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DCM Download Site => New Uploads => Topic started by: Poztron on June 27, 2010, 02:29:24 PM
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Alright, I'm finally getting off my butt and have done a paper scan of Eh! #6, a Charlton 1954 imitation of Mad comics. I'll be uploading it as soon as I wade through the procedural details. I think it came out pretty decent, though a few of the pages are slightly tilted, mainly because the stapling and trimming on the copy I have were so out of whack and non-square.
I also have several other titles that I don't see on the site. A couple of Avon titles and some Prize Black Magics. I'll see if I can get to those when I have more time. Just doing this issue has nearly gobbled up a weekend, which just increases my admiration and gratitude to the other scanners who have done so much.
Oh, and if I can get VIP status, I guess that would allow me to FTP future files. Thanks.
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Thanks Poztron,
I just looked at your upload. The scans are fine but you've got a common problem among Mac users that the file contains a 'Mac_os' folder that prevents CDisplay from starting. This seems to be a common problem for Mac users when making a ZIP file.
moondood had the same problem at first. Then he had this to say which solved the problem -
I've had trouble with my MAC/ZIP/CBZ files in the past not working on PC's...so I used a Mac/RAR compressor this time...
If you need more info on what MD did you can send him a Private Message and see what help he can give you.
I've removed the file and also renamed your FC and IFC files to 'Eh-06-00' so they appear at the start of the file when reading with CDisplay.
Yes, FTP info can be passed along but could I ask you to Please continue to upload via the site's link? For single books it makes life a lot easier on the mods and admin. Now if your net connection is via dial-up (or you are uploading multiple files) using FTP might be an advantage as it does allow you to resume broken uploads but if you are on high-speed if it's all the same with you we'd appreciate people using the upload link when they can.
I'll re-upload your file again with the corrections so no worries on Eh6.
Thanks again!
-Yoc
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Yoc,
Thanks loads for correcting the problems and thanks for re-uploading my file with the corrections. This is a learning process and I'm paying attention to how I can make it better.
I just need to figure out the Mac/RAR compressor that moondood used. I'll PM if necessary.
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Not a problem at all Poztron.
I'm sure by your next upload you'll have it sorted. Don't be afraid to contact 'moondood' either, he's good people.
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Please let me know how it works out. Push comes to shove I can always correct your next books and upload it again but I know you'd rather do things properly on your own right?
Take care,
-Yoc
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Eh? Is that a Canadian comic book?? ;-)
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Moondood here...
I did hear from Poztron and fixed him up, I think...but I thought I'd post the info here, too, for all else who need it.
The Mac-installed zip utility app that comes standard on mac machines adds some odd files [for some odd reason] -- that screws with PC users wanted to read mac-generated zips or CBZs.
I downloaded and used an app called zipmacfiles4pc [google search]...but it was only a demo that had a short free shelf life. One could buy it, of course, if desired.
Since then, I found CleanArchiver [for mac]--that allows me to make PC-user-friendly zips and CBZs. A google search should find it easily...Best of all, It's free!
moondood
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YemuZip works fine too for zipping on the Mac, version 2.3.1 is the latest version out. It's what I've been using with no problems for a long while now. No extra files added. And it's freeware.
Geo
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Thanks, all, for the help!
I hope someone enjoyed the Eh! #6 scans. Eh! was kind of a semi-lame Mad imitation, but some of the art is amusing and that's one less comic now needing to be saved.
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The Mac-installed zip utility app that comes standard on mac machines adds some odd files [for some odd reason] -- that screws with PC users wanted to read mac-generated zips or CBZs.
For anybody curious as to what's going on here (which I expect are few, with a solution), the extra files are what Apple calls a "resource fork." It explains to your Mac what kind of file it is and who's supposed to be responsible for opening it, among other things.
The UNIX approach was historically to analyze the file to guess what kind it is, which can be slow and error-prone, obviously. The Windows and web approach (from CP/M, and possibly earlier) is to work with file extensions, which is arbitrary and too easily fouled by the user. So from the early Mac days, the system creates an extra file containing all this that the user can't see or touch.
The downside is that you're left with a choice when archiving: Do you include the files and confuse your Windows and Linux friends, or do you discard the files and confuse your Mac friends? So different programs make different choices, and we all end up confused.
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Awesome, John. As somebody who straddles the PC and Mac world, and have seen countless times the additional bits that Mac adds to its archives, I had always been curious...guessing that the hidden file counterparts were system related.
Nice to know the historical and technical context.
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Thanks to Geo and Moondood - I've added your suggested applications to the FAQ for future reference.
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I've got a copy of Black Magic #29 (Prize) and that issue doesn't appear to be scanned yet, so it's next for me. I'll see if I can knock it out this weekend. It's particular virtue is S&K and Ditko art.
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Hi Poztron,
If you check the Prize section - Black Magic 29-33 are not in the public domain so we can't share your scan.
Sorry.
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Nuts! And here I am halfway through scanning it. That'll teach me to not poke around further here looking for info like that. I went directly to the Black Magic page from the link on the Homepage under the Prize section so I by-stepped the notice. Well, I've got a couple of other Black Magics, 7 and 14, which I should try and work up. But I think I'll wait on them to allow time for stuff like this to manifest.
