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Howdy all,
Some of you might know me from other places on the interwebs, but I've finally gotten hooked up with the ftp here and wanted to drop a batch of my latest scans that I don't think have made it here yet. Aussie was kind enough to hook me up with the ftp, and everything seemed to go fine for these four comics:
Last of the Comanches NN (1953.Avon)
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Realistic Romances 016 (1954-06.Avon)
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Hi-School Romance 010 (1951-08.Harvey)
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and fresh out today, first here at goldenage, Justice Traps the Guilty 004 (1947-05.Prize):
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I'll start making sure my new scans get here promptly, and I also mean to start doing some uploading of some scans not of my own of public domain titles to help fill out this great collection the site has started.
Cheers,
Darwin 8)
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Great work Darwin!!!
Looking forward to seeing the complete books soon!
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Thanks for the great additions to our collection Darwin. ;D
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These aren't my scans but last night when I was in the Harvey section I was missing some of these two titles that we had here and that goldenage was missing some issues I've gathered :).
I added Hi-School Romance issues 5,13,19,22,23,24,27, and 33. Thanks to the scanners of these - SOTE, Vigilante, and Quietriot along with some unknown scanners. I've enjoyed the Harvey romances I've checked out.
I also added Harvey's Witches Tales issues 1,7,11,19,21,24, and 28. Thanks to the scanners of these including Ontology, Brianzc, Pmack, along with unknown scanners. Another awesome title.
Cheers,
Darwin
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always good to see more Simon & Kirby scans.
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Thanks darwination.
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I've been tracking down all Thelisted issues for some of the prize comics checking out the Kirby/Simon stuff and upped some issues we're lacking here for a couple titles:
Black Magic-3,10,12,17,18,26i,28,29,40,46,49,50
Justice Traps the Guilty - 69,87
Aussie, you might wanna check the last four black magic as far as the dates go, I should have the date on all the files. I'd love to see more of the prize mags scanned, lots of cool comics there I bet. Especially the early issues of the romances seem unscanned.
Cheers,
Darwin 8)
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Here's Real Clue Crime Stories from April of 1948. I've scanned a couple of these Hillman crime books and they seem very cool. I scanned this one, and it was edited by metaldave, so he did the hard part ;). I love the purples and greens and browns - the coloring seems pretty distinctive in this title and Crime Detective. Stories include "Boss Tweed - The Man Who Had the City in his Pocket", "The Hatchet Gang", "A Dangerous Little Man", "Honey Boy", "10,000 People Saw It", and "Joe Fowler - The Snake of Socorro". The story on The Gangs of New York era tweed compelled me to check out the wiki, and the comic is pretty accurate. If anybody knows who was working on this series at the time, I'd love to know. The Honey Boy comic looks like one of the EC guys but I can't place it. The strangest story in here for sure is "A Dangerous Little Man" about a villain compelled by the theories of Malthus to murder. It kind of makes me wonder if there was some sort or resentment to Malthus' theories at this time for some reason. Is there any place where I can find an index for the golden age comics? I've seen atlas tales and can find info for EC but was wondering what's the best place to find this information. It seems like making the scans available might help in the effort for indexing if it hasn't been done already.
Cheers,
Darwin 8)
P.S. I also upped v05n12 (1951-02) scanned by Brianzc as well. That should bring that title totally up to date I believe. Thanks to all the guys that have scanned some of these, I intend to read more of em.
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Many nice books... Thanks for the uploads Darwin!
octal
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Thanks for the uploads Darwin. ;D
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I haven't gotten a chance to read this one yet but am taking the scan to bed with me as my reward for finishing it up tonight. I saw stories by Doug Wildey and Vince Colleta in here but am unsure of the other artists. The centerfold of this title seems to be a 2 page star feature and they have a star photo on some of the covers. It seems these romance comics served as a bit of a celebrity vehicle for heart throb types, as I've noticed star photos on a number of titles.
Enjoy,
Darwin :)
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Thanks Darwin.
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Thanks again Darwin!
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More Justice Stomps On the Guilty!!
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Boy, I do wish I had more of the Justice Traps the Guilty for scanning ::). I try and keep an eye out for that one along with Headline Comics, good stuff. The earlier issues of those are probably gonna be harder to get a hold of than the later issues, but it sure would be cool to fill out the ranks of those prize comics.
I sent a handful of comics to the ftp I noticed we were missing -
Glamorous Romances 72
Hand of Fate 16
and in my efforts to track down all the Star L.B. Cole covers I can get my hands on, I noticed these were missing
Startling Terror Tales v1 013, v2 005, v2 011
Popluar Teen-Agers 6 <------ I love this series.
The v1 013 Startling Terror Tales is a nice scan by LoftyPilot, I don't know who scanned the others but thanks to all the scanners.
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Thanks Darwin.
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wow and many thanks for your hard work and the kindness to share the lovley comics
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I sent to the ftp Prize Comics Western issues 77 (scanned by old wayne) ,93 (thanks to an unknown scanner), and 95 (Spectre99). The last two have some Severin/Elder stories. Does anyone here happen to have issue 104? It's listed as having been scanned but I can't lay hands on it.
Cheers,
Darwin
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l have not got the time to move them at the moment, but thanks for the uploads Darwin. l would think the Prize Comics Western 104 was never available on DC++, it possibly could be on one of the blog sites, or yahoo groups, it is sometimes not that easy to find where the scan can be found.
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Thanks to metaldave for editing my scans of this comic, Crimes Incorporated 12 from June 1950, the only issue technically of this Fox title. It did continue for two issues as Crime Incorporated #2 and #3.
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Thanks Darwin.
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Here's Teen-Age Temptations 4 featuring a classic Matt Baker cover with the story "Flirtation on Wheels" drawn by Ric Estrada.
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Great stuff, Darwination. Thanks!
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Thanks Darwin.
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Yes, great stuff! Thanks!!!
octal
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And don't forget...more Justice Curbstomps the Guilty!
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No Justice Traps the Guilty this time, but here is the plenty rough and tumble The Perfect Crime 12. This cover is hard-boiled for sure. I don't know much about Cross Publications, as this is the only title of their titles I've come across. A number of the issues in this series have great covers, many of them terribly graphic.
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Thanks Darwin.
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I saw The Texan 007 was missing from the St. John files and upped it. Thanks to KF and Henry Peters for this one.
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Thanks Darwin.
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Here I am sneaking in during the middle of the night again! I checked my comic drops and the last handful are all after midnight, sheesh. Is scanneritis depriving me of sleep ??? But who can sleep, when you could be - SCANNING FUNNY ANIMALS :o. Egbert 17, the Canadian Edition.
Cheers and enjoy,
Darwin
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Thanks Darwin.
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Thanks Darwin, for the Witches tales and Chamber of Chills comics.
I've been really enjoying the stories. Very creepy! ;D
I'm in my mid-thirties but have really taken an interest in these golden age comics.
Was a big fan of Marvel growing up. Today, I've really got into the golden, silver and
bronze horror and suspense comics.
Thanks again!
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I hate to be overly spammy but Ima copy a post of mine from elsewhere on the interwebs to accompany some new uploads. There was a little discussion on our boards re: the new St. John issue of Alter Ego and I noticed this title was missing:
Here is a comic featuring flat-out amazing art and the adventures of Abbott and Costello from fantastic golden age publisher St. John. It ran 40 issues from 1948 -1956 and there was also a 3-D special published in November of 1953. I just saw this comic for the first time recently and fell instantly in love with fantastic art work and coloring. For those of you unfamiliar with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, here's a wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_costello
Best remembered for their "Who's on First?" routine, a classic in miscommunication, they are probably also most remembered for their films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein or Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man. They both started their careers in the burlesque remnants of vaudeville and paired for the first time in 1935, Abbott as straight man and Costello as a bumbling goof. They had instant chemistry and their careers really took off in 1938 with a national radio broadcast of "Who's on First", resulting in Broadway, film, and radio contracts for the fast-rising duo. By 1942 the two were the top box office draw in America, netting $10 Million dollars between them. They remained a top 10 draw for the next 10 years and eventually had their own television show. You can check the wiki for some of the more sordid details of their personal lives, but the two undoubtedly affected generations of comedians and remain American icons. They are given writing credit for some of the stories in these comics, but I think I'd have to learn a little more about these comics before I quite buy into that one. Check out the wiki for all sorts of public domain old time radio material, still funny after all these years.
The main attraction in the comics, though, is the stunning art by Eric Peters and one-time wife Lily Renee. Peters is more famous for his work as illustrator in Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post (SCAN THESE IF YOU HAVE THEM) and Renee is most well-known for her role as a woman pioneer in the comics field and her stunning art in a tenure for Fiction House in the series The Lost World, Werewolf Hunters, and super-fox Senorita Rio. A sample of her work, the cover to Fight Comics 47 from December 1946:
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Here's an awesome interview with Lily Renee conducted by Trina Robbins, one of my favorite underground artists and now comix historian:
http://www.tcj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=466&Itemid=48
I "think" she is inking Peters work in some of these early issues, and that Peters would continue on the comic after their split (with possibly other artists taking over for later issues), but I'm not certain, being pretty new to both artists. Please feel free to kick down a little knowledge on either of these artists. As we get more of these issues in, we will be able to find out all the artists that worked on the title. Overstreet mentions that Joe Kubert does a story in issue 10 I'd love to see.
A special thanks to Ontology, who scanned at least a couple of these issues, he is without a doubt one of our best goldenage scanners, scanning a varied and tasteful sampling of goldenage titles. You never know what he is gonna drop from one week to the next, but it is always great stuff. Here are all the issues scanned thus far. As always, scan em if you got em.
Abbott and Costello Comics 003 (1948-07.St. John)
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Abbott and Costello Comics 006 (1949-02.St. John) c2c (Ontology)
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Abbott and Costello Comics 008 (1949-08.St. John) c2c
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Abbott and Costello Comics 009 (1950-02.St. John) c2c (Ontology)
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Abbott And Costello Comics 013 (1951-08.St. John) c2c
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Abbott and Costello Comics 002 (1948-04.St. John) (36p c2c) (Ontology).cbr
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Ontology dropped this one off like a thief in the night this weekend and I didn't even get to thank him. I'd seen this cover before and absolutely love it. It might be the best in the series. This ish features "Concerning Costello" by Bud Abbott on the inside cover pages and a couple of great stories. The extendend piece is "So Near and Yet Safari" full of dazzling art, jungle dames, monkeys, savages and bufoonery and the second story is "The Case of the Idle Idol" chock full of un-pc stereotypes of the Asian menace in chinatown. A delightful issue, thanks Ontology!
