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DCM Download Site => What you can upload => Topic started by: JonTheScanner on September 15, 2010, 09:33:48 PM
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Can the five Fiction House Spirit House comics be uploaded?
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Not sure. I'm inclined to think yes- based on general policy on Fiction house itself- but I would wait for one of the PD experts to say something.
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I don't see anything in the "renewals for periodicals" list. I'm exhausted and in a rush (great combination), so I might be missing something and it could be a post-1950 title (eek--searching the database for "Spirit" wouldn't be fun), but otherwise, it should be fine.
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It is a post 50s title. It was published in 1952-3.
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Because I felt like it, I did a search of the online records for "spirit", using the Search Limits (1950-73 Date range) and only found a "recorded document" from 1969.
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Thanks for the update bchat
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Yeah, similarly, after getting the page to choke after ten thousand hits, I limited the years to 1950-3 and got less than a hundred hits, none of which were comics.
However, that would only be original registration, which...I don't know, I should check again for 1978-81, I guess, to look for a renewal, in case the registration (not required with publication) came later.
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I ran another search. The previous search was the first time I used the Search Limits ... and I obviously had no clue what I was doing. This time I set the limits as:
Range 1979-81
Item Type: Serials (how comics appear to be classified by the Copyright Office)
I got 37 results, 4 of which were for "Will Eisner's The Spirit" published by Kitchen Sink Enterprises during that time period (the other 33 results looked to be for non-comic items), but I saw nothing for Renewals.
Using the Range of 1950-53 with the Item Type as Serials, to see if the Renewal would pop-up using those dates, I got three results, none of which were for a comic book with "Spirit" in the title.
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Likewise (I feel rather stupid), searching for "Spirit Comics" turns up nothing, regardless of date or type.
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Thanks again for checking into these guys.
Jon recently posted two issues of the Fiction House Spirit comics! I'll try and get them up soon.
-Yoc
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Don't worry Yoc, they are almost done as I write this, even made a new special category for them in the Fiction House section.
Geo