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BM 7 and 14 are both needed and PD Poztron so feel free whenever you like.
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BM 7 and 14 are both needed and PD Poztron so feel free whenever you like.
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OK...I wrapped up Black Magic 7 and will upload it tonight. I used Clean Archiver, so I hope that the data forks are all placed back in their proper silverware drawers.
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It is now up on the download site. And it looks fine, no added files. Checked it on both my Mac and in BootCamp. Thanks for the upload Poztron.
Geo
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Thanks Poztron.
But I did see one problem. Your file names are such that CDisplay starts with page 10 instead of pg01.
Please be sure the numbers goes 01,02,03, etc until 09, then 10, and so on.
The scans themselves look just fine and the file worked just fine.
I've renamed the scans and re-uploaded it for you.
Thanks again,
-Yoc
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Thanks Poztron.
But I did see one problem. Your file names are such that CDisplay starts with page 10 instead of pg01.
Please be sure the numbers goes 01,02,03, etc until 09, then 10, and so on.
The scans themselves look just fine and the file worked just fine.
I've renamed the scans and re-uploaded it for you.
Thanks again,
-Yoc
Yoc, once again you assisted me and I appreciate it. Every time I learn something new. Next time maybe it will go smoothly without any hitches.
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No worries P!
You'll be just fine in no time. Keep up the nice scans my friend.
:)
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OK, scanning is commencing on Black Magic #14. A kind of "average" issue, though it does have a S&K cover and a lead-off story with art by Mort Meskin. Scanning may run over into the weekend, so stay tuned. I'll try and solve both the data fork matter and the page numbering hitch this time.
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Meskin is one of my favourites P so I know I'm looking forward to this!!
:)
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Black Magic #14 has been uploaded. I'm hoping the previous glitches have all been avoided this time.
There is some pretty decent art in this issue by the likes of Meskin, McCarty, Roussos, Walton, etc., though it is unfortunately obscured by bad coloring, bad registration, and aging of the newsprint. <g>
I've not done much color correction (other than the automatic color correction in my scanning software) as I believe that it is more authentic to scan an old comic as it is, not as we imagine it once was. (I recognize that there are different philosophies about this issue. I admire a good color correction job and over-all clean-up, but my preference is to give you the raw scans.) As usual, the stitch & trim on the book was crooked, and I tried to make pages closer to level, though there is some variation.
Enjoy.
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Assuming there are no objections or problems, the next two comics I have in line for scanning are from Avon: All-True Detective Cases #2 and Sensational Police Cases #3. Nothing super-sensational about them, though some quirky art and a Kintsler cover on one of them stand out. However, they do fill holes in the archive.
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Thanks P!
The Black Magic scan is just fine. Yes, it's got some very sad colouring work doesn't it?
Looking forward to your next book.
I'm bumping you up to VIP status as well.
Congrats!
:)
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Black Magic #14 has been uploaded. I'm hoping the previous glitches have all been avoided this time.
There is some pretty decent art in this issue by the likes of Meskin, McCarty, Roussos, Walton, etc., though it is unfortunately obscured by bad coloring, bad registration, and aging of the newsprint. <g>
I've not done much color correction (other than the automatic color correction in my scanning software) as I believe that it is more authentic to scan an old comic as it is, not as we imagine it once was. (I recognize that there are different philosophies about this issue. I admire a good color correction job and over-all clean-up, but my preference is to give you the raw scans.) As usual, the stitch & trim on the book was crooked, and I tried to make pages closer to level, though there is some variation.
Enjoy.
Here ya go with a sample of a bad book to work with:
original book, no adjustments done:
(http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/603/testorggd3.th.jpg) (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=testorggd3.jpg)
some adjustments done with scanner to remove the "brown":
(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5973/test1nv0.th.jpg) (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=test1nv0.jpg)
I never was happy with the out come of this book when it was done. This was one of my earliest books I scanned and edited by the way.
Geo
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Here ya go with a sample of a bad book to work with:
original book, no adjustments done:
(...)
some adjustments done with scanner to remove the "brown":
(...)
I never was happy with the out come of this book when it was done. This was one of my earliest books I scanned and edited by the way.
Geo, your point is well taken that some adjustments to scans are certainly called for. I'm lucky that my scanner software has a pretty decent automatic color correction option that does a lot of this work for me, lightening up the browned newsprint background, heightening the colors and contrast, etc. What I'm not personally into (but I don't object to others pursuing this) is trying to pull scans of pages back to an original "pre-browned" state. I think that a certain amount of newsprint aging actually adds a certain richness to pages that I like. There was a reprinting of a Joe Maneely story in one of Craig Yoe's anthologies (Arf Forum, I believe) that I loved because it included the browning of the comic pages it was shot from.
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Thanks P!
The Black Magic scan is just fine. Yes, it's got some very sad colouring work doesn't it?
Looking forward to your next book.
Since I always bought GA comics as reading copies - not for condition - most of my scans are going to be from iffy quality comics. :( But I think that the original virtues of the stories and art still shine through, despite the ragged edges and detached covers, etc.
