Check it here: http://www.comics.org/series/603/
This first one-shot #33 = #1 we do not have, sadly.
So our run will end with 3 issues to go...
For today the motto is romance:
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #3
From Premier Magazines.
This particular issue has been heavily taped - and therefore turned out in the scan a bit blurry and... well... tapey.
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Thanks T!
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My upload bonanza continues.
Everything must go!
A scan a day keeps SOPA away, harhar.
Surprise crime book of the day (one of my own):
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT #45
To whomever it may concern...
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If only they could keep SOPA and it's ilk away!
Thanks for the great work you've been doing T!
:)
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Rrrromance comes knocking with
DEAR LONELY HEARTS #2.
Knock on wood.
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Rrrromance comes knocking with
DEAR LONELY HEARTS #2.
Knock on wood.
I certainly wasn't expecting a romance comic, but I guess it is a change of pace or has monsters in love. I'll check it out on the off chance that it might actually contain something I don't associate with the romance genre.
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Thanks T for another tear jerker from the JVJ Collection.
Geo
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And up now is our sunday horror surprise:
OUT OF THE SHADOWS #6
Courtesy of our gentleman Jim.
I'll just keep them coming.
Arranging a wild upload of horror / romance / crime / western and satire.
Be afraid, be afraid...
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Rrrromance comes knocking with
DEAR LONELY HEARTS #2.
Knock on wood.
I certainly wasn't expecting a romance comic, but I guess it is a change of pace or has monsters in love. I'll check it out on the off chance that it might actually contain something I don't associate with the romance genre.
I thought I was kidding, but "Price of Passion" may as well be a horror story because it has a violent climax and ends with two people trapped in hell. Not what I expected from the romance genre.
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I thought I was kidding, but "Price of Passion" may as well be a horror story because it has a violent climax and ends with two people trapped in hell. Not what I expected from the romance genre.
You exaggerte, friend!
(that should have been "exaggerate" of course)
That's not hell, that is the way of those "wayward girls" down south...
For today I donned my scanning mask and present the Scanned Ranger, halt:
MASKED RANGER #4
Which is of course a clone of the Lone Ranger (who in reality is me, scanning in darkness surrounded by the animals of the night).
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Thanks T for it.
Geo
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And while I have time on my hands, it's more Premier romance:
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #4
I always marvel how MUCH and MANY of these were around.
Was the biggest market of the 1950s if I'm not mistaken.
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I think "Horror" might have beat it out, but not by much, it would be number 2.
And thanks T for the upload.
Geo
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I see...
;)
Look what I found rummaging thru my crime files:
MR. RISK #2
Which makes this Ace mini-mini-serie COMPLETE.
There were only two books named Mr. Risk. They are online now.
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Updated
thanks T!
:)
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And with that whiff of horror
ADVENTURES INTO DARKNESS #7
I am signing out for the weekend.
Going to Switzerland again for some mountain biking, paragliding and bungee jumping.
Nah, just typing this to alarm YOC...
;)
Am taking a train ride, nothing else.
So we'll all be safe till next week for a lecture in romance.
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Thanks T, have fun, play safe!
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And - kapweeeng! - fast like a speeding bullet (not faster than, of course not) freshly returned from Switzerland ...
... it's another criminal upload:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #6
From 1949 (and looks all like 40s artwork inside).
(still flashed from my weekend stay in central Switzerland, this is as close as you can get to paradise in Europe, the air is obscenely clean and fresh and spicy, you wanna import it in bottled form // I imagine this is what Canada must feel like)
[cue YOC]
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It depends where you are in Canada T.
In the city we get the usual smog, etc. Up north, very nice stuff and some amazing views as well.
:)
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Thanks for the confirmation, YOC.
I decided it's time for a romantic upload (this sounds awkward, doesn't it?):
MY SECRET MARRIAGE #4
Brought to you from the people who gave printing a bad name: Superior!
A book of my own, modeled on my private secret marriage, of course.
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Thanks T!
Superior was Canadian, but please don't hold that against us. :-\
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The thought indeed crossed my mind, dear YOC...
;D
Let us take another step into the completion of Ace's master crime title with the upload of
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #4
Big 52-pages issue with nice artwork by Palais, Greene, Battefield.
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Thanks T for the upload.
Geo
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I am on my way to a picknick on the banks of river Rhine at Cologne.
Thought, I'd leave you a tasty morsel to feed joyously on:
OUT OF THE SHADOWS #8
Ripped out of the shadows of Jim's big comic book vault.
Sensational cover by Jack Katz!
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"picknick on the banks of river Rhine"!
You crazy thrill seeker, please be careful!
;)
Thanks for another fill there T.
Have fun!
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I am on my way to a picknick on the banks of river Rhine at Cologne.
Thought, I'd leave you a tasty morsel to feed joyously on:
OUT OF THE SHADOWS #8
Ripped out of the shadows of Jim's big comic book vault.
Sensational cover by Jack Katz!
Thanks to you and Jim, I can cross one more story off my list of childhood horror stories that I've been trying to identify and re-read. "The Drums of Cajou" is the vampire story that has haunted me since I first saw it when I was five and had my much older brother read it to me because I couldn't quite read well enough then to handle it by myself. The cover of "Out of the Shadows" #8 with the severed heads hanging on wall and a fiend dipping a fresh on in who-knows-what is also startlingly familiar. For year I thought the story with the female bat-like vampire was probably from a Harvey book or one of the smaller short-lived publishers, and it never crossed my mind that Ace might have published it.
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@YOC: And I didn't even tell you about my visit to the local amusement park.
Got some astronaut training there!
@jfglade: Glad to be of assistance.
I can promise you some more precode horror over the rest of spring and summer.
Working on it - fervently.
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Astronaut training?!
I hope you have some kind of life insurance T, you sound determined to risk life and limb at every opportunity!
;)
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Nicely put, Yoc.
I should change my profile name to "Danger Man".
But my eyes got too bad for real danger - too much scanning!
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #2
is up - and it's a wrap!
With chicken and salad.
No, it's another mega-series COMPLETED!
(the complex matter of CMPTP can be studied on this site of the Grand Comics Database)
http://www.comics.org/series/name/crime%20must%20pay/sort/alpha/
That dubious #33 [= #1] (and a singular series) is missing, Jim didn't include it.
I am accidentally just bidding on that book, will know more tomorrow.
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And thank you T for it.
Geo
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Thanks T, excellent work!
And btw, you can add a special title like Danger Man to your Profile if you wanted under 'Forum Profile Information' and 'Personal Text'
GL with getting that #33 (#1)!!
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That dubious #33 [= #1] (and a singular series) is missing, Jim didn't include it.
I am accidentally just bidding on that book, will know more tomorrow.
And you didn't ask for it, Tilban. I have it if you want it.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Jim, I'll ask for missing ACE titles next time we see each other.
We are not done with them books yet!
So for today it's cowboys'n'injuns time with Premier's
MASKED RANGER #5
Which really features some nice artwork by Woodbridge, Massey and McCarty.
Enjoy-hee-haw.
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Thanks T for another western book.
Geo
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On with the show, today it's
ALL TRUE ROMANCE #3
Would I lie to you?
And Jim may pull his hair, but I really like Iger Studio romance books.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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And with the upload of
MEN AGAINST CRIME #3
it is a wrap - concerning books from Ace.
This was the last I still had in store. Will get some more though in autumn from our Californian Courier.
For the next weeks it will be books from Standard, Comic Media and Premier.
Presenting the missing issues of a whole new other crime series.
So be prepared.
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Sounds great T, thanks for the latest!
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The next Standard horror helping is online:
THE UNSEEN #8
No Toth in this issue, but great Sekowsky galore.
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And this is our new crime series we'll be following the next weeks:
POLICE AGAINST CRIME #2
From the underrated and rather unknown Premier Magazines.
It's a thrilling book with "okay" artwork.
I find these more intriguing than the products of the Lev Gleason company.
CRIME DOES NOT PAY is brutally overrated.
Their artwork is bland or outright shabby (straight from the 40s), the writing is wooden and rigid.
:-X
No offense, GoldenAgers, but I am a 50s man...
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Being the first on the block helped CDNP a lot. I agree they can be wooden.
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And heeeeerrrreee's number one of:
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #1
Numbers 2, 3 and 4 are already up, and I have some more to come.
Jeez.
Are these confessions of true love or true confessions of love?
And is there a difference? Find out for yourself.
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Finally!! Thanks T, I've wanted this forever!
:)
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Time to upload another one of those crazy, wild and futile MAD clones.
NUTS! #2
Have to see it to believe it.
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Very cool, thanks T!
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We continue our crime series with
POLICE AGAINST CRIME #3
And I still get a chuckle out of the fact that they printed the "against" so small that on first glance the title reads like
"Police Crime"!
That's why it's called the "golden age"...?
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Thanks again T for your latest upload.
Geo
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Attention, young horror lovers!
This is
ADVENTURES INTO DARKNESS #8
and thus another series COMPLETED!
One down, 198 to go...
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Thanks T for another series that bites the dust as finished.
Marked as done!!
Geo
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Thanks T!
:D
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Ach, I just bang 'em out like... bangouts.
Today it's
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #5
and still some issues to go.
As they say: Love conquers death.
One could probably spend eternity scanning romance books.
My own private hell. Just mumbling here. Do not pay attention to the man behind the scanner.
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Thanks T, we really do appreciate it. I might suggest perhaps alternating titles to avoid such a hell all at once.
Variety being the spice of life or something like that.
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I do, I am.
I'm not THAT crazy to scan two or three romance books in a row!
I even upload them in a pell-mell fashion to avoid mental disorder.
So it is
POLICE AGAINST CRIME #4
for today. See? See???
Heeehhaaaheee...
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Thanks more like it! Good ol' crime to clear the senses from all that mush.
;)
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And to clear our senses from THAT mush it's western time:
MASKED RANGER #7
And hot patootie wotta dynamic cover.
Masked Ranger jumping right at ya.
That alone must be worth a dime.
Upcoming on sunday: horror mush.
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That is a nice cover, thanks T!
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While YOU were snugly asleep in your condo crypts in the new world, I arose from my coffin shaped bed in the midst of the Black Forest in central Europe, pried open my file vault and uploaded sheer horror on your servers.
I hereby give you
THE UNSEEN #9
Fly, my bits and bytes, fly!
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O-O-o!! Scary, very scary.
Thanks T.
Geo
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And tooodayyy let's go
NUTS! #3
Have a look please at that pathetic Monroe/DiMaggio cover.
Jeez.
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ouch, not very good was it?
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There is a reason why those MAD clones did not succeed.
And this
MASKED RANGER #3
is not as good as later issues, but up it goes.
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And thank you T for it.
Geo
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Time for crime with
POLICE AGAINST CRIME #5
The struggle never ends. Expect more.
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Thank you kind Sir.
Geo
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Comic Media published quite interesting romance books.
This
ALL TRUE ROMANCE #14
is a blend of romance and crime, for example.
Event the artwork is appealing, because it does not follow the usual patterns.
But I got just one more to follow this. Soon.
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Thanks again T.
Geo
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Wednesday horror helping.
OUT OF THE SHADOWS #12
And this COMPLETES the SERIES.
Yay.
Great Toth double feature in there. Including the classic "Images Of Sand".
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Thanks T, and category updated.
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And our crime saga goes on with
POLICE AGAINST CRIME #6
Still more to come, but not much...
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Galopping side by side with another #6 from Premier:
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #6
Also here more to come...
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Thank you again T as always.
Keep'em coming.
Geo
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And another issue of Premier's brave but vain attempt to produce code-approved horror.
MYSTERIOUS STORIES #4
One of the stories (as mentioned in the download description) is actually interesting.
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Galopping by, I just dropped a scan:
MASKED RANGER #2
Cover is torn. So you can draw the upper half yourself!
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LOL,
thanks T!
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Galopping by, I just dropped a scan:
MASKED RANGER #2
Cover is torn. So you can draw the upper half yourself!
Thanks to badback, he did just that for us. Now it has a new "full' front cover.
Geo
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Here comes our last
ALL TRUE ROMANCE #16
We have no more of this series by Comic Media.
Or do we, Jim?
Interesting book, by the way. They blend their romance with girls involved in crime - and a story (I daresay) about a bathing suit babe in bondage.
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Thanks T for another Romance book, they seem to be very popular by the way.
Geo
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Continyouwing our Standard horror fiesta with
THE UNSEEN #10
Not the last issue though. One more (#15) coming up next weekend.
No Toth in this issue, but very good jobs by Sekowsky, Katz and Mastroserio.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Time to get nutty again with
NUTS! #4
Not the last issue either. One more coming up in August.
Contains parodies of Dick Tracy and Prince Valiant.
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Thanks T!
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And we contiune our crime spree with
POLICE AGAINST CRIME #7
Contains the strangest lettering I've ever seen in a comic book.
Sooooo ssssmall, almost unprintable small.
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O-boy another great book to read.
Thanks T.
Geo
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And it's a wrap for Standard horror with
THE UNSEEN #15
Another series COMPLETED.
There are some small horror comic book surprises in store over the summer.
Hope to tackle missing books from Fawcett and Charlton in autumn.
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Thanks T and marked as completed too.
Geo
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And it's another Numero Uno (#1) with
EL RANCHERO CON EL MASQUE Nr. 1
(MASKED RANGER #1)
Signing off now for ten days.
Going for a bake in the Spanish sun.
More Premier fun books in August!
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Have fun and play safe T!
:)
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Yes, I'm back - and not even a sunburn!
Let's start our summer run with a long missing
TERRIFIC #14
The legendary one-shot from Comic Media.
Fine artwork, mediocre stories.
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Thanks T!
This is a rare one-shot, formerly Horrific it would be the last title from Comic Media.
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Correcto, dear Yoc.
And we still have Premier books - so for today it's
POLICE AGAINST CRIME #8
One issue more to go here.
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Thank you Sir for another fine scan.
Geo
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Had to get this out of my system:
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #7
Still more to come, jeez.
One story by the underrated Edward Goldfarb.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Oh, those wild and crazy code-approved comic books!
Here's another one:
MYSTERIOUS STORIES #5
Not that bad, art-wise, though.
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As I see, thanks.
Geo
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Let's wrap up this nutty operation!
Here is
NUTS! #5
Last issue, struggling like mad to be like MAD, harhar.
There's advertising spoofs and even a dear "Captain Marvel/Marble" parody.
Enjoy.
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Thanks again T.
Geo
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I just got my early Heroic Comics back from Blake Bell and will bring those not scanned yet with the other comics that T asked for. They will certainly give you some "diversity" in your next batch, Tillmann. Some Blue Bolts, too. Lots of Bill Everett that ended up in Blake's second Everett volume.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Thanks Jim for the update on those, I'll pass the information on to Yoc as he's taking care of the unscanned list.
Geo
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Hey, tilliban?
After you get the Police Against Crime Comic series done, do you think you can do the Crimes by Women series next?
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That's great news Jim!
I'll update the list when Tilliban confirms he's gotten them.
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Will hand them off to Tillmann sometime between Sept. 24-28 when we rendezvous in Paris.
(|:{>
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Thanks Jim, say Hi for me.
:)
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What is going on here?
Maybe the heat finally got me.
It's the hottest day in Germany since the Dark Ages (with over 100 Fahrenheit), so I'll upload
DANGER #1
From Comic Media, of course. Which COMPLETES another series!
Fanfare please.
Concerning CRIMES BY WOMEN, not on my radar, sorry.
If I interpret Jim's last reply a certain way, he may be packing them for me.
But I think the batch is bursting already...
Just let it be a surprise for all of us.
Think I'm sweating while typing.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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And a good time to drop off, kick down, load up
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #8
This series seems endless... more in the pipeline...
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Yee-haw!
The scanning posse is back in town and rounded up
MASKED RANGER #8
Penultimate issue with yet another nice contribution by George Woodbridge.
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Thank you T.
Geo
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And this is my August horror suprise:
WEIRD TERROR #2
From Comic Media, book of my own, got it for a reasonable price.
I like that Belcastro story which I already featured on my German website:
http://fifties-horror.de/lesewiese/the-good/wrath-of-satan
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Thank you T for the share of your own book.
Geo
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And this is my August horror suprise:
WEIRD TERROR #2
From Comic Media, book of my own, got it for a reasonable price.
I like that Belcastro story which I already featured on my German website:
http://fifties-horror.de/lesewiese/the-good/wrath-of-satan
Thank you. Not a title I can see I'm very familiar with but one which I would like to learn more about.
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Nice!
Thanks very much T.
:)
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Sadly, dear jfglade,
Comic Media horror books are rare and expensive.
And Jim doesn't have them.
One more from Horrific will be coming up next month, though.
We'll need another "source" to learn more about Comic Media.
Anyway, I swing by today to drop another Premier romance book:
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #9
Two more to go.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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And it's a saturday double whammy:
MYSTERIOUS STORIES #6
MYSTERIOUS STORIES #7
Final issues.
So we're out of the code-approved wood.
Back to pre-code horror next time.
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What a nice long weekend present.
Thanks T! :)
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Yeah, decided on a double upload, because two lame code-approved issues equal one mediocre pre-code book.
Right?
And today we close the doors on
POLICE AGAINST CRIME #9
Final issue.
As the rule with Premier it features miniature lettering, raggedy printing and strange artwork.
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This is a coincidental thing.
Got my hands on a copy of
HAND OF FATE #15
and offer it now as a "different version" scan.
The existing one is quite blurred and shot by digicam.
I want to say that I was thankful for that scan (and I used it for my ACE research), but here is now a cleaner scan.
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Thanks T!
I'll just delete the digicam version.
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That's alright, Yoc.
Made a note in the description that my version is now the "official" one.
Thanks.
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Hey T, how's Sundance doing? It's been a while.
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Concerning sundance.
Hope to meet the man in person - in November.
We set a date.
I'll milk him for some more books, absolutetly.
;)
Today I felt a crime book would be nice. So here's one of my own:
KERRY DRAKE #24
Back on the weekend with another JVJ comic.
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Snard, I always scan cover to cover.
It is complete. Checked again.
The 32 pages are odd, but not the first time I come across this "phenomenon".
There are some books out there (which count for 36 pagers), but only did print 32 (leaving out one 4-page sheet).
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Hip hip horray...
Uploaded Jim's last Comic Media book:
HORRIFIC #11
Fine art, mediocre writing...
(but why does it say "No cover yet" for two hours?!)
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Oh I know!
It's because of Jon's Sunday's Gif file.
Once the feature chokes on something all uploads afterwards are stuck at 'No Cover Yet.'
I'll have to delete his file to fix things.
Sorry Jon.
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Hi, Tillmann,
I'm all packed (with some special extras JUST for you - I lOVE surprises!). See you on the 24th. What time do you get in? Should we go out to dinner or eat in? Decisions, decisions...
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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:)
Have fun guys!
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Nearing the end of our Premier Magazines uploads, it's
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #10
the penultimate issue.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Yep, thanks T
:)
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It's that Lone Ranger clone cowboy being catapulted one last time into the saddle:
MASKED RANGER #9
Don't miss.
On Monday I'll be off to see the wizard.
And hauling back a gigantic batch of fingerlicking good comic books to scan.
Rrrrrrrrrr.
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You MUST see page 12 of this! And the Woodbridge story at the end ain't too shabby, either. You saved the best for last, Tiliban, you rascal you.
See you soon. And this post celebrates FIVE DAYS of log ins to DCM (well, including the GAC time, too, I suppose). What a way to spend one's life.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Ha! Missed that one, Jim!
TRUE LOVE CONFESSIONS #11
The last issue of our Premier run.
(I always have something up my sleeve.)
Will start scanning your new batch o' books soon.
It's gonna be great, but you'll have to endure 30 romance books from ACE as well.
Don't know what devil got into me...
But every books counts!
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Thanks T for your latest from the JVJ Collection.
Geo
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they all deserve to be scanned T so no worries.
You wont hear any complaints from this monkey.
;)
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Question for you, YOC - and other users may be interested as well:
How do you attach those "screenshots" to your upload scans???
They're always nice, and if it's not too much trouble, I might do it for future uploads.
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Hi T,
This is covered in our uploading tutorial here -
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,1882.0.html
Read step 7 - adding thumbnails or 'screen shots' as they are called when looking at a book on the site.
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Thanks as always, Yoc.
Ach, now I forgot to look it up and practise on my first new upload.
Yes, folks, so it begins:
UNDERWORLD CRIME #2
from Fawcett, first book of the new batch from Jim's den of comics.
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Thank you T.
Geo
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Felt like a horror book would be nice.
DARK MYSTERIES #20
From Story/Master. Not bad. I like the Altman best ("Flames Of Hate").
Sadly the last horror book in my possession.
And the last till Halloween. Then I'll shoot up some new books of Jim's.
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Thanks T!
That's a nice taste of the coming Halloween Event
:)
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Thanks T!
That's a nice taste of the coming Halloween Event
:)
A "Halloween Event?" Can you give any details or do we have to wait?
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Sorry, you'll have to wait on it Jon.
Things are in the early stages yet and wouldn't want give false hope on things.
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Sorry, you'll have to wait on it Jon.
Things are in the early stages yet and wouldn't want give false hope on things.
That's understandable. i've got nothing but time anyway, so I don't mind waiting.
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And as a German, I am opposed to Halloween!
Ve von't haff such zings here, ja?!
But I'll play nice and just tag along. Donating some horror scans.
Probably.
Might as well upload a bunch of ROMANCE books and pretend I confused Halloween with Valentine's.
Whaddayathink?
I got loads of these lying around:
GLAMOROUS ROMANCES #51
Hmmm.
That would be truly shocking.
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Hehe, to some men Valentine and Halloween aren't much different.... scary stuff!
;)
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What's that? Whooops.
Found a last Comic Media romance book sticking under my hard drive:
DEAR LONELY HEARTS #5
Off you go. Much artwork by the always quite enjoyable Marty Elkin.
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Thanks T.
Those others went live as well but I've yanked them off for later.
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Thank T for the following:
Dear Lonely Hearts 005 -JVJ
Geo
[gentle tweak by Yoc]
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And we have some more missing titles from the great looking Standard company:
THIS IS WAR #8
With artwork by Mike Sekowsky, Charles Sultan et al.
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Thank you T.
Geo
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THIS IS WAR! was followed by a short-lived title, BETCHA IT AIN'T!, which in turn was followed by OH YES IT IS!, which was followed by IS NOT!, followed by IS TOO!, followed by PROVE IT!, followed by MEET ME OUT BACKA THIS COMIC BOOK!, after which the company went out of business.
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LOL,
I can see Lev Gleason or Marvel doing those.
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Glad to contribute a VERY old book today:
SUPER-MYSTERY COMICS vol. 4 #5
from January 1945. Jeez.
Always make me feel dizzy to see a book out of times of war.
Another matter: Feel a bit downcast today.
Spent two hours scanning ANDY COMICS #21 - to find out it's up already.
And in a very fine and complete version by HenryPeters.
Uploading my scan would be totally redundant. And quite useless.
Senseless! Absurd!! Futile!!!
Any thoughts?
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Thanks for the copy of SUPER-MYSTERY COMICS vol. 4 #5.
Geo
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Hi T,
Feel free to upload your Andy21 as a different version if you like.
No harm done. But please check for all your books before doing any scanning. Quite often a second scan is needed but not always.