#### Also, I am upping Jackie Gleason issues 3 and 4.
Enjoy, and again thanks to the scanners of all these fine golden age comics,
Darwin 8)
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Thanks for the uploads Darwin.
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Well, I think I managed to drop one off before midnight this time ::)
Here's Abbott and Costello Comics issue 12 from 1951 on St. John which appears to be an adaptation of the Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap. I haven't seen that particular film so I'm not sure how faithful a representation this is. By the way, I'd love to see what an issue of the St. John Laurel and Hardy comic looks like if anyone has one hiding away somewhere.
Enjoy,
Darwination
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beautiful job, man!
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Thanks, Cimm. :)
At the FTP, Weird Horrors 002 and Baffling Mysteries 015 and 017. I think these Ace horror comics are pretty good. Thanks to the scanners of these ghoulish treats. Supposedly there are scans for issue 16 and 21 of the Baffling Mysteries but I haven't been able to track em down yet.
Cheers,
Darwin
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I managed to track down the scan for the Baffling Mysteries 21 and it's going to the ftp.
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Many thanks Darwin!
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Cool stuff Darwin!
octal
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On it's merry way to the FTP, the first issue to be scanned of Shocking Mystery Cases from Star in 1953. I'm thinking this title goes from a mystery/horror/crime to straight crime in the later issues. I recently managed to pick up 5 scanning grade issues for $18 before shipping (!). Doc Oldskool did the edit on this one for me, and he did a FANTASTIC job with it, really a top-tier edit, so thanks Doc!
I haven't gotten to read it yet but figured I'd go ahead and up this in case anyone needs their goldenage fix on this lovely Saturday.
Cheers,
Darwin
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Thanks Darwin this book was not indexed in the Grand Comicbook Database but it is now :)
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Thanks Darwin and Doc.
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Great work guys!!
I'm certainly looking forward to seeing more from this title!
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Thanks very much, Darwin!
Looking very much forward to reading Weird Horrors and Shocking Mysteries! 8)
As you can tell, I really like the scary genre of comic. I had read enough kiddie adventure comics as a kid.
Now, I just like to be intrigued and scared! :o ;)
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Just downloaded #55 and marvelled at the cleaness of the scan. Was it a nm book Doc was working with or what?
Any chance on finding out hoe Doc produced such a beautiful scan?
Thanks
On it's merry way to the FTP, the first issue to be scanned of Shocking Mystery Cases from Star in 1953. I'm thinking this title goes from a mystery/horror/crime to straight crime in the later issues. I recently managed to pick up 5 scanning grade issues for $18 before shipping (!). Doc Oldskool did the edit on this one for me, and he did a FANTASTIC job with it, really a top-tier edit, so thanks Doc!
I haven't gotten to read it yet but figured I'd go ahead and up this in case anyone needs their goldenage fix on this lovely Saturday.
Cheers,
Darwin
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I believe Doc is a member here, mebbe he'll step in and give some pointers. The comic was about a 2.0, he had to do some cover work but the inside pages were in pretty nice condition. These old comics are cut so funky and printed off center, I'm sure he's done a lot of work here rotating and building out the page to get such a nice big crop. Not to mention the pages are so clean he's surely taken out the odd bits with the clone stamp here and there and here and there. As for the color edit, perhaps he'll share the recipe ;)
ComicOD -- was looking at a Tomb of Terror in a auction last night and took the time to track down the scanned issues. These Harvey horror comics have fantastic covers and are a lot of fun and I look forward to reading this stack. On the way to the FTP issues 1,2,3,5,6,11i, and 14. Enoy, and thanks so much to the original scanners of these comics. Scan em if you got em,
Darwin
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Thanks so much for looking and finding these issues, Darwin! :)
I look very much forward to reading these Tomb of Terror comics as well! I had actually noticed Tomb of terror
advertised in one of the Witches tales issues I had read. I thought, man that looks pretty cool! Havey had some good
golden age, pre code horror. I've really enjoyed checking out Witches Tales, Black Cat Mystery and Chamber of
Chills. ;D
Not too long ago, prior to knowing anything about pre code comics, I thought Harvey was only known for printing the lame (although I liked it as a kid) Casper and Wendy. Boy, was I wrong! :o
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Whoa! A 2.0 presented as well as it was is most excellent work.
Gee, to think there might be hope for some of those 'seen better days' issues in my collection makes me want to learn the restoration techniques.
Cheers
I believe Doc is a member here, mebbe he'll step in and give some pointers. The comic was about a 2.0, he had to do some cover work but the inside pages were in pretty nice condition. These old comics are cut so funky and printed off center, I'm sure he's done a lot of work here rotating and building out the page to get such a nice big crop. Not to mention the pages are so clean he's surely taken out the odd bits with the clone stamp here and there and here and there. As for the color edit, perhaps he'll share the recipe ;)
Darwin
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Thanks for uploading the Tomb of Terror scans Darwin. :)
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I noticed the Canadian comics section today and peeked in. Rez recently scanned a Journey into Fear from Superior, and I took the time to kind of track down scans for a few titles. Upping to ftp:
Journey into Fear 11,16,17,18,19
Mysteries Weird and Strange 2,10
Strange Mysteries 4,12, 13
I haven't looked closely at these files so make notes on the download page if we're missing pages and the like. Thank you much to the original scanners of these books. These should be all the complete scans for these titles that have been on Thelist with the exception of issue 15 of Journey into Fear which is scanned, but I can't find it. There are also some partial scans of some of these but those seem harder to track down. I've got a couple Superior romances in my scan pile to contribute in this Superior effort as I make my way through the crime and romance books i've been gathering. I think they were a pretty neat publisher with some good artists. Some of the panel layouts are neat. There's circle panels, and pieces parts coming out of the boxes, and other neat details interspersed in these that to some extent kind of go against the stereotype of goldenage comix as all boxy and claustrophobic. Enjoy and scan em if you got em.
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Dood!
Keep on rockin' in the free world!
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Great work Darwin!
Now up on the site.
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Not too long ago, I checked out Tony Matera's bio on John Dillinger. He spends a lot of time describing all the different cars Dillinger and other Terror Gang members bought in the course of their crime sprees. These big V8 terraplanes they preferred could go far faster than the cop cars from the small towns they were robbing. A lot of the molls liked to brag that they were great getaway drivers (though this didnt happen too often) and had reputations for liking jewelry and furs. I bought this cover because it reminds me of all that with this thrilling scene. Don't these cops ever miss? Dillinger got his in the end after being set up by a older lady friend when G-men apparently shot him in the back of the head at close range as he was leaving the cinema. Remember kiddies, crime doesn't pay. Or as this title reminds us "commit a crime and the world is made of glass". Enjoy, March 1952 v7 01.
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Ohhh, sweet cover!
Thanks Darwin!!
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Making it's way to the ftp, Romantic Hearts 8, the first issue of this title to be scanned. I'm no sissy but I just love romance comics. I think I like the Lou Cameron story best about dueling showgirls. Thanks to vigilante for the edit, a real trooper as far as working on titles that others might thumb their nose at. And speaking of, also thanks to Pmack for sending me a stack of romances instead of throwing them in the trash like he was teasing me about! No comic gets left behind. 8)
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I have several GA Pd romance comics. I have them far down on my scan list because I figure there is not much call for them. If there is enough demand I can move them up on my list.
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File name is Romantic Hearts 8 but cover and indicia are issue 3
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Yikes, nice catch, narf. I changed the file name at the ftp so if somehow anyone has it already plz change the number on your file. Thanks.
I like romance books, narf. Judging from popularity of genres on ebay I'd say there is a lot of interest in certain romance titles. I like odd comics, though, so don't use my taste as any sort of barometer ;)
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BTW (hmm using three letter acronyms these days, the internet is melting my brain), I believe the GCD is missing a cover for this one so I was going to send a scan and index what I can of this one. Can anybody tell me who the "D.W." is who signed the first story? Kind of a strange story I thought, with a bizarre rhythm and odd take on liability lawsuits...
Cheers,
Darwin
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I've corrected the listing on the site gang.
The file will still download #8 but people will be expecting the proper number.
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Thanks to Ubisoft for the edit of my scans on this one, he did a very nice job on the cover. I really like the aunt in "Man Crazy".
Enjoy,
Darwin
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Thanks Darwin.
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DW usually written slanted is usually Doug Wildey of Johnny Quest fame. Where is the DW written I could not find it? BTW I know this because I did a book recently and had to search Whose Who and everything fit to be Doug. The art looks good enough to be his IMHO
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There's the splash with signature from the first story, narf.
I am off for Summer vacation for a couple weeks, but I'm bringing a couple sets of romance raws with me as I've found I enjoy a little bit of photoshop work on holiday. So perhaps I'll have a couple comics ready on my return 8)
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Yet thats Doug Wildey's sig
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Have fun Darwin!
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Well, after two weeks of vacation I feel relaxed, super-charged, and ready to get back to some of my scanning projects. Here's one I scanned this weekend that Metaldave edited for me, Crime Must Pay the Penalty 18 on Ace:
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I'm also upping number 45 which we seem to be missing from our collection here. Thanks to the original scanner whoever that might be :-*
I've got a couple others out to editors as well as some other goldenage edits of my own on my plate, so hopefully I can keep that goldenage ball rolling along with my other pulp, magazine, newspaper, and comix projects. Also, coming home to a pile of scans was fun, thanks guys.
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Great job guys!
Now on the site.
BTW - KingFaraday did the scans on #45.
-Yoc
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I have a confession to make. :-[
I'm having an affair. :o
With my scanner!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Oh well, better than drinking forties, shooting dice, and spanking strippers. Although my wife may not think so. (j/k ;) getting better at partitioning scan time from cuddle time 8) )
Tonight's offering comes from the scanner of my pal Twobyfour who was kind enough to let me edit this choice cover that makes me do backflips. Here's Love Problems and Advice Illustrated 24 from November of 1953:
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I'm not sure if this is Elias or not? Elias with another inker? Wouldn't he have signed it?
I haven't gotten to read this yet, but o boy, I'm looking forward to it. Harvey romances of this period are so fun. The art is incredible and the stories loads of fun. The girls, the hint of sleaze, the drama...
Cheers and enjoy!,
Darwin
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Oh wow, what a Great cover!
Thanks Geo and 2x4, looks very nice.
It's now up on the site gang. If the inside is half as nice as the cover we have another winner here.
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;D :P :P
Oh wow, what a Great cover!
Thanks Geo and 2x4, looks very nice.
It's now up on the site gang. If the inside is half as nice as the cover we have another winner here.
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Sorry Yoc that wasn't me who did that cover.
Yep darwination that sure looks like Elias' work.
Geo
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I somewhat spot Elias by the hair and the pianist and his gal pals look like Lee.