I'm bumping you up to VIP status as well.
Congrats!
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Thanks! Can you remind me again what VIP status carries with it? :P
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For one you will be able to access the VIP forum pages now, see it at the bottom, and ftp will be available if you need it,.
I too don't like the pages over-whitened Poztron, they were never that way in the first place.
Geo
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Here ya go with a sample of a bad book to work with:
original book, no adjustments done:
(http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/603/testorggd3.th.jpg) (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=testorggd3.jpg)
some adjustments done with scanner to remove the "brown":
(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5973/test1nv0.th.jpg) (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=test1nv0.jpg)
I never was happy with the out come of this book when it was done. This was one of my earliest books I scanned and edited by the way.
Geo
Here's a quick Levels adjustment in Photoshop to bring out the blacks and lighten the neutral gray.
(http://www.bpib.com/temp/kirby-1.jpg)(|:{>
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Hi P,
For the time being VIP is mostly for bragging rights.
There is the VIP section and the scanners lounge but they've been pretty darn quiet.
You do have FTP access for uploading but I hope you'll continue to use the Upload Link on the site.
-Yoc
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OK, All-True Detective Cases #2 is uploaded. That's two this weekend, a rate that is not likely to happen again soon! ;)
The final story in the book is pretty tasty, though GCD indicates that it is a reprint from Avon's The Saint #6.
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Going up shortly.
Thanks P!
:)
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That final story is by one of my favorite artists, Poz,
Warren Kremer (of Richie Rich fame).
The man COULD DRAW.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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That final story is by one of my favorite artists, Poz,
Warren Kremer (of Richie Rich fame).
The man COULD DRAW.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
Lovely stuff. Nice stylistic flourishes. Thanks for the ID! GCD ought to be informed... ;D
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Thanks for the info Jim, I've added it to the listing.
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Wrong. That's Warren Kremer of WENDY fame!!
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Looked up Warren Kremer on GCD. He did a LOT of styles and books didn't he?
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Just uploaded scans of another Avon book, Sensational Police Cases #3. Nothing overly sensational about the issue, though the final story is delightfully wacky for a crime comic. Kinstler cover.
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Thanks P.
Yeah, that last story was off the wall for a crime book.
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That last story was a lot of fun thanks P
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This is exactly why I didn't go to my high school prom, by the way. You just can't trust dancers.
(Speaking of which, I'm not sure if I'm actually recommending anybody watch it, but if you don't mind that a lot of the plot...and dialogue, action, and acting are all implied, and you're within the permissible geographic distribution regions, one might wish to mosey on over to Hulu to investigate "The LXD." It's not bad, but nor is it particularly compelling just yet. An appearance by Sandy Quirk would improve things immeasurably, though...)
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I just discovered that I have Black Magic #26 which in DCM's archive file is missing one story. I will upload the missing story and a different scan of the front cover. It'll probably be Friday or Saturday. The missing story is "The Sting of Scorpio" with art by S&K or at least pencils by Kirby.
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I just discovered that I have Black Magic #26 which in DCM's archive file is missing one story. I will upload the missing story and a different scan of the front cover. It'll probably be Friday or Saturday. The missing story is "The Sting of Scorpio" with art by S&K or at least pencils by Kirby.
If I upload scans of the issue's centerfold (which constitutes the missing 4-page story) can someone else figure out how to merge them into the present incomplete issue file? I can't quite wrap my mind around how to do so without entirely overhauling the present names of the other pages and renumbering all of them, etc. If someone else is willing to take on that editing task, I can supply the CF scans.
Also, has anyone else run into the phenomenon of scanning an issue as TIFs and then, when going back into the files in Photoshop in order to resize them and convert them into JPGs, discovering that 2 or 3 scans have somehow become damaged and have blue "noise" lines running horizontally across part of the image and have to be rescanned? Perhaps these creep in when I have to reboot after every 8 or 9 scans because my Mac freezes up. (This latter I blame on the HP multi-task scanner that I got during the ill-fated Carly Fiorina era when it seemed like HP hardware and software turned into cheap junk.)
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Hi P,
Upload your BM26 page fills as normal and I can merge them but include exactly where they belong in the book in the description area.
I can help out with merging but if all you are worried about in the existing file names - worry not.
Rename the existing files to fit whatever format you like to use, just please be sure the final merged scans and yours result in the book being in proper order.
When merging with another person's scans, as long as the scans themselves have been untouched the file names can be anything you like. And when the final c2c book is posted a full credit to the original scanner is proper etiquette.
I'm not sure what is going on with your TIFF files. I generally keep each page as a PSD file until I'm ready to export. It takes up a lot more room but sometimes you don't catch a problem until you are in the final export stage and want to go back to fix it. And I agree, my HP scanner is the pits!
Good luck,
-Yoc
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Hi P,
Upload your BM26 page fills as normal and I can merge them but include exactly where they belong in the book in the description area.
They are now uploaded as normal. I hope my description of their location does the job.