-Yoc
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Hot diggety.
Warming up for Halloween with our flood of romance:
ROMANTIC WESTERN #2
A Fawcett book - with possible Al Williamson artwork!
Just kidding about the halloween.
You'll get your gruesome stuff...
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Let there be romance!
With a big fat 52 page issue of
ALL ROMANCES #4
from Ace, of course.
By the way, I met with "sundancetrance" at the Cologne comics fair.
A very nice and enormously knowledgeable guy from the Hannover area.
He's been very busy, but promised to upload some more books in the next weeks.
We'll keep you... posted.
Literally.
Haha.
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Thanks for the SDT update T.
I was just wondering about him.
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Fun find!
I was looking through Tilliban's wonderful 50's Horror site (http://fifties-horror.de/impressum) (in German) and found THIS great photograph!
(http://fifties-horror.de/files/media/2011/04/TillJimImprint.jpg)That's Tilliban on the right beside the great Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (JVJ), source of so many great books on DCM!
Thanks for sharing this T!
Loved 'The Shadow' impression on the same page.
;)
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Tilliban,
I just read about your lecture in Cologne, that must have been a thrill to do.
Congrats!
:)
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Yeah, I was lecturing about EC science ficiton contrasted against Star Trek.
And such.
Lot of fun, and just the beginning.
Will be holding another lecture about pre-code horror comic books.
Looking forward to that!
For today I wanna acknowledge the US election and support the troops with this upload:
JOE YANK #16
(sorry for the European humor).
;D
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Good luck on the lectures T!
Thanks for the latest. :)
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JVJ said otherwhere:
I'm REALLYL feeling weird about how many JVJ scanners have had to drop out of the project due to health problems. It's EERIE. Let's just hope that Rangerhouse and Tiliban aren't prone to the effects of my comics.
Now that you mention it, Jim, feeling a bit queasy just there...
Kidding. It'll pass.
I uploaded a first replacement scan for books not looking good. Now
WORLDS OF FEAR #7
looks a lot better, but I don't. That queasyness again.
Nah, I'm a joker.
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JVJ said otherwhere:
I'm REALLYL feeling weird about how many JVJ scanners have had to drop out of the project due to health problems. It's EERIE. Let's just hope that Rangerhouse and Tiliban aren't prone to the effects of my comics.
Now that you mention it, Jim, feeling a bit queasy just there...
Kidding. It'll pass.
I uploaded a first replacement scan for books not looking good. Now
WORLDS OF FEAR #7
looks a lot better, but I don't. That queasyness again.
Nah, I'm a joker.
I don't know if the source material has a curse on it, but that is a nice issue of "Worlds of Fear."
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Thanks T.
Geo
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This is my "take out the trash" day!
First I upload the "doublette" issue of
ANDY COMICS #21
I scanned by mistake. It's already up, but Jim gave me this to scan.
Aaaarrrggghhh.
Second I upload an oldtimer issue of
SPY SMASHER #10
Which would be nice (would be fantastic!) if there weren't 8 pages missing in the middle!
Noticed this only when numbering the scanned pages.
Double and triple Aaaarrrghhh.
Let's put this behind us. Now.
Scanner's blues is. Over.
Feeling better and see you next week...
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Thanks T for the "double" treat.
Geo
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This is my "take out the trash" day!
First I upload the "doublette" issue of
ANDY COMICS #21
I scanned by mistake. It's already up, but Jim gave me this to scan.
Aaaarrrggghhh.
So sorry, Tillmann. Someday I'll get EVERYTHING right - and it will bring the Armageddon.
Second I upload an oldtimer issue of
SPY SMASHER #10
Which would be nice (would be fantastic!) if there weren't 8 pages missing in the middle!
Noticed this only when numbering the scanned pages.
Double and triple Aaaarrrghhh.
Let's put this behind us. Now.
Scanner's blues is. Over.
Feeling better and see you next week...
As for Spy Smasher: you all have to realize that my collection is not perfect either. If this book was complete, I could never afford it. It's okay to lament what is missing, but don't forget to enjoy what we have!
Yes, that WAS Sekowsky. Trust yourself.
Now I must end my break and go back to work. I've finally (almost) got the test page separated for the featured work for ImageS #13. Tomorrow I arrange for a press test to see if what I envision can even be done. Wish me luck.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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As you might guess, I filled out the Spy Smasher #10 with fiche pages. Hope you enjoy it.
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Thanks, DM.
Always wonderful of you to fill in the blanks.
(|:{>
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Thanks DM!
Hey tilliban, if you find another version of a book already on the site - please don't hesitate to continue your own scan. There is not rule a second version can't exist.
Also, as in the case of the Spy Smasher, please don't hesitate to pull missing pages from fiche or another scan on the site to fill in your pages. This is exactly why DM and other fiche scans uploaded their versions to the site.
Thanks for all the work guys! And good luck on your test Jim.
:)
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Thanks to DarkMark for "pimping up" my SPY SMASHER scan!
Today it's 1952 again and Standard is back with their first issue (of three):
JET FIGHTERS #5
Great art inside.
Not to admins: This serie is now COMPLETE. Mark it so...
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Thank you T, and will do on marking it complete.
Geo
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And the odd books just keep rolling in:
LOVE MYSTERY #1
From Fawcett.
Jim informs me that these are actually hard to find.
All three issues will be coming up the next weeks.
There's George Evans art in all of them no one has probably seen until now.
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And again thanks T for your latest addition.
Geo
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Thanks T!
Evans doesn't get enough credit IMO for his EC work.
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Feeling glamorous today.
So it's
GLAMOROUS ROMANCES #42
From Ace. A few more will be coming up in the future.
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And the odd books just keep rolling in:
LOVE MYSTERY #1
From Fawcett.
Jim informs me that these are actually hard to find.
All three issues will be coming up the next weeks.
There's George Evans art in all of them no one has probably seen until now.
It is interesting to see a "genre-bender" trying to blend crime and romance, and the contents of this issue are very well done but instead of doubling its market share the series undoubtedly turned off both mystery and romance fans. I enjoyed it and I look forward to the other two issues.
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Thanks again T.
Geo
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...undoubtedly turned off both mystery and romance fans...
Nicely put, dear jfglade!
For today, your wednesday crime spree is presented by Fawcett:
UNDERWORLD CRIME #7
Probably hogwash of the same sort, coming from the same publisher.
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Continuing uploads from Standard war titles:
EXCITING WAR #5
First issue.
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Whoa!! Two more goodies to enjoy. Thanks T.
Geo
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It's the next horror book replacement scan:
THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED #13
Felt some of them could use a better scan.
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Thanks very much T!
:D
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Long time see no romance.
Glad to put up an ACE numer 1:
ALL ROMANCES #1
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Man you've been busy, thanks T.
Geo
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And another ACE romance book:
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT #31
Got a small bunch of them from Jim.
Which was a stupid order.
All those late ACE books are filled with reprints.
Should have ordered the early ones.
I'll just do them all, dammit.
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Thanks T!
Sometimes it's interesting to see how the Code demanded changes in the reprints.
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Nice comforting thought, Yoc, but these romance books were just reprinted.
CCA had nothing to do with it.
Today I feel like celebrating!
What in hell ?, you may ask...
Celebrating the upload of my new website: FICTION HOUSE & STANDARD HORROR!
http://highest-standard.de/
You’ll find many stories posted there – and weblinks to many others.
So I uploaded on this special occasion the (now) complete issue of Standard's
OUT OF THE SHADOWS #5
With artwork by Alex Toth.
Enjoy.
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Thanks T and I took care of making it a "COMPLETE SERIES!" now.
Geo
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Thanks T and wow, another website! Congrats!
Might I suggest you start a new topic in the links section?
You're creating a little empire all your own.
;)
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Nice comforting thought, Yoc, but these romance books were just reprinted.
CCA had nothing to do with it.
Today I feel like celebrating!
What in hell ?, you may ask...
Celebrating the upload of my new website: FICTION HOUSE & STANDARD HORROR!
http://highest-standard.de/
You’ll find many stories posted there – and weblinks to many others.
So I uploaded on this special occasion the (now) complete issue of Standard's
OUT OF THE SHADOWS #5
With artwork by Alex Toth.
Enjoy.
Many, many thanks for Out of the Shadows #5. Another completed series! Good luck with your new website. ;)
BTW, here's one story (The Crushed Gardenia) from the one-shot Standard comic Who is Next? #5. This is the reprint from Seduction of the Innocent (Eclipse, 1985 series) #3.
Info here: http://www.comics.org/issue/306569/
Richard
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Sorry Richard but modern reprints of PD stories are not allowed on the site. They are likely manipulated and therefore under copyright to Eclipse.
-Yoc
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Sorry Richard but modern reprints of PD stories are not allowed on the site. They are likely manipulated and therefore under copyright to Eclipse.
-Yoc
Uh-oh, sorry about that. :(
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Not to worry, Richard,
Tiliban has my copy of Who is Next? #5 and will be (eventually) posting a scan of the story here. Patience. And I might have written the introduction to that Eclipse SotI reprint - way back when.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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This is correct, folks.
WHO IS NEXT is in the upload pipeline and coming in the next days...
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All that shouting and shootin' going on in the upload section.
Crime, war, western, more crime.
Time to relax, tim for
ALL TRUE ROMANCE #2
Feel better yet?
Nice cheesy Iger shop artwork inside!
Not a JVJ book, though he had some of his own (already up).
Caught this on Ebay...
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Thanks T!
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Choice for today a missing issue of
SUPER-MYSTERY COMICS Vol. 5 #1
Great Rudy Palais artwork in the first story!
By the way:
I talked sundance into scanning a few more books.
He said he was working on 'em.
So we are eagerly waiting, man.
;D
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Thanks for the scan and the news T!
:)
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I apologize for delaying the promised WHO IS NEXT.
But we had so much crime up lately.
For today I chose instead a war title.
JOE YANK #15
(I really DO upload the most missing genre at the moment)
(that's my special tic, I guess...)
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A nice variety is always nice T and we know you'll upload it eventually.
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Great!
sundancetrance finally came through and scanned his own valuable
PURPLE CLAW #2
for us. Cool looking comic book!
Out of pure joy I'm throwing in the next Ace romance job:
GLAMOROUS ROMANCES #44
O happy download-day.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Thanks to both of you guys T.
Great to see SDT scanning again.
:)
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Ulp! Looks like they mean it:
THIS IS WAR! #9
Apocalyptic cover for an apocalyptic event.
This Standard war title is hereby COMPLETED.
Yay.
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Great! I've now updated the listing on the site as well.
:D
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Decided to shower you for christmas with three #1 comic books.
First to go up is
SAÄRI #1
An obscure one-shot mimicking all we have seen about jungle comics in the years before.
Somehow pathetic.
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Thanks, I'll have to check it out then.
Geo
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Super-mouhouse can do it!
Here's our second #1 for christmas celebrations.
SUPERMOUSE #1
Yeah. Wait for the third #1 tomorrow.
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Thank you kind Sirs.
Geo
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Thanks for helping make Christmas a cool day on DCM T.
:)
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And here it is (long time in the making):
BEYOND #1
The last missing horror book from ACE, of course.
But keep your pants on, all stories inside have been reprinted in later issues.
Still great to have it now.
The incomplete Beyond#4 will be completed in the next days/weeks.
Stand by for completion...
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Thanks very much T, nice to see another title basically completed.
:)
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And it'll be a Happy New Year from me with
COMPLETE LOVE vol29 #4
Got a handful of these, more will be up in the next weeks.
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Thanks T, and we'll be on the lookout for the others coming.
Geo
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Tilliban.
Maybe you ought to alter your signature to
Horror and romance comics aficionado :)
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Horror and romance - where's the difference?
Nah, I'm strictly for pre-code horror.
But as a courtesy to the community I'm filling gaps in all genres.
Will open my grab bag of war, crime, romance and horror of course again in the new year.
See ya.
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Thanks T, all of these GA comics need scanning and we appreciate all you and the scanners out there doing so much for us.
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Starting 2013 uploads with HORROR, of course.
THE THING #11
This is a replacement scan for an indeed incomplete previous version.
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Very nice!
Thanks for the upgrade T.
:)
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And I'm bouncing back with ye olde stuffe:
SUPER-MYSTERY COMICS v05 #2
Damn, these volume numbers make me dizzy...
That again is more of a replacement scan.
Will shoot some "new" books up next.
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Thanks very much T.
:)
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Promised that some time ago, so here it is:
WHO IS NEXT? #5
A Standard one-shot single issue.
Stories are quite sensational and quite sick, if you ask me.
Highly collectable crime comic!
Toth's crime classic "The Crushed Gardenia" is in here, folks.
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Been talking about it the other day, so here it is:
MISTER MYSTERY #2
Private copy. My edits came out rather pale-looking.
But YOU can fairly easily post-edit ANY scan you find here for personal use and taste.
Just saying.
@Yoc: funky new avatar, by the way!
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Thanks T.
And my avatar is from the last edit I finished for IRA and RH - Jolly Jingles #10 (1) - the first Super Duck.
:)
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Time to support the troops.
So it's
JOE YANK #6
The now complete version - to Yoc's special delight.
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Thanks T!
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Continuing horror book replacements.
Previous scan was cut and strangely lit (lighted?) - how do you say?
No offense, but here's now a nice version of
THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED #7
Courtesy of our gentleman Jim, again.
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Thanks T!
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Yes, T,
and we note, in passing, the pleasant absence of neon on the cover.
Danke.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Neon?!
Anyway, I use the confusion to sneak up another ACE romance book:
Complete Love Magazine v29#3 (171)
Did I mention I got lots more coming?
Patience, young lovers, patience!
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Yeah, Tilliban,
That color scheme/lighting on the earlier This Magazine is Haunted #7 has a very "neon" feel to it. The pastel colors are carried to an electric extreme, IMHO, which your version very pleasantly avoids. FWIW.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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With the now uploaded cover-to-cover (c2c) version of
BEYOND #4
this series is truly complete. As is already noted.
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Thanks for the upgrade T.
:)
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With the now uploaded cover-to-cover (c2c) version of
BEYOND #4
this series is truly complete. As is already noted.
Excellent. I just read that issue and enjoyed it quite a bit.
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@jfglade: Nice to have ACE aficionados with us!
And for today it's another shocking documentary on "How the West was won":
ROMANTIC WESTERN #1
Call ME the tall stranger.
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Jeez, found some leftovers from WW II and Korean conflict.
EXCITING WAR #6
The last missing issue from that Standard war series will follow yet, next month hopefully.
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Thanks T, looking forward to next works.
Geo
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Feeling glamorous today?
Not yet?
Can change that:
GLAMOROUS ROMANCES #43
You're very welcome.
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Great, thanks T.
Geo
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Proud to add (with JVJ's help, of course) another missing issue:
WORLDS OF FEAR #6
From Fawcett. Nice book, artwork is never that great with Fawcett, sadly.
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Thanks Gentlemen for this.
Geo
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It's a bit early for Valentine's, but anyway here's
GLAMOROUS ROMANCES #47
Expect more romance in four days.
;)
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Thanks T, you romantic devil you.
;)
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It's Valentine's and here's my ABC of love for you:
ALL ROMANCES #3
BRIDE'S SECRETS #11
COMPLETE LOVE #173
Hugs to you all.
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It's a DCM Love Festival
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A round of manly hugs for everyone!
;)
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Enough with the manly hugging now!
Valentine's over and it's back to business: Horror.
WEIRD ADVENTURES #3
are here, a very obscure, but interesting pre-code horror book.
Nothing fits together in this issue.
Four very different stories, executed in four quite different styles.
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Thanks T, just keep'm coming please.
Geo
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There's a time for war and a time for romance.
And I decided it's time for war again:
EXCITING WAR #9
The final issue makes this series COMPLETE!
(ran from #5 - #9)
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Thanks T, updating the description now.
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Found some crime lying around my hard disk.
Up with crime!
(you know how it's meant...)
UNDERWORLD CRIME #5
Stay tuned for more madness from this scanner.
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Thanks T, well done.
Geo
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Least I forget:
Time to show you one more of these (shockingly badly printed!) Fawcett experimental issues:
LOVE MYSTERY #2
Last one will follow soon.
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Interesting issue, thanks T.
Geo
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We interrupt the JVJ upload bonanza for a find of my own.
TOMB OF TERROR #2
Got this freshly in nice condition and am hot to present it to ya.
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And we're back with the JVJ upload bonanza.
It's...
SUPER-MYSTERY COMICS vol 4 #6
And a last one from that series.
Jim gave me no more, but there are probably tons of them up for grabs (meaning: replacement scans).
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Thanks as always T!
SMC is an under appreciated series.
:)
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Indeed thanks! That Palais artwork on Magno is choice.
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Yo, guys! With
UNDERWORLD CRIME #6
We COMPLETE another series.
Signing off for the weekend, I’m going to Brussels, Belgium.
There’s a trash film festival (the “Offscreen”, believe it or not) and I’ve got tickets for an evening with John Waters!
Jeezerella! These comic books put you in the right mood, don’t they?
Us Europins, we love our slice of sleaze, that’s why Europe is a giant Eurotrash theme park.
Kidding, of course.
We go very sophisticated about our trash.
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Thanks T for completing another series.
Geo
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Time for another Fawcett horror replacement/enhancement scan.
THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED #9
Existing version is barely okay.
Well, I'm back from Brussels, Belgium, where I witnessed John Waters perform his stand-up routine.
Quite... special, but enjoyable all the less.
What even flashed me more was seeing the movie THE WIZ, a 1978 funk/ soul/ disco version of THE WIZARD OF OZ, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. Director Sidney Lumet very cleverly shifted the original into a new contemporary dimension. The Emerald City being the Big Apple, the Flying Monkeys a biker gang, the poppy field an eros center... and so forth. Knocked my socks off. Masterful.
But I had never heard of that before. Did some of YOU knew about this movie?
Just wondering - and marveling.
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Thanks again T for the upload.
Geo
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But I had never heard of that before. Did some of YOU knew about this movie?
Just wondering - and marveling.
Funny thing, I've never seen it (though I spotted it available on Netflix, so I may remedy that soon despite not being so big on disco), but I was a kid when it was released, so I definitely remember the media blitz. I think that was also the height of Ed Koch's (New York Mayor at the time, who passed away a couple of weeks ago) "How'm I doing?" ad campaign, just to sound topical.
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I saw The Wiz when I was in grade school and loved the updated look and even some of the songs which is saying something as I hate musicals.
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What even flashed me more was seeing the movie THE WIZ...
But I had never heard of that before. Did some of YOU knew about this movie?
Just wondering - and marveling.
I knew about it. I've seen it about 3 times on TV over the years. I was amused and glad it wasn't trying to be a remake of the 1939 movie.
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Diana Ross as Dorthy was a stretch. She looked and was a decade or more older than the actor they should have used. Name recognition I guess.
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Thanks for your memories of THE WIZ, guys!
I was just so baffled that it even existed. Learned in the meantime that diehard Michael Jackson fans were familiar with it.
They didn't like it, though...
Well, since we're not in Kansas anymore (I hope so at least) here's some eye-candy without music:
WONDER COMICS #20
Jim stuffed it in my pocket, I scanned it and it looks almost sensationel - wild mix of adventure and science fiction.
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Thanks T!
Perhaps it was my young age but I enjoyed the The Wiz and I'm not a Jackson fan at all. The surreal production, especially the subway number, and the songs were the most impressive. It's worth a watch IMO.
-Yoc
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OZ once again. Just saw that new film "Oz the Great and Powerful", which is veeery nice, too!
Sam Raimi's best looking horror film, by the way.
:D
And comic-wise it's
JOE YANK #11
for today. I auctioned the still missing #9 from Ebay, but it won't arrive.
Starting to worry...
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Thanks T for your latest up.
Yes, that movie does look interesting.
Geo
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Pssshaaw.
Wrangled JOE YANK #9 out of the customs office - and three other books.
But for now it's
WORLDS OF FEAR #5
from Fawcett. Another different version.
And the last one, sadly. Jim does not have #9.
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Customs didn't like Joe Yank 9? ???
Thanks again T!
:)
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The way your avatar looks now, we'd be having problems at the customs office...
Time to sneak in one of Jim's romance books:
GLAMOROUS ROMANCES #50
The last of that series - for the time being. Others coming up.
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Thanks T for your latest upload, thanks goes also out to JVJ for he book.
Geo
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Happy birthday upload bonanza from me!
Two ACE romance books from Jim, and two assorted titles from my own "collection".
ALL ROMANCES #6
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT #30
MASTER COMICS #114
STRANGE FANTASY #8
Love you, guys.
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Wow, thanks very much T!
Expect several more later today.
:D
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Hello guys, back from the alpine skiing slopes of Northern Italy.
Bruised my rib cage this time. Very slightly.
Hurts only when I laugh. So I don't!
COMPLETE LOVE Vol. 28#2
is my choice of upload for today.
Expect hopefully another one of those before I'm off to see the wizard.
In Paris, next week. Meeting Jim for an exchange of comic books.
Busy bee.
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Thanks T for another wonderful JVJ book.
Geo
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Greetings!
This is what I've been mentioning sometime ealier somewhere:
BEWARE #15 (the 1955 issue)
thus COMPLETING this series.
Guess what I'm doing just now. Sitting here in Paris (France) with JVJ indexing a new bigass batch of books to scan.
Sipping white wine and nibbling baguette et fromage - superbe.
Ah, the life.
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*sigh*
Sounds like a great time. I'd love to be there with you and the white wine.
:)
Oh, and many thanks for the missing Beware15!
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And we surely wish you had been with us, Yoc.
It was wining and dining and art spotting at its finest.
In that order.
But I'm back to the scanning machine, lots of new books waiting for the world.
Some crime, horror, war, romance and even that old stuff from the 30s!
Some beauties I got waiting in line.
First, I gotta shovel out some romance, making room. Jeez.
COMPLETE LOVE Vol. 31#1
That's the last I got of these. Other titles in the pipeline.
Work never stops!
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Thanks T, we'll be on the lookout for your next upload.
Geo
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That's a book I thought could use a refreshment scan:
STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES #5
The George Evans lead story is annoyingly sterile and boring.
His last for Fawcett, he defected over to EC.
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Thanks for it T.
Geo
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'ray, 'ray, triple 'ray!
I managed to COMPLETE this war series from Standard.
JOE YANK #9
was the missing piece. Got it from Ebay, scanned it and passed it on to Jim.
So the troops will stay together...
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Thank you T, and yes we owe a lot to Jim for being so kind and allowing us to scan them.
Geo
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And although I got tons of books from Jim, here's another one of my own.
WESTERN TRUE CRIME #16 (= second issue)
Delectable baddie.
Crude and violent - Fox 1948.
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Thanks T and Jim for it.
Geo
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Great to see more of these!
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Keep the romance going!
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT #32
More coming the next days.
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Thanks for the update T,and also thanks for the upload.
Geo
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Just uploaded a special:
HOT ROD COMICS #4
and completely missed that our "primeuser" uploaded the same book just weeks ago!
Aw no, not again.
A doublette.
Please mark it a "diff ver".
Just got this one ish from Jim - he's got no more.
I adore Bob Powell and would have like to post more HOT RODs - not available.
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Thanks T, fixed the listing for you.