Hope about the pianist with two chicks and still jealous of the guy hitting on the other one.
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Apologies to Darwination - obviously I was half asleep when I made the post.
Great job Darwin!
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I'm adding a very incomplete scan that Darwination here found on the OddBall Comics board.
Note - this is a product of it's time and is not intended to offend anyone here. Please judge it by it's historical importance and not the images contained within it. While I'm pretty sure there shouldn't be much if anything likely to offend caution might still be suggested.
Going up shortly...
All-Negro Comics 001 [Jun'47]-16pg only -oddballcomics
-Yoc
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I'd add that there is no reason to be offended as this comic was drawn and published by African-Americans for African-Americans. I sure wish we had the whole thing, dammit, but I applaud the scanner for his work on it... I think it's a neat comic (I like the hardboiled Ace Harlem and I think he is a positive representation especially juxtaposed against what you see in a lot of the comics of the era - thinking mostly of jungle comics here). I like a lot of the coloring and also the variety of the thing. I have an active imagination (and it's been a bit since I read it), but I recall seeing some lynching subtext in there...
Fawcett had one called Negro Romances, I recall? I thought I'd seen some other "race comics" on ebay besides that title in the historical vein but wish I'd scribbled the title down. I know a little bit about the early race movies and black newspapers but am very intrigued by this topic. I've gone searching about for pulps (or pulp fiction) meant for a black audience as well with no luck. I've been surprised to find in my jaunts about the goldenage to learn that there were indeed at least a few minorities in the comics including comics giant Matt Baker (who I had absolutely no idea was black when I first came across his art) and Cal Massey. A Massey splash from my scan of The Perfect Crime 12 (I have a few more of this title on the scan pile (scan mountain!>!>!) and issue 30 is around here as well btw):
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I think he is quite talented... Here's a link to a bit on his later art and how he feels comics contributed to his development:
http://www.octobergallery.com/artists/massey2.htm
I've seen a lot of things like this where GA artists who go on to more "legitimate" forms of art recognize that comics were the foundation of some later developments.
I seem to recall as well that in the early 50s there were a number of comics celebrating black athletes (Last of the Comanches has a back-up story on Joe Louis, there's a brand spanking new scan from Cape on Willie Mays I will get up if it's not here already, and I'm thinking Fawcett had some similar comics going on ?...).
I'd love to see scans of Negro Romances (or other titles) as well as any other "authentic" products of the black press... Or even just a little info on the subject from any of you GA gurus round here ;)
Cheers,
Darwin
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Hi Darwin,
Michelle Nolan has done a great series on collecting comics over on the CGC newsletter section that she's been doing for a few years. Well worth the reading too.
She touched on 'Negro Romance' here:
http://www.cgccomics.com/news/enews/2008/February/article6.asp
and here
http://www.cgccomics.com/news/enews/2008/March/article5.asp
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There may not have been that many black-oriented comic books pre-1970's, but there were black comic strips in newspapers intended for a black audience (which did exist, as did mags like Jet and Ebony). I read of these a long time ago in the Journal of Popular Culture, and some were adventure strips that featured Afro-American heroes. But it's been a long time since I read the article and I don't know a thing about 'em anymore. Maybe one of the colleges around here has a copy and I can get the info. So much for that.
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This may be of interest to some:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,779181,00.html
which has a bit more information than the Oddball article, which to me reads more offensively than the comic could possibly be: "It simply doesn
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I have Perfect Crime 20 scanned with a Cal Massey story. Will be put up next week when I am back on DSL.
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Wow, thanks, all :). You've pointed out a lot of cool stuff here. Yoc, you've sold a copy of Michelle Nolan's book. She appears to be on top of her game, lots of info in these two short little posts, and I'd very much like to read a larger survey of the genre. Darkmark, I hadn't even thought about strips before, certainly a good angle for me to investigate. I can definitely imagine how it would be easier for publishers to insert a strip or two aimed at minority audiences than an entire publication (something like many of the networks might do with say a black sitcom or few...) Jcolag, well I've spotted an inaccuracy or few in some of the oddball comics' posts and find a share of the statements there off-the-mark but forgive in the spirit of wackiness and fun. The Tom Christopher page is superb!! The description of Orrin hiding in the back room and his mother playing maid so that his father could pass is really striking. I found the entire article well-written and informative. Of course, I also appreciated getting to see the extra bits of the comic. 8) Narf, looking forward to The Perfect Crime ish. I've really enjoyed the issues I've read thus far. I think the covers are unique and the content above par.
Right now while I still remember, I'm going to up The Amazing Willie Mays NN (1954) scanned by Cape1736 very recently. I'm not sure if he's a member here, but Cape is a champ pulp scanner and a good guy to boot. His pulp output is truly prolific :o. Also, I'm going to up the Daring Love #1 Michelle mentions in the first post Yoc linked. I was thinking that surely it would be here but I could not find it. It's definitely a nice book with a gorgeous cover. She mentions she'd like photocopies of the thing and wanted to do her one better by sending the scan but I didn't see a contact method... I've got at least one "roll in the hay" harvey issue in my pile - I get a kick out of the farmer's daughter connotations. There's a couple girlie pulps with beauties upon the haystack I hunt, too, without much luck yet... I can't find who the scanner is on the Daring Love issue - no doubt one of the many Ditko freaks in scanland :-*
Please excuse if we already have the Daring Love or if Cape had planned to up his scan here himself (surely he's a member??). This was his first comic scan and he did a great job, must be all that practice on the pulps ;D
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jcolag, Thanks for those links.
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For the black comic strips, you can start here: http://www.clstoons.com/paoc/paocopen.htm
Until I read these pages, I had no idea Carl Pfeufer or Edd Ashe were black. Y'learn something new every day...
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Uploaded to FTP:
Terrors of the Jungle 020 (1952-12.Star) c2c (Marble River).cbz
Terrors of the Jungle 021 (1953-02.Star).cbr
and (if this one is O.K. a Super reprint from 1963?)
Terrors of the Jungle 004 (Jungle Adventures 10).cbr Thanks to the unknown scanners of these last two.
I gathered these this weekend because I'd bought issue 21 of the title to scan. Sadly, I didnt realize it had been done! I love Cole's jungle covers but apparently hadn't noticed that this one was scanned already, boo. It only has 32 pages (I assume it's not quite c2c), so I will at least find out what pages are missing and perhaps restore the cover. Would it be bad form just to scan my copy ??? I've got plenty of comics that need scanning but did pick this one up for more than my usual budget just so I could scan it :'( Or would it be better just to up the missing pages?
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Hi Darwin,
Thanks for the uploads. I'm sure the horror fans here will enjoy them.
:D
There's no hard rules for scanning. If you feel you can do a better scan job on a book why not scan it?
We just have to be sure people know it is a Rescan when we share it.
Not sure what the rule on IW reprints are. I've seen some others on the site so I'm going to add yours as well. If Aussie can make the final call when she sees it.
Note - I'm Always looking for scans of IW's 'Great Action 9' if you ever see any or a cheap copy. Contains three never reprinted Phantom Lady stories!
-Yoc
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I Think the problem with most post 1956 reprints is that they have their own copyrights but as all of Waldman's Super/IW Stuff was pirated in the first place :o I can't see it being a problem, you can no more 'Pirate a Pirate' than you can 'Kid a Kidder' !!! ;)
That my take on the 'I.W. Question' in any case.
-Nigel
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Well, the rule thusfar has been exactly what's legal: Either the material and the reprint must both have fallen into the public domain (which is actually the case with almost all the Waldman books, as far as I know) or the reprint must be a strict reproduction, making any copyright unsupportable (like the fiche products).
Anything else, along the lines of the re-inked and re-colored DC Archives or redrawn Marvel Essentials, "filler" backup stories, reconstructed stories, and so on, are protected and wouldn't be the sort of thing the administrators would want to risk, I'd hazard. Also, certain exceptions have been made for removing unretouched scans when the publishing business owner asks.
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Overstreet mentions this one is used in Gershon Legman's Love and Death: A Study in Censorship from 1985, but I haven't read it, so I don't know in what context. It looks like this is perhaps one of the more seedy and outlandish crime titles but I'm not really sure. There's an oddly drawn panel of an icepick through the neck on this one, and the cover is certainly brutish enough. You see men and women slapping each other plenty in the romance and crime books, but it seems to mark a character as a lowlife (as well it should) in the crime context.
Big thanks to Gambit for the edit on this issue. I'm working on some other scan projects outside of the golden age at the moment but luckily have a couple guys that are helping me get some books done so will be dropping in at least sporadically for a month or two (and of course reading all the fine comics all the fine scanners are posting here).
I believe this is the first issue of this series to be scanned (always fun 8)). There were nine issues between 1948 and 1949 by D.S. Publishing. Enjoy,
Darwination
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Thanks Darwin,
It's now up!
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My scan, Mouse5150 with a very nice edit, thanks Mouse!. First issue of this title to get scanned, I believe... I'm pretty sure I bought this one because of the saucy tramp on the cover ::)
Cheers,
Darwin
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:P
Oh my! What a cover... yumm...
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Been out of the GA swing but decided to treat myself today to a Harvey, First Romance Magazine 10. Another of the voyeuristic threesomes so common on the Harvey romances of this era:
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Enjoy,
Darwin
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Good to see you back Darwin.
Been enjoying your more unusual scans lately offsite.
Scans now up!
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This one is not my scan but from a prolific pal of the anonymous variety. He had a coverless copy and I snagged a cover from Heritage, which, though behind plastic, still looks pretty good. If anybody has fills that would be great. Or other issues, that would be greater. This is a hot title! This one and Pictorial Romances seem to be going for multiples of overstreet. In related news I managed to snag a nice lot of romances from a Canadian dealer this weekend (of course I'm slow as molasses so don't get too excited):
My Secret Affair. #2. 1950. Superior
Love Romances. #9. No date. Bell Features
My Confession. #8. 1949. Fox
My Life. #7. 1949. Superior
Teen-Age Temptations. #9. 1954. St. John, NY
Romantic Secrets. #22. 1959. Charlton
Boy Meets Girl. #2. 1950. Superior
My Own Romance. #10. 1949
Youthful Love. #1. 1950. Export Publishing
My Past Confessions. #8
My Life. #12. 1950. Superior
Love Diary. #1. 1949. Comic Magazines
Romantic Marriage. #23. 1954. St. John, NY. Good.
My Life. #4. 1950. Superior
My Secret Story. #27. 1950. Superior
Girl
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Nice haul there Darwin!
Canadian whites can vary wildly in quality. Poor paper and printing is pretty common, especially in early whites. Superior hung on longer than most and I've seen some of the 50s books look not much worse than the norm. Hopefully you'll be getting more of the better ones than not.