I'm not sure what is going on with your TIFF files. I generally keep each page as a PSD file until I'm ready to export. It takes up a lot more room but sometimes you don't catch a problem until you are in the final export stage and want to go back to fix it.
I may try this PSD file save approach and see how it goes. I think I've got the spare HD space these days handle the extra file space.
Anyway, thanks for your help as always.
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Thanks P!
The c2c version is now up!
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Next, I think I'll do Dark Shadows #3 (Ajax/Farrell under the America's Best Comics imprint of Steinway). It has one story that has pretty interesting art.
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Looking forward to it P.
:)
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Dark Shadows #3 has now been uploaded. The usual somewhat funky condition (the covers detached themselves in the process of scanning, for instance), with some typical variation in page trim and image placement. Looks to me like Iger shop stuff and one story that might be Warren Kremer, though JVJ probably knows best. I suspect it is all reprinted from some comics years earlier. GCD doesn't have the issue indexed.
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And now ready for download. Thank you, Poztron!
I'm not sure if the story first appeared there, but the "Headline Heroine" story was used in Ajax Phantom Lady #3.
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cover - ? (Iger Shop, pos. Webb on the old man)
Exactly What you Ordered - Battefield & Shop pencils/Shop inks
Freddie - ?
The Racket that Failed - Max Elkan
Headline Heroine - Webb & Shop pencils/Shop inks
The Bigger They Come - Gerald Altman (signed) - looking extremely weird!
I doubt that these are all reprints, but it just a feeling, not based on any experience.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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You have to love a story as ridiculous as The Bigger They Come. I have a feeling Altman probably also wrote it. Why would I think such a thing. Just a hunch. Given Altman's art style and such it just seems to fit his sensibilities to have written it also.
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From Here to Insanity #14 is scanned. I just have to convert the tifs into jpegs and make a zip file and they will be uploaded. Probably tomorrow sometime. A marvelous gumbo of hack art, with some pages either Simon inking Kirby or Simon aping Kirby, not sure which.
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From Here to Insanity #14 is scanned. I just have to convert the tifs into jpegs and make a zip file and they will be uploaded. Probably tomorrow sometime. A marvelous gumbo of hack art, with some pages either Simon inking Kirby or Simon aping Kirby, not sure which.
I had to laugh at the notion of Simon "aping" Kirby, Poz. My opinion is that he was incapable of such. The FHtI art is probably pure Kirby, scrounging for work at a bad time in comics history. Simon had split with Kirby by 1956 taking the Prize account with him. If you look at Prize Romance books through the late 50s, you'll get a good sense of what Simon was like solo. He did tons of undistinguished, boring stories that had no flair. As an artist, I consider Joe Simon a great business man, but his own art NEVER looked like Jack Kirby.
My 2ยข
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I had to laugh at the notion of Simon "aping" Kirby, Poz. My opinion is that he was incapable of such. The FHtI art is probably pure Kirby, scrounging for work at a bad time in comics history. Simon had split with Kirby by 1956 taking the Prize account with him. If you look at Prize Romance books through the late 50s, you'll get a good sense of what Simon was like solo. He did tons of undistinguished, boring stories that had no flair. As an artist, I consider Joe Simon a great business man, but his own art NEVER looked like Jack Kirby.
My greatest familiarity with Simon's art was in early SICK issues, and as I recall there wasn't much Kirby-influence present. But there may have been some. I need to scrounge around in that cupboard and dig out what old SICKs I have and look into this.
At any rate, I don't dispute your judgment on this. It may be well that the pages in question are Kirby dashing this stuff off (and maybe inking it himself in a hurry?)
The issue is ready to upload...I just have to move beyond the Firefox crash in the middle of my previous attempt to upload it.
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From Here to Insanity #11 has now been uploaded, though an "elder moment" had me labeling the upload as FHTI #14 and naming the file itself as FHTI_04. I hope that Yoc or someone else on the ball can correct those flubs. It not, I'll upload the file again with correct names.
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Well, it's approved, but we need to update it. As near as I can tell, I went over there BEFORE your last post to see if you had gotten it uploaded in the last 20 minutes, found it there, and downloaded it to personally check it before I approved it. (Nothing personal, just a habit of mine.) Then 3 minutes later when I went back to approve it, I found it was gone, and briefly worried before I realized Yoc had hopped in and approved it during those three minutes. Then I hop back here and see you posting, asking if we can fix it. Not sure on the file name, the labeling is easy and I"ll go do that next.
The real question is, what are we all doing up this late? :P
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Oh, and I was just reading about this issue a day or two ago in Alter Ego 86. Ger Apeldoorn has the whole issue (minus 4 pages) down as Simon & Kirby but mentions he thinks it's almost all Kirby. Overstreet just says Kirby.
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Thanks P, it's now up!
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Oh bugger, I didn't see your problem P.
Hmmm, this presents a chance to try something Never Before Attempted In The HISTORY of DCM (or the other site)
:o (Sounds scary eh kids?)
I moved Poztron's randomly renamed 'xxx.rwd' file (the site software does this automatically) out of the Downloads folder where all scans are placed once activated and back into the 'Uploads' folder. I then Renamed it to 'From Here to Insanity 011.zip' and resubmitted it to the site all from the FTP and WITHOUT having to get Poztron or myself to re-upload the book from scratch! Don't worry if that's all over your head, only the staff will really follow it.