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Hey, what's this?
This is me and Jim V. in Paris.
As you can see
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT #33
is the book I choose to upload today.
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Thanks Guys.
Geo
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:D
Great photo T. Looks like you too were feeling happy.
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Actually, we were feeling a bit tired.
After looking through 50something comic books.
But that's how it is.
And this is
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT #34
The last book of our short upload run of this series.
Gave you a sample of that Ace romance title.
I still have got another Ace romance series up my sleeve.
Coming soon to a website near you...
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Thanks T for another romance book.
They seem to be very popular by the way.
Geo
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Ha, still more in demand are those wacky horror books like
THE THING #5
Up now.
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Very nice!
Boy, we are getting close to a full run of this expensive to collect title.
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But first we complete a crude western book series from Story:
PAWNEE BILL #1
Say you have been waiting for this one.
You don't have to mark it complete, it's just three books.
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Thank you T.
Geo
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... I still have got another Ace romance series up my sleeve.
Coming soon to a website near you...
I hope it's Real Love. ;)
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Got some issues of TEN STORY LOVE, Drusilla!
Hope you're not disappointed.
But first, my first of May romance treat (a book of my own):
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #34
From Harvey. Lots of these books are missing.
Hmmm. Am busy with other stuff.
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Hmmm, another "May Day" upload, thanks T.
Geo
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Got some issues of TEN STORY LOVE, Drusilla!
Hope you're not disappointed. ...
I just don't want to be accused of false advertising. :)
I think DCM only has three or four issues of RL.
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Well, here's the first of the Ten Stories:
TEN-STORY LOVE vOL35 03 (#201)
I got five of them in a row. Not realizing that these contain just reprints of earlier Ace romance books.
Ace published after the end of 1954 only reprint issues.
So maybe there is some REAL LOVE inside.
:D
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Let's-get-this-over-with-sunday-upload.
LOVE MYSTERY #3
Final issue of a doomed Fawcett romance-crime-suspense book.
But looking damn good!
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Thank you kind Sir for it.
Geo
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This-is-it-Tuesday.
Finally online the long-missing first ACE crime book:
CRIME MUST PAY THE PENALTY #33
from 1948. Absurdly brutal and graphic - enjoy!
Ach, forgot to mention.
This long running series is now COMPLETE!!!
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WONDERFUL, thanks T!
And wow, yeah, it's dang nasty stuff. I've seen worse but that's not saying much.
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Since Tilliban is showing pictures of me, I thought I'd share one of him. Here he is preparing to attack his Thai lunch in Paris:
(http://www.bpib.com/temp/Tillmann-Thai.jpg)ps. I'm back home in Palo Alto.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Gross!
Attack of the Thai lunch!
Good to hear from you, Jim.
Meant to contact you for days, but been absurdly busy preparing stuff.
I'll be "playing" a Düsseldorf gallery in early August.
Displaying horror comic books and covers, installing horror topics, showing panel slide shows, giving lectures in comics history.
Rrrrr.
And here's the next old romance book - featuring even older reprints from romance books:
TEN-STORY LOVE vol35 04
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Thanks T, and it's nice to see who is behind all your scans.
Geo
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Gross!
Attack of the Thai lunch! ...
Was that repulsion you were expressing?... I was thinking they had forgotten to kill whatever it was you were going to eat there and you had to sneak up on it. :P :)
Never had Thai food myself, so I have no idea how they serve it... live, dead, cooked, uncooked... or what they serve for that matter.
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That's just Tilliban's wry Germanic sense of humor coming to the fore (in public, even), DL.
The wearing of the napkin over the mouth while eating is just one of those crazy German things that you learn to put up with.
Seriously, though, Tilliban was goofing and I was shooting just before we tucked into a lovely luncheon. There's a nice French influence to Thai cuisine and this particular restaurant has an amazing way with seasoning that sets it apart from typical French. Thai can also lean heavily toward noodle and clay pot dishes. I'm very adventurous in my eating habits, figuring that in most cases millions upon millions of people have managed to survive for centuries quite nicely eating their cuisine so I guess it won't kill me to try it once. Usually I find that I like it.
I don't know how available alternative cuisines are in your area, but usually they are excellent value for the buck and can be surprisingly delicious in very new and different ways.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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The Thai food there really was fabulous!
:P
I like to clown around, as Jim can confirm.
No clowning with my next scan, though:
THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED #10
Not my best scan, I hafta admit. Ragged copy, bad print, loose pages.
Still worth the while.
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We'll take it anyway T, thanks.
Geo
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Looking at the new books today and dwelling on their genres, I'd say WAR is up.
There it is:
SOLDIER COMICS #7
Got some of those from Jim recently.
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Thanks T, peace please.
Geo
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The Thai food there really was fabulous!
:P
I like to clown around, as Jim can confirm.
...
Whew... Jim used the term "attack" and for a minute there I was thinking Dracula (or perhaps in this case more Ozzy Osbourne). I mean, it looked like a nice place there... I should at least think they would have provided you with a knife to do the dirty deed. :P :)
Just kidding. :)
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They provide you with everything you want, Dru.
Knifes, forks, spoons, chopsticks, tablecloth.
And I requested a big ol' hairy Americano taking pictures of me.
Bam! There he was. Nice guy, really, by the name of "Jim".
Loaned me a box of comic books as well.
Here's another #1 hit from 1947:
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #1
Got some more of these coming soon...
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Glad you hooked up with Jim, can't wait to see whats coming next.
Thanks for your latest up.
Geo
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That's the best upload I've seen in quite some time. Nobody could beat Simon and Kirby!
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@darkmark: There are a FEW more early "JTTG"s coming soon.
But for today it's romance leftovers with
TEN-STORY LOVE vol 35 #5
Two more of those in my drawer. Then we'll begin other romance titles.
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Thanks again T.
Geo
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And yet another scan. Feeling generous today...
Nah, this romance book was best before 1960!
About time it gets consumed, don't ya think.
SWEETHEART DIARY #47
Charlton, June 1959.
Book of my own. Got it cheap. Got to go.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Well, alright, we're glad to feature (thanks to JVJ) a missing precoder (horror book, that is).
THE THING #10
Series almost complete, one last issue to go.
May get my hands on that.
Have to travel to the Bavarian Black Forest for that and see a spooky recluse.
If I make it out there alive, I'll present you some more.
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Thanks T, on the lookout for your next upload.
Geo
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Start digging into Jim's vault of STORY COMICS books.
It'a a start with
FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #2
Which is just a run-of-the-mill crime comic.
This series is intereting, though, because they start packing horror into it.
In the later issues. Got a (very) few more.
All coming up in the next weeks.
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Thanks T!
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And we have a leftover "horror" book from 1955.
SECRET MYSTERIES #19
Last one from the infamous Story/Master/Merit company.
It's code-approved, though.
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Thank you T for another "Horror" book.
Geo
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Someone commented to my posting of SECRET MYSTERIES #19:
"Alway better than another sappy romance book".
True, but I cannot let that stand. So here's the next sappy romance book:
TEN-STORY LOVE vol 36 #6
Enjoy, or don't.
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Sappy or not, we'll take it T, thanks.
Geo
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Right, GEO.
Sappy or not - here I come.
And for today I puzzled together a complete version of
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #2
With art by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, of course.
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Thank you T, it should please a few folks.
Geo
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Thanks T!
As this is just adding to an existing scan I've renamed it to add 'upgrade'.
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Of course, Yoc, do your thing.
I'm not sure, what is to be labeled how.
Today it's war, genre-wise, don't panic.
FIGHTING WAR #4
From the obscuristas at Story.
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Hi T,
Upgrades are existing scans improved with additional pages or better scans but basically the same scan as before.
(dif ver) are a completely new scan of a book that has already been scanned.
I think that covers it.
Thanks for the latest.
Say, I hope SunDanceTrance is doing Ok. We haven't heard from him in quite a while.
-Yoc
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You know, I coaxed SunDanceTrance into scanning some horror books, but he's really not into that kind of thing.
I'm meeting the guy, in fact TOMORROW.
I'll be attending the comics festival in München (Munich to you) over the weekend.
There are some interesting exhibitions (Underground comix, tribute to Crumb, 75 years Superman, Wertham and the Comics Code) - and Denis Kitchen will appear in person. Gonna have a look.
So I'm signing out with my last Ace romance scan:
TEN-STORY LOVE vol 36 #1 (205)
There's lots more at Jim's home in California, but I'm done with these - for now.
Going to start a batch of romance from Story/Master. Soon.
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Hi T,
Hey, we'd be happy to hear from Sun anytime he can manage it.
And by no means is anyone limited to one genre or another when sharing.
Have fun at the convention and say Hi to SDT for everyone here on DCM.
:)
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Love the hat, Yoc!
Been diligent making contacts in Munich.
I'll be experimenting with digi cam pictures instead of scanning.
Got the go from a German collector to shoot his books.
Will meet the man in August and photograph a few missing pre-code horror books.
Maybe we can use that digi cam operation to get more from SundanceTrance.
Saw Denis Kitchen live. Sat in a room (a dark and small beer den) with him and only a dozen other people.
Denis told fabulous stories about his encounters with Eisner and Kurtzman.
The turnout was so meager because the whole of Bavaria is currently drowning in historic rainfalls.
Probably a late deluge for publishing underground comix.
I got soaking wet myself running around and looking for the event.
Anyway, I'm back home and dry - to present you with a personal copy scan of
TOMB OF TERROR #5
Beloved Harvey title, sporting two classics: "Rat Man" from Powell and "Head of the Medusa" from Palais.
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Till if you can get any pics of some non-English stuff that CB+ can use we would appreciate it. You can check the kind of stuff already there for ideas. We are a little less cautious than DCM.
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For sure digital photos are an option but whenever possible I'd encourage a traditional scan.
CadetEd is using his own user made digital cameral apparatus and gotten some good results.
Lighting and background seem to be very important to the final product.
Good luck and glad you got to enjoy the convention despite the rain that seems to be unending in Europe these days.
-Yoc
Oh and thanks about the hat! :)
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For sure digital photos are an option but whenever possible I'd encourage a traditional scan.
Keep in mind that, only a few years ago, Rangerhouse's scanner would have been considered a camera. They do a great job, assuming it can be held steady and the lighting is good.
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True enough John but also keep in mind that Rangerhouse's scanner cost him several thousand dollars and was designed to photograph paper sources. Your typical digital camera was not. It is possible to do so but there is a lot involved. Just ask CadetEd. :)
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Yehehes, digi cam shots are tricky!
I know.
But I've been experimenting with a low-priced family camera, a tripod, a hammer, a box of nails and two wet sponges.
Great results.
Kidding! That was McGyver.
"Trust me. I know what I'm doing." (Sledge Hammer)
And now: Stick 'em up. It's western time with a chaotic Fox book:
WESTERN KILLERS #64
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And time to trap the guilty with
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #3
A bit more of these will come up soon.
Is this a "comeuppance"?
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Thanks T for another good read.
Geo
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Looks like time for another war comic book.
FIGHTING WAR STORIES #5
from Story.
Pity that #2 is missing, else we would have completed another 5-book-series.
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Thank you T.
Geo
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Today I give you a new version of
CHAMBER OF CHILLS #8
A Harvey horror book I could get my hands on.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Was waiting till all the glitches were fixed.
Call me the glitchfixwaiting Man!
Celebrating DCM's rebirth with a triple JVJ upload:
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #9
SOLDIER COMICS #3
ROMANTIC HEARTS vol1 #4
Glad we're running again.
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Very nice! Thanks as always T!
:D
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Another one of JUSTICE WHOMPS THE LIVING DOG OUTTA THE GUILTY! Thanks!
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Found this one lying around:
THE BEYOND #30
Last of this series from Ace, but it's a nice book.
Love that Zansky story "Slaves of the Undead Brain".
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Thanks T.
I keep tripping over my stack of the very same issue. Time to clean house!
;)
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And it's another treat from our gentleman Jim:
SANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC #1
One-shot adventure from Toby.
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Thanks T and Guys for it.
Geo
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Military greetings from overseas to y'all.
It's another Fawcett war comic book:
SOLDIER COMICS #4
Aren't you glad it's finally up?!
Why couldn't I just stick to horror...
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They all deserve a scan T. We're happy to see anything you want to share.
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Woof!
Oldest book so far I touched (I believe).
A JVJ goodie - coming at you outta the wild blue yonder-40s.
CHAMP COMICS #23
October 1942.
If you look closely you can see my grandfather fighting the Human Meteor on page 6.
Gramps, you didn't stand a chance against die amerikanischen Superhelden.
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Great to see this! (but it's another bit of jvj confusion... this is the one issue between 22&25 Not on his list).
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Woof!
Oldest book so far I touched (I believe).
A JVJ goodie - coming at you outta the wild blue yonder-40s.
CHAMP COMICS #23
October 1942.
If you look closely you can see my grandfather fighting the Human Meteor on page 6.
Gramps, you didn't stand a chance against die amerikanischen Superhelden.
That's a beautiful book. Great scanning job as well. :)
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Len, Jim's picking up more books all he time, that would explain why it wasn't on the list, as the list not been updated since it was first posted I believe.
Thanks T for it.
Geo
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Exactly, folks!
JVJ supplied me with some suprise comic books - listed nowhere!
And I won't tell you in advance, just let them roll in...
Since movielover's stopped his avalanche of romance books, time for ME to squeeze in
ROMANTIC HEARTS Vol. 1 #5
Got more of those coming. Jeez.
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Exactly, folks!
JVJ supplied me with some suprise comic books - listed nowhere!
And I won't tell you in advance, just let them roll in...
Since movielover's stopped his avalanche of romance books, time for ME to squeeze in
ROMANTIC HEARTS Vol. 1 #5
Got more of those coming. Jeez.
Well, some are coded red in the unscanned list, but probably not all. Also, Yoc has a listing of the titles you sent me, and a few others know one or two.
I can't help the avalanche, that's just how they come to me. ;)
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Get on with that romantic sleaze!
It's
ROMANTIC HEARTS Vol. 1 #6
And more to come...
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Thanks for the "sleaze" T.
Geo
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Har, get to get it ouf of my system.
Here's the next:
ROMANTIC HEARTS Vol 1 #8
BTW: Numbers 1, 2 and 7 are missing.
We won't complete that series.
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Glad your having fun with these, and thanks for your latest upload.
Geo
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Keeping my promise, delivering you a nice "different version" scan of
THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED #11
Last one of those I've got. Nice book with interesting strange artwork and a great Bob Powell story in the back.
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Wham, bam, thank you, ma'm.
Dontcha know it - here's the next sappy romance book.
ROMANTIC HEARTS Vol. 1 #9
That would have been a great titel: "Sappy Romance".
Will make up for it with a crime book tomorrow...
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Thanks T. I always enjoy seeing Powell art.
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And here's your weekend crime delivery:
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #14
Hopefully.
JUSTICE TRAPS THE TOTALLY INNOCENT would be no fun at all...
Last one I got. Hafta ask JVJim if there's more.
Dunno.
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Thanks T and Jim for them.
Geo
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Love just keeps flowing outta ma sweet pores:
ROMANTIC HEARTS v1 #11
ROMANTIC HEARTS v3 #3
and so forth and so forth.
Gonna give you a war book next.
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Thanks for these T, what a turn-a-round from Love to War!!
Geo
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They say all is fair in uploading war and romance comics.
So, after some sappiness it's
SOLDIER COMICS #8
Fair, innit?
Just noticing how happiness and sappiness belong together... or do they?
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Don't know about that, but thanks for the upload today T.
Geo
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Again a next issue of
INSIPID ROMANCES...
Hold it...
ROMANTIC HEARTS v2 #4
I'll give you a horror book tomorrow, to make amends.
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Thanks T.
Geo
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And there it it: Drumroll:
DARK MYSTERIES #1
Nice to see. JVJ loaned me the first three issues.
Two more coming up soon.
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Very good T and thanks.
Geo
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Tilliban has some of the finest uploads on DCM and yet....I can't download any of them.
I use an iPad and the Comic Book Lover app.
Any suggestions?
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Tilliban has some of the finest uploads on DCM and yet....I can't download any of them.
I use an iPad and the Comic Book Lover app.
Any suggestions?
Earl try this thread, it may help out on this. By the way I have an iPad-Mini and Comic Book Lover and it works fine.
Here's the link: http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,4640.15.html
I would hope that helps you out on this.
Geo
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Earl try this thread, it may help out on this. By the way I have an iPad-Mini and Comic Book Lover and it works fine.
Here's the link: http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,4640.15.html
I would hope that helps you out on this.
Geo
I'm surprised you're able to successfully download Tilliban's uploads on your iPad using the ComicBook Lover app. Whenever I try, the file downloads as a zip and there's nowhere on the iPad to open the file.
I'll use your link to hopefully backup all the comics I've already downloaded. Thanks.
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How's that for a change of mood?
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE #2
Some more to come.
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Thanks for the up T as every time.
Geo
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And I sneaked up more rrrromance:
ROMANTIC HEARTS Vol. 2 #5
ROMANTIC HEARTS Vol. 2 #6
There's still two more in the pipeline...
And when they're done I will upload another romance series.
AAAAAARRRGGGHHH.
Will be giving you a crime book over the weekend.
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Thank you so much T, your heart is in the right place here. ;)
Geo
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Kind words, Geo, which I counter with crime:
FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #4
That's still a crime book (horror comes in way later), but contains a wonderfully cranky and crude early Lou Cameron story.
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Thanks T, your welcome.
Geo
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Just to keep track.
Uploaded mixed stuff in the last days:
ROMANTIC HEARTS Vol. 2 #7
MARMADUKE MOUSE #10
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #13
Wait for more surprises...
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Thanks T!
:)
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Please notice:
With the upload of
SOLDIER COMICS #9
we have COMPLETED another series.
About time, huh?
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Thanks T!
Noted on the site.
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And there goes finally my last scan of that series:
ROMANTIC HEARTS vol2 #12
This series is not completed, some books at the beginning and in between missing.
But we can live with that, I believe.
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This is just a little crime:
ALL-FAMOUS POLICE CASES #6
Jim gave me that book, no more from the series.
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Thanks T!
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This one I got cheap on Ebay:
BRIDE'S SECRETS #2
And cheap it is!
But I always enjoy that crummy Iger Studio artwork.
Yeehaw.
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Enjoy another JVJ supriiiiise:
CRACK COMICS #13
Golden oldie. These oldtimers take ours to scan and edit.
68 pages! For a dime, what a ... bargain.
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Very nice, thanks guys!
:D
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Hight time for another horror scoop - from the files of Dr. Jim:
DARK MYSTERIS #2
Very nice book.
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And it's another sweet treat from the JVJ collection.
BRIDES ROMANCES #6
From Quality. Just that one book.
But I can break the news that some issues of ACG's LOVELORN will be going up in the near future.
Yay!
Or nay?
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Some out there certainly enjoy them so Yay!
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Fiction House was always keen on reprinting stuff.
So we give you:
KNOCKOUT ADVENTURES #1
A so-called "one-shot". And miss.
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Thanks T,
gee sure wish I could have debuted this on FHF in Sept.
Oh well, lovely to see it finally scanned. :)
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O, sorry, Yoc - didn't know about that.
You're the Fiction House guy.
I just cram them out like Jim throws them at me.
As the next one, a first of this STAR series:
TOP LOVE STORIES #17
There's a lot of bad books out there, and most of those came from Star...
Harhar.
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Hi T,
Yeah, if you get a new FH to scan Please let me know about it before sharing it on DCM. Thanks!
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Sorry, no more Fiction Houses as far as I know...
But it's a real doozie for ya:
FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #8
Not a horror book, but wacky and entertaining crime "fun".
Ah, Story comics are great.
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Thanks T, looking forward to your next up.
Geo
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Well, allright, here's the deal.
I visited German collector whitewolf61 (a friend of sundancetrance's) and managed to photograph 20 DCM missing horror books.
So you'll be seeing my special DigiCam edits for a while.
Starting with
CHAMBER OF CHILLS #24
See below a picture of the famed "Vault of whitewolf61".
Stored away in an unknown location.
400 original pre-code horror books.
The German Holy Grail of FIFTIES HORROR.
A plea to the admin: Could you change the name of this thread from
"tilliban and sundancetrance uploads" to something like "tilliban and the German collectors uploads"?
You're very welcome to find a catchy name.
:D
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Wow, I know some will see that and have spasms - what no CGC coffins???
I've renamed this topic as requested T. Sorry, I couldn't think of a better name.
Looking forward to what others you've got in store for us!
-Yoc
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Thank you, Yoc, for renaming the topic.
Yeah, and I will surprise you massively.
From time to time, taking my time...
But first it's another single book from JVJ:
CALLING ALL GIRLS #10
Aaaarrrghhh, I forgot the postfix "-JVJ".
If one of you admins can add this, I'd be grateful.
Thank you!
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Done.
Thanks T!
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Am swamped in work, so just on the fly an upload of
RUSTY BOY DETECTIVE #3
If I can find my head anytime soon, I'll upload some more horror.
Promise.
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Thanks T!
Good luck with the work.
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Good thing I always have some unused scans in my secret drawer.
So I can give you an ACG adventure/war book:
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE #11
Swamped with work for my upcoming new addition to my "Empire of Horror"...
Learn more next week!
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Thanks T!
And good luck with the Empire building.
:)
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Jeez, still working deliriously on my new website about FAWCETT & CHARLTON HORROR.
Gimme some more days...
So it's a scan out of my drawer:
POPULAR COMICS #42
Should've scanned this differently, because the pages were extremely wavy.
It's blurry, blast it!
But I'm not doing it again...
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Thanks T, looking forward to the new site!
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And on the run it's the next digicam-wonder edit, DCM-missing
CHAMBER OF CHILLS #14
More to come, kiddies.
I feel like the Vault Keeper himself.
Got 20 pre-code horror scans in my pocket - and 30 more books in the mail.
I'll be feeding you horror the whole year round.
Hehehee.
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Sounds great T, looking forward to them!
:)
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Finally, here's the first of my two scans for our FOX FESTIVITIES
FANTASTIC COMICS #2
Nice paper scan - with 6 added fiche.
Also I launched a new website about pre-code horror comics.
Gonna post this in my other thread.
Anyway it's here:
http://charm-of-charlton.de/
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Wow! Thanks very much for the surprise Fox book T and WONDERFUL work on the Fawcett Horror site!
Gang, if you enjoy horror you should look into T's site!
:D
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Continuing our FAWCETT HORROR festivities, here's now the photographed missing book:
WORLDS OF FEAR #9
Thusly COMPLETING this series.
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COOL! Thanks again T!
:)
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Thank you T and Jim for this one.
Geo
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@Geo: Leave Jim out of this.
All the photo-edits are coming from German horror collector "whitewolf61" who let me take pictures of his books.
So is this next one:
THE THING #7
Last missing pre-code horror issue from Charlton.
Series now COMPLETE.
I accidentally named the upload THE Thing instead of just THING.
You make change that if you like...
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Thanks T, fixed the listing.
Please thank Wolf for letting you scan these rare and expensive books for all of on DCM.
:)
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Yeah, he's proud all right.
But all that grisly horror stuff...
We're neglecting good ol' romance.
Therefore I give you:
LOVELORN #11
Ahhh.