Looking at my own collection of whites I don't see any that are on your list so I'm looking forward to your scans some day down the road.
:)
Unknown scanner's book is now up. Sweet cover!
-Yoc
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Here's the first of four issues of this Avon Series. I came across scans of issue 3 and 4 this weekend so I wanted to do this one in return. Any chance someone is sitting on 2 to complete the series? 8)
If 3 and 4 haven't made it to the site, I will up those as well.
Cheers,
Darwin
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Thanks Darwin, they're now up.
:D
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Two scans today, both come from Bluejeff. First up is Pictorial Romances 24 featuring Baker and Estrada. He couldn't find much of a cover, though, so hopefully one will turn up. Besides the female form, I think Baker does the smug male like no other, it'd be nice to get a quality image for this cover.
Also, Love Secrets 54. I provided the raw covers, but Jeff scanned the rest and edited all of it.
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Thanks for these bluejeff. :)
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Hey Darwin!
Thanks for all your scans, as always. And I have been particularly enjoying your all of your vintage magazine posts, too! That psychedelic era Haight-Asbury street stuff was excellent!!
-Ont
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Both up. Thanks Darwin. Sorry, I don't have a better cover scan for that St.John book.
Thanks also for all the unique scans you've been sharing lately.
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A nice little treat for the weekend. Thanks to all the scanners for the comics as of late
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This one starts out with a fun Jack Kamen/ Al Feldstein story. I love the inside front covers on the fox comics with a story splash.
Cheers,
Darwin
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Wow, what a cover!
Thanks Darwin!
-Yoc
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My Secret Marriage 008
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Sigh, I know, I have sleazy taste in romance covers ::)
Nice art in here! The printer seems to have mauled this pretty good, but I'll keep my eye out for more superior romances.
Cheers,
Darwin
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Lovely stuff!
Thanks Darwin.
:)
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My scan, Icarus' edit. Justice Traps the Guilty 007 from November 48. Simon/Kirby crime. Icarus turned out a very nice edit considering the wavy paper that was kind of bleeding a blueish color throughout. Thanks for the edit, Icarus. :)
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Nice job guys, now up!
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Public Enemies 7 from D.S. at FTP, my scan and edit. Enjoy.
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Another sweet cover!
Thanks for the scans Darwin, the book is now at the starting block ready to run.
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Here's the Canadian edition of My Secret Affair 002 printed by Superior in Canada for Fox. Would the American edition have a colored ifc where this one is black and white? The batch of Canadian goldenage books I got that I listed back a page or two are something else. They smell like they were kept in some sort of sweet-wooden trunk or something. They've never been bagged and have some browning of the pages but haven't been molested much by human hands either. I look forward to scanning them for sure. I guess eventually we will want to have Canadian and American versions of all these, eh? Overstreet says Wally Wood art in this one, but I haven't read it yet (tho Im gonna right now! ;D)
Love this cover, there's something so charming about the Fox brand of sleaze, I can't help but love it.
Enjoy,
Darwin
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Lovely cover Darwin... makes me think of Tammy Fay Baker for some reason... lol
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Would the American edition have a colored ifc where this one is black and white?
It was probably 2-color in the US edition. With the exception of an early issue of Zoot, all the Fox books with story in the IFC that I've seen were black and one other color.
Looks like fun, and Wood art is often a treat. (Sadly, it's not _always_ a treat. Normally his earlier stuff is more consistent, though.)
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My Secret Affair 002 with the young Tammy Faye on the cover is now up.
Grab your hankies everyone! ;)
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Hi-School Romance 011 (1951)(c2c)(Darwin-Oldschool-DREGS)
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Doc really outdid himself with this edit, it's absolutely fantastic! Thanks, Doc. :)
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lovely stuff, thanks guys!
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Keen Teens 03 (1947-02.Magazine Enterprises)
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I don't recognize the actor on the cover (Guy Madison) but think these early teen books with idols and musicians on the cover are pretty neat. The cover girl is drawn by Craig Flessel when he was working for Vincent Sullivan at Magazine Enterprises. I've heard that some of the early teen or romance comics were more like magazines, and this title seems to fit the bill. There is illustrated fiction (including a couple neat Ogden Whitney illos.), cartoons, fashion, a bicycle maintainence checklist, screen gossip, Juke Janson comics, advice on etiquette, a survey for the readers and more. Neat stuff from when comics for girls seemed like more of a possibility.
Enjoy,
Darwin
P.S. I've got issue one of this (with Sinatra on the cover) buried in my pile which I will get to sometime, tho probably not anytime too soon.
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Hey, Darwination,
That's WILD BILL HICKOCK on the cover of that Keen Teens. Don't you remember Andy Devine yelling "Hey, Wild Bill, wait for me!"?
Nostalgic me (|:{>
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ps. it's CrEig Flessel, not CrAig.
Don't ask me why it's spelled that way, but I'll bet he dealt with that mistake all of his life.
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Both are now up, nice work Darwin!
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This is not my scan! And I usually don't post covers of comics that I didn't scan but I gotta make an exception from time to time I suppose. Teen-Age Romances 15, I so love the covers on this series:
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I've been looking for this scan forever! Mouse found it for me, and some kind soul gave it to him and some kind soul probably scanned it for that guy and now I'm kindly passing it along. Yay! Thank you to all involved in the chain of getting me this scan ;D. I've kind of been off in magazine and pulp land for a bit, but I will try and hop back on the goldenage horse asap. Thanks to all of you that have been scanning up a storm and working on the JVJ project, it's a super time to be a golden age fan.
Cheers,
Darwin
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Thanks Darwin - been enjoying your other scans when I see them.
Please keep posting on FYEO when you can.
Take care,
-Yoc
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Well I gave it to Mouse, but I have no recollection of who I got it from. It was almost certainly ABPC though.
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I found this one on ABPC a while back as well but didn't catch any scanner credit.
Lovely book too - lots of Baker or Baker like artwork in it. Nice big scans too.
:)
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Well I gave it to Mouse, but I have no recollection of who I got it from. It was almost certainly ABPC though.
Thanks, Jon. :)
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Young Romance 060 (v06n12)(1953-08.Prize)
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I spent the morning in the golden age but will be spending the afternoon raking leaves on a chilly day.
Can't win em all. ;D
A nice romance comic featuring Simon and Kirby art. Enjoy,
Darwin
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Thanks Darwin, lovely stuff as always.
Now up. :)
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Crime Does Not Pay 121 thanks to Darwination and Mouse
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Thanks, Narf, for catching that one. I think Mouse was tasked with upping that one back when he edited. What a slacker ;D Here's the cover, gotta love a cigarette girl.
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Young Romance 060 (v06n12)(1953-08.Prize)
A nice romance comic featuring Simon and Kirby art. Enjoy,
Darwin
Plus Bill Draut, Mort Meskin, John Prentice and Al Eadeh, too. Let's not forget the supporting players.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Thanks for pointing out the other artists in the Young Romance, Jim. While I might come off as the knowledgeable sort when it comes to golden age comics, I'm really something of a neophyte. I've been quite amazed at how much information you are able to gather on the index cards in the comics from your collection. I definitely should make more of an effort to index my comics as I scan them although I certainly don't have the eye and experience of some the golden age gurus around here. That said, I very much welcome anyone to help me out by pointing out artists as I post these. It seems like a great opportunity to get these comics indexed as they are added to the site because a number of people are looking at the same comic. Not to get the boards too messy or whatnot, but I surely wouldn't mind if more of the comics around here were filled out more by the scanners and readers as far as bibliographical information goes. However, I can admit to often posting a comic before I even read it :-[ so I might not always do my due dilligence as far as indexing but should try harder!
Cheers,
Darwin
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The very real problem with your request, Narf,
is that very few people actually possess the information you ask for. I just happen to know quite a bit, but there are a LOT of artists even I don't know. One of the reasons I want the data cards posted is in hopes of someone actually being able to add to our knowledge. The information belongs in one central place, like the GCD, and the other reason I would like the cards to accompany all the scans is in hopes that someone will transfer the data TO the GCD, since I haven't the time. I'm still in the process of trying to get all of the Fiction House credits recorded there, but their computer/server doesn't seem to want to work at the times that I do.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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I'll be travelling this Xmas season, so this is probably my last scan until the new year. Thanks everybody for a great year of scans. Here's True Comics 35:
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Cheers and see you all in 2009,
Darwin
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above cover by the under-appreciated and under-promoted and virtually unknown SAM GLANKOFF.
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Thanks Darwin, I'll have it up shortly.
:)
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This weekend's offering is Wanted 32 from December 1950 on Toytown. It looks like Toytown/Orbit/Patches published out of St. Louis and their main titles were Wanted, Love Diary and The Westerner (Wild Bill Pecos). Mort Leav started as the art director and did a lot of the covers and lead stories. This cover is by Mort Lawrence and is one of my favorite in the series, a fiery scene of some sort of crime of passion and the walls closing in. I guess the fiery dude serves as a sort of narrator sort of function. Does anyone know how he got stuck with the job? Was he a victim or perpetrator of crime? This ish leads with "The Man Who Lost his Face" about a pretty boy mobster ready to kill a lass that scratches him for unbecoming advances. A weasel like that is a natural to fall in with the mob bosses' girlfriend. Murder, double-cross and plastic surgery ensue. Second up, part of Action Unlimited, "Now you can watch Tony Action - In Action!" A survey asks if reader want this one to continue, I can't imagine there was too strong of a response, heh heh. The text story "The Red Neck-Tie" regards a color blind tough guy that just wants to be a goodfella. Somehow he lands a job in a fabric stockroom, sent to help the mob boss pick out his drapes, his color blindness is exposed, but the mob boss likes him anyway. A strange story. Third Up, "Dead Man's Witness." A raid on a small time bookmaker reveals a nationwide effort by the mob to rig horse races. It's time to call in the FBI, cuz only the federal government is smart enough to deal with the wily syndicate. Last up, my favorite of the bunch, "Gang Doctor." If there's one thing worse than criminals, it's doctors. Watch Gang Doctor play to hypochondriac jet-setters only to be introduced to gangsters willing to pay his steep fees for hush hush bullet wound surgeries. Are there no bounds to Gang Doctor's greed? A fun ish! I guess this title is a bit notorious for grit and violence, but I thought the art was pretty good in here and the stories quirky how I like em.
Enjoy,
Darwin
P.S. I'm also upping 13 (scanned by Ontology) and 48 (thanks to the unknown scanner). Those are the only other two scanned issues and I didn't see them around (though I might not be looking in the right place)
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Wow, what a GREAT COVER!!