So that means YES, it is possible to rename a file After it's been added to the site as long as you know the exact file size and date it was added to the site!
In other words P, your file is now fixed with a proper file name (as it appears when you download it) and a proper display name (as it appears on the download site).
Thanks for providing me with the inspiration to try this,
-Yoc
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FWIW:
From Here to Insanity #11
Cover: Jack Kirby
Classifried Ads: Fred Ottenheimer?
Old Love: Jack Kirby / Bill Draut
Expressions: Jack Kirby
Line 'Em Up: Jack Kirby
The Psycho News: Jack Kirby
Dorothy and Digby: Fred Ottenheimer (signed)
Rex Mortgage M.D.?: Jack Kirby / ?
20,000 Lugs Under the Sea: Jack Kirby
Build It Yourself: Jack Kirby
Comet Feldmeyer: Jack Kirby / Joe Simon?
Foreign Intrigues: Jack Kirby
Tweetie Piper!: Jack Kirby
90-Pound Weakling: Jack Kirby & ? / ?
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FWIW:
From Here to Insanity #11
Cover: Jack Kirby
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Sounds about right to me. I think that is definitely Ottenheimer in there between the Kirby work.
Meanwhile, Yoc, thanks so much for the renaming assistance. You da man!
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I believe as the uploader you also had the option of editing your upload once it's up as well P.
But the staff is always here to help when called on.
:)
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I believe as the uploader you also had the option of editing your upload once it's up as well P.
But the staff is always here to help when called on.
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I appreciate it. Truth is, I'm still feeling my way around with this stuff and wasn't sure whether I could get at or alter a file once it is uploaded.
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Look under your User CP for Uploads P.
:)
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Look under your User CP for Uploads P.
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Ah, I see that now. Though the link to files I uploaded seemed to be the "Approved Files" link on the left side, which interestingly enough only shows 5 files and not the most recently uploaded Here to Insanity 11. No matter. Perhaps there is a lag in files showing up on the list.
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Found some more comics in my hoard that don't appear to be scanned here.
Police Against Crime #1 (Premier) Hollingsworth
Ghostly Weird Stories #124 (Star) Disbrow and Iger shop
Danger #18 (Super/IW) seems to be some old Novelty Press material
Love Confessions #12 (Quality)
Crime Must Pay the Penalty #36 (Ace) - some terrific art in this issue
In Love #1 (Mainline) w/ 20pg. S&K strip
I'll work my way through them in the weeks ahead, assuming none of them are on the no-post list...
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Slightly interrupted by the DCM hiatus, I've just uploaded Ghostly Weird Stories #124 (Star) with some nice Disbrow and Iger shop art. A good middling horror comic for you horror fans... Disbrow, I think, is somewhat underrated, although there is a certain naive quality to his art. But it is clear he was putting his heart into it, not merely hacking it out.
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Ghostly Weird Stories #124 has been approved and is ready for downloading now people.
Thanks Poztron for the upload.
Geo
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I've scanned Crime Must Pay the Penalty #36 (Ace) which has a very nifty lead story with art by (I think) Rudy Palais. The only hangup is that the comic was mis-bound and pgs 8 & 9 of that first story occur later in the comic as pp 26 & 27. I did the scans in order of how the pages appear in print. Is there someone who can assist as editor for this scan and insert the mis-bound pages in order and rename the other files to all work in correct order? I've got enough energy to do the raw scans and conversions to jpgs, but this further level of editing is just a bit beyond me at present.
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OK, Crime Must Pay the Penalty #36 has been uploaded. As I noted in the previous post, pages 8 & 9 of the first story are misbound to later in the book. So, this scan follows suit with a ctc scan of the book as it was put out on the newsstands. (Though I'm not sure that all copies were misbound. However, my guess is that it was a stripping error on the negatives, as the whole book was probably run off at once on big web presses. Whatever. In any case, great opening splash page on the first story (which looks to me like Rudy Palais, though I don't see a signature). Sorry for the missing chunk of the FC and IFC, but that's how it was when I paid a buck for it (or whatever it was) nearly 40 years ago.
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Thanks for the upload Poztron.
For the rest of you, Crime Must Pay the Penalty #36 is now available for downloading.
Geo
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FYI
Crime Must Pay the Penalty #36
Rudy Palais
Sid Greene
Ken Battefield
Leo Morey
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Okay, Police Against Crime #1 (Premier Magazines) has been uploaded ctc. Some decent art in it.
Premier didn't publish enough to warrant a separate publishers directory, so I put this scan file in the small publishers directory.
This comic strikes me as a very decent effort by a totally sideline publisher. See what you think.
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Thanks P!
:)
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Yes, thank you for the upload Poztron. Always good to see another one of your scans.
Geo
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Just uploaded In Love #1 (Mainline), which appears to be mostly a Simon-Kirby romance "novel" and a bonus two-pager from Mort Meskin, with a couple of other strips. I don't think that Mainline is a front name for a bigger name publisher, so I am putting this book in the Small Publishers directory. My apologies if this is not the greatest place and feel free to reassign the file elsewhere.
