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Hi Gang,
Welcome to our Tenth Anniversary.It's a crazy, crazy time out there since this past winter holidays and I think we're all feeling more than a bit scared about where it might go and when will it end. How do we recover after something like this? Never have we lived in such a time of such global uncertainty since I guess the second world war and this one it really is the entire world on edge.
Saying this, it makes me feel a little bit odd to be so excited for today. It's our 10th anniversary.
TEN!! Maybe because it's such a strange time it's good to be excited about our site managing to survive the last decade. Giving us something happy to think about instead of worrying.
This last year we gained
4388 new members and today sit with
81486 total.
We also added
761 new scans during the year and have
22992* total scans. (*Note several fiche and very smaller versions of scans have be removed when a better one was added so the total number is smaller than it could be and we lost many when the Fawcett books were taken off.)
Here are some highlights from last year:Year nine started off on a sad note for DCM. Shortly after our March 28th birthday we learned of the very sad passing of one of our own family.
George Ferriss was a moderator on DCM as well as a scanner and editor of comics.
GEO to everyone here, had passed away in late January. It took a while for us to track him down and confirm our worst fears after a long absense. Geo will be very missed.
You can see a GEO memorial topic HERE.About the same time we learned of GEO we received a take down notice for many Fawcett titles on the site. We were in the wrong on their PD status and they were removed. It was easily the worst week in DCM history. But we carried on just as we do today.
Thankfully
Titansfan has continued to grow the collection with his Library of Congress visits! He's now scanned a just over 3000 books from them! We are thrilled to have such a dedicated scanner as part of the fold!
Thank-you TF! Of course TF isn't the only one crafting his scans for sharing. He keeps a small army of people busy editing his raw scans.
Thanks to all of them! Much praise should also be given to
Freddyfly who has been sharing his work on DCM since we were still part of GAC and continues to track down goodies for scanning. He's scanned an impressive number of books for both sites even rescanning some of them now as upgrades. There are many other scanners out there as well that we hope know how much we appreciate and value the work they do in our common goal of preserving these comics for posterity.
In April we started a
Comic Book Comments section. Before this any comments left on a scan would only be seen if someone happened to want to download the same book later. We hope this way the comments would lead to more activity and any problems noticed are much more apt to be corrected.
In early May DCM member
Larry Talbot scanned and shared a scan of his copy of Fawcett's
Gift Comics #1 (Click Here). This truly epic book was lucky enough to contain quite early Fawcett issues that were all safe enough to share on the site and almost all at 300dpi! This was during our last
FTP Access Month which while not as successful as some in the past provided the site with needed funds. We plan another one coming soon.
In July we
finally were lucky enough to have
hufflepuffle scan and share his issue of
Target Comics v1 #7 (Click Here), a book we've been after since the first site, even creating a special banner begging for someone to scan this very, very expensive book for everyone. The previous Jan. 2019
Rangerhouse shared his scan of the only other early issue of Target we needed #8. With #7 scanned we now have the complete run of Basil Wolverton's
Spacehawk feature!
(Stay tuned, we've got plans around this fact down the road!)Last August
Titansfan shared an All paper scan of
Daredevil vs Hitler #1 (Click here)! We'd had a partial scan generously donated by
Jeff Cannell back in 2010 but this was a superb scan of a complete copy of this very expensive book! We got a new edit of Jeff's book as well as several other Lev books that Jeff had scanned which have all gone live on our big day today. A big thank-you to Jeff for risking his books for all of us to read!
Over the years
FETT has surprised us (he always does) with a handful of mini-Fett floods. Usually several issues of a title will pop up in a day for us to enjoy. Thanks as always for your shares Fett!
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And a reminder about the
WANTED COMICS LIST maintained by DCM members
Movielover and A Nonny Moose. To anyone out there with a collection of Golden Age Comics, please give the list a look. You might have something we are missing or could use an upgrade for on the site. Please consider scanning or letting a trusted staffer scan your books for you. You can use the
CONTACT US link if you want to contact us about the idea or if you have a question. We would love to work with you on something for the site!
New scanners/editors this past year:
beanlynch, Calamity Jon, carol1407, Cliff57Tbone, hufflepuffle, shesselman New archives which came in from
Cardboard_CrateEvery year we have to stress how blessed we have been for our amazingly generous
Financial Donors that deserve all our gratitude. We wouldn't be here sharing all these scans if it weren't for financial donations that pay our server bill each month. A special thank-you to
carnassial and
Custer Beaton who have been exceptionally generous with their donations to the site. Thanks guys!
To all our
Comics donors, scanners and editors - thank-you all for everything you do to make DCM the wonderful site it has become.
Here's to another great year, may 2020 return to something normal again sooner than later.
-Yoc