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No worries on romance - lots of it to come in the Fox Spotlight but thanks all the same!
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Jeez. My photo edits are not that popular as it seems...
But any scan is better than no scan.
I'll keep them coming, though, for all the historians out there.
THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED #3
will COMPLETE the run of this title.
Who's your daddy?
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Something is always better than nothing T.
We welcome the additions!
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And I present you with my second and last FOX book:
FANTASTIC COMICS #7
Some crazy stuff in there. Enjoy.
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And we have a paper version (minus cover, admitted) of
MILITARY COMICS #37
A book Jim brought me.
Next up will be horror again!
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Thanks T!
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Time for a nice JVJ scan:
DARK MYSTERIES #3
Very fun pre-code horror from Story Comics.
Sadly the last issue Jim had in store.
I have maybe ordered one or two more from my pocket money...
Ach, just wait for it.
I work on comleting all the horror books.
:D
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Very nice! Thanks to both of you for this.
:D
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And for today I present you an oldie but goldie, shmoldie but moldie.
No, an actually fun book in fine condition.
TREASURE COMICS #6.
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Thanks T, your up's are always welcome, smelly or moldy we still want them.
Geo
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Time to get rid of a first "doublette" scan:
STARLET O' HARA #4
Another scanner did this book before me.
Happened three or four times more.
That's my bad for storing scans for weeks and months...
I always keep a stack of scans in my drawer - and won't upload more than two per week.
Because I won't overfeed you with material.
And I choose which genre might fit...
Yeah, I'm a freak.
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And I present a next missing horror book I could photograph from my German collector friend whitewolf61:
FANTASTIC FEARS #3
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Thanks to both you and the wolfman T.
:)
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Today we have an oldtimer to marvel at:
ALL-NEW SHORT STORY COMICS #2
From Harvey, 1943. Jeez.
Still some pages missing, but the existing ones are very fine!
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Very nice to see this one - thanks very much for sharing it JVJ.
:D
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On with the rarities!
Here's a very seldomly seen
CRACKAJACK FUNNIES #7
from 1938. Jeez. Sadly middle sheets missing, but else relatively fine...
Signing out for a week.
My globetrotting mission leads me to Rome, Italy.
Looking at ruins in POOR condition. Don't you have any MINT ones here, Signora?
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Like the wizard from the Arabian Nights, Tilliban, we should wander the streets offering 'New comics for old! New comics for old!' See if it works. Alladin's wife fell for it. While we're at it, we might try 'New wine for old!' And hope for the best. Karen and I are off tomorrow to celebrate my birthday with lunch at De Vinis Illustribus and a bottle of 1949 Clos de Vougeot plus whatever Lionel brings to the table. DVI being our favorite wine merchant in Paris and an invite to his table something to treasure and, surely, savor.
Then it's off on Thursday to Breda and some measure of fun and games. Any DCM members attending the Strip Festival Breda please come up and say hello. I look SOMETHING like the avatar painting, just not quite so distinguished. You might find me at the Flesk/Spectrum booth as John brought some ImageS over and is giving me some space to display/sell them.
I'll see YOU, Tillmann, the following week.
Peace, Jim
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Have a great b-day celebration Jim!
:)
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Bouncing back from Rome (where I actually saw the Pope pass by) I offer you another infamous DigiCam edit:
EERIE #13
Great cover, weak issue. Yeah, I'm frank with you.
Gee, how much pizza and pasta can a guy eat?!
Answer: A lot!
Papal blessings to all at the DCM staff.
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Thank you T, keep'em coming.
Geo
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Happy to fill up more from this series:
LOVELORN #13
from ACG. Missing issues till #20 will follow in the next weeks.
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Thanks T for the update and upload.
Geo
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Greetings to you ALL from Paris, France - where I went to see the wizard!
Our own JVJ - Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Instead of giving me a brain he presented me AGAIN with a pack of comic books.
And who needs a brain when he can read fun stuff like this crime/horror hybrid???
FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #13
Au revoir! More to see in the coming weeks.
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Thanks T!
:D
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Pay NO attention to that man behind the beer stein.
Tilliban just left to catch the TGV back to Koln where he will process the latest batch of comics PLUS a whole brain and a half full of IDs we made on Quality and Ziff-Davis horror issues. Watch for his updates on DCM, GCD, and on his own http://fifties-horror.de website. He'll be fixing a lot of inaccurate and blank GCD entries.
Great visit. Thanks for making the effort, Tillmann.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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That's Wonderful news guys!
The more accurate GCD is the better. Many, many thanks for all you Both have done for everyone out there.
:)
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Ah, well, you know, there's a price to what we're doing.
After three days of spotting art in horror comic books your face starts to derail in strange ways...
(photo proof below)
For today let's see some leftover scan - last we have from this series.
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE #4
Jim, of course, stays his guru-like calm.
He's seen too much, I think.
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Thanks T and it's good to see a pix of Jim enjoying himself.
Geo
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Hehehe, that is a great photo guys.
;)
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Sure gllllaaad we're running again!
Thanks to the fixing crew.
For today I offer a oldie book from Harvey:
GREEN HORNET #13
Someone has been ripping all the pages featuring the GH out of the book!
Kidding. Of course.
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Thanks T!
BTW, you can share the entire book over on CB+ (http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1364) if you like.
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And filling another gap by taking photographs:
CHAMBER OF CHILLS #3
:D
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Again thanks for another book done.
Geo
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I am able to scan a book a day at the moment, so I'll up my uploads.
Meaning there'll be coming a scan almost every day in the next weeks.
Well, we'll see. Starting with another ACG romance book.
LOVELORN #16
I got issues #17 and #19 as well.
Will follow soon.
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Very nice!
It's the Tilliban Flood Event!
;)
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Right so, Yoc.
Our next entry in our "everything-must-go" week:
MILITARY COMICS #12
That is PARTS of an raggedy copy I got from Jim.
Jeez, these old wartime books!
Am I glad I'm usually doing fine 36-pagers from the 50s.
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Thanks T for another one of those 'Horror' books.
Geo
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Love the Quality books T.
I'm hoping for a Quality Spotlight sometime in our future.
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And we have a copy from my personal horror file:
MISTER MYSTERY #4
Almost no Quality books coming, sorry, but more stuff from Key and Avon over the winter.
Mostly.
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It's would I lie to you- Sunday and another issue of
ALL-TRUE ROMANCE #13
Enjoy. Can't scan at the moment, my computer is slowing down Photoshop to a near standstill.
Hmmmpfh. Let my notebook defragmentate for three whole days - and still continuing...
Maybe I should just restart the damn thing.
Will see about that. No worries.
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Thanks T.
GL with the computer!
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Ah, I got leftover stuff enuff to keep you reading:
HEART THROBS #34
Quality romance, anyone?
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Ah, I got leftover stuff enuff to keep you reading:
HEART THROBS #34
Quality romance, anyone?
Yep to all those romance fans, you know who you are.
Thanks T.
Geo
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And here's that promised missing issue:
FAMOUS FUNNIES #146
Left out the Buck Rogers story.
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Always welcome on those FF's, thanks T. That series filling up nicely.
Geo
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Time for crime!
FIGHT AGAINST THE GUILTY #23
Code-approved stuff from the infamous Story Comics company.
This still looks quite interesting, very peculiar art...
Not good, mind you, peculiar.
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Thanks again T for the upload.
Geo
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And the horror show goes on:
THE THING #16
My scan and edit of this horridly violent book.
Pre-code horror at its most love- and detestable.
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Very creepy T, very creepy.
Geo
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Coming atcha with sleeky romance:
DR. ANTHONY KING LOVE DOCTOR #4
Quite interesting romance book from Toby.
Mostly artwork by the elusive Myron Fass!
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The Love Doctor is in!!
Nice one T, thanks for up'ing it.
Geo
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The love doctor is alway glad to help.
Are you just glad to see me - or are you the love doctor?
Harhar.
And now something to whet your funny whistle on:
FUNNY TUNES #2
Cute animal stuff from Avon, cripes!
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The tilliban upload bonanza continues with this interesting war time young women's magazine:
CALLING ALL GIRLS #43
Something JVJ picked up.
Why's there sometimes a black upload thumbnail?
I wonder.
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Hi T,
Usually the Black thumbnails happen when the cover scans are over large (above 1.5 or so mb) or not jpgs - ie PNG or TIFFs.
In your Calling All Girls case none of these apply. I've no idea why it or two of the FH books I added have a problem. Grrrrr.
I can manually fix it so I'll do that shortly.
-Yoc the mystified.
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Sorry to have mystified you, Yoc!
It's okay now. Your doing? Nice work!
Thank you very much.
And here comes the next pre-code horror digicam extravaganza:
WEIRD TERROR #5
Those pictures just keep on rolling in...
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I know how to fix them when they show up but I'm still not sure why they happen.
Your latest upload was fine - thanks for sharing another needed issue!
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Romance will follow horror:
Next issue in line is
LOVELORN #17
Hopefully one more up before christmas.
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Thanks T and a Merry Christmas to you before hand.
Geo
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And we continue with crime:
FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #15
From Story Comics. Always enjoyable books!
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Thanks again for it T.
Geo
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Yeeehaaa, lovin' time!
FRONTIER ROMANCES #2
First books from Avon come stampeding in!
Got a whole pack of those.
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I nice easy, quiet, "Frontier Romances", ya right! ^-^
Thanks T.
Geo
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Didn't you wait for that one?
LOVELORN #19
Last one I got from Jim.
Great looking ACG romance books. I think he's got more.
But someone has to order them.
I will be busy doing Gilmore/Key - Avon - and horror books in the next weeks.
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He does T, you'll just have ask him for them next time.
Thanks T for another romance book.
Geo
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And we have a missing
MISTER MYSTERY #6
which I could photograph.
Sadly no match for a scan, but I'll keep them coming.
Got some more.
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Thanks for it anyway T, (always better then not having it at all).
Geo
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Yo, those Avon books will start rolling in from now on.
Handful of one-shots and a lot of beautiful western books containing Kinstler art.
Let's start with
BADMEN OF TOMBSTONE
Enjoy the baddies.
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Thanks T, I'll be adding the same issue at a later date, it's only scanned at this time.
Geo
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New here, even though I had signed up some time ago.
And I already have a question :D How long does the approval process take? I have uploaded something last weekend and haven't heard back yet.
Rainer
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If you uploaded it using the Upload File link it must not have made it to us ArKay.
We check for new files daily.
Please read the FAQ on uploading at this link:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.org/forum/index.php/topic,1882.0.html (http://digitalcomicmuseum.org/forum/index.php/topic,1882.0.html)
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OK, up to the 4th upload then. The upload form isn't for the faint of heart, and this is coming from an IT guy! ;)
Wish me luck.
Rainer
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Guess I will have to throw in the towel on this one. It's a high resolution scan and it probably chokes on the images (~1.5-2MB/page).
Can't bring the quality down any more, this is already at 80%. The cover doesn't shown when I hit preview so I guess you won't be seeing this either.
"Information: Thankyou for adding this new file to our database.. The admin has required that files are approved before they are added to the database. Your file will appear in our database if the admin approves your file."
I also got this message the last time.
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Thanks ArKay, that's the message you want to see. Then your upload just needs to be approved by the staff which I just did.
Your scan is now on the site.
If you would like to add more scans - please feel free to start your own topic say 'ArKay Uploads' or something like that.
Thanks again for the nice new scan of this book,
-Yoc
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ArKay belongs to ME, Yoc.
:D
It's a fellow German pre-code horror aficionado.
Congrats that you joined us, Rainer.
Told you the first one would be hard!
Why didn't you call me?
;)
Now up is a very fine version of
BEYOND #8.
Hurra!
(German for "Hooray")
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Thanks Yoc! And it's all there, the preview image & the thumbnails! Did you have to add them by hand, because they didn't show at ail in the preview?
And thanks as well to Tillmann! I didn't know the upload failed so I was assuming that it just took a while to approve. Otherwise I would have asked you directly :)
I had made the mistake of adding the file first before fiddling with all of the other fields so all in I must have uploaded the file at least 3 times, once when trying to add thumbnails and again when doing the preview twice.
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Hi ArKay,
It's best to first choose how many 'thumbnails' you want to add and update the form.
Next add the rest of the info needed - going top to bottom.
Only hit Preview once and wait for a while for the file to upload - Please do not hit Preview more than once as it will show more than one instance of your upload on our end.
-Yoc
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And back to the old scanmill.
BATTLE FIRE #2
is a code-approved war book from Key Publications.
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Thanks T, that's one I haven't seen before.
Geo
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Hi ArKay,
It's best to first choose how many 'thumbnails' you want to add and update the form.
Next add the rest of the info needed - going top to bottom.
Only hit Preview once and wait for a while for the file to upload - Please do not hit Preview more than once as it will show more than one instance of your upload on our end.
-Yoc
Thanks! Yeah, that's how I did it the 2nd time around :)
-- Rainer
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I don't know if Rainer/ArKay will do another scan.
???
It's a helluva action and trouble.
I know he's got some more books, dont'cha?
;D
But come christmas, come romance:
BETTY AND HER STEADY
One-shot from Avon. You may call this #2, cause there was a Going Steady with Betty before.
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Thanks T!
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Interesting anyways.
Maybe going back to pulp style book,
testing the waters?
Geo
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Yeah, GEO, they probably WERE testing something.
With devastating results. One issue. Says all.
;)
And here's my latecoming christmas present upload:
TALES OF HORROR #9
Last missing issue of that series. So it's COMPLETE - if you don't consider the one reprint issue to be a hindrance to completion...
It's my pre-code horror pleasure.
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Thanks T!
We really would like to see the original as well though so I'll leave the listing alone.
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I don't know if Rainer/ArKay will do another scan.
???
It's a helluva action and trouble.
I know he's got some more books, dont'cha?
;D
That's my only pre-code book so far, I collect 70s horror magazines. And those I won't be allowed
to post for another 20-30 years? Or even longer? :)
All of my pre-code stuff is from archives. While the comics are technically PD I doubt that those
reprints are as well.
I will add scans whenever I can get my hands on an affordable pre-code book. :D
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Thanks AK.
You are right on all counts. We can't allow any non originals.
GL on your collecting and we look forward to maybe seen something more from you someday.
Have a great 2014!
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Thanks, the same to you!
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Yeah, they're all into Eerie Pubs now!
:D
These 70s trash horror magazines will be the big hype from summer 2014 on!
My prediction - and our predicament.
But I'll stay true to FIFTIES HORROR, of course.
:-*
And time for a rare romance book from Star Pubs:
TRUE-TO-LIFE ROMANCES #11
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Thanks again T.
Geo
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And a big YAY to us all, the year is run.
As a last gift in 2013, I'm offering you
TREASURE COMICS #5
A real treasure trove of 40s comics art.
We Germans wish on New Year's eve a "good slide over".
Into 2014, of course.
See ya around.
Ah, by the way, TREASURE COMICS are now COMPLETED.
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Thanks T!
Section also updated. Nicely done gang.
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Yeah, they're all into Eerie Pubs now!
:D
These 70s trash horror magazines will be the big hype from summer 2014 on!
My prediction - and our predicament.
But I'll stay true to FIFTIES HORROR, of course.
:-*
And time for a rare romance book from Star Pubs:
TRUE-TO-LIFE ROMANCES #11
Technically most of them (if not all) are reprints or at least remakes of 50s strips anyway. :)
It's a rather cheap fix as well! Well, not as cheap as it used to be since I have pretty
much picked clean eBay Germany and now have to resort to importing them, but they are still affordable.
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Hehehe.
I remember being sent home from grade school when caught with a copy of one of these amazingly gory 70s mags. Wow did I get an ear full from the female teacher who found it. And it wasn't even my magazine! We were passing it around the room and I just happened to be caught. Oh well.
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You could use some of the earlier Eerie Pubs to fill in some missing pages in a lot of Ajax-Farrells...and maybe even reconstruct some missing ones. I have been entering Keith Smith's data into the GCD for this publisher and hope to have all of them indexed before the next semester starts.
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It's an idea but we can't use anything printed beyond Dec. 1959.
Those Skywald, etc books are still under copyright and they were known to alter the art as well adding gore when needed.
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Hehehe.
I remember being sent home from grade school when caught with a copy of one of these amazingly gory 70s mags. Wow did I get an ear full from the female teacher who found it. And it wasn't even my magazine! We were passing it around the room and I just happened to be caught. Oh well.
Most of the gore was on the cover anyway which is of course what the teachers saw as well. I would have loved to have grown up with those books. I vaguely remember reading the odd Spider-Man or Hulk issue back then, that was about it.
The Eerie Pubs stuff I have compared is 80-90% identical to the original. Sometimes they would add something (blood, drivel, whatever) or replace and/or insert a panel. I have seen plenty of comics that seem to have borrowed pages or whole stories from b&w reprints.
I'm sure tilliban would love those 70s books since he prefers b&w comics IIRC! Today the Eerie stack has gotten a little bigger again. Also gotten another issue of "Chilling Tales of Horror" which mostly consists of b&w ACG reprints (or maybe swipes)? They look pristine. They did some Key reprints as well in early issues.
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Hi ArKay,
If you eventually scan your any of your mags I bet T would like a copy and I sure would for my personal collection. Sadly we can't share them here though.
Good luck in increasing your collection.
:)
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@YOC: Great anecdote about your school days!
Didn't you fell a bit delinquent then?
:D
@JRVANDORE: That is an interesting option.
When we are down to the last 30 missing pre-code horror books, I wanted to start making some "calls".
Asking known collectors to share these special issues.
A last resort would be to "reconstruct" missing issues from their b/w-reprint version out of Eerie Pubs.
@ALL: Sorry for asking a stupid question?
But aren't Eerie Pubs not in public domain?
I thought they were. But the point is rather that DCM won't feature anything past 1959. Right?
Ach, and I just uploaded an Avon funny animal book:
FUNNY TUNES #3
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Hi T,
It was embarrassing mostly. We knew the magazine would get us in trouble with all the blood and cleavage on the cover. I can't recall which title it was but it had lots of wooden stakes being driven into vampires and flesh stripping going on inside.
I would only resort to reconstruction as a last choice.
I can't find Skywald titles on the Copyright site but yes, they were published after 1959 and wont be showing up on DCM. I wouldn't be surprised if CB+ shares them though I strongly suggest they look deeper into the matter.
-Yoc
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Eerie Publications is Myron Fass; Skywald is Sol Brodsky and Israel Waldman (from IW/Super).
There are approximately three periods at Eerie. They started out doing straight reprints of mostly Ajax-Farrell material. After a few years they started to redraw all sorts of 50's horror material (adding in Comic Media, Harvey, et al.), first with folks like Carl Burgos and Chic Stone, then later with Argentinian artists. They mixed these newly redrawn stories in with reprints of their reprints and reprints of their previously redrawn. The last several years of Eerie consist entirely of reprints with no newly redrawn stories.
Of course, Farrell had a habit of reprinting its own material, so it is something difficult to determine what exactly the source of the particular Eerie reprint is. For those who don't know, Farrell launched a bunch of titles post code and they retitled and revised their earlier stuff for Code-approval. But they also reprinted their material pre-Code. Quite a mess to untangle.
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Yoc, what you described sounds like a typical Eerie cover. They seem to have had a couple of cut & paste characters they could combine in order to create a new cover. So many of them kinda look the same. "Weird" had the most issues.
http://www.comics.org/series/10209/covers/
I have a couple of scans. I will PM you when they have finished uploading. This will take a while :)
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Well, we happen to spill an Ajax-Farrell book today as photo-version:
STRANGE FANTASY #1
Thanks again for your insights, guys!
I was actually JUST wondering about an Eerie Pub reprint of an Ajax story. What baffled me was that they reprinted a toned-down, code-approved version of a story I have in store yet.
So, as JRvandore was pointing out, they must have fished out one of those in-house-doctored stories. Published in a code Ajax mag. Ahaaaa!
It’s a fearful mess I certainly won’t untangle. Luckily someone has DONE it already:
http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Miscellaneous/Keith%20Smith/Eerie%20Publications%20Index.htm
Fabulous listing. The ultimate jungle guide to Eerie Pubs. And they know that the story I found is a “Code-approved version”. These guys are good!
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Thanks for the new scan and link T!
:D
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Well, we happen to spill an Ajax-Farrell book today as photo-version:
STRANGE FANTASY #1
Thanks again for your insights, guys!
I was actually JUST wondering about an Eerie Pub reprint of an Ajax story. What baffled me was that they reprinted a toned-down, code-approved version of a story I have in store yet.
So, as JRvandore was pointing out, they must have fished out one of those in-house-doctored stories. Published in a code Ajax mag. Ahaaaa!
It’s a fearful mess I certainly won’t untangle. Luckily someone has DONE it already:
http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Miscellaneous/Keith%20Smith/Eerie%20Publications%20Index.htm
Fabulous listing. The ultimate jungle guide to Eerie Pubs. And they know that the story I found is a “Code-approved version”. These guys are good!
Wow, they put everything in one biiiiiiiiiiiiig page haha. I own Mike Howlett's Eerie book and plan on actually finishing it one day.
I haven't bothered with getting his index book since there's plenty of information in the GCD to which I am also contributing
(most of my stuff is on hold since they want a synopsis for each story, the ones which are in the "Table of Contents" don't suffice anymore these days).
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Not to hijack the thread...but synopses are optional at the GCD. What the GCD no longer allows is using the companies' text from solicitations or the like. But you dont have to create synopses. And I have put in Keith Smith's indexes for all the issues except the ones you are working on, so once you are done we will have all those reprint relationships documented.
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I simply followed what people had done before me, you know? My first entry had been accepted which was cool, so then I did a bunch on a lazy Saturday (it's a lot of work actually) and most of them got rejected. The other Eerie stuff had been indexed that way, quoting the TOC and adding "(from TOC)". That used to be OK, but it no longer is. Some of the notes I got for my edits:
"Synopsis: This text should describe the story so you can identify it in a reprint situation. You could also add a name for one or more characters which will make it easier for other researchers to identify reprints. The text should not contain any exclamations like "Chiller!" or "Gulp!""
"The old synopseses you refer to should be replaced one day too.
They slipped into the database before the editorship was established, years ago."
The first one doesn't make it sound like they would be optional. I haven't read all of those books yet so they will have to remain "in edit" until I do I guess. :)
-- Rainer
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Trust me, synopses are optional. As a matter of fact, I am in the process of removing all of those table of contents blurbs. I think the editor suggested the synopses and characters because he didn't know that Keith Smith had identified all the sources already. I have put all those in now, so that information is unnecessary to make the identifications. So if you want to release the four issues you have I will put in the basics and you can put in anything extra afterwards. Or I will wait until you are done and fix up the reprint notes at that point.
--Jim (with the GCD since 2005)
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That's a pity since those were a lot of work to enter and I actually kinda enjoyed them, but OK. Removing and resubmitting.
-- Rainer
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Reprints make me wonder who currently owns the rights to the Eerie Pubs comics.
I know that Craig Yoe is about to publish a volume of Haunted Horror consisting of stories compiled by Mike Howlett.
And today I have received a copy of "The Zombie Factory" from 2007 which also reprints 27 stories.
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@ArKay: We should ask Mike Howlett who owns the right to Eerie Pubs. He should know.