Darwin, you know how to pick them! If I were around when this came out I'd have made a beeline to the book saying 'cooooooool!'
Thanks for another unique upload.
:)
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This weekend's offering is Wanted 32 from December 1950 on Toytown. It looks like Toytown/Orbit/Patches published out of St. Louis and their main titles were Wanted, Love Diary and The Westerner (Wild Bill Pecos). Mort Leav started as the art director and did a lot of the covers and lead stories. This cover is by Mort Lawrence and is one of my favorite in the series, a fiery scene of some sort of crime of passion and the walls closing in. I guess the fiery dude serves as a sort of narrator sort of function. Does anyone know how he got stuck with the job? Was he a victim or perpetrator of crime?
Enjoy,
Darwin
P.S. I'm also upping 13 (scanned by Ontology) and 48 (thanks to the unknown scanner). Those are the only other two scanned issues and I didn't see them around (though I might not be looking in the right place)
The character in the top hat debuts in issue #9 (the first issue) and he's a character in the final story of the book. In the last panel of the story, it's revealed that he's "Satan" and that his address is "Purgatory." With the next issue, he's on the cover and is the "narrator/host" of three of the five stories in the book.
Rae Hermann was the editor of Orbit and she certainly knew how to pick great artists. In this issue alone, besides the cover by the great Mort Lawrence, there are stories by Mort Leav ("The Man Who Lost His Face" and "Action Unlimited"), John Forte ("Wanted: William Freddie Davis" and "Wanted: William Densk"), Syd Shores ("Dead Man's Witness") and John Buscema ("Gang Doctor"). Some of Buscema's work for Orbit is CLASSIC. They also published Love Journal and, previously, Taffy, Toytown and Patches.
You've got great taste, Darwin. I love Orbit's comics and have all of them except one issue of Patches (#7). I'm just going through the Wanteds again since you posted that cover. Thanks for the nudge.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Sweethearts 32 is now onsite thanks Darwination
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Thanks Narf for putting Sweethearts 032 up and thanks Jim for the information on the narrator for Wanted. He seems to serve a number of functions in the little bit of the series I've read, the idea that he's Satan is pretty neat. Here's the cover for the Sweethearts:
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I "think" this one was sent to me by Pmack in pile of Charlton romances for me to scan but am not entirely sure (thanks for the "sissy" comics Pmack, even if this wasn't one of them) ;)
Cheers,
Darwin
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Woohoo! Original Spirit Sections are go! Here's a fresh one
Spirit Section 1943-05-16 (Chicago Sun)(Darwination-DREGS).cbr
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As well as 17 others:
Spirit Section 1940-09-08 (Philadelphia Record)(Vigilante407).cbr
Spirit Section 1941-06-15 (Philadelphia Record).cbr
Spirit Section 1943-04-10 (Montreal Standard).cbr
Spirit Section 1943-04-17 (Montreal Standard).cbr
Spirit Section 1943-05-30 (Philadelphia Record)(HP) .cbr
Spirit Section 1943-06-27 (Star Ledger).cbr
Spirit Section 1944-10-08 (Philadelphia Record).cbr
Spirit Section 1945-01-07 (Philadelphia Record)(Spectre99).cbz
Spirit Section 1945-01-28 (Chicago Sun) (HP).cbz
Spirit Section 1945-02-25 (Philadelphia Record).cbr
Spirit Section 1945-04-15 (Philadelphia Record).cbr
Spirit Section 1945-06-24 [Chicago Sun] (16p.Cimmerian32).cbz
Spirit Section 1945-07-08 [Chicago Sun] (c2c.lindalee).cbr
Spirit Section 1945-11-18 [Miami Beach Daily Sun] (16p.Cimmerian32).cbz
Spirit Section 1945-12-09 [Sunday Mirror] (16p.Cimmerian32) 0201.cbz
Spirit Section 1946-02-24 (Chicago Sun)(Darwination-DCP).cbr
Spirit Section 1946-09-29 (Chicago Sun)(c2c.lindalee).cbr
I wonder if there are any more scanned sections out there? If not, let's get on it ;) I've got a handful in my scan pile I'll be doing now and again. The sections look awesome on the big screen, a great presentation of Eisner's groundbreaking comics. The backups like Lady Luck and Mr. Mystic are way cool as well. Big thanks to the other scanners represented in that list - Cimmerian, lindalee, HP, Spectre, Vigilante, and anyone else who has scanned these.
Cheers,
Darwin
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This is Great Darwin.
Several years ago I borrowed more than 100 Spirit sections to scan from Jerry Bails (through Ray Bottorff), but unfortunately they sold almost immediately and I had to return them unscanned.
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Oh man, that's a sad story Jon!
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thanks for the spirit section. i uploaded the two complete sections i had scans of that looked like they were missing (44-06-11 and 44-07-09). these are by an unknown scanner and have been floating around for awhile. i've got about a dozen section i can scan (mostly from '45). even though the spirit stories have all been reprinted, the lady luck and 3rd features are always a treat.
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Thanks, HP!
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Hi-School Romance 017 (1952-10.Harvey)
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Scandalous! It sure seems like there's a lot of snuggling in cars in the golden age romance books. Maybe making out in cars has sort of dropped out of the culture, eh? Are parents more permissive, or has the automobile kind of lost some of its centrality in youth culture? Hmm...
I had to crop this one closer than I like because it was so browned around the edges. I didn't pay much for it, but it was advertised as a file copy. Sure it's flat and appears little read and has a glossy cover, but the pages are very browned on the edges and so brittle that I'm just going to read the scan instead of opening the bag again. I completely prefer some of the comics I've gotten that have been read over and over in the 1.5 to 2.0 range with nice thick pages that I can read comfortably (or in the bathtub :o) without worry of damage to some of the supposedly mid-grade or higher grade comics I've gotten that may not have been handled too much but are uber-delicate. I guess it's just how they've been stored...
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Scandalous! It sure seems like there's a lot of snuggling in cars in the golden age romance books. Maybe making out in cars has sort of dropped out of the culture, eh? Are parents more permissive, or has the automobile kind of lost some of its centrality in youth culture? Hmm...
It was still going on in the early sixties, Darwin. I can attest to this from firsthand experience. I had my first date with Karen in 1962 and we went "up in the hills to 'park' after the movie." Of course, we didn't have absentee parents nor friends with their own apartments, either, and we had to know the good places where you could park for a few hours without the neighbors calling the cops.
In my day, however, the cops usually just rolled up in their cars and shined a spotlight on us and we scrammed pretty fast.
Nostalgically yours, Jim (|:{>
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Hey all, this one is my scan and was edited by Icarus. Once again, he did a nice job with a comic in poor shape. Thanks Icarus :)
Shocking Mystery Cases 060 (1954-10.Star)
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Available for all thanks Darwin
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This weekend's scan features a fun cover from Everett Raymond Kinstler, Romantic Love 22:
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This cover is often advertised as salacious on ebay, but I think it's naughty and nice all at the same time. The kitchen is the heart of the home - sizzle, sizzle. My wife hates it if I grab her when she's cooking, so I try and refrain ::) Inside is a racy collection of tales. "Too Young to Love" concerns a seventeen year old who falls for the school engineer. After dating the older man, men her age no longer thrill her, but tragedy ensues when she learns he's a married man... "Doomed to Silence" features a girl in love with her mother's boyfriend. One night when her mother steps out, she enters the living room in her negligee to find her mother's lover and passions ignite. Third up, meet Carole and Rita in "Two Wayward Girls!" in which Carole finds herself in the sordid world of love for hire. (I'm amazed at how frequently this them is used in golden age romance). Lastly, "Born for Trouble!" in which a different Carole (you'd think they'd switch names in back to back stories) is popular with the boys because she's known as easy to kiss. After school she finds herself as a secretary in an insurance firm and is courted by the gentle Eric Thompson whom she dates many times without his ever once trying to kiss her. When they finally do, she finds the kiss passionless and herself holding in a wild unfulfilled passion. She continues to date Eric but meets Ralph, the dangerous type, who greets meets her with the classy line "Hey, Beautiful. Where have you been all my life?" ::) Not surprisingly, she's attracted to this dangerous type and he involves her in a robbery. Can the nice but boring Eric save her from such a wolf? Great stuff...
Also at the ftp, Heart Throbs 9, edited by Vigilante and featuring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russel on the cover. Thanks Vigilante.
Cheers,
Darwin
p.s. I've also got Romantic Love 20 in my scan pile which I plan to get to soon. I probably should have done them in order, but this cover kind of jumped out at me when I was flipping through my scan pile...
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Great, Dar! And when do we get another ish of JUSTICE DOES A COSSACK DANCE ON THE FACE OF THE GUILTY?
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Thanks darwin and Vig now up for all
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Great, Dar! And when do we get another ish of JUSTICE DOES A COSSACK DANCE ON THE FACE OF THE GUILTY?
Ha! I don't have any more Justice Traps the Guilty, DM, but I'll put a crime book next on the docket. ;)
I do however have a good number of Crestwood romances that I will be getting to sooner or later. Bizarre as it may seem, I see romance and crime as two very similar genres...
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Yup, anybody who's done any dating can agree to that.
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Bahaha, I just spit iced tea all over my screen.
You need to stop dating the girls from the halfway houses, DM ;D
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dang man, that one made me laugh outloud!
Congratulations!
Darkmark receives the honorable GA-UK One-Liner Award.
Saaalute! (http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk117/rez100/cardboard_penguins_lg.jpg)
Yup, anybody who's done any dating can agree to that.
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Great, Dar! And when do we get another ish of JUSTICE DOES A COSSACK DANCE ON THE FACE OF THE GUILTY?
Ha! I don't have any more Justice Traps the Guilty, DM, but I'll put a crime book next on the docket. ;)
I do however have a good number of Crestwood romances that I will be getting to sooner or later. Bizarre as it may seem, I see romance and crime as two very similar genres...
Darwin, did you know that there are TWO issues of JTtG #60? The second one is actually labeled "60A". Little known true fact.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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I didn't know that. It seems a bit odd that such a snafu would take place in the middle of the run like that. Is there any logical explanation for why they did the same issue number twice? I went to check if the issues are scanned, and it seems there is a bit of work to do on that series. We're appx. 19 for 92. I'm kind of surprised the Kirby nuts (cough, excuse the term) haven't hit this one a bit harder.
And this weekend's comic. I promised crime and I deliver... romance. Sorry, DM, but HP offered up some raws , and I couldnt resist... Thanks, HP! :)
Lovelorn 006 (1950-06.ACG)(HP-Darwination).cbr
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I haven't really checked out too much ACG romance, but like what I've seen. I'm eager to read this issue, in particular the cover story about love between Slave and Master (insert marriage joke here)...