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Sorry P,
Sadly this title and many other Mainline Publications (Simon & Kirby's own publishing company) are not in the public domain.
You might want to start using this link to check you titles. It's not the Final authority on all PD titles but at least you can see if it is there as this one was -
http://tinyurl.com/35glm2y
Use the Search button and sort by ascending.
-Yoc
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Phooey. I wish someone had mentioned this a couple of weeks ago when I posted here my plans to scan the title. :(
But ultimately the fault lies with me for not checking more carefully. However, someone might want to add Mainline to the list of no-no's in the "Comics not to be uploaded to the site" topic. I did check there.
Oh well.
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Alright, gang. Combing through my collection, I see I have 4 Fox titles that aren't in the archives. They are:
Dagar Desert Hawk #20 (Oct 48)
Zegra Jungle Empress #4 (Feb 49)
Zegra Jungle Empress #5(Apr 49)
Jungle Jo #2 (July 50)
Can anyone confirm that these are indeed PD? I don't see why they shouldn't be since they are Fox titles and mostly fill in holes in title runs that are already archived here. I suppose the other thing I should double-check is whether someone already has dibs on them for scanning from JVJ's treasure trove. (Also, if these already have been scanned as IW reprints, in which case they drop way down in priority.
I'd just as soon not go through the labor of scanning (which half-destroys my comics in the process, since they are in such funky condition to begin with) if these are problematic.
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Alright, gang. Combing through my collection, I see I have 4 Fox titles that aren't in the archives. They are:
Dagar Desert Hawk #20 (Oct 48)
Zegra Jungle Empress #4 (Feb 49)
Zegra Jungle Empress #5(Apr 49)
Jungle Jo #2 (July 50)
These are fine Poztron, go ahead with scanning on them.
I "feel" your pain in/on this, been there, done that.
Geo
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Hi P,
I'm very sorry I didn't catch that Mainline book earlier. My Bad.
But please do check any titles you don't already see on GAC at that Copyright link before scanning.
Fox books are pretty pricey so I don't think anyone will be scanning those soon though Len (Freddyfly) might show up with one from time to time. But in this case a second set of scans for a book isn't really a problem as we can share both but with non-PD books we really don't have any choice in the matter.
Sorry again about In Love, I'm really looking forward to the Fox books!
-Yoc
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OK, I'm about two thirds of the way through Zegra #4, but have to head to bed because tomorrow's a work day. It'll probably get wrapped up Monday night. A lot of that quasi-Baker Iger shop good girl art in this.
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I am drooling in anticipation, Poz. Thanks for the hard work.
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Zegra #4 is ready to upload and I tried to do so twice tonight, but Firefox kept folding on me. I'll give it a day's rest and try again.
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It may not just be you, I've been trying to upload a file for an hour now with no luck, go figure. I was thinking my service was just slow tonight, maybe not now. I may just do the same with this, wait till tomorrow.
Geo
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OK, Zegra #4 is up. I uploaded it with Opera, which is acting oddly sluggish with keystrokes but did the job.
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Thank you P, it is now available for downloading people.
Geo
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Great to finally get this one! Thanks!
But it's another upload that needs re-numbering to fit in with the other issues
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Great to finally get this one! Thanks!
But it's another upload that needs re-numbering to fit in with the other issues
Mmm...I'm not quite following you on re-numbering. The printed Fox issue number is #4... am I missing something?
[Later edit]: never mind, I get it. It is now numbered 004 to fit in order with the other Zegra scans...
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Mmm...I'm not quite following you on re-numbering. The printed Fox issue number is #4... am I missing something?
[Later edit]: never mind, I get it. It is now numbered 004 to fit in order with the other Zegra scans...
What he's saying is when you setup the name on the file add it this way: 004, not #4. I fix it, not a big thing at all. I just was bit sickie today and didn't catch it when I approved the file for uploading.
Geo
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Alright, folks. I'm going to try and scan up Zegra #5 this weekend. I'll just do it cover-to-cover, as the one story from that issue that darkmark already put up is colored differently than what's in my Fox book, so I suspect it is from a reprint of the strip in another comic. The paper guts in my copy of this issue is on a coarser grade of newsprint than the usual, which is both good and bad. Some of the printing quality takes a slight hit (and Fox's printing is funky to begin with), BUT the paper hasn't aged and browned as much as the usual newsprint. So it is something of a trade-off. I'll see if I can do this scan without destroying my copy. The staples are better positioned on the spine than they often are, so perhaps I can keep the cover attached. Wish me luck.
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Zegra 005 (April 1949) [Fox - 32pp - ctc - paper scans by Poztron] has been uploaded. The final issue of the series according to GCD. To my eye it is largely Iger shop with some distinctly Jack Kamen touches on a couple of stories, though I'm not sure that any single artist was the sole artist for any story, per se. As usual, Jim V. will probably be able to provide the credits better. That leaves Dagar Desert Hawk #20 and Jungle Jo #2 to scan for this round. The former is pretty decent Iger shop work, while the Jungle Jo is grade C artwork, but necessary for filling in the archives. Stay tuned.