@jrvandore+ArKay: Of course synopses are optional on GCD, Rainer! You don't have to do 'em.
I am doing them for all the horror books I scan. So I can keep track of certain topics and do searches for stories...
And I used the day to sneak up another trashy romance book - from Key, o gosh!
IDEAL ROMANCE #3
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Thanks T.
Geo
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@ArKay: We should ask Mike Howlett who owns the right to Eerie Pubs. He should know.
@jrvandore+ArKay: Of course synopses are optional on GCD, Rainer! You don't have to do 'em.
I am doing them for all the horror books I scan. So I can keep track of certain topics and do searches for stories...
And I used the day to sneak up another trashy romance book - from Key, o gosh!
IDEAL ROMANCE #3
I am close to owning 100 Eerie Pubs books now and so far I have read maybe 4 or 5. :-X So no handwritten synopses from me anytime soon.
I found this about the Zombie Factory book:
http://theporporbooksblog.blogspot.de/2011/04/zombie-factory-edited-by-patrick.html
It's not clear who (if anyone ) now owns the reprint rights to the Eerie comics. According to Mike Howlett's comprehensive overview of the Fass publishing empire, in 1976, increasing acrimony between Myron Fass and Countrywide co-executive Stanley R. Harris (Fass actually fired a bullet through the wall of his office and into Harris's) led to the latter man's departure to form Harris Publications. Harris took with him the rights to publish the horror titles.
No one knows if Stanley Harris and Harris Publications, which is still in operation ('Vampirella' is one of its more well-known titles), intends to release the Eerie equivalent of the affordable softcover compilations for Old School comics, as the Marvel 'Essentials' series or the DC 'Showcase' series have done.
And then...
[Presumably the Eerie comics presented in 'Zombie' are in the Public Domain, but I'm not one to quibble over licensing rights.]
Romance comics, getting soft in your old days? :)
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Romance comics, getting soft in your old days? :)
Well, apart from being a pre-code horror fanatic, I'm doing all kind of scans in all genres.
Our JVJ-Jim brings me packs of old books - and I like to fill gaps in companies or titles.
So you'll find me uploading crime, western, romance, funny animal and war - besides the horror stuff.
Just providing service, ma'am...
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And you gotta admit some of the art in the romance books like St. John was amazing!
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I take everything but romance. Don't think I will ever be in the mood for those, got plenty of other stuff in the queue.
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Original vs. Eerie Pubs (re-colored)...
(http://arkay.de/temp/comics/EerieOrig.jpg)(http://arkay.de/temp/comics/EerieNew.jpg)
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Nice work ArKay!
BTW, could we perhaps get you to share pages like these at half-size in the future. Just to save some space on the server and it would make reading the topic easier.
Just a suggestion.
:)
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I'm saving you plenty of space, those are just links to the images on my private page ;) I don't usually upload stuff to every page I post. I have a 27" monitor with a high resolution so to me those pages don't appear to be all that big. I apologize if they are over the top. I have scaled them down to 50%.
This is an example of a slightly modified comic, they only added some black here and there. The original book hasn't been uploaded here, but I found this first page in an eBay auction.
It would have been nice to compare them panel by panel. It's originally from Ajax/Farrell's Haunted Thrills #6.
-- Rainer
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Hey, Rainer, you posted some HORROR ROMANCE.
Nice work.
;)
Today I upload another Avon one-shot book:
CRIME ON THE WATERFRONT
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True... I think half of the horror comics are about love or lack thereof though :D
This one has actually been one of my favorite Eerie stories so far, that's why I had scanned it.
The original Haunted Thrill goes for a lot of money, otherwise I would have bought it.
It's in 3 different Eerie issues as well.
http://www.comics.org/story/name/Dearest%2C%20Deadest%20Dummy/sort/alpha/
It reminds me of the movie Mannequin. Maybe it was the inspiration for that?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093493/
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Interesting thoughts AK.
Geo
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Could have been the other way round as well since this movie was a remake of a 1948 picture.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040669
-- Rainer
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And up now is another missing book from Key (no one has missed, though).
Just filling gaps, and this is NO horror book.
PRIZE MYSTERY #2
But, guys, attention, please.
Mike Howlett got back to me - concerning the copyrights to Eerie Pubs:
While working on the WEIRD WORLD book, I made many attempts to contact Stanley Harris about the rights of the Pubs and he would never get back to me.
Eventually, he had some kid call me and say "We no longer have the rights to CREEPY and EERIE", which of course meant the warren stuff. They had no recollection of The Eerie Pubs. Since the last published stories from Harris were in 1982, I feel we're all safe.
The stories were all plagiarized in the first place so I doubt they were EVER submitted for actual copyright. I searched the US Copyright website and never found anything. Some (not much!) Fass and Harris stuff, but no Eerie.
In the years since the WEIRD WORLD OF... book was published, I was waiting to get a phone call or letter saying I owed someone money, but it hasn't come!
So, I feel pretty safe doing the WORST OF... book (which is almost done) and comfortable saying the stuff is in the Public Domain.
I thought as much!
:D
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Very interesting, thanks T!
How did Prize Comics not print Prize Mystery? Tsk tsk.
Many thanks for the info on Eerie Publications as well. Sounds like another case of 'orphan works' where somebody holds the rights but doesn't know or care about them. They fall after our 1959 cut-off date and frankly I'd have trouble making them a part of DCM given their very graphic covers, etc. Call me a prude I guess. I wonder if they show up on CB+ some day?
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Maybe I should put the ones I have up somewhere for download. They are out there, but not easy to find for most people.
And it would be nice to have a completely scanned collection as well one day. :)
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Hi ArKay,
Maybe, but due to the post 1959 date and the questionable (though likely safe) copyright status we couldn't let you post your links here. Sorry. I appreciate the thought though.
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Don't worry, I'm not gonna post them here :)
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Don't feel prudish, YOC.
Eerie Pubs covers are downright tasteless and sickening.
Yehehes.
I am in no way interested to feature them.
Pre-code horror is wild enough.
For today we start a whole "diff ver"-series of western books from Avon:
JESSE JAMES #7
Jim brought me a package, and there's always gorgeous western art in there!
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All is fair in art and love (to coin a phrase ;))
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Great one T, thanks.
Geo
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And while no one was looking, I dropped another romance book:
ALL TRUE ROMANCE #12
Phewwwww...
Next up will be a nice horror book, fer a change.
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Yo, Mr. T! Found something for your bookshelf.
(http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/d341ddc1ba711dd24524048ddc284996.jpg)
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Thank you T, those romance books seem to be pretty popular with folks here.
Geo
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Got something which will even be more popular:
EERIE #7
The Avon horror book now as original US version!
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Got something which will even be more popular:
EERIE #7
The Avon horror book now as original US version!
To which I can only respond... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygF_XJAyzf0
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Thanks T!
I've removed or resorted the other versions of this book.
Got something which will even be more popular:
EERIE #7
The Avon horror book now as original US version!
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I know that ArKay is teasing me with my scanning of romance books.
So here's the next one!
RADIANT LOVE #3
From Key. Go figure!
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(http://rlv.zcache.com/radiant_love_2_t_shirt-r1420448e8a774a449592ab2e2e7790a3_804gs_512.jpg)That's actually a pretty cool store.
http://www.zazzle.com/comictees
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ArKay, you won't let go, willya?
Got a WESTERN book for a change:
JESSE JAMES #8
Caus I felt western was missing these last days.
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Yeah, yeah. I'll get my coat.
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Thank you T, alway welcome a Jesse James book.
Geo
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...alway welcome a Jesse James book.
And one with very nicely done art by Kinstler... for not just one, but THREE full stories... thanks again T (and JVJ)! :)
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The horror goes on, literally.
This looks quite awful, it's horrid Canadian printing AND photographed.
A neat scan wouldn't have looked that much better, though.
MYSTERIES WEIRD AND STRANGE #6
This is COMPLETING this Superior title. If you wanna count this mucky contribution...
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Many thanks T!
:)
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I hear you, heavenly choirs!
What?
You want me to upload yet another romance book?!
Just to annoy a guy calling himself ArKay?
I'll do your bidding!
DIARY LOVES #25
Single copy JVJ pulled out of his romance heap. This issue was still missing.
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Thanks T. I'm a bit surprised too that they are as popular as they are - but there is an audience here for them.
:)
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Happy to announce that I could convince US pre-code horror aficionado DIABLO to scan a missing issue for me!
Please welcome DIABLO and his
STRANGE FANTASY #5
A rare book from Ajax-Farrell. And it’s a fun one!
I did some editing and uploaded the book for him.
As a first-timer he scanned only the stories. Which I am very fine with.
Note to DIABLO: the DCM completist police urge their scanners to present issues cover-to-cover (c2c). That is the whole booky shebang.
Don’t hand in the rest, please. Not for this one. Editing missing pages in is more work than scanning it all again.
???
Feel hugged by all of the staff at DCM - and those nerds out there reading comic books, tch!
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Many thanks guys!
Welcome to the ranks of noble scanners Diablo. :)
I uploaded a 'fixed' version correcting the file names.
Diablo, we suggest page numbers at the front of each file name using double digits.
Thanks again,
-Yoc
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Oooops, very sorry you had to "fix" this book.
:o
Didn't know about that - or didn't remember (I was educated a long time ago by you, Yoc).
I'm naming the single JPEGs from "Page01_Booktitle_Issuenumber" to ""Page36_Booktitle_Issuenumber".
That seems to work fine - and I'll remember that if the next guy comes and offers to scan.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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No problem T. I double check them most of the time.
It's easy enough to just click on Preview and if the first two pages are a cover and ifc it's likely fine.
Thanks again for all your work.
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Booyah! In your face!
Another romance book, haha!
RADIANT LOVE #4
I choose to upload what's missing most at the moment.
And it was another day for romance. Your bad.
:P
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That's T for your upload.
Geo
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Time do drop another horror book:
MISTER MYSTERY #8
Starts off with the "classic" (a bit of) "Rat Trap".
Rest of issue is rather lame, though.
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Thanks T!
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Glad I have a war book left over.
Because they have not been uploaded for a long time:
BATTLE CRY #5
Shameless and shameful EC swipes inside!
Always worth a look.
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Thanks T.
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Just to finish a mini-series:
PRIZE MYSTERY #3
Rather uninteresting code approved book.
But one more from trash company Key/Gilmor.
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Thank you T and your short review.
Geo
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Giving you now another DigiCam shot:
HAUNTED THRILLS #7
Please do not delete the 2-stories-version!
Cause they look better than any digicam shot.
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Thanks T and we don't remove any paper copies, only fiche copies when we do.
Geo
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Can offer you today a new scan of
JESSE JAMES #21
Got two or three more of those upgrade scans coming up in the next weeks.
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Thanks T, there's always more cowboy comics out there.
But with your help it's a bit smaller now.
Geo
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And we can add another issue of
WEIRD TERROR #4
And the next contribution from my American associate Diablo:
PRISON BREAK #2
Fa-bu-lous.
Database keeps grrrrrowing...
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Very nice!
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Next Avon crime book coming up:
PAROLE BREAKERS #1
Sadly no more. There were three issue published.
Even Jim hasn't got everything!
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Thanks T.
Geo
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And the next Avon western comic goes up:
DALTON BOYS (one-shot)
Rather bland artwork in this one. Artist of the last story, however, Jimmy Thompson is to be discovered!
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Thanks for your latest upload T.
Geo
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Damn, with all the Hillmann spectacle going on, there's always western books, crime comics and romance stuff going up like mad.
So I pull a last war comic from my drawer. It's
BATTLE CRY #20
Next up will be horror again, I promise.
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Thanks T.
I'm down to only AirBoy and Real Clue if that helps.
The Hillman Spotlight will end with the DCM Anniversary Mar28th.
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Totally coming through, now.
As promised, it's a horror book again -
CHILLING TALES #13
Veeeery nice one. Rare Matt Fox art ("Hand of Glory") inside.
These Youthful horror issues are quite something, too bad I only got the one.
Rest is still missing, and will be probably...
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Thanks T!
:D
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Following up with another "different version" of existing books.
JESSE JAMES #27
Still got a small stack of "diff ver" books. Will upload them sparsely.
They're just doublettes.
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Thanks T.
New versions are always welcome.
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Ah, still got some AVONs to upload. Here's a criminal one:
FAMOUS GANGSTERS #1
Jeez, includes ALL your favorite gangsters.
DCM birthday weekend will see two or three nice horror books.
Hmmmm.
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Sweet!
Thanks T.
:)
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Time to daaarooop another western book - afore the festivities begin!
;)
JESSE JAMES #26
now as a new c2c scan. Interesting Avon western art - last story is a war filler, though.
Tchhh.
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Woooaaah!
Easter came early this year.
Newbie by the name of RustlingsTim donated scans of a hot and loooong missing pre-code horror book.
I renamed, edited and cropped the files to give you my version of
DARK MYSTERIES #18
Great book. All cheers to RustlingsTim.
You are my hero.
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A very pleasant surprise! A huge thank-you to Tim and yourself for getting this out to the world!
:D
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my pleasure to finally be able to contribute to this fantastic enterprise
tim
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Yoc, you might wanna check this one for uploading correctness and such.
DARK MYSTERIES #22
You hinted at problems with file naming (I don’t experience those on my end). I rename these files and they come out as „PageXY-DarkMysteriesXY.jpeg.jpg“ or such. I don’t know why that happens, but it causes no problems with me. But seems so somewhere in the DCM universe.
Sorry for that. If you know what’s going on, tell me. I can maybe prevent such things in the future.
And I join the effort by uploading
EERIE #8
The US version finally online. My first token of affection for our 4th anniversary! Yay!
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Thanks T.
I suspect you have you options set to hide the file formats and when you add .jpeg you are not seeing .jpg is already there.
BTW, you might want to avoid using jpEg all together. If you mix them you will sometimes see them show out of order is some apps.
I'll give it a look.
-Yoc
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For today I surprise you with a look at the highly collectible
TOMB OF TERROR #15
Although in a digicam version.
Please read my "rant" in the comment section below the thumbnails of this book.
Hope to serve you some more tomorrow.
Not rants, but books.
Jeez...
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Sweeeeeeeet!
Thanks for this very nice surprise. Read your rant and thanks for the message. DCM is ready and willing to help out anyone with a comic they can't scan.
-Yoc
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Wrapping up the birthday festivities by unwrapping two more presents:
TOMB OF TERROR #12
Courtesy of RustlingsTim (bravo!) and my own
MISTER MYSTERY #5
But I'll keep the goodies coming rolling in (did I mess up with English grammar just there?) - giving you some more crime and western books the next week.
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Thanks T!
Yeah, you could leave out either the 'coming' or 'rolling' if you want that to read better.
:)
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I'm coming rocking and rolling back!
After all that ...shudder... HORROR it has to be time for romance.
Of course, of course.
ALL-TRUE ROMANCE #18
Brought to your firsthand from the horse's mouth.
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Thanks T. I hope there's no hay left in the book. Hee her. ;)
Geo
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And we have another one of AVONs
FAMOUS GANGSTERS #2
The third book in that row is sadly missing.
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You can other do what you can do, so thanks for what we have.
It will hopefully show up sometime in the future.
Geo
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Today I am releasing a copy of
STARTLING TERROR TALES Vol. 2 #8
Got this quite cheap, I wouldn't spend money on books from Star, really.
Sitting in Paris, France, with Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. right now.
We should send you a picture.
Ah, he's gone to bed, maybe in the morning...
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Hehe, thanks T.
There is an artist spotting question that you or Jim might be some help with. An unknown pencils only newspaper strip sample.
Nice artwork as well.
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A very special "Hello" to you guys from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (JVJ) and me - enjoying baguettes sandwiches not far from the bank of the river Seine in mid-town Paris. Sun is shining. Photo proof!
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Hehehe, nice picture guys! :D
I've passed it along to Rangerhouse for the FB page.
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Back from Paris with a big batch of mostly Ziff-Davis western and romance books.
Some Mikeross, some surprises, we'll see how much I can scan the next weeks.
For today I chose a "western" book all about native Americans:
WARPATH #2
The #1 issue seems to be missing. Haven't got it.
Mediocre artwork throughout by Key hack Eugene Hughes.
Can't all be winners...
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Thanks T for going on the "Warpath" for this one.
Geo
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Still got some missing precode horror books as digicams, this for example.
DARK MYSTERIES #10
Read it and weep. I like Story/Master comics. Always kinda special!
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Thanks T!
:D
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Throwing in a nice, sadly incomplete, issue of
FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #12
I like books from Story/Master. They are weird.
And mostly present nice artwork. Like this book does. Enjoy.
Signing out now for a week of skiing in the Italian Alps.
Break a leg!
I won't, but some others may... (insert maniacal laughter).
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Thanks T, and have a safe trip.
Geo
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My 2nd contribution! And it's another rescan (boooooo)!
Found this brittle, perforated and yellowed book for a couple of quid so I got it.
Not much life left in it! I always like a challenge.
Witches Tales 006 (1951) (diff ver) (HD scan)
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=23792 (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=23792)
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My 2nd contribution! And it's another rescan (boooooo)!
Found this brittle, perforated and yellowed book for a couple of quid so I got it.
Not much life left in it! I always like a challenge.
Witches Tales 006 (1951) (diff ver) (HD scan)
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=23792 (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=23792)
I reported your upload on my thread under Geo's Uploads. If you want start a thread of your own..
Geo
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Thanks very much ArKay.
:)
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I reported your upload on my thread under Geo's Uploads. If you want start a thread of your own..
Geo
Thanks! Well, I only do around 2 scans per year so this should suffice! :)
ArKay
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No problem ArKay just a heads up, thanks again for the upload.
Geo
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I may do a couple of crime scans in the following weeks, I acquired a few missing low grade copies.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT #54
CRIME DOES NOT PAY #67
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #48
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #73
and "CHAMBER OF CHILLS #14" (which tilliban already added as a "cam-scan", but I hope he doesn't mind).
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Thanks great news ArKay.
And don't worry if a book is already on the site. There are no rules about it being rescanned and shared as a (diff ver) scan. So please do scan that Chamber of Chills 14. I'm sure Tilliban will welcome it as well.
-Yoc
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Absolutely fantastic work Arkay did with his HD scan and edit.
You could print that in any kind of format!
And I welcome a true scan of that COC #14.
A digicam shot of a book is always replaceable.
I still got some Avons to upload, so here comes
ALL-TRUE DETECTIVE CASES #4
which is in itself a reprint. Of GANGSTERS AND GUNMOLLS #2.
Not a "different version", but the same contents packed into a new cover.
Well, we want it all here on DCM. The one and only.
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Crime month!
I have noticed that Harvey did a lot of reprinting. The stories from Witches Tales #6 were all used again to form issue #27 of the same series.
Issue #7 was reprinted as "Thrills of Tomorrow #17".
Witches Tales #8 became issue #28.
It must have been very common back then!
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Thanks T, looking forward to your next upload.
Geo
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Some code compliant crime! A little on the preachy side maybe, but it's not thaaaaaaaaaaat bad.
Justice Traps The Guilty 073 (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=23858)
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Thank you ArKay.
Geo
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And it's the last (for now) of the different versions of Avon's fine western series:
JESSE JAMES #24
Still got a diff ver #23 (#23 ironically was uploaded just the other day), so I'll keep my version in the drawer until 2015... or later.
Tsssk. Gonna post a diff ver horror book in the next days.
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Thanks T, but we can take a different copy of the same book, they are alway welcome. I myself have a bunch of different copies of books already up'd that I plan to put up here.
Geo
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Another one added.
Chamber of Chills 014 (diff ver) -HD (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=23915)
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Nice!
I've renamed it slightly to follow our usual way for differing between two versions on the site.
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Yeah, that's no problem.
Any idea where I would find this book here? CB+ has it listed as "Mysteries Weird And Strange". I can't even find Superior here.
http://www.comics.org/issue/64877/
It says that DCM has a scan, but the link just leads to the site and not to a book.
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This should work
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=7037
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Thank Geo.
I believe CB+ would have it in their Canadian section as well.
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Thanks!
I dunno, I just select horror at CB+ and there it is. Here it's well hidden!
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Ah. Search by genre is something we haven't done. .
It's on our 'to-do' list for down the road.
Here I would just suggest using the Search feature and type the name of the comic.
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Well, I better get used to using the search field then. I don't know why I seldom use it. This time I wasn't 100% sure of the title.
It's not the first time I have struggled finding something here since I always use the publisher drop-down which only shows the first level.
Would it also show the contents of the levels below it would make life easier.
Genres help if you're browsing for new stuff I guess, they're nice-to-have. I have tags/keywords on my cover site so whenever I upload a picture I add a keyword.
It's mostly horror anyway though haha.
http://covers.arkay.de/
Adding genre information to all of the books here sounds like a lot of work! :)
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Hi ArKay,
Nice job on your covers site! I recall some of those 70s gore mags from my youth.
:)
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Well, people, ArKay has a point here.
DCM could be structured more user-friendly.
We really should install something like genre-search!
In the meantime I will shoot up a nice Story book:
FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #16
This one features fine artwork by Goldfarb, Wildey, Andru and Savage. Good-looking!
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Personally I'd love to see an 'artist' or 'character' search but yes, 'genre' search is something that we have on the to-do list.
-Yoc
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That photo gallery software I use doesn't have genre information so I'm thankful for the "Keywords" field which could be used for other things as well.
If you go to the search page it will list all of the keywords. http://covers.arkay.de/search.php You can add multiple keywords of course. They're hip!
If you're going to add all that metadata you'll soon turn into a 2nd GCD haha. There should be a way to integrate their data, eh?
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That's what we hope to do at some point ArKay.
GCD has given permission for use of the data.
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That's what we hope to do at some point ArKay.
GCD has given permission for use of the data.
How generous of them! ;) :P
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That's what we hope to do at some point ArKay.
GCD has given permission for use of the data.
That's cool! I use ComicVine's data (they have a public API) for tagging my cbzs, there's a nice ComicRack plugin for it.
I tried finding a good PC program for indexing my paper collection. It seems to be an impossible task.
The ones I tried all had problems indexing many of my horror books so I gave up! ComicVine is great, as is the GCD.
But those programs use their own database, duh. Reinventing the wheel over and over again.
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Enough with the techno-babble!
Stick yore hands up in the air.
It's western upload time with
BUTCH CASSIDY
My last western book from Avon.
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Techno? :-/ I only listen to METAL.
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Good one T, thanks.
Geo
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Aaand we're uploading a last romance book from Comic Media.
Sorry, no more...
ALL TRUE ROMANCE #19
Second-to-last issue, September 1954.
Expect a horror book next...
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That tattoo on her forehead has to go. :P
Here, with my compliments...
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Woops, sorry... wrong romance title. :D
Would someone (Yoc) please forward that to the appropriate scanner (movielover). Thanks.
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Thanks DL.
:)
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Yeah, again sorry about that... if movielover wants to use it as an alternate cover good, if not, that's ok too, I see the GCD has a pretty good alt version of it anyway already.
It just seems lately that when I think "new romance comic scans" I think tilliban... doesn't everyone. :P :)
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Whoa, Drusilla!
I am NOT the romance man, I deal in horror!
See for proof my new update:
MISTER MISTERY #3
Ahahahah.
Though I have to confess I got tons of romance books coming!
Aaaarrrgghh!!!
