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DCM Download Site => New Uploads => Topic started by: robbbyg on December 17, 2011, 10:45:40 PM
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Hi im trying to upload pictures of golden Age comic print plates, i have an extensive collection
do i post scans right here??below??
sorry for sounding dum
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WOW!!!
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I suggest you start your own topic here on the forum Robb and share them as you have the above picture.
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Ill start with Len Lawson
Action comics #1
was drawn and written by Len Lawson the cover story was about spencer steele i think, who was a scientist who travels into the future to the year 1956. Also in this historic first issue was Johnny Star a race driver and Michael Justus (adventurer), a detective story
Only two known copies of this comic exist.
heres pics of the plates that printed Michael Justus
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With the plates you could produce more copies to share/sell to the world
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Id love to but i dont have the time :(
but i like them.
heres Len Lawsons, Flying Vigilantes from Action #4
These tell the story of Bruce (Buster) Brown, who in fact was an actual world war 2 RAAF pilot, the plane you see on the cover plate is the (polly) which he flew and is now on display at the Canberra War Museum
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Im working out a way to scan each page to get the detail and story to view easy,
will get back tomorrow night hopefully with some good info :),will take some time that lot is 2 layers thick :'(
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Wow, very interesting stuff!
Good luck Rob!
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How were all these acquired Rob?
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The printing plates are interesting. In the States, newspapers used to subscribe to comic strips and they were mailed cardboard dies into which they would pour barely molten lead to make "slugs" which were tapped into place for the printing plates of the comics page in a daily newspaper. I can remember, back in the late firties, waiting in the alley with newspaper delivery boys for the 'Riverton Ranger' while the press run was being divide up and counted out for home delivery, delivery to drugs stores, grocery stores, the town's only real hotel, and other outlets. There would be scrounging in the trash bins for the cardboard molds from which the slugs for the comics page had been cast. Dick Tracy molds were highly prized, with Okie Doaks running a close second, and descending all the way down to Mary Worth. The molds look somewhat like the printing plates you have, but with far less detail, and while the molds were distributed to small and large newspaper across the nation there was only a need for one printing plate per page of the Australian comics you name (or at least I think they are all Australian books). I'm amazed the printing plates survived. Newspaper printing techniques are much different now, and I would assume printing comics is probably different too.
You've brought up some memories I haven't thought about for over fifty years, and I'm very curious to hear the story of how you acquired the printing plates.
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Hi they were given to my father about 40 years ago as part payment for building a house, he neveropened the wrappers , when i finally got them all in greasy black paper, they were ineligible, completely black but on some cleaning and many hours later, i was surprised to find that they were all intact and in abnsolutely perfect condition, except where the nail holes are around the edges where they have been pulled off the block.
Im actually normally a phantom comic collector, but this has taken up my time these days with research,
so many dead ends in some of the plates,
im posting pictures of them for discussion and research help here
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3110.0.html
where i have just posted a pic of indians #24 believe it or not,,, more than 17 issues?????
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Hi robbbyg
I would like to talk to you if possible about the plates you have. Len Lawson was my grandfather. Please email me at hunterafloat@bigpond.com.au
regards
Hunterafloat.
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Hi robbbyg
I would like to talk to you if possible about the plates you have. Len Lawson was my grandfather. Please email me at hunterafloat@bigpond.com.au
regards
Hunterafloat.
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Hunter, try left his email -
goretzki@hotmail.com