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I'll try to take a look tomorrow, Poz.
I think I'm gonna try for an early night for once.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Poztron's latest upload is available for downloading people: Zegra 005 (April 1949) Fox - 32pp - c2c
Thank you for doing this one Poztron for everyone.
Geo
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Dagar Desert Hawk #20 (Fox, Oct. 1948) is scanned and will be uploaded momentarily. One of the more ridiculous comics I own. Apparently the artists and writers were under the impression that Arabian desert women run around in bikinis. But their cultural inaccuracy is our treat. Plenty of Iger shop good girl art.
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Thank you Poz for your latest upload. It is now ready for downloading people.
Geo
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Usually I use this site to download comicscans; nice to know that I can download people too! Let's see... which one should I choose...
And many thanks to Poz for this Dagar (and all his scans)!
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I've paper scanned and uploaded Doll Man #36 to the archive as an upgrade to the present fiche file.
Nice Gill Fox "Torchy" story included along with all covers and ads.
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Doll Man #36 (paper) is available for download.
Thanks Poz for the upload.
Geo
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Thanks Poz!
:)
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I took awhile, but I've just scanned and posted another "fill in the hole" comic: TV Teens 015 (Charlton) April 1954 c2c. Not the world's most notable comic, but the printing is good (especially for Charlton) and there's some slick early Chic Stone teen art.
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I took awhile, but I've just scanned and posted another "fill in the hole" comic: TV Teens 015 (Charlton) April 1954 c2c. Not the world's most notable comic, but the printing is good (especially for Charlton) and there's some slick early Chic Stone teen art.
Ok Poz, it's been released to the wild now. People you may now download it to your HD's.
Thanks Poz.
Geo
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I finally got a chance to scan another comic, a Fox title from 1950: Jungle Jo #2. If this is Iger shop art, it must have been their third-rate artists. Not a smashing example of comic art, but it does fill in a hole in the Fox archives.
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It's cut loose for the masses now!
Thank you Poz.
Geo
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Thanks very much P!
:D
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It has been just about exactly 6 months since I uploaded some scans. Sorry about that, but I've been uber-busy with other work and I ran out of decent comics to scan.
However, I noticed that the file of Jo-Jo Congo King #22 (Fox) here at DCM is missing the inside cover, text story, and final ad page and IBC and BC. I have the comic (with a very crappy front cover not worth scanning), so I'll be uploading a CTC version of the issue with the missing pages inserted (if I can get the difference in scan resolution ironed out). Personally, I think that every scan ought to be CTC unless the comic used is physically missing pages. Not scanning ads or text just leaves that work for someone else to fill in. But then, that's just my opinion. YMMV
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We would appreciate that, Poztron. We can't complain when people upload the books without those pages; it's fully the choice of the original scanner what to share. But in general the C2C version is preferable when possible!
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True Eric.
And P, if your own copy looks like an upgrade on the current one feel free to do a c2c rescan if you have time and interest.
Thanks for thinking of us and welcome back. :)
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Thanks Poztron for the now c2c version of Jo-Jo Congo King #22.
Geo
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True Eric.
And P, if your own copy looks like an upgrade on the current one feel free to do a c2c rescan if you have time and interest.
I checked my copy against the one scanned, and I think that there is actually better color registration on the copy already scanned that I incorporated the new scans into than on my copy. Were I to rescan the comic, the main difference would be that I scan at 300dpi.
Thanks for thinking of us and welcome back. :)
Thanks, Yoc... I've never really been away, of course. I've continued availing myself of new scans here (and all praise to the steady scanners). But finding time for full-comic scans has been tough and I've only checked in on the Forum now and then.
I need to go through my collection again and see if there are other holes to fill in on the archive here. I have lots of quirky odds and ends, as my main collecting of '40s and '50s comics was at a few comic cons decades ago where I concentrated on the 'dollar boxes' and ended up with interesting but marginal stuff in funky condition. For instance, I probably paid between $1 and $3 for my copy of Jo-Jo #22, because the cover had half its color pulled off (don't ask me how), half the pages were ready to fall out, it was rolled, and so on. But, the copy was still sufficient, some 40 years later, to furnish decent fill-in scans. I think it earned its modest price back and then some...
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Sounds like a plan
:)
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Just uploaded is For a Night of Love, an Avon one-shot from 1951 whose first story is based on an Emile Zola short story, of all things. This isn't exactly a romance comic in the usual vein, but an oddly French-themed comic with a cover painting of the sort that were on pulps and mass paperbacks of the era aimed at women readers. Some reasonably decent art inside, mostly free of romance comic cliches.
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Thanks Poztron, it is now up for everyone.
Check it out folks.
Geo
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I'm uploading a zip file of fills for Chamber of Chills #8 (Harvey). I have numbered the pages according to their location in the comic if one counts the front cover as 01 and the back cover as 036. If someone more conversant in these matters than I could combine them with the incomplete .CBR of CoC #8 that is on DCM, the end result would be a C2C of the issue. I scanned the pages at the same resolution (150) and cropping size as the Karswell scans that are in the incomplete file to facilitate them all appearing at the same size. I used Clean Archiver to make the .zip, so even though I use a Mac, they should read alright.