Starting very soon, too soon with all three issues of CAMPUS ROMANCES.
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Thanks T!
I gotta say I when I think Tilliban I think a little romance as well.... just saying.
;) :P
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Yup, the words Romance and tilliban have become synonymous.
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Crime and Punishment 054 (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=23955)
Someone thought the ads were taken from a reprint. I should probably spend less time on those ;D
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You all saw me totally through... is that correct English?
I AM the romance man.
No more horror, I'll join the romance upload avanlanche with the first of three
CAMPUS ROMANCES #1
Still got this and two more previously unseen books from Avon - all romance.
We'll finish this quickly. Three days, three Campus Romances.
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Yup, the words Romance and tilliban have become synonymous.
And we love you, man!
(|:{>
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Group hug everyone!
:hug:
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Love you all.
:-*
:-*
:-*
Mr. Romantico is back with the second of three
CAMPUS ROMANCES #2
Wheehew. Who needs horror when one can delve into those bittersweet tales of heartburn... heartbreak.
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Oh my...
Is there no stopping this romantic monster in our midst?
Will he sweep all of DCM off her feet?
Oh the humanity.... :'(
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I yam the unstoppable romance scanning machine.
See for yourself.
Read it and weep (tears of thankfulness):
CAMPUS ROMANCES #3
End of the line. They only did three issues. Too bad, eh?
Growing up too fast?
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Thanks T as always.
Geo
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Okaaaay, switching back to horror!
:P
JOURNEY INTO FEAR #5
it is. A digicam shot which turned out quite ... not so good.
Am alway a bit ashamed to upload these.
They're just a documentation.
Still got four more of those photo-books, but three of them look better than that.
You'll see - in time.
Got some good scans coming as well.
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At least you still remember how to spell H-O-R-R-O-R :)
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No worries T. As you say, they are essentially placeholder scans and certainly better than no scans at all. Our thanks to you and WhiteWolf. :)
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Added:
Crime Does Not Pay 067 (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=23982)
Fix uploaded for (still in the queue, tag and describe as you see fit):
Crime and Punishment 025 (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=21242)
I tried to match the 4 missing pages I added and failed somewhat. They don't blend in 100%. May rescan the whole book one day.
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Thanks ArKay,
The CDNP 67 made it to us but your C&P 25 upgrade failed to arrive. Could you upload it again?
-Yoc
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Sure! I must have forgotten to confirm the upload. It's still an odd upload process. >:D
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Thanks, it's up on the site now.
:)
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Was a bit busy this week and couldn't make any scans.
Forgot to upload something as well.
Hmmmphh. So I present you with a nice scan of
ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN #54
Truevision madness!
I love Truevision and am quite proud to finally own one of these...
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Congrats!
I have Truevision on my watch list but the prices are just too much for a poor monkey like me!
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Still working on my last crime scan for now.
http://covers.arkay.de/displayimage.php?pid=300
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Looks great,keep it up AK.
Geo
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Back in the saddle again folks, riding hard with
KID COWBOY #1
I'm gonna feed you the whole run of this Ziff-Davis book!
About a sharp-shooting kid, tchhhh.
Interspersed with the whole run of a new romance book (ah, finally) and some surprises.
Coming to a computer near you in the next weeks.
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Thanks, Geo! "Justice Traps The Guilty 048" is in the queue now. Could someone please change the "The" to lowercase? Don't want it to stick
out like a sore thumb. I'm a little OCD about those things. :D
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I'm the same way ArKay.
It's fixed and now up on the site. Thanks!!
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Cool, thanks!
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Way to go with the crime books, ArKay!
I wanted to give you more romance (of course), but since there was so much of it up yesterday, I changed sides and give a rare code-approved something:
DARK MYSTERIES #24
And the first two stories are actually fun!
Will return with a veng... a romance book.
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Thanks again T!
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Thanks, T!
After having scanned and read a few of those crime books I am wondering how many of the
supposedly "True Crime" stories actually happened. Stories involving hypnotism or amnesia make me lose faith.
And since they often "change the names to protect the innocent" they are next to impossible to verify.
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Jeeeezzz, ArKay!
Never trust ANYTHING you read in comic books!
::)
Better still - don't read them!
:-X
That's my advice for you out there concerning
KID COWBOY #2
Fantasy tales from the Wild West!
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Can't stand romance comics, can't stand westerns.
Only thing that's worse? Western romance comics! I know they're out there.
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Yep, everyone published at least one. ;)
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Sorry to disappoint (half disappoint?) you, Arkay, but I've got only a normal romance comic.
Yay!
I threatened you with it - now it's happening. New series going up - complete, starting with
CINDERELLA LOVE #10
First issue.
If you can manage, dear admins, create a folder for that.
There'll be 11 issues coming.
Heh, heh, heh...
It's fun to be a romance fiend!
>:D
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Cinderella Love? ? ?
Pfff pfff pffffffffffffft!
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The new section has been added for T to lavish us with this, his true calling - more scans of Romance Comics!
We wait with baited breath for his new Precode Romance Comics websites. ;)
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Please don't put strange ideas in his head! :o
Say, isn't this book public domain? I haven't found any scans of it so far. Maybe I'm just blind as usual. Pre-ordered the hardcover.
http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/25-273/The-Secret-Files-of-Dr-Drew-HC
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Hey, that's a swell idea.
I could drop all that horror crap and use my skills to open up PRE-CODE ROMANCE.
You got me thinking there...
Am I joking?
Are you getting all goosebumpy yet?
You won't be able to start your computer anymore - without fearing it actually might have happened...
That is my ultimate horror for you.
Teasing you with
CINDERELLA LOVE #11 (second issue)
Much more to come.
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Thanks T!
No, no, please keep the horror sites going... *sob*
But I think Matt Baker should have an entire site devoted to his work with St.John. Just my opinion.
:)
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At least the female crowd on FB is liking those. ^-^
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Well, well, I will.
Upload a next horror book for the weekend.
But now it's western time:
KID COWBOY #3
More fantasy tales about kids beating up grown-up gunslingers.
Jeez.
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Thank you T for the blow by blow description. Most welcome.
Geo
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Gotcha a next digicam horror booklet:
MISTER MYSTERY #11
Can't wait to upload more romance, though...
Sunday at the latest. Heh heh.
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And - pronto! - I did it again.
Uploading a silly romance book:
CINDERELLA LOVE #12
Will see if I can surprise you next time with something else...
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Thanks T!
:)
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Since other scanners uploaded western and crime, I chose romance again.
Your bad luck!
;)
CINDERELLA LOVE #4
Maybe you'll wanna add my remarks like "second issue" and "third issue" again.
When we get to numbers #10 and 11. Heh heh.
We'll burn that bridge when we cross it.
Or something like it...
Ah, forgot!
I'm signing out for the rest of the week, cause I will attend THE German comic con this weekend.
Comic-Salon Erlangen 2014.
Making the rounds with my FIFTIES HORROR project.
"sundancetrance" is with me, "whitewolf61" will eventually join for a day.
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Hi T,
I've tweaked the Cinderella Love listings so they will show in order. I hope I haven't added more confusion.
Have fun at the Salon and please give our regards and thanks to SDT and WW61 for their work with us.
:)
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Bouncing back from the Comic-Salon in Erlangen.
Had fun with the guys! Worked them to maybe scan something more for us in the future...
Giving you a missing next Harvey book today:
CHAMBER OF CHILLS #17
And talking of horror, I finally turned into the Crypt Keeper!
See pictures:
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... and German horror illustrator Rainer F. Engel sketched me like this:
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HA!
These are great T!
:D
And many thanks for the scan and spreading the word about DCM with everyone.
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Well, I am not the only famous person in the world.
There were some even in the 50s.
FAMOUS STARS #2
Spreading the Hollywood gospel, eh, gossip.
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I got you a rare science fiction book today (courtesy of JVJ, of course):
CRUSADER FROM MARS #1
We do not have the allegedly existing #2, though...
Looks great on the outside, sounds exciting, but inside it's very mediocre stuff.
No good artwork, either.
Well, that's comic books for you.
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Ah well, they can't all be a good issue of Famous Stars right? ;)
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I thought the same thing T when I looked at both issues. No big name artists or good girl art.
Geo
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Yeah, it IS a shame.
So I snuck up another romance book:
CINDERELLA LOVE #5
That one's got at least a great cover.
Rrrrrr. Hubba hubba snort.
And I have a request for you admins.
Could you please relabel
Cinderella Love 012 -JVJ
to
Cinderella Love 003 (#12 on cov) -JVJ ?
Cause that 12 is the third issue - and confusing to see a missing #3 at the moment.
Thanks.
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Done!
Thanks very much T.
:)
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Time to let out that sharp-shooting kid once more!
It's
KID COWBOY #4
Art inside is quite nice (Celardo, Colan!).
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Thanks T, I'm really enjoying the series.
Geo
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And it's me again, the sca
mn artist formerly known to bring you horror books.
So let's just do this once more, by presenting you:
WITCHES TALES #10
as a different version. Nice book from Harvey.
Better news: I will be bringing you the missing issues #20 and #23 later this summer!
Next will be romance, western or something else...
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Thanks T and that's great news on the missing books!
:D
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Yep, I agree with Yoc, it's always great to have a series done from start to finish. Thanks T for what your doing on these books.
Geo
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Thank you, guys.
But first we continue with ALL of this series, reaching
KID COWBOY #5
This will be my last upload for a bit of time, becaaaause:
Just informing you that I am signing out for the next two and a half weeks. Going on my family summer vacation – to the Offline Islands!
Nah, I’m traveling tot he volcanic isle of Stromboli (north of Sicily). Ever heard of that? It’s fabulous, been there before.
But I’ll be cut off from the rest of the world. So do not be alarmed by my absence or my not returning mails or such. The last days of July will see me back in the computer saddle again.
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Thanks T!
Take some pictures and let us know what these strange Offline Isles are like.
Have fun!
-Yoc
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Bada-bada-BOOM!
Am back from my vacation from under the volcano. Impressive display of natures’s raw forces.
Volcanic eruptions! Leg-breaking waves! Tireless mosquitos!
I like to celebrate my safe homecoming with an insipid romance comic book.
Yehehes. The terror continues! Tilliban is back – Il ritorno di Capitan Terror.
CINDERELLA LOVE #6
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Welcome home Mr T!!
Lucky for us Snard filled the romance hole while you were gone but it's great to see you back to your old ways again. ;)
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Bada-bada-BOOM!
Am back from my vacation from under the volcano. Impressive display of natures’s raw forces.
Volcanic eruptions! Leg-breaking waves! Tireless mosquitos!
I like to celebrate my safe homecoming with an insipid romance comic book.
Yehehes. The terror continues! Tilliban is back – Il ritorno di Capitan Terror.
CINDERELLA LOVE #6
Ah, Tillmann,
Welcome back! I meant to tell you before you left that when we Americans say "Break a leg!" it means have great success. It is not to be taken literally. You silly Germans...
Nice to have some time to get back into the conversation. ImageS is at the printer and I'm waiting for the proof copy to review. Until then, it's just relaxing and trying to catch up on little things like doing the laundry and cleaning the house. We have tickets for Paris for Sept. 28. So plan your visit accordingly. The weekend of Oct. 10-14 is taken, but all else is open. Hope to see you there.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Well, good people, the novus scanner group invited me to join them.
Which I did. Meaning for you that my uploads will now be a bit larger than usual.
You are now getting every page with a 1440 pix width.
Was 1200 re. 1300 pix before.
Whomever that may concern!
And we join the western trail once more:
KID COWBOY #6
And great to hear from you, Jim.
Will get back to you via private mail!
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I use 1280 width on mine T, so it'a all good.
Thanks for the "Kid Cowboy".
Geo
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Hmm.
Wonder why they insist on that number? I've been using 2000 height for a while now.
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I have absolutely no idea, dear Yoc.
Why they choose 1440 pix width as their SMALLEST (!) format.
I frankly don't get why people insist on high-res files for books which were abysmally printed...
Sigh.
It's the new times. Everything has to be HD, blu-ray, 4K and 3-D.
Heck, I'm still watching DVDs on a telly with cathode ray tubes.
But for today it's another treat courtesy of JVJ:
TRUE CRIME #9
Stories are crap, though. Hey, it's a crime comic! Watcha gonna expect for your dime?
:D
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Thanks T!
Hehe, yeah, I'm the same with dvds on a CRT tv... it is colour though!
;)
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I have explained it to you some months ago Tillmann ;)
Anyway, here for this book: http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=24402
If you have a place where I can download the originals I may give it a try.
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Lots of file transfer sites out there these days.
http://180upload.com/ seems pretty good lately.
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I think they have upped my Dropbox quota to 50G so I could share some space there. It only works if you also have an account with them though.
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TRUE CRIME #9
Stories are crap, though. Hey, it's a crime comic! Watcha gonna expect for your dime?
:D
They can't all be romance, you know O0
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I think they have upped my Dropbox quota to 50G so I could share some space there. It only works if you also have an account with them though.
Hi guys,
If files are exchanged and sensitive info has to be exchanged to do it perhaps you best use the Private Message option here ((http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/Themes/default/images//im_off.gif)-click this under your post count) or use email?
Wouldn't want something potentially bad to happen. This is a public forum.
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We have each other's email and plenty of other means of contact, no worries :)
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Just when you thought you were safe, suckers.
Out of the prairie rides that annoying brat:
KID COWBOY #7
Now up. Yeehah.
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Guess Tillmann doesn't want my help :-X
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You are all crazy.
Trying to better shabby old comic books.
But have it your way.
Anyone who likes can download the RAW scans of TRUE CRIME #9 under this link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/2vq69qv0a7w338n/TrueCrime9RAW.zip
They look like this.
Off-square single pages stuck behind plastic.
My advice: Don't.
To quote a line from the fabulous movie THE BIG LEBOWSKI:
"You are entering a world of pain."
World of pain, dudes...
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Just a heads up since few people seem to know this! :) JPEG is the worst format for editing comics in since it's lossy.
It means that every time you save and open one of those files it loses sharpness and clarity.
How much depends on the compression level used.
PNG is good, or TIFF. Of course those files will be much, much bigger!
I save and store my scans in Photoshop's own format and batch-convert (and resize) those files to JPEG for the CBZ when I'm done.
That way I can always come back to those files later should I need a different size or edit something. Of course this takes
up a lot of space.
Anyway, I will give it a shot. I love a good challenge! O0
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Good luck with this ArKay!
Yes, I scan in PNG and batch at the end as well. Others use TIFF.
-Yoc
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Excellent point ArKay, jpg should be the last step in completing an e-comic file. I favor scanning to PSD files for editing and storage, which was difficult until larger and cheaper external storage drives became available. PNG has become popular and is another good alternate to jpg, although I've used the older TIFF format with a great deal of success. The resolution is much better with these formats and allows serious editing, down to the pixel level.
Another reason to use PSD file format in editing.... page alignment. Sometimes a scan will not be square due to the staple alignment, damaged page etc and you need to rotate to square a page. I favor PSD for this operation and you're right tilliban, “ you are entering a world of pain” ;D but that's the challenge and fun of using a program like PhotoShop. Using the PS Free Transform tool under File will rotate a page nicely.
There is also something I call “scanner distoration” where the bottom of a page is smaller than the top due to problems with trying to flatten a page for scanning. The PS cropping tool has a setting that allows you to square up the art, a little tricky but worth the effort.
Just some of the fun in bringing the old comics back to life 8)
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Yeah, PSD stores Photoshop related stuff so I use it for my own files. I would convert to PNG or TIFF if I needed to share them with someone else who may not have PS or use a different version. Luckily simple PSD files (no layers or other fancy stuff) are understood by many programs these days so batch conversion is easy with tools like FastStone Photo Resizer.
http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm
I could probably use Photoshop for the conversion, but this tool does a great job and is very easy to use.
For me scan restoration is fun, and I still learn new tricks with every book I do. The scanning process itself is very annoying. Luckily I don't have to correct perspectives! I always put a heavy book on the comic when I'm scanning. Straightening, cropping and centering them is enough work already! :)
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I am fuming right now.
>:D
I know you mean well by telling me how to improve scans.
But I choose to do them my way and I think they are looking wonderful.
I am so mad because I do not see any point in converting miserable and badly printed books into data-intensive high-resolution humbug.
For today it's
CINDERELLA LOVE #7
Weekend will see the next horror book.
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Huh? You asked for help with this scan in the listing so I don't see what the problem is.
Man, comics are SERIOUS BUSINESS. I am considering looking for a different hobby because people seem to be offended for every little darn thing.
I best just delete the work I have put into this ALL DAY. What was the point of asking???
I'm outta here for good.
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OK, look...
Clearly, I'm getting here too late to the "party," but, while we're fairly liberal about what people say and do around here, we are what you might call obscenely militant about politeness. The very few people we've specifically banned and are unwelcome are in that situation because they attacked another member.
If anybody chooses to get into a shouting match over a disagreement and take offense over suggestions or advice--welcome or not--such people will also be unwelcome here, because it's a far higher priority for us to have an open community.
Anybody preferring to insult and be insulted, you're perfectly welcome to head over to Reddit or 4chan or the like. And anybody about to reply to ask what I mean, (a) send it as a private message, because I won't have the forum cluttered with excuses as to why it should be acceptable in this one case, and (b) phrase it very carefully, because I'm outright angry that we've lost a member over what looks to me like a childish pissing contest.
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Whoa!! What the heck?
Guys, please. Let's keep things calm.
T, I don't think anyone was trying to tell you how you should or shouldn't be doing your scans or edits. Everyone has their own methods and we've been much the richer for all your efforts. ArKay I wish had taken a deep breath and waiting a bit before he resigned from the group. My own comments might have contributed to this and if they did I'm truly sorry for it. I was speaking in generalities and meant no offence to anyone on their own works.
I hope ArKay reconsiders his stance. I truly believe we comics scan collectors to be one of the nicest groups of people you can meet with a deep appreciate for the original books and their intent to be read and not just collected like stamps. Anyone who has gone through the scan process knows what a chore it can be from start to finish. It's not for the faint of heart scanning some of these books!
T, I hope you weren't upset by anything I might have said. You know we love you here man!
ArKay, if you happen to read this I hope you'll reconsider things are rejoin. I think we just had a case of crossed wires here.
-Yoc
Peacemaker Monkey
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Sorry. I flared a temper.
Making up by giving you the extra-gory
MISTER MYSTERY #13
Sadly „only“ a photograph version, but I might be back later today with a true scan-sation.
Another rare and missing horror book is in the making, courtesy of our fiendish friend DIABLO.
Be afraid, be afraid...
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But very readable. Thanks guys!
:)
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ArKay's re-edit of True Crime 009 is now up!
I tweaked the title and description so people would see it was a new edit and not a repost of the old.
Bold my addition as well.
Thanks ArKay!
And thanks of course to JVJ for his comic and tilliban for his original scan and edit.
:)
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IMHO it's technically not a re-edit because I used the raw, unedited scans.
"re-edit" makes it sound like I took tilliban's edit and messed with that, no? :-\
Apart from that I'm back! Sorry I left so fast.
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Welcome back ArKay!
I've restored your VIP status as well.
:D
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And we push on with that lovable western brat:
KID COWBOY #8
Two more to go. Will appear soon.
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I forgot to thank you T, when I saw this book posted last night.
I'm a little behind on my posting due to my wife's heath problems.
Geo
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I thank you, Geo, for your kind welcome.
Have I got a nice special for you:
GET LOST #1
In a new version. Even better, numbers 2 + 3 will follow suit in the next days!
Remind me if I forget.
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I thank you, Geo, for your kind welcome.
Have I got a nice special for you:
GET LOST #1
In a new version. Even better, numbers 2 + 3 will follow suit in the next days!
Remind me if I forget.
Thanks Tilliban! I look forward to reading all 3 issues soon! :)
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Thanks again T, your always welcome.
Geo
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Feeling generous today - and continuing the Getlostvaganza!
GET LOST #2
is up and running. Promise you #3 (and out) for next weekend!
But first some... romance.
Shudder.
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Very nice, thanks T!
:D
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All those crime books going up in the last days!
Makes you shiver - brrrr. Wotta world!
Where's the romance?
You guessed it. Right here:
CINDERELLA LOVE #8
Get yourself a comic book peace of mind!
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Thanks T. That's better.
But I've got another crime book myself soon to appear...
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Just added Comic Media's Weird Terror #3. The scan had been generously donated by diablo!
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Now up!
Many thanks to both you you for this fill!
:)
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My pleasure! It's a nice book.
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Yes, fantastic work all around by Diablo and ArKay.
Cheers - a lot.
And my turn to make good on my promise. It's weekend, it's the last issue of this series, it's here:
GET LOST #3
Will terrorize you with more romance next.
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Great stuff guys, thanks!
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And hyar it comes:
CINDERELLA LOVE #9
The terror goes on.
Though this issue has got some nice-to-look-at art inside.
First story by Kinstler! Always great.
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Thanks T. Are you trying to scare us now?
Geo
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Alway trying to scare you SHITLESS!
(to my German ears that's a rather harsh statement, would be perfectly fitting into the anally-themed way of German cursing...)
Anyway: I am going for straight horror now, with
STRANGE MYSTERIES #20
Great thing about it, it's a reprint of the missing #1!
Yay, two for one.
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Wonderful! Thanks T!
:D
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And with the upload of
KID COWBOY #9
we have the next COMPLETE SERIES.
Someone else beat me to #10, so it is a full run of this Ziff-Davis title.
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Thanks T, I've updated the entry on the site.
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And with the upload of
KID COWBOY #9
we have the next COMPLETE SERIES.
Someone else beat me to #10, so it is a full run of this Ziff-Davis title.
And I think we just need #12 from St john for the whole thing.
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What a fine coincidence. With the upload of
FAMOUS STARS #5
we do COMPLETE another SERIES. All six issues are up now.
Whew.
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Thanks T, now marked as complete.
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Thanks muchly for the Mister Universe! Have any more?
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Hello, Mark of the Dark!
Sorry to disappoint you, but this is a single issue JVJ shoved under my nose.
And we are talking, of course, about
MISTER UNIVERSE #3
now up. Very rare books, indeed.
Gotta go now, am taken hostage as director for a zany comedy live show:
www.horrorcomedy.de
Am holed up for four days at the German North Sea coast.
But will be back for the weekend - and give you a next horror book!
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Thanks T.
Have fun!
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Rrrrolling out the goodies again:
WITCHES TALES #20
from Harvey now up. One last missing issue to go!
Well, I got that as well.
:D
Just enjoy teasing you with it for a while. Missing numer 23 will go up sometime before christmas.
Or will it be christmas... hmhhmhmm.
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Thanks for the upload of WITCHES TALES #20. No holding out on us now T, hee hee!
Geo
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Thanks T!!
:D
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Har, har, just when you thought you were safe, suckers...
It's
CINDERELLA LOVE #10
Another romance book!
Still got a pocketfull of those...
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OK, thanks I think, we don't want to be "suckers". Hee hee!
Geo
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Special weekend upload treat:
SPACE BUSTERS #1
Finally in a decent version.
Am away now for three days, traveling to the German Black Forest!
Hoohah.
Doing a lecture about US comic books of the 50s.
Should be fun.
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Thanks T!
Good luck on your lecture.
:)
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Yeah, my lectures about old comic books are always a big success.