Cheers,
Darwin
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Thanks Henry and Darwin now up
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Are you sure this isn't a promo for the WWE?
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I didn't know that. It seems a bit odd that such a snafu would take place in the middle of the run like that. Is there any logical explanation for why they did the same issue number twice? I went to check if the issues are scanned, and it seems there is a bit of work to do on that series. We're appx. 19 for 92. I'm kind of surprised the Kirby nuts (cough, excuse the term) haven't hit this one a bit harder.
Cheers,
Darwin
It seems much more deliberate than a snafu, Darwin. It's actually labeled "60 A" on the cover.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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As promised a couple weeks back, it was time for some crime this weekend. Prison Break 03 from 1952, featuring a cover swiped from the paperback Blondie Iscariot: Siren of the Underworld:
http://www.freewebs.com/jyeagerbookimages/avon/avon0179.JPG
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A stunning inside cover from Tex Bleisdell on this issue. These Avon inside front covers are some of my favorite pages in the golden age:
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The first story is also by Tex, "Francine O' Connor - The Empress of Crime" about a woman with amazon features and freakish strength. What can good parents do but send a child like this to live with the carnival...
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A life of crime ensues, and Francine is a man smackin' sadistic queen of crime. Featuring a penitentiary catfight, woot. Great bad girl comics. Second up, "Sonny Terhune - Machine-Gun Madman!" featuring Goldfarb and Baer art in which Sonny displays his mastery of the tommy gun by shooting a cigar from a fellow mobster's mouth. Third up, "Lina Foyle: Gun Moll!" with art by Joe Orlando about a red-headed moll's rise and fall. She's a man smacker too, most definitely a symptom of being a bad girl:
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Lastly, an odd story about mysterious deaths at the asylum, "Death Comes Laughing" featuring Sid Check art. I'm happy DM talked me into a crime comic this week, this is a fun ish :)
Cheers,
Darwin
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Prison Break 3 is now firmly locked away in the Avon section thanks to Darwination's heroic efforts.
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Thanks Darwin!
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And people, if you haven't found it yet our pal Darwin also runs a fun blog.
Check it out:
http://darwinscans.blogspot.com/
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Third up, "Lina Foyle: Gun Moll!" with art by Joe Orlando about a red-headed moll's rise and fall. She's a man smacker too, most definitely a symptom of being a bad girl:
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Cheers,
Darwin
Hi, Darwin,
FYI. I don't know where you got the "Joe Orlando" credit, but this is Harry Lazarus art.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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I think I must have gotten that out of Overstreet, Jim. My apologies. I believe I saw a signed Lazarus story in issue 4 if this series as well.
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I think I must have gotten that out of Overstreet, Jim. My apologies. I believe I saw a signed Lazarus story in issue 4 if this series as well.
Goes to show you that you can't trust that darn Overstreet, Darwin.
Yes, there is a signed Lazarus story in issue 4. If Overstreet had given it any thought, it would have been obvious that ALL of Orlando's Avon work was either WITH Wally Wood or very much A LA Wood. Witness his style when he finally "graduated" to EC. There are simply WAY too many credits in Overstreet that got there by way of dealers with a vested interest in "name" art. One reason I stopped contribution very early on - Bob was very willing to ADD a "name" credit, but would almost always ignore my corrections that subtracted such an entry.
Love those Avons. You should check out my book on Kinstler if you haven't gotten it yet. There must be a dozen of his inside front covers in there, many from the original art. In fact, if you are at all interested, I think he's selling the few he has left... I could ask.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Funny you should mention the subject, Twobyfour showed me this just the other day, the original art for Prison Break 02 up for auction at Heritage:
http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7002&Lot_No=92127
To be honest I'm a real cheapie and have never collected original art. That's a beauty though! One of these days I'll branch out into a little art ownership but it might have to wait for the next house...
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Funny you should mention the subject, Twobyfour showed me this just the other day, the original art for Prison Break 02 up for auction at Heritage:
http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7002&Lot_No=92127
To be honest I'm a real cheapie and have never collected original art. That's a beauty though! One of these days I'll branch out into a little art ownership but it might have to wait for the next house...
I'm with you there, Darwin,
Over 40+ years of collecting, I think I've accumulated less than a dozen pieces of original art. We have a Doug Wildey original from his book, The Movie Cowboy, but it's not really mine. When he tried to give it to me, I wouldn't take it, but Karen jumped up and said she WOULD. I learned better when I finished the Kinstler book and gratefully accepted the two originals he gave me.
I have a Rip Hunter Toth page that I bought back in 1972 or so - about the same time I picked up a couple of Gray Morrow romance pages and, my prize, a Joe Maneely Mrs. Lyon's Cubs Sunday page at my one and only New York Con. Karen also has a nice Bill Stout original painting and a Charles Vess page from Stardust, and I've got a Stardust original, too. Charles "depicted" me as a bookseller in Faery in the back of the book and sold me the page at a price I couldn't refuse. Oh, yeah, and Kinstler sent me a portrait he did of me from a jpeg I sent his wife while we were working on his book and Manual Auad got Alfred Alcala to paint a picture of me back in about 1974. Got a few sketches from customers when I was running Bud Plant Illustrated Books, including ones from Ken Steacy and Carolyn Kelly. And that's about it. So, yeah, that's about 12 for me and three or four for Karen.
For old time art, together Karen and I purchased two Harry Rountree originals and I bought one Rountree original from The Lost World from his illustrations in The Strand in 1912. Don't ask how THAT happened...
I'm too cheap to buy art. Simply put, I'd rather have the comics, and my standards there are becoming all too well known to the guys who are scanning them for GAC.
My book on Kinstler has about 30 of his Avon inside front covers reproduced (including the one for sale at Heritage), most full page and about half of them from the original art. Still available at 20% off the cover price. $36 plus postage. End of commercial.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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I have almost nothing in that department. I have a few odd sketches; the only original art I have is a preliminary rough by Sheldon Mayer for a Sugar & Spike splash. Which was, amazingly, less than $20 a few months ago on eBay. I could probably sell some of the sketches for more than that. :D
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I've cbr'd and uploaded 3 complete Spirit Sections that were pointed out to me from this great blog:
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/
I tagged the files with the blogger's handle. The issues are:
Spirit Section 1940-07-07 (Detroit News) (Mr. Door Tree).cbr
Spirit Section 1940-07-14 (Detroit News) (Mr. Door Tree).cbr
Spirit Section 1940-07-21 (Detroit News) (Mr. Door Tree).cbr
Nice editions! Thanks to the scanner.
I was working on a couple vintage women's magazines this weekend, so no comics, but I'll be back in the golden age next weekend...
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Thanks for the uploads Darwin.
I've posted links to Mr Tree's blog in the past. Always a fun read!
-Yoc
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Crime Must Pay the Penalty! 024 (1952-02.Ace)
Hey all - new Ace book on the FTP. Been loving all the goodies from my fellow scanners lately. :)
Cheers,
Darwin
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Now up thanks Dar
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Thanks for another Ace scan Darwin!
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Great cover by Ken Rice, Darwin,
One of my favorite artists at Ace.
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A treat today for Baker fans
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The indicia are superfaded on the ifc, and the back cover has a little water damage, but the inside pages were pretty nice. I did a lot of work on the cover but didn't have a decent image to work from, so I hope I got the colors ballpark.
I like the racy cover with the short-haired tattler. The hinting and teasing covers don't always match the story in the St. John romances, but this one does. The comic leads with an extended Baker piece "Asking for Trouble" about an orphan from NY who comes to live with her older brother and wife in a small town. She puts up a nice girl front but before long is planning wild parties and has the town's men wrapped around her finger. Smoking, booze, a fast older man, plans to cheat in school, all make for a racy story featuring a racy Baker girl. Second up is a Cal Massey story "My Other Self," and the comic rounds out with "They Called Me Teacher's Pet."
If any haven't seen it, John Benson (largely from JVJ's identification) put together a nice index for his books on St. John Romance and Dana Dutch that Fantagraphics hosts here:
http://www.fantagraphics.com/downloads/
The index identifies the artists for the last story as Mikes Sekowsky and Peppe. Benson also believes the Baker story and the text piece "More Luck Than I Deserved" to have been written by Dana Dutch the subject for much of his excellent book Confessions, Romances, Secrets and Temptations: Archer St. John and the St. John Romance Comics which also has a nice timeline of all St. John comics listed by month.
Thanks everybody for all the scans, there's hardly a day where something a new and interesting scan doesn't pop up here.
Cheers,
Darwin
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Wow, another fantastic cover by Baker! Gotta love him!
The book is now up gang.
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Hey, speaking of Baker....
Here's a link to pg11 of Teen-Age Romance #21 by him:
http://tinyurl.com/ckqszk
It from Heritage Auctions and sold for $262.90 on Nov 15, 2007.
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Here's Flaming Love 01. Raws from HP, my edits. Definitely one of my favorite logos of the golden age, it's on fire :o Big thanks to Henry for letting me at this issue.
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Great team work guys!
Going up asap
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Here's Flaming Love 01. Raws from HP, my edits. Definitely one of my favorite logos of the golden age, it's on fire :o Big thanks to Henry for letting me at this issue.
Love those Bill Ward romance covers! Thanks for sharing, Darwin.
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Before I finished scrolling down the post the logo caught my attention as super. Then the comment that I was not alone in my appreciation for it.
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For your reading pleasure,
Love Confessions 040 (1954-12.Quality) (c2c) (Darwination-DSD).cbr
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Thanks to DieSmurfDie for the fine edit of this Quality romance. I think if DSD reads enough romance, he might just find a tender spot in his heart for those little blue fellas he hates so much :-*
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Thanks guys, now up!
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I've been working pulp lately, so I haven't been in the golden age as much as I like. I did however get a chance to scan a Spirit Section for DSD who turned out a great edit, he worked hard on this one.
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Thanks DSD!
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Wow, better than new. Thanks guys!
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Not my scans!, but I'm upping Intimate 1-3 from Charlton. Thanks to whoever scanned these. :)
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Those would be from the scanner known as Fett -- a big Charlton and Ditko fan.
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Thanks Darwin, adding them now with Fett's credit.
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Not my scans, but from a gent handled Pyramid, Jingle Jangle Comics 21 has been uploaded to the FTP. We've got some George Carlson fans around that are always excited to see a new issue of Jingle Jangle Comics show up, so thanks Pyramid! Also from Pyramid, Target Comics v3 06 is on it's way up - JVJ and Eric have been working on these, so it's best to get them up as soon as they surface, eh?