Many thanks.
When I grab some more time, I also have Black Cat Mystery $45, Hot Rod #7 (all Powell!), and Flip #2, none of which are on DCM. If someone else has any of those in queue to scan, please let me know.
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I just downloaded it and will be working on it to make it c2c.
I also use a Mac to so it won't be a problem, I'm looking them over as I post this.
I'm a little confused on the numbering when I looked it over on the two books, could you clear this up with a PM to me on them please, some pages are numbered the same. I figured out the pages 1-4, (standard Harvey page setup) and 35 and 36.
Geo
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Will do, boss!
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Will do, boss!
Thank you Poz, it is now up for everyone in it's full c2c glory.
And the page order been fixed too, sorry about that.
Geo
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Great work guys, thanks!
:D
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To be uploaded momentarily:
Black Cat Mystery #45 (Harvey) Aug. 1953, CTC paper scans by Poztron. Powell and Nostrand art.
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Thank you Poz, I really like those Black Cat books.
Would hope everyone else enjoys this book too.
Geo
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Hell, yes, I do. Thanks, Poz. I loved it. Harvey horror rules.
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Next up: Flip #2 (Harvey) June 1954, C2C. Covers are in particularly ragged shape and my copy of the book more or less unraveled as I scanned it, but it has some decent art, fairly slavishly imitating Mad Comics. One of the better Mad knockoffs.
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And thank you for sharing it. Yep a "Mad" knock off for sure, but like you stated a pretty good one at that.
It's available now folks for those that want to give it a try.
Geo
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Thanks for the horror and humor scans P!
:D
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It's a gray and rainy day and I've got the afternoon free. I've got a copy of Hot Rod Comics #7 (Fawcett) I plan to scan unless someone already has dibs on it. If so, let me know quick. :P
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OK, the issue will be uploaded as soon as I finish this post. It's an experiment for me in trying to streamline scanning. I scanned at 150 dpi direct to jpeg and rotated and trimmed pages right in the scanning software. Page widths might vary somewhat (though not very much), but this way I don't have to run each file through Photoshop. The rest of the experiment is uploading it as a .cbz file instead of a .zip.
This is a rather rough copy that I bought decades ago in a comic con bargain bin. So the covers are not particularly in appealing condition. OTOH, it has a centerspread of a Bugatti. A good one for all you car lovers. Two Powell (or Powell shop) drawn stories and all other filler.
Hot Rod Comics #7 (v.2, n.7) (Fawcett) Feb. 1953 CTC
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It is now up and ready for downloading.
Thanks Poztron.
Geo
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Thanks P, the scan looks just fine to my eyes.
:)
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Y'know I was gonna skip looking at this one and then you said "two Powell drawn stories."
Sold!
Thanks
Joe
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Jeez, it's merely been a year and a half or so since I last uploaded something.
In any case, I just uploaded the missing IFC, IBC, BC and a better scan of the FC of Doll Man #46.
I did it from my Mac, but used Cleanarchiver to make the zip file, so it should be okay.
Someone better skilled than I will need to integrate the scans into the existing DM #46 file.
Thanks!
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Welcome back Poz, and thanks for the upload.
Geo
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Hi Poz,
nice to see you again. Sorry, but I don't see where you uploaded those pages.
-Yoc
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Uh oh. Perhaps I should try again. I thought I had the upload page down, but maybe I muffed it. I did them as a folder of 4 files compressed as a zip file.
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I think I forgot to hit the Confirm button the first time...
See if it shows up now.
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Got it, thanks P. I'll merge it with the rest tomorrow.
Great seeing you here again!
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Thanks, Yoc. I've been busy with some writing projects and other distractions, but I drop by DCM nearly daily to check out new comics. I've just been fairly quiet on the Forum front...
I'm doing a little bit to change that. ;)
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Hey P,
I haven't added your DollMan46 pages as there are still missing pages - I think it's the two pages before the Torchy story.
Did you have those to add as well? If you do please just upload those two in a zip file to the site and I'll take care of the rest.
-Yoc
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Hey P,
I haven't added your DollMan46 pages as there are still missing pages - I think it's the two pages before the Torchy story.
Did you have those to add as well? If you do please just upload those two in a zip file to the site and I'll take care of the rest.
-Yoc
Shoot. I keep forgetting about this. I should dig out the comic now and just do it. My copy is complete as far as I know, aside from detached covers.
OK. I just compared my comic to the scan here and there aren't any missing pages. Page for page it is the same. There was just the one ad page before Torchy.
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Thanks Poz.
I was able to figure out the missing ad looking at other Quality books of the month and year. They all had the same ad pages.
I'll create a c2c version for uploading here and upgrade the Blackhawk65 issue.
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I'm just chiming in to confirm that the Doll Man #46 onsite is only missing the ifc,ibc, and bc. All interior pages are present.
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I have a c2c version made and will be uploading it shortly.