They are vivid, amusing and informative.
You can't go wrong with showing pre-code books.
Am back now, bit tired, so just picking up another digicam book I found lying around:
VOODOO #10
Courtesy of the mysterious wolfman from near the Black Forest, who let me photograph a stack of his books.
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Thanks to both of you T!
:)
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And since we're in need of crime books this week, I pried my last one out of my scanning machine.
By the way the lid of the scanner blew off yesterday - too much in use!
Tchh.
FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #10
Sadly not much horror in this issue of Story's hybrid book.
I posted the last (most horrific) story weeks ago on my horror blog...
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Thanks T, sorry about the scanner.
;)
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Ach, don't worry about that scanner lid.
Will scan without it. Mustn't look at it while in use.
I guess. ::)
And FINALLY the last issue:
CINDERELLA LOVE #11
So we COMPLETE the Ziff-Davis run of this title.
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Noted, thanks very much T!
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Am getting rid of a "doublette" today.
Did that book last year, but another scanner beat me to the upload:
FAWCETT'S FUNNY ANIMALS #23
Different version scans are (when not of superior quality) quite superfluous.
Ah, well. Promise you a horror or science fiction book for the weekend.
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Thanks T, you know they all are most welcome.
Geo
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And up it is - the second and sadly last issue:
SPACE BUSTERS #2
Cheesy space western action at its... best.
No more art by Bernie Krigstein, though.
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Noted. Thanks for this T!
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Bouncing back with tawdry romance.
3-D LOVE
#1, the only one.
I am too dumb to convert this into a black-and-white version.
I know this can be done, there are experts for this amongst us.
Contact me to get your hands on the raw scans.
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Thanks T for it, I'm sure one of those kind folks will get in contact with you about the scans.
Geo
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Yeah, Geo, JonTheScanner contacted me - and I linked him to a download of the raw scans.
Guess he's on it.
For today - Tadaa! - a next missing horror book I could purchase myself:
STRANGE FANTASY #12
A winner throughout. Four highly enjoyable stories outta the Iger Shop, total madness, you'll laugh your heads off.
Some of these books have zilch value, but this is great from cover to cover.
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Nice one this - keep it going, great stuff!!
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Congrats T!
Thanks for filling another of our Pre-Code horror holes.
:)
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Enough with the horror!
Bring on the romance!
;)
Another rare comic book sees the virtual light of day:
HEART AND SOUL #1
Nice artwork there.
And don't fret, Dave, I've got some more horror books waiting in line...
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Thanks T - and yes, there IS some nice artwork in this one.
Check it out people!
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Was helping out the staff editing an issue of coverless animal comics.
So here's
SUPERMOUSE #11
Sadly incomplete. Last pages from first long story missing! Arggh.
Think I'll drop another horror book tomorrow...
;)
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Thanks for helping with these T!
:)
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And hyar it cometh:
WEB OF EVIL #14
This series now almost complete, #1 still missing.
You can buy it - for a horrendous sum of amerikanski dollari.
Well, I'll keep at it. Still got a handful of horror books in my trouser pocket.
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Good stuff. Thanks T!
:)
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For now it's romantic Wednesday and I'm starting a small run of books from Magazine Enterprises:
DREAM BOOK OF LOVE #1
Jeez. Whoever came up with this title?
:P
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Thanks T.
Sounds like a wedding gift catalogue or something.
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Oh, I wonder, wonder who...who wrote the DREAM BOOK OF LOVE??
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Ah, the weirdness of romance books!
You'll be seeing more of these - next week.
For today I'm getting rid of another "doublette".
Already up, but now in a different (scan) version:
WESTERN KILLERS #61
Strange book from Fox, strange art inside...
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And there it is, the other issue of
DREAM BOOK OF LOVE #3
we have. #2 is missing -the title will continue as
DREAM BOOK OF ROMANCE ("starting" with a number 5, though).
Coming up soon!
And a hearty "Bonjour!" to all you readers out there.
Am currently sitting next to JVJ in Paris, France, sipping a beer (Jim prefers wine) and spotting art in old comic books.
He has brought me a sh.... ahm, box...load of Harvey romance books.
So expect to see FIRST LOVE #1-#50 in the near future.
Nice artwork in these.
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Thanks T!
A big hello to Jim as well.
50 First Loves - wow. This should go a long way to cementing your precode horror reputation.
*grin*
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Yeah, apart from all that romance I managed to buy some books from other genres.
Starting with the first of those now. It's WAR - from the Iger Shop:
US FIGHTING AIR FORCE #4
Got this for a reasonalbe price from James Payette's shop.
Good condition. Nutsy contents.
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And here cometh my first (of three) contributions to your SPOTLIGHT ON PRIZE.
BLACK MAGIC #21
Will take my time to let the other two out... in the next two weeks.
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Thanks T!
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Up with another nice romance book (yehehes) from Magazine Enterprises:
DREAM BOOK OF ROMANCE #5
I mistakenly wrote down ...of LOVE...
Please correct, Mr. Admin!
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Fixed.
Thanks T.
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And up goes my second (of three) contribution to our SPOTLIGHT ON PRIZE.
BLACK MAGIC #25
Another issue will be uploaded next weekend.
Before that more romance, of course.
:P
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WE WANT KIRBY! WE WANT KIRBY!! ;)
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Thanks Big Guy, it's most welcome.
Geo
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And, yep, the romance never stops. So it's
DREAM BOOK OF ROMANCE #6
Two more of those to come!
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I believe that's a young Marlon Brando on cover
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Thanks again T as always.
Geo
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Don't you wish you'd stayed in bed.
Looking at DCM, your favorite website, and it's another romance book:
DREAM BOOK OF ROMANCE #7
But don't fret. There will be coming up a horror book next.
And then 256 more romance books.
No kidding!
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Thanks as always T!
Say, ever think about a series of Romance sites to compliment your horror sites?
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Nah, Yoc, you won't see a romance website by me...
Craig Yoe is doing similar stuff with publication of his WEIRD LOVE.
http://www.yoebooks.com/comic_books.php
He's avidly reprinting 50s and 60s romance drek!
Tchh.
For now I chose to upload a missing crime book from my own library.
Classic stuff from ACE:
MEN AGAINST CRIME #6
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Nice! Thanks very much T.
:)
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Here's my final contribution to the current spotlight:
BLACK MAGIC #35
Last Prize book I edited....
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Thanks T!
:)
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Good stuff T, thanks.
Geo
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Delivering you the last of the romance books from Magazine Enterprises:
DREAM BOOK OF ROMANCE #8
Next in the pipeline: three tear-jerkers from Ziff-Davis.
Moan...
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Thanks T!
And to make all those romance fans out there happy I've done some of my own...
;)
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Dragged my last (I believe) digi-scans out in the open.
Since it's an online-missing book, we can be happy to read it now.
MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #21
I got some more scans (!) of Story books coming... teehee...
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Nice!
Thanks very much to Wolf and yourself for all of these T.
:)
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What's that you're saying?
"Where's the love?"...
Why, here of course:
FIRST ROMANCE MAGAZINE #6
And there's Jack Kamen art inside, that's what Jim and I saw.
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Thanks T.
Between you, ML and myself DCM must be the new mecca of vintage romance comics these days.
;)
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Hi-ho, pilgrims!
Today no romance, but Ta-daaa:
My copy and scan of Harvey's
WITCHES TALES #23
does COMPLETE this fine series.
That took some time, jeezus.
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Thanks T!
Another one down. Very nice.
:D
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Aaaand the next series COMPLETED, gentlemen:
Jim's issue of
WAR BATTLES #3
finishes off this Harvey title.
Narf thinks his #4 needs an edit.
I am thinking of doing a diff version rescan - cause
a) I got that book lying here, from Jim.
b) Narf's copy looks pretty ragged, torn and off square.
I will scan MY copy (a good condition c2c book) and upload - sometime the following year.
Nuff said.
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Thanks T!
Yeah, #4 could use an upgrade someday.
:)
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It begins tonight!
Our Harvey Pubs Love-a-thon!
Gonna shoot up almost all 50 issues of this lovable Harvey romance book.
Starting orderly with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #1
Reed it and weep.
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Wow, thanks T.
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CAN First Love Be True Love?!? :-\ :)
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Well, I did love comics from the first time I saw one so....
;)
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Yes, I suppose it's true... and what a rare and wonderful thing to behold when it works out.
Sadly, it doesn't for most... so they wait around for the second issue. :P :)
Sometimes. :)
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And - behold and pronto - here comes that second issue.
And again we ask tentatively:
Can first love be true love??
Yep, that is their slogan, motto and hook line.
While the jury is still out on that one, start reading:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #2
And I love that crampled, mildew-eaten cover!
Makes people realize what kind of old crap we're handling here...
Think I'm gonna give your more love for christmas - plus a really nice horror book from my cabinet of goodies...
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Thanks T!
I can almost smell it in the scans.
:)
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I just can't believe T turned his back on Real Love! Why T, Oh why?
I could understand if were Love at First Sight or even a more Glamorous Romance... but this isn't even an ACE book! Was it Harvey's whispers of Sweet Love that swayed you to leave your Love Experiences behind?!? Was it the promise of Teen-Age Brides that convinced you to take a vow, and make the commitment to scan the full 50 issue run?!?
And you call yourself a true ACE comic aficionado!... FOR SHAME! :D
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"As The World Turns on the Edge Of Night" ^-^
Gotta love DCM!
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Yeah, Dru, it's true, I started out with ACE books - and somehow lost my way...
But we scanners crave diversion (as I'm sure you'd understand).
So it's a biiiig run of Harvey love books, and for my next project I'm thinking a biiig run of Standard romance.
Then I could turn back to a biiiig run of Ace romance books again.
We'll see.
For now, for pre-(code)-Christmas, showing you my love with the upload of
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #3
In two days a horror book, I promise.
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Thanks T.
You've got email on JVJ's books.
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Love your 3-D christmas book, Yoc!
And I give you a goodie Jim loaned me a while ago.
MISTER MYSTERY #18
That series almost complete - except for that damned number 12.
No one in Germany has got it, I know a guy who is hunting this issue for years...
We'll see.
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Thanks very much guys!
Nothing like this to make one feel the Christmas spirit.
;)
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And romance drags along with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #4
Tons of those to come in 2015!
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Thanks T and Happy New Year to you.
Geo
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Happy new year to you guys!!!
And a busy 2015.
Heh, heh...
Closing the gap between #4 and #6 with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #5
Always minding the gap!
Your tillibanlymanly
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Thanks T as always.
Geo
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And we skip #6, cause it has been done already.
Continue with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #7
I promise a crime or horror book next!
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Thank you T, looking forward to your next up.
Geo
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I stand and deliver. No, am comfortably sitting down, of course:
HAUNTED THRILLS #14
The complete book. Nice Iger Studio mix of crime and horror.
Enjoy while you can. More romance coming up next... heh, heh...
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Nice! Sure wish we could fill the holes in this title.
They had some very cool covers.
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Say you've missed them. Here's a next one:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #8
There's a Jack Kamen story inside. Wonder o wonder.
And, as I notice with more bewonderment (is that a word?)---
DCM has broken the 50,000 member barrier!
Jeez, that happened quite fast all of a sudden. Hundreds of members must have joined the last days.
I'm always squinting at that number. Looked to me like the 50,000 was some weeks away, yet.
But here we are. Wow!
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Yep, check the DCM in the Media topic. Another mention in a French blog really pushed up our numbers in the first week of this month.
Thanks for the First Love. I've always enjoyed Kamen's work since my first exposure to ECs.
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And to take a break from romance (haha, sounds kinda funny if you don't get the context) it's CRIME!
CRIME DETECTOR #1
Just a crude Key book, but I got the chance to get my hands on these surprisingly cheap.
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Thanks T and congrats on the reasonable price too.
:)
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And back into the romance grind:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #9
Nothing much special in this issue. Wait for the next...
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Thanks T.
I've been only working on Prize Romance books the last week myself.
Lots of Kirby and Meskin I've never seen before. A shame the printing and colouring was only average at best.
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The printing is indeed a tragedy, dear Yoc.
The best scan might look sloppy cause of that.
The magnifying effect of our uploading worsens it all...
Anyway, hammering away with more romance:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #10
is up.
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Thanks T, as always.
Geo
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Following suit with a next ish:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #11.
Will shoot up the next one next week.
Then take a break. Am away to India (!) for four whole weeks.
Going to make you a going-away present soon by posting a nice crime, war or horror book.
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Thanks T!
India, wow! Have fun and be safe.
:)
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Just don't hitch up with any troubadours on their way to Bombay.
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Nah, Darkmark, I'll steer clear of Bombay...
Had to look up what you were referring to - had no idea that the line is in the song.
Interesting, and I thought I knew the lyrics to "Sympathy for the Devil".
Tchh.
For now it's a last romance shot with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #12
Will be handing you another book on Wednesday, then start packing.
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That's sad T, but thanks for it, and thanks goes out to JVJ for sharing his books.
Geo
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And hyar it is, a long missing Ajax goodie:
FANTASTIC FEARS #4
Contains the classic "Black Death", which was remade over and over by the Eerie Pubs later on.
Am saying goodbye for four weeks now, am off to India (or Goa, to be precise), but will be posting impressions on my facebook account.
(under my real name "Tillmann Courth").
For you horror aficionados, there'll be automatic story uploads every Saturday on my site www.fifties-horror.de
Behave while I'm away.
;)
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Wow, great stuff, thanks T!
You have fun and come back safe and sound.
:)
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Am saying goodbye for four weeks now, am off to India (or Goa, to be precise), but will be posting impressions on my facebook account.
(under my real name "Tillmann Courth").
buy me some nice old Amar Chitra Katha comics or the more obscure/rarer Katha series by other publishers! :)
(seriously, if you are near any comic stores, let me know)
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Am bouncing back from India with a
BATTLE CRY #10
and a slight tan on my scanning arm!
@Sooth: saw your plea too late, but only found ONE bookstore along the coastline of Goa.
They carried some ACK comic books. Got me three try-out issues and am fairly intrigued by the stuff!
The illustrations are sub-par by my snobbish standards, but they are fun to read!!!
You can get the ACK comic app on iTunes or GooglePlay for tablets, though.
Sadly I do not own such a device.
http://digital.amarchitrakatha.com/
If you like, there's the possibility of reading digitally.
Which should be fine with us here at DCM.
;D
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Welcome back T!
:D
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Jeez, I'm holding back on my romance books, cause there's suffocatingly many going up these days.
So I'm gonna suffocate you with my love some other time.
Gladly I found WAR stuff in my scanning drawer:
US FIGHTING AIR FORCE #5
Wooah, much air fighting going on here!
As opposed to their sister title US LOLLING AROUND AIR FORCE, which got canceled after just two issues.
Unfair.
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Hehe, thanks T.
Much more romance still to come from the Prize Spotlight.
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Ach, so much more romance to come.
No place for my romance...
So I chose to upload the first of three early issues of
MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #2
Got those surprinsingly cheap, in no good condition, but they make wonderful scans!
So expect more of these (duplicates, though, meaning different versions).
The old scans could use an update, and are now getting it.
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Wonderful!!
Thanks very much T.
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And to stop the flow of romance once more, I interrupt (heheh) with a western comic.
Although it is a "doublette".
Meaning a book I scanned while someone other uploaded his version. Just bad timing.
So it's a "diff ver" now of Avon's
JESSE JAMES #23
I waited a year to present this. Quite nice art inside, but it's not much different (if at all) to freddyfly's version.
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There's alway room for one more T, so thanks. Love the art when Everett Raymond Kinstler does some stories for a book.
Geo
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Today closing a next gap with my last war comic book:
BATTLE CRY #12
Almost complete, except some post-code issues...
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Thanks T, as always.
Geo
sent from my iPad Mini
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Ahhh, there it comes around again:
My favorite birthday!
:P
Glad to join in the festivities with my presentation of a classic Harvey horror book:
TOMB OF TERROR #10
Enjoy!
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Oh my, today's been a great day for new pre-code horror scans!
Thanks T! :D
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And coming back to the fold with my last crime book.
Here goes:
FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #18
Sadly only ONE horror story inside. But it's a doozy: "Shadows of Death" will have you in stitches.
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Welcome back T!
Shadows wasn't half bad either.
:)
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Seems like the romance flood is over!
Time to open my own romance floodgates, teehee...
By giving you a rare Ziff-Davis ditty:
STRANGE CONFESSIONS #2
Courtesy of our gentleman Jim.
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Thanks T, what's next?
Gep
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Next, dear Geo, is
STRANGE CONFESSIONS #3
of course.
;)
I will be pushing #4 in the pipeline next week.
Well, I am packing and off to see the wizard - again.
Meeting our comic collecting overlord JVJ in Paris.
Hoo-ha!
Will try and get him to do a "selfie" of us.
Don't wanna be the proud new owner of a so-called "smartphone" for nothing...
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Thanks T!
Please give Jim all our best and have a great visit!
:D
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You and the whole DCM gang are always on our minds!
:P
That seems like a strange confession, but true. So I just upload the book about it:
STRANGE CONFESSIONS #4
Expect more romance to come. Brrrrr.
And this is what it's like to be a comic book - and get scrutinized by JVJ and me.
Pretty scary, eh? Comment?
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LOL!
Great picture guys!
:D
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Well, well... all's quiet on the romance front...
We're certainly going to change that.
Starting our Harvey series again (#13 is missing) - so it's
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #14
They will go up to #50 - just warning you in advance.
:D
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Thanks T!
Ha, grown-up girls must have loved that ad.
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Romance flood continues with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #15
More on the waaaayyyy...
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Thanks T, always appreciated.
Geo
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And freshly addes two more romance goodies:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #16 & #17
I'll throw in a Charlton funny book soon...
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Thanks T as always.
Geo
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Huzzah, here it is, our Sunday goodie from Charlton.
A funny book:
FROM HERE TO INSANITY #12
Jim had this flying around his attic. On with the romance next!
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Nice, thanks guys!
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Jeeez, got swamped with work and fell behind my own announcements:
Apart from all the romance
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #18 #19 #20 #21 #22
I managed to squeeze in another funny book from Charlton:
FROM HERE TO INSANITY #8
and finally a horror comic (if only a - better though! - "different version"):
MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #5
Expect more romance to go up next.
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Life can be busy.
Thanks for all your work on these T!
:)
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And since #23 is missing, we continue with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #24.
One more to come this week.
Then I'm off to the Munich Comicfestival.
The second-largest German comic convention, held every other year.
Four-day extravaganza, featuring british art this time.
Will try and stalk Don Rosa (he's a pre-code horror aficionado, as I'm told).
If someone wants to have a peek, here's the website of the "Comicfestival München":
http://www.comicfestival-muenchen.de/
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Thanks T and have fun!
:)
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Having fun?
.... und I did...
And a nice surprise for all you readers.
A crime book for a friggin' change!
GANG WORLD #5
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And right back at ya! Thanks again for another oldie from the past. Keep'em coming T.
Geo
Posted from my iPad Mini
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I was wondering whether you took any photos at that comic fest... then I logged in.
Yet another shot of you and a plate of food? Don't you take any goofy photos of cosplayers?... Geesh!
I'm still trying to forget that image of you at that French Thai restaurant you posted a year or two ago. :)
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I'm more in awe of the size of that impressive beer stein!
:)
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Yeah, but get a load of that helping of potato salad... he's gonna need that supersize brewski. :P
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@Drusilla & Yoc:
Yeah, Bavarian beer comes in one-liter-jugs!
In my hometown of Cologne you'll get exactly a FIFTH of that size served.
So, one beer in Munich equals five beers in Cologne.
And I HATE cosplay! Weren't that much "players" around, gladly.
I look the other way as fast as I can.
Romance books absorb all my patience, uploaded two more over the last days:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED # 25 + # 26
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Thanks T, as always for your work on these.
Geo
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You look the other way?
Even when there are Leia slave girls around?
;)
Thanks for the uploads T!
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No Leia slaves girls around, but up went
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #27
aaand Jim and me are giving you a rare funnybook magazine:
CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY #1
It's mostly crap, though. But interesting as hell to see HOW bad they could be!
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Thanks to both you and Jim on these.
Geo
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And here's a first for me - I rescanned one of my own books!
SPOOK #30
Deserved it. Was one of my first scanning jobs, done on an office fax machine.
Pages got terribly off square!
Can correct that now. And it's high-res now.
Printing is as bad as ever, though...
:(
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Nice, thanks for the rescan T!
:)
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Jiminy!
DCM membership numbers jumped 55.000!
Did you notice? Wow!
And as long as the romance chute is blocked with other romance scans than mine, I can present you with
SCIENCE COMICS #3
Good news. #4 + #5 will follow till autumn. Not scanned yet.
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Hi T,
Thanks for these!
Hmm, you must have misread that. We only have 56,529 currently.
If you look here you can see we've been adding close to 1000 a month give or take.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php?action=stats
-Yoc
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Whassup, gang?
Last three uploads in a row are mine!
;D
Following that SCIENCE COMIC #3 it's
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #28
and
GANG WORLD #6
Giving you these now, cause I'm away for five days.
Enjoy.
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Thanks T as always.
Geo
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There you are!
My romance triple whammy:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #29-31
Let's see if I can dig up a horror book for the weekend...
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Thanks again T for that run of romance books.
Geo
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Christmas comes early with a nice horror book from Ajax-Farrell:
VOODOO #18
Am holding back five more horror books, cause I first wanna present some of those contents on my website FIFTIES HORROR.
So expect more romance next!
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Very nice!
Thanks T. Looking forward to the others.
-Yoc
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And we are closing the gap between FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #31 & #34 by uploading
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #32 & #33
There you are.
#34 I bought myself two years ago - but Jim would have got it anyway.
Will keep continuing when I am back.
Am away again (tch) - this time to the South of Spain.
Since I am dragging my notebook computer along, I might be able to give you more books.
Should I find a stable WIFI connection...
We shall see.
Toodledoo
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Thanks T!
Have a great time!
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Oh, ye wonders of WI-FI!
This took like forever to upload, but I send you this file from a pub in Spain.
A cool cerveza helped kill the time:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #35
Nice art in here, really worth a look!
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Thanks T.
Extra points for creative delivery under trying circumstances.
;)
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Kapweeeng - back from very hot (jeez!) Spain.
Enjoying my home WIFI and celebrating with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #36 + #37.
I'll be feeding you lots of uploads in the next days...
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Thanks T, welcome home.
:)
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Well, well, closing up to #39 with the upload of
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #38.
Will take a break from romance and give you a satire book for the weekend...
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Thanks T, is this your last romance book of now?
Geo
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LAST ROMANCE BOOK, dear Geo????
What are you hoping for?
I've got dozens more in the pipeline, though this title will be ending soon...
As promised, here's the very strange
CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY #2.
Also known as FROM HERE TO INSANITY vol. 2.
There's funny art by Kirby and Wolverton inside.
Next up: ROMANCE!
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Thanks T!
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Well, what have we got this week?
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #40 + #41.
FOUR TEENERS #34
and new series coming up:
MONKEYSHINES #1
Funny animal stuff from ACE, way old, expect more of these!
I could not bring myself to describe this first issue as "damaged" - but the very last panel in this book is torn out!
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Thanks T!