I know I've been away from the golden age for a bit, but I promise to return very soon. I've been on a tour of duty through sweats, slicks, and pulps but will be back to comics as soon as my new scanner arrives (RIP Bessie, you were a fine machine while you lasted :'(). I've recently managed to pick up scanning copies of The Killers 1 and 2 which will be the next items to show up here on my upload thread...
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Thanks for your always unique scans and find Darwin.
Now up.
:)
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Jeez, Darwin, is this all a Pyramid scheme? ;D
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*groan*
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Get yer moonlight sauce heah, another fresh scan from Pyramid, Jingle Jangle Comics 18, is at the ftp. Word is 28 is on the way too, awesome. Thanks, Pyramid :)
I got a new scanner a couple weeks ago that arrived defective, so I decided to just return it and have my old scanner serviced (oh sweet Bessie). I got Bessie back after being in the repair shop, and it had been shipped back without the carriage locked, so now the new bulb was damaged. ARGH! >:( So shes going back for a second trip for service, sheesh. Scanner repair drama!
I can wait no longer tho, so I've broken out my A3 scanner even though I don't like the image quality nearly as much as what I get on my plustek (not to mention it's slower than molasses). I tested it out on an issue of Ideal Romance today and hope to get some time to edit it in the next few days.
Cheers,
Darwin
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Now up, thanks Darwin
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Ideal Romance 005 (1954-08.Key)
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I love the colors on this cover and find it tender and sweet in spite of the fact that the gent that sold it to me advertised it as a "Chest Kissing" cover. Overstreet credits it to Bernard Baily. This is the first Key romance I've read, and I thought it was pretty good. The first story "Uncertainty" involves a couple that bump into each other on the golf course and quickly get swept into romance. After the gent proposes marriage, the protagonist discovers he was previously married when he calls his dead wife's name in the heat of a kiss. She becomes very jealous, eventually asking that he tear up the picture of his dead love. I kind of like how this one resolves... The second story is "First Love" about a woman who marries a boring man and comes to think often of Eddie, her first love. I like the second page of this story, sort of an additional splash:
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I've gotta admit, her inattentive hubby doesn't seem too sympathetic, and I'm not sure I buy the story's resolution. The text intermission is a somewhat incoherent tale of class-hopping romance entitled "The Wandering Wallet of Love" (how's that for a bad title ;D). The third story is "The Man I Love" and might be the most fun story in here and is signed by S. Finnocchiaro and E.E. Hughes (I've never heard of either). The story involves an aspiring model and her attempts to catch the attention of a model agency owner who realizes quickly how willing she is to gain success. A couple nice cheesecake panels in this one. Last up is "Too Many Lovers" about a dance team that finds love traveling the lower rungs of the dancing circuit. What happens when the team breaks up so our heroine can become a star? Can Stella get her groove back? Read and find out...
Good stuff, I like the writing and will keep my eye out for more issues of this series (I'm especially after issue 6). This is the first issue scanned, the series started as Tender Romance in 1953 at issue one and switched to Ideal Romance for issues 3-8, ending in February of 1955.
Cheers,
Darwin
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Overstreet credits it to Bernard Baily.
Thanks for posting this cover, Darwin! That is indeed a Baily cover and the interior artist you inquired about--E. E. Hughes--is Eugene Hughes, who did a lot of work for the Trojan/Key comics.
--Ken Q
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Thanks for the name, Ken. If I was able to identify the artists for each story for each comic I post, I would. So, identifications are always welcome 8).
And from Pyramid tonight, another fresh Jingle Jangle Comics scan, issue 28:
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Thanks, Pyramid! Pyramid tells me he has 20 on order, just in case you are listening Eric. I know you've been working with Jim on these. Fun comics, always a healthy dose of nonsense.
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Wow, we're in the age of Jingle Jangle for sure!
Both these are now up gang.
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Sigh. 20 is in mid-edit stage right now; so I'll wind up posting it soon. It happens. Thanks to you both for the 28!
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I'll let Pyramid know you're in the editing process for 20, Eric. C'est la vie ;)
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Not my scan, I'm just the messenger boy once again. From Pyramid, Black Diamond Western 16. Beware the deadly Randito!
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Featuring comics from William Overgard, Ed Moore, Basil Wolverton, and more. Thanks Pyramid :)
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The Killers 01 (1947.Magazine Enterprises) (Darwin-Dregs).cbr
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A notorious crime comic up today from Vin Sullivan's Magazine Enterprises featuring a nice L.B. Cole cover which promises corpses piled up high. I recently managed to get my hands on both issues of this series, and I was thrilled to get them even though they are in bad shape. This issue was missing a good chunk of the front cover so I appropriated the nicest image I could find from Heritage and polished it up a bit. Sadly, the inside front cover is missing a bit of the text of Gardner Fox's "The Killers Three", but hopefully someone can replace this or even just let me know what the words of the text are, and I can fix the page. The pages were pretty browned out and had been punched into a four hole binding, but I took the time to patch them up since it's a scarcer comic.
This is one of those comics Dr. Wertham was talking about ;D It kicks off with a brutal and xenophobic tale of the yellow menace with art from Paul Parker:
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There's all sort of different ways to kill a man, are you taking notes? Axe to the head! Old school drive-by? ::)
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Or you can just hit em with your car
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Geez...
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and if Murder doesn't faze, how bout some whipping, oh my :o
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Shocking fun for sure, but it is most definitely mind-blowing that little johnny and suzy were picking these comics up at the five and dime.
The second story is "The Killer Behind the Killer" titled after John Chase, Baby Face Nelson's associate in arms. Things turn tough when the G-men get involved. Third up is "Poison Claw Killer". Always beware the scientist with the bad comb over and giant eyebrows. Fourth is "They Tricked the School Girl's Killer" in which a mob comes to lynch a suspected black laborer, completely passing over the strange blonde German florist in the cell next door. The odd and convoluted plan the cops use to gain a confession is not at all out of place in a golden age comic. The last story is from Vernon Henkel, "'Ace' High Private Eye". When a blond client comes into his office with a problem regarding her late father's stolen jewels, Ace responds, "Say no more Bay-Bee! Just cross my palm with enough silver." He may talk an odd slang, but he sure hurls a mean crystal ball.
All in all, a fun comic, but it's hard to top the velocity of mayhem and ridiculousness in the first story. Perhaps there will be more outlandishness in issue 2...
Cheers and Enjoy,
Darwin
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Great stuff Darwin, thanks!!
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Say, do you know if Pyramid is doing anymore Black Diamond Western scans?
-Yoc
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Hey Yoc. I asked him today, and he says he doesn't have anymore Black Diamond Westerns.
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Good to know Darwin, one of our JVJ scanners has plans with BDW.
-Yoc
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Jingle Jangle Comics 024 is now at ftp, courtesy of Pyramid. Thanks Pyramid!
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Now on the site - Thanks Darwin and Pyramid!
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A fresh romance, this is the first issue of the second series of Romantic Hearts. The number on the cover is pretty funky, it looks like there is a second number one sort of redded-out. I haven't read this closely yet but am gonna take it to the pool and give it a read now that I've scanned it 8)
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Cheers and thanks to everyone for all the cool comics scanned recently,
Darwin
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Thanks Darwin. It just might be #1 as only it and #2 are missing from the cover gallery on GCD-
http://tinyurl.com/n9am3e
Now up!
-Yoc
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A fresh romance, this is the first issue of the second series of Romantic Hearts. The number on the cover is pretty funky, it looks like there is a second number one sort of redded-out.
This is one of the many obscure anomalies in comics, Darwin.
The last issue in the "first" series was #11 dated July 1953. Here's the cover:
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Oddly enough, you may have noticed, that it is the SAME cover as second series issue 1.
Here's a close up of the number on the cover.
(http://www.bpib.com/test/GAC/RomanticHearts-11-number.jpg)
And, just to prove that it's not the same comic with a cover scratch, here's the indicia.
(http://www.bpib.com/test/GAC/RomanticHearts-11-indicia.jpg)
Notice that the lines do not end with the same words as in your issue #1, so it's definitely a different printing. The contents are both books are otherwise identical.
Go figure.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Thanks for sorting that out for us, Jim. It's always fun to figure out what's going on with some of these numbering oddities. Hey, it's just like Marvel does these days - just start titles over at #1 every year or so ;D romance reboot! ::)
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Comics so fun it's a crime, up tonight a 1947 issue of Crime Does Not Pay which kicks off with a nice George Tuska story "The Hoover Brothers" on a pair of deathlocked ne'er-do-wells. The older brother, a sly and successful racketeer has beat down the younger brother, a hard luck bit thug, his whole life long. A redhead gets involved and one brother will be leaving the room in a trash can, have mercy. Next up a Fred Guardineer story "Pretty Boy Floyd the Two-Faced Terror" wherein we see a liberal depiction of pretty boys criminal career ending in a bloody panel. The bodies are piled high in this one. Thirdly, "Killer's Jinx", a bar robbery on Friday 13th goes wrong but the cops are fast on the case. The letters page is great in this issue. A couple of convicts wish they'd found this magazine sooner, a priest gives an erring boy a copy of Crime Does Not Pay to steer him right, and two teachers absolutely recommend this comic. I wonder if any of these are real ;D Next with art from Lee Teaford "Washed in Blood" (I think the splash image is kind of disturbing) regarding Spanish Johnny who's a gangster that runs a protection racket involving launderers. The comic wraps up with another Gaurdineer tale "Who Dunnit?" featuring a strange pair of Ice sailing murders and good number of homicides in the course of a winter competition between rival schools. Hmm... I sure didnt have the murderer picked out right in this one, a quirky story for certain.
Cheers and enjoy,
Darwin
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Thanks darwin, now up. Haven't seen your stuff here much lately
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Yeah, Narf, it's been a busy Summer. And by busy I mean going to the pool everyday really takes it out of me ;D
But seriously, I've been away from working with comics more than I like and intend to focus on my golden age scan pile a bit more over the next few months, as these comics aren't gonna scan themselves (though the site sure is active these days :)) My main scanner (plustek opticbook 3600) has been sent back now for a 3rd time in a row, so I'm getting accustomed to an Epson v300 in the meantime. But while I've been slacking at the pool, a scanner named McCoy has been editing some cool pulp and magazine material for me which those interested can see here (I never miss a chance to pimp my blog :P)
http://darwinscans.blogspot.com/
But seriously even when I'm busy or working in other areas, the golden age site is never far from my mind, you guys here scan so much cool stuff week in and week out, I love it!
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Love the blog Darwin!
Keep up the great job.
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darwin,
What's the deal with your plustek opticbook 3600?
Can you fill us in?