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Up now are a different version of Harvey's
WAR BATTLES #4
And more Harvey books with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED # 42 and #43.
Closing another gap here and coming soon to an end for this series...
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Nice work T!
:)
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... And more Harvey books with
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED # 42 and #43.
Closing another gap here and coming soon to an end for this series...
O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day! Most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
Sweet love, renew thy force. Be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but today by feeding is allayed,
Tomorrow sharpened in his former might.
So, love, be thou; although today thou fill
Thy hungry eyes even till the wink with fullness,
Tomorrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.
Let this sad int'rim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore where two contracted new
Come daily to the banks, that when they see
Return of love, more blessed may be the view;
Or call it winter, which, being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more
rare.
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Dear Drusilla!
In another life you'd have been a romance comic author!!
For sure.
But do not fret. There are more romance titles lurking in the well-lit shadows.
Heh, heh.
Meanwhile, we upload Ace's
SCIENCE COMICS #5
and COMPLETE another mini series!
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Eh, perhaps. But I have to give credit to Bill for that last one.
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Thanks again T, be on the lookout for your next upload.
Geo
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And we add to our databanks
MONKEYSHINES #2
as well as
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #45 in a different scan.
Notice:
I did NOT scan the next four issues of that title, because they are fully fledged reprints of older issues
(namely FLI #46 = FLI #7; FLI #47 = FLI#9; FLI#48 = FLI# 12 and FLI #49 = FLI#15).
One more book will come. Explain you there.
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Thanks T!
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Last issue of FLIs goes up:
FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #50
(which is in reality Sup... hold it... SWEET LOVE #5).
I'm giving you this reprint, cause the original is not online.
Uff! Done with those books.
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There's actually a comic book entitled "Sweet Love?"...
Good land! ???
Please don't tell me it's another fifty issue run!
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Thanks T, no worry, I know you always have something in the pipeline.
Geo
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No, Dru, according to GCD it's only a 5-issue-run!
http://www.comics.org/series/15837/
Probably a try-out. They were trying out titles all the time...
And up is a fresh scan of a horror book:
MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #3
And a single book of a Toby romance series I picked up somewhere:
GREAT LOVER ROMANCES #20
Next up probably a funny book.
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Thanks again T, looking forward to your next scan.
Geo
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Yep, we add two sparse teen-humor books:
VICKY #1 and #4
No more of these. Sadly?
Two leftover issues from Jim.
More romance next!
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Thanks T!
That completes the five issue Vicky series.
:)
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Allright, Yoc.
VICKY is completed?
Didn't check that. We are going to fill another gap with
ERNIE #22
Wait for another issue, then this will be completed, too.
My special Sunday treat is JVJ's
EH! #3
Sadly only this one, this gap cannot be filled by me and Jim.
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Thanks T!
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Slowly continuing the upload of an ACE funny book serie with
MONKEYSHINES #3
and I am dumping three old doublette romance scans in the next days, starting with
ROMANTIC HEARTS vol 2 #1
Two more of that series will follow...
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And with the upload of
ROMANTIC HEARTS vol 2 #2
ROMANTIC HEARTS vol 2 #8
go two more of those three romance "doublettes" (different version scans) I kept for two years in my drawer.
Phoo. Gone!
Next more funny animal, teen humor or maybe a horror book for the weekend.
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Thanks T!
We really appreciate all the work you've done for us over the years.
:)
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Continuing with funny uploads...
:D
MONKEYSHINES #4
and
ERNIE #23
COMPLETING thus the four-issue run of ERNIE COMICS!
Thankx to Jim, yay.
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Very nice! Thanks T.
:)
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And with the upload of
CHAMBER OF CHILLS #18
I proudly COMPLETE the fun run of Harvey's pre-code horror book!
Hup yup.
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Very nice!!
Thanks very much T!
:D
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Up with the old funny books:
MONKEYSHINES # 5 & #6 are up.
We'll have to pause for #7 because that issue is missing.
Will return, though, for a very few more after that...
And always more romance lurking in the wing!
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Thanks T.
Geo
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After the missing #7 we present now
MONKEYSHINES #8
and started the upload of a new romance series:
REAL LOVE #25 & #26
crash out of the scanbox. That number 25 is a first issue, so we'll be closing the gap up to # 43!
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Thanks T!
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Whassup on the uploadfront?
I am the only one to upload something in six days?
Hmmm....
So we had
REAL LOVE #27 (more coming!)
and the last of these funnies JVJ dumped on my scanner:
MONKEYSHINES # 9 + #10
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Thanks T!
Narf and dsdaboss both shared something this week so you aren't completely alone.
I've been sidetracked by a couple other projects. One that will get a BIG debut in early November. I'm very excited about it.
Once the projects get finished I'll get back to working on some raw Soothsayr scans waiting for us.
Keep up the good work!
:)
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Thanks to our own JVJ we could close a gap in the early run of this series:
SCREAM COMICS # 2 & #4
are up. And we continue the romance with
REAL LOVE # 28 & #29.
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Thanks T as always. Keep it up.
Geo
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Seeing those issues of FIRST ROMANCE go up – I’ve got one single issue of those in store.
Here it is:
FIRST ROMANCE #21
Lest I forget…
But of course we'll continue with that series you last saw going up
REAL LOVE #30
Ah, hafta send you a HORROR book for Halloween!
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Thanks T.
This romance flood of books is happening on its own. None of it was planned by the staff. It would have been perfect for Feb but we don't look gift horses in the mouth.
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Open wide to look this gift horse in the mouth:
BLACK CAT #52
Now in a fresh and big scan. My Halloween treat for you.
Sadly I couldn't come up with a missing horror book.
All I have now left are four more different versions of existing precoders.
Well, done enough, gotta leave some gaps to fill...
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Thanks T!
Upgrade scans are always a welcome sight for DCM as well.
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Well, last time around I gave you
REAL LOVE #31
But since there's so much romance going up, we'll take a short break for this series (#32 is MISSING anyway)
and lose a doublette scan while no one is looking:
KID COWBOY #10
I did scan the same time last year as member "badge" did. Now mine goes up.
We'll continue with romance...
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Thanks T as always.
Geo
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So, we had to skip #32 - missing!
:(
But we continue merrily with
REAL LOVE #33 + #34
More to come!
:)
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And up are
REAL LOVE #35 + #36.
Should drop a horror doublette next, hmm?
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Man T, I'm having a hard time keeping up with your up's. Thanks for your latest, always welcome.
Geo
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Well, on goes the show.
Everything must go.
So it's a next romance book
REAL LOVE #37
and
BEYOND #5
My own rescan. Bigga and bettah!
And you're right, Geo, I am uploading a lot this fall.
A book almost every other day. Still got 30 books in my drawer.
And JVJ will supply me with the next batch in three weeks!
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Thanks for the rescan T, very nice!
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Furthermore rushing throug the uploads:
REAL LOVE #38, #39, #40
Drawing slowly to a close on this one: Two more books coming.
Then it's gonna be another horror book doublette and a new romance series.
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Thanks T for more "Love" books.
Geo
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Our journey into REAL LOVE ends here.
With the uploads of
REAL LOVE #41 + #42
we close the gap to already existing #43.
Furthermore I gave you the missing STRANGE MYSTERIES #21.
On Thursday I'll travel to Paris - meeting our guru JVJ!
Yay!
Will try to make a nice snapshot of us...
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Thanks T!
Have fun.
:D
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Sweet sunday surprise for y'all:
SPEED COMICS #11
Full c2c paper version. Unannounced before.
And up already is
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO #30
Scanning continues. Will I have a horror book for you for christmas?
Does the pope shit in the woods?
Of course I will, a "diff ver" anyway...
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Wonderful!
Thanks very much T!
:D
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Jeez, I get lazy posting here!
First a mightily happily fresh new year to you!
Then I managed to upload
LOVE SECRETS #38
Thus COMPLETING this series! Yay!
And over the christmas days I uploaded
BRIDES ROMANCES #20
CHAMBER OF CHILLS #23
and rang in the festivities with
WEDDING BELLS #2
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Uh, Love Secrets #52's body is still missing in action
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Hi T,
Thanks very much for all your recent posts.
And a Happy 2016 to you as well.
-Yoc
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Well, gaps will be gaps - and we won't be able to close ALL of them, but here's some more recently uploaded MISCELLANEOUS stuff:
FRISKY ANIMALS #50
YOUNG LOVE #58
Expect one more of those Friskies...
More romance and some horror doublettes in the making.
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Thanks T!
You know we appreciate all your work for us here.
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Showering you with more diverse stuff:
EGBERT #9
FLIP #1
Jim pulled that last one out of a corner - very nice!
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Nice, thanks guys!
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Ooops, I may have committed an uploading mistake.
DIARY LOVES #4
showed some error, right? Uploaded it freshly again!
Please delete faulty version!
Else up went:
TOMB OF TERROR #14
LOVE LETTERS #11
FRISKY ANIMALS #47
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Thanks T.
That's a nice variety there. Well done!
I removed the bad Diary Loves 4 but it resulted in two of your thumbnails from the good version being zapped as well. Sorry.
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Nothing to be sorry about, Yoc.
My bad.
Up is up. Thank you.
And with
LOVE CONFESSIONS #20
I am ending the single romance book upload bonanza.
Next romance upload will be the beginning of a whole series...
Signing off for the weekend. I'm off to Madrid, Spain.
First time there, meeting friends, see the town. Call me the reluctant globetrotter.
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Thanks T, most welcome.
Geo
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So, while other scanners are uploading romance, I can offer something boyish:
PATCHES #1
Databank says only this first issue belongs under Rural Home, rest is with Orbit.
That okay with you?
More to come, but then filed under Orbit.
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Thanks T.
I hate to split a singe book away from a majority. While techcially correct I feel it needlessly fragments the site. IMO.
I'll figure it out when you've got them done.
-Yoc
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I don't really know WHY they split up the PATCHES books...
Suit yourself.
As you may have noticed I'm starting to upload two series intermittently now:
PATCHES #2
went up and so did
INTIMATE LOVE #5 & #6
More of both to come. Every other day.
And as of now, I am logged into this forum for a whole of "6 days" and some minutes, counting up, ever up...
:o
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Hehe,
Congrats T.
I'm at 73 days, 4 hours and 14 minutes.
;)
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Wow, Yoc, that is amazing.
I'm at 73 days, 4 hours and 14 minutes.
Wink
But that is your AGE, right?
Hahaheeha.
And we are continuing as promised with
PATCHES #3
INTIMATE LOVE #7 + #8
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And we have up now
INTIMATE LOVE #9
as well as
PATCHES #4 and #5.
I've got a troubling question about my upload of PATCHES #5:
Why is the file size ONLY HALF the size it usually is?
On my drive this file is 50 MB, but the upload shows just 24.5 MB.
Flipped through the book, it's complete.
Do you have a new compression system running?
Or what?
Just puzzled: Tilliban
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Hi T,
NO, we do not have anything new running.
Please try uploading it again.
I just added a book and it's the same size.
-Yoc
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Continuing with
PATCHES #6 and
INTIMATE LOVE #10 + #11.
More to come!
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Thanks T.
Geo
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Wow, I've been quite away for a while. Posting here only every other week.
A lot went up in the meantime:
INTIMATE LOVE has reached #16
and PATCHES is COMPLETE with #11!
PATCHES #2-11 are listed under Orbit, please find #1 filed under Rural Home.
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Thank you T.
Geo
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And there I gave you two doublettes (different version scans):
INTIMATE LOVE #20
TOMB OF TERROR #3
INTIMATE LOVE #17, 18, 19 up as well.
Something unseen before will follow, I swear. ;)
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Thanks T!
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Giving you my
INTIMATE LOVE #21, 22, 23.
That'll be my pre-DCM-boithday present.
I yam away now for a whole week.
Skiing in the Italian Alps.
No kidding.
So I'm missing the date. Will give you some more books belatedly....
;)
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Thanks very much T!
Have a great, safe trip.
:)
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Have a good holiday T... but please, don't take your camera. :)
Inside any restaurants. :P
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Whoa!... What the frak!?! ???
That guy on the cover to Intimate Love #23 (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=27672) looks like Marco Rubio's doppelganger!
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Haha, very nicely observed, dear Drusilla!
Marco Rubio it is!
And Yoc, I totally dig your new Yorickian Kermit avatar! Way cool!
Yoc-Yorick the Frog.
And I am back from the slopes of the Alps (see photoproof attached), continuing my run with the last issues of
INTIMATE LOVE #24
Handful still coming…
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Thanks for the pics and scan T.
Glad you enjoy the avatar as well. It's one of my very first and many years old but undoubtedly more in-depth that most.
-yoc
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What?... No cup of hot chocolate? :)
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Hot chocolate? Why would a sportsman like me drink hot chocolate?
High up in the mountains we chose to drink… (there’s no direct translation for this, but it really is)…
Hot egg liqueur topped off with cream. Can you believe it? True story!
And we’re off with the upload of a new
TAFFY #5
(a sister title to PATCHES) – more of those coming the next weeks!
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... Hot egg liqueur topped off with cream....
Eh, yeah... sounds great... I was wondering why everyone looked so cheerful in that last photo.
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Methinks we COMPLETED the Novelty run of Frisky Fables with Jim's copy of
FRISKY FABLES vol. 2 no. 11
Now up. Yay!
Furthermore we had
TAFFY #6 as well as
INTIMATE LOVE #25
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Noted.
Thanks for the new books T.
:)
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Mr T forgot to announce his newest upload -
Tomb of Terror 8 -JVJ
Thanks to him and JVJ for this latest pre-code effort!
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Ja, I've been busy and couldn't announce what I uploaded the last days...
With grrreat joy we present you the issues of
INTIMATE LOVE #26, 27, and 28
And thus a COMPLETE run of that title! Fanfare, please.
And we closed a first gap in the Blue Bolt cosmos with
BLUE BOLT vol. 3 #6
As well as more gap-closing with
FRISKY FABLES vol.2 #11
And TAFFY #6
went up.
Jeez, I've been away quite a while...
More Taffys to follow next, probably.
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Wow, great work T!
And yes, we've been missing your messages around here.
Don't be a stranger!
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Well, I am currently busy with money-earning stuff.
Not so much time for scanning, but try squeezing it in.
I need it as a zen-practice!
Managed some gap-filling with the uploads of
HOT ROD AND SPEEDWAY COMICS #4 (which COMPLETED the run of that Hillman series)
TAFFY goes on with TAFFY #7.
and
LOVE JOURNAL #13
marks the beginning of a new title to upload. More in the making!
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Thanks T!
Hot Rod marked as Complete now.
GL with the money earners.
-Yoc
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T,
How many more Love Journals?
Is #11 among them? It needs ifc, ibc & bc to be c2c
http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1021
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=941
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Sorry, "Kraca", LOVE JOURNAL only some issues upwards, not #11.
And the good Sir Vadeboncoeur (JVJ) supplied me in his thoughtfulness with some more gap fillers:
BLUE BOLT Vol3 #9
DEAD-EYE WESTERN Vol1 #7
More gaps in both series will be closed over the summer.
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Good to hear T.
Thanks to both you and the good sir.
-Yoc
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More gap-closing biznis going on with uploads of
TAFFY #8
BLUE BOLT vol6 #1
DEAD-EYE WESTERN vol2 #7
Jeez.
Signing out for some days - cause I'm off to THE German Comic Con: Erlangen!
https://www.comic-salon.de/de
Giving a short lecture there, too:
https://www.comic-salon.de/de/sex-and-drugs-and-politics-weshalb-comic-hefte-1955-zensiert-werden-mussten
It's being held in a lovely small town in Germany's south - near Nuremberg.
Meeting lots of people (artists, publishers, journalists, historians) - great beer and meaty food.
What can go wrong?
:P
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Very cool!
Have fun T and good luck with your lecture.
:)
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Let us keep track of what went up the last days:
BLUE BOLT Vol6 #4
LOVE JOURNAL #16 + 17
TAFFY #9
It's all about filling those gaps, ya know?
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Thanks T!
And how did your lecture go?
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Just dandy, dear Yoc, just dandy.
You can actually SEE it online! Someone filmed in there and shot it up on YouTube.
Your chance to see me in action!
::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dAoDmewDo
And I won't forget to upload you a goodie:
DEAD-EYE WESTERN Vol.2 #9
it is.
Attention, please - this series in not yet complete, I have some follow-up books to do!!!
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Hi T,
I watched it all but I'll need the subtitles to really appreciate it.
You did a great job with the slide show. You might toss in a Sunny or Junior cover in the Sex section if you aren't limiting yourself to just horror/crime books. Feldstein had had to be one of the best examples of 'headlight comics'. Ward's Torchy and Baker's Sky-Girl would also make nice examples in a slide show.
-Yoc
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You are right, Yoc, you can never show too few pin-up pics. I had more in store, but my time was limited to 20 minutes! I will hold this lecture again in October – presenting the hour-long version with way MORE pictures! Heh, heh, heh.
And I’m bouncing back with the upload of
TOMB OF TERROR #4
A nice and whacky issue, by the way. Presented “Dirt of Death” last month on my FIFTIES HORROR website.
Uploaded more stuff the last weeks, lost track, really.
We had WITCHES TALES #17 (which has rather crappy contents…)
BLUE BOLT vol. 9 #6
DEAD-EYE WESTERN # 11 + 12
LOVE JOURNAL #18
TAFFY # 10, 11 + 12
CRIME DETECTIVE #2
Huh, was rather absent, as I now realize. Well, been busy working for money.
And am on my way to a vacation in the south of Spain. Will see you in two weeks.
Maybe upload one more book before...
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Thanks T, enjoy your trip and stay safe, see you soon.
Geo
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Have fun T!
:)
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I give you know, before I get globe-trotting again (this time US east coast) the last issue of:
DEAD-EYE WESTERN vol3 nr1
This series is COMPLETE now - if you wanna count that "incomplete"-marked Vol1 nr4.
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Thanks T!
Now up and Dead-Eye marked Complete, sorta.
-Yoc
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And it's me to tell you that Orbit's
LOVE JOURNAL #20, 21, 22
are up. That is the end of the line for that title, #23 is sadly missing.
Am slowing down my scanning operations. Hafta work more, real work.
But one series will be going up futher on: Hillmann's CRIME DETECTIVE.
Got probably all the missing books. Stand by for those...
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Thanks T!
Sure, we understand the slowdown. But please don't be a stranger!
-Yoc
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Now up from T and the JVJ Collection -
Crime Detective v02 001 -JVJ
Enjoy!
-Yoc
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Ahoy, been absent for different reasons.
No more books to scan and doing a lot of different work by now.
But am making good on my promise to provide you all with last missing issues from Hillman's CRIME DETECTIVE.
Like this one: CRIME DETECTIVE vol2. Nr. 4
Why is it not showing up in the list of books under the title?
Please someone of you fabulous moderators take care of that.
Or did I miss something. Absent too long, it seems.
???
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Thanks Tilliban, great to see you again!
The book is up there and looks just fine.
I hope life is treating you as good as well.
Take care,
-Yoc
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Hahaha!
Am working hard on becoming Germany's nex top comics journalist.
See sample of my work here:
http://tillmanncourth.de/50-jahre-deutsches-mad-na-und-comixene-nr-122/
Click that orange "mad01" and see a big-ass article about German MAD magazine.
:P
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Wow, it looks great T!!
Now, can someone quickly teach me German so I can read it? ;)
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Another Hillman from the JVJ Collection today -
Crime Detective v02 011
Thanks T!
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And quickly back for a bit to announce uploade of a long missing horror book:
MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #9
Thanks to US collector Diablo who provided me with his scans.
Managed to to the upload, am quite not used to it anymore.
Do your magic with linking this to the Grand Comics Database.
Don't know how that is done.
Cheers all around.
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Thanks very much for this T!
We only need #13 to finish the run. Amazing!
(Upgrades for #15-20 would be very welcome as well.)
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Thank you for your latest upload T.
- Geo
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Well, don't you forget issue #21, which is a no-good photography of me.
Arrgh.
Good news, though, on another topic.
Rummaging through my file drawer, I found high-res scans of some ACE horror books.
I did those last year for providing my Lou Cameron book with nice stories.
Book is out, I can start sharing the scans soon.
Do you KNOW about my Lou Cameron book?!
See it here: https://www.amazon.com/Camerons-Unsleeping-Chilling-Archives-Horror/dp/163140931X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542281432&sr=8-1&keywords=lou+cameron&dpID=61gRsI8nWvL&preST=_SX258_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
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Very cool!
Looking forward to these T and I'm glad you included a plug for the book.
I've done the same for you on the DCM Facebook page and mentioned your websites.
-Yoc
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Hot damn!
Lookey here what I found lying around: Long sought after paper version of
CHAMBER OF CHILLS #24
Yay! My new year's gift to you all!
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Wow, what a great addition to kick off 2019 on DCM!
Thanks very much for sharing this Tilliban! :D
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Two scans from T to help celebrate our anniversary!
Baffling Mysteries 018 [Ace1953] -tilliban.cbz
Beyond 021 [Ace1953] -JVJ+tilliban.cbz
Thank T!
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Greetings, bleatings!
And I have added
HAND OF FATE #19 and
WEB OF MYSTERY #17
As birthday gifts.
All of these were high-res scans I did two years ago for that Lou Cameron book which came out last year!
I have six more of those, actually.
Will share in due time or with gun put to my head.
Was holding onto those, because people should go and buy the book first.
Heh, heh, heh.
Happypappyanniversappy!
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Thanks again T!
And the scans are great!
-Yoc
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Sayin' HI to y'all.
Found the opportunity (lazy Sunday) to donate one of my last scans today.
WEB OF MYSTERY #19
Here for the first time and for the official record:
I got five more ACE horror books - all diff versions.
Press me for uploads.
;)
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Thanks very much T!
You have been pressed. ;)
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Ha, never feel pressed.
I remembered by myself to upload next book:
HAND OF FATE #21
A different version, should be 'better' than existing one.
The Lou Cameron story is a very zany pre-code horror gem, mind you!
Enjoy.
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Very nice! And a great upgrade on the smaller scan we had on the site.
-Yoc
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Ach, belatedly uploaded my Halloween treat.
WEB OF MYSTERY #24
A great issue and a very nice scan by myself.
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Better a little late than never!
Thanks very much T, it looks great.
:)
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Bim-bam-bino!
Season's greetings from Germany with my last BAFFLING file.
BAFFLING MYSTERIES #20
Ha. Nice one. Have a fabulous time all-together.
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Thanks very much for this pleasant surprise upload T!
I hope you've had a happy holidays over there.
-Yoc
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Ahoy, gang.
This is me posting my absolutely last scan I have.
WEB OF MYSTERY #25
I am moving on, cleaning house, switching to new computer. So.
But not to worry, I am doing fine, more than fine.
DCM and pre-code horror stories were my stepping stone to comics journalism.
Am writing for a comics magazine (print, too!), filling my own website about comics, hosting events concerning comics and doing talks with German artists.
They are putting me up on YouTube, can you imagine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve-RXkMy-UE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kNUp7kcs8s
So busy as hell promoting comics in Germany!
Cheers to you, see you in the funny papers.
;D
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Thanks very much T!
Congrats on turning your hobby into something very impressive!
Please do give us an update on your projects here or on the DCM Facebook page.
Stay healthy,
-Yoc