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I had mine for about a year and a half and have always been very happy with it. I started to notice a red line that got quickly worse over a series of scans. I'm pretty sure it was time to replace the bulb, not unreasonable after thousands of pages. Anyways, the scanner was out of warranty (1yr), so I was happy to pay the servicing fee for a new bulb and tune-up. A scanner named Gambit had sent his plusted in with a similar problem and got his back better than ever. Anyways, mine comes back and the scanning carriage hadn't been locked down, so the new bulb was damaged. I send that one back, in the meantime they send me a brand new machine to expedite matters. Which also had lines. So that one's headed back now. After running around in circles trying to get authorization and shipping labels for all this, I'm still hoping to get a nice working scanner back. I would have have just tossed my hands up in the air and asked for a refund long ago if I didn't like the scanner so much. I don't know if I've somehow hit a bad batch of bulbs or what, but after my experiences and the experiences of some other scanners I'm not so eager to recommend the plustek anymore. I'd definitely like to see some other scanner companies incorporate the edge feature of the opticbook, but mebbe plustek has it patented - I don't know.
In the meantime, I'm happy I picked up the Epson v300 - it was cheap ($90), and there are a bunch of things I like about it. It has no warm-up time (a bit greener that way too), has nice compatible software, and was pretty cheap. The downsides are the prescan settings take a little more tuning to get a natural looking raw, it's slower than the plustek (but still 10 seconds for 300dpi isn't bad), and the scanner bed is sunk-in (which can leave a crease from where the lid closes on the overhanging edge). When my plustek makes it back, I'll have three scanners including my mustek A3, I just know my wife will make some smarta@@ comment about all my toys ;D
Up next: Shocking Mystery Cases 53 8)
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Ohhhhhh, more Star!!
:D :D
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I had mine for about a year and a half and have always been very happy with it. I started to notice a red line that got quickly worse over a series of scans.
and the plot thickens.
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Shocking Mystery Cases 053 (1953-03.Star)
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My copy of this issue had a big chunk of the text on the cover missing and was also cropped about 3/4 of an inch off on the right. Luckily, Heritage had a nice image of the cover proof. I love this L.B. Cole cover, an iconic horror graphic which might have left some readers disappointed as all the stories inside are straight crime.
Enjoy!
Darwin
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Nice cover!
Thanks very much Darwin.
It's now up gang.
:)
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Straight Arrow 003 (1950-06.Magazine Enterprises)
Now at the ftp, issue 3 of Straight Arrow featuring a Frank Frazetta cover and art from Fred Meagher and Bob Powell. I keep meaning to track down the radio program to check it out...
Next up: Crime Smashers 4
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Wonderful cover!
Thanks Darwin, going up shortly.
:)
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Crime Smashers 004 (1951-04.Trojan) (Darwination-McCoy)
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I recognize some of these characters from the Spicy pulps, so I found a couple links trying to figure out who owned this company and came up with a couple links but no real answer.
Here's a nice page that shows the association of Frank Armer and Harry Donnenfeld in the pulps
http://www.supermanartists.comics.org/dchistory/dcsother-pulps.htm
and page with info on Frank Armer:
http://www.bailsprojects.com/(S(3f32cejgvomaydjgqwitbk55))/bio.aspx?Name=ARMER%2C+FRANK
Who was Armer's partner in these comics? Or was Donnenfeld or Gussie still involved somehow? It looks like Trojan didn't really put out that many comics, but I liked the issues of Crime Mysteries I've read...
Big thanks to my pal and magazine scanner extraordinaire McCoy for the edit work. This was his first try with a golden age comic and he did a super job on it.
Cheers and Enjoy
Next up: Geronimo 2 On the Warpath
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Lovely stuff as usual Darwin!
Going up shortly.
:)
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Well my dealings with computer gremlins continues as last week my computer died a horrible death. :'(
Luckily, my wife is a sweetie, she let me use her laptop to edit Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine 007 from Toby, c2c at the ftp.
Big thanks to bluejeff for the raws. My new computer comes this week, so hopefully I'll be able to get back to my scanning programme soon enough :) I'm pretty excited to see how fast a new machine can slice and dice comics in photoshop...
Cheers,
Darwin
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Thanks Darwin, it's now up!
GL with the new machine - I've been considering a new one myself since my second machine for editing died on me a few months ago... but spending $ isn't a thing I like to do very much.
-Yoc
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I love my new computer! Photoshop cs4 opens in around 10 seconds versus 3 minutes on my last computer, a welcome change. Thanks for getting me the ftp info I needed last night so I can upload again, Yoc, you sure help keep things running smooth around here.
Now at the FTP:
Keen Teens 01 (NN on cover) (1945.Life's Romances)(Darwination-Mccoy)
(http://i26.tinypic.com/2mrcqhz.jpg)
Thanks to McCoy for a great edit of my poor copy of this interesting comic. Featuring Frank Sinatra and Van Johnson on the cover and inside covers as well as Clair Voyant, Dottie Dripple, Rocky, Gertie O' Grady and Sissy in addition to a photo article and Sugar and Spice column material from The Chicago Tribune.
Geronimo 002 (1951.Avon) (On the Warpath)
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Here's the last scan we needed of this Avon run. The comic features a Kinstler cover and frontispiece and leads with two John Forte stories. The main attraction in my eyes, though, is the Kit West story, very strange indeed. Here's the splash (can anybody identify the artist for me?):
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Cheers and enjoy,
Darwin
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Kit West is by Jill Elgin, Darwin.
Compare with her work at Harvey at Speed. There is a SLIGHT possibility that she's working on Kit West with Gus Schrotter.
FWIW. (|:{>
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Wow, that Kit West is smooth on the eyes! Thanks Darwin.
Jill Elgin eh? Nice GGA.
Now up!
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Jim could Jill Elgin's studiio work have appeared at Fiction House? The work looks like FH stuff.
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Jim could Jill Elgin's studiio work have appeared at Fiction House? The work looks like FH stuff.
Not that I've ever seen, narf,
and I believe I have seen MOST of the FH books. She did Girl Commandos and Twinkle Twins and perhaps a couple of other stories at Harvey in the mid-'40s. Other than that, this Kit West (and the one in the following issue) in Geronimo comprise most of her comics work. She did some kids book illustrations (I have her version of Little Women) and is supposed to have worked for Parents Comics in the early '40s. That's all the credits we KNOW about.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Thanks for the identification, Jim. I'm still always startled when I come across a woman artist in golden age comics, but the more I think about it, I have to wonder if women had more opportunity in the strips and in the golden age than they would have later on in the 60s and 70s (in mainstream comics at least). I enjoyed Elgin's art in these Geronimo issues (the Kit West story in the next issue is a real hoot, thanks for mentioning it), so I think I'll track down some of her illustration work to see what it looks like.
Cheers,
Darwin
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Actually, as Cat Yronwode and Trina Robbins noted in WOMEN IN THE COMICS, a lot of female cartoonists did come in during World War II. It was a "Rosie the Riveter" kind of situation...since male cartoonists were being drafted (or enlisting), somebody had to be found to draw or write the comics, and women weren't in danger of being drafted. Apparently, Fiction House (or, more properly, the Iger Shop) took on a lot of women artists and even some women scripters. (Toni Blum had been a writer there since the Eisner days and Ruth Roche may have been, too.) I can't and won't try for a roll call but you can find them if you want.
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A really EARLY Fawcett from Darwin and McCoy has just been added to the site.
I upped that Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang to my folder (a McCoy edit, btw, he's my edit workhorse these days). As far as any information goes, I'm pretty new to the pub myself, but here's the best links I've found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawcett_Publications <--begins with info on it
http://www.aboutcomics.com/cbwb.html <---blurb from about comics re: the one reprint issue they did.
http://www.compedit.com/whiz_bang.htm <----a short academic sort of survey of the mag
When I scanned it, I was bummed there were no pictures or toons, but I was surprised to find myself laughing the whole way through. The language is incredibly rich - a mix of high and low, and some of the jokes are terribly funny. PC sensibilities might get wounded because of some racist material, but I get tired of saying things like that because it's just History, warts and all Tongue I also like the idea that this little roughshod publication launched an empire, Fawcett's mags from the 30s are amazingly well done, and, of course, their comics are a great mix of fun and intelligent stories...
Cheers,
Darwin
Our thanks to Darwin for sharing something I'd only heard about in the 'history books' of comics.
Enjoy!
-Yoc
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Hey nice to see some familiar faces here. Id love to edit a scan or two from you again if time ever permits it.
(this is ZT if you couldnt tell from my new name)
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Hey ya, Crumb, sure I'll hook you up with some raws when I get the time, life's kickin my rear lately, but it won't be too long 8)
Cheers,
D
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Dont go out of your way with it, its not like I got an extreme amount of free time either. Just let it go with the flow... bro.
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Spirit Section 1944-02-13 (Philadelphia Record). It's been awhile, but I managed to sneak in a golden age scan tonight. I still haven't dared watch the new Spirit movie, but it's inevitable - like a moth to the flame. This issue features a killer ichthyologist in The Spirit as well as back up from Lady Luck and Mr. Mystic.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gnmmtmomgmo
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At the FTP for your enjoyment, a Fox ;)
Here's the Canadian edition of My Secret Story 27 from 1950. I really miss the pink on the inside front cover on these fox reprints but I guess the one trade off is that there is less cover bleed because of no color on the inside and perhaps a thicker stock... Enjoy!
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Spirit Section (1944-04-30) (Chicago Sun)
Lady Luck and Mr. Mystic backups, enjoy!
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Oh my, don't you love that 'My Secret Story' cover?
And more Lady Luck and Spirit as well? What a great update Darwin!
Thanks!!
Going up soon.
:)
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thanks !!
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Yikes, I haven't been in here for a while, but I bring a good one tonight. As promised, the second issue of The Killers. Enjoy! :)
(http://i38.tinypic.com/25s32nr.jpg)
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Thanks very much D, it will be going up shortly gang.
-Yoc
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Woohoo, the site is working for me again :D
Sweethearts 086 at the ftp, thanks to Gambit for the raws.
(http://i33.tinypic.com/2evc6ck.jpg)
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I only 'fixed it' minutes ago Darwin!
You're the second to post.
Narf, can you upload this for D please?
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Just found the forums alive again. I'll get to sweethearts
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Thanks Narf, I've uploaded DM and FF's latest today.
Nice to see the place alive again! :)
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Sweethearts 86 now available
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Jingle Jangle Comics 037 (February 1949) [Pyramid]
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Issue 37, courtesy of Pyramid now at ftp. We're getting close on this title, amazing!
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now ready
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Thanks Narf and Darwin!
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Thanks! We are getting close; I've got a handful more from JVJ to scan. The last few may be tricky, though...
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Popular Teen-Agers 015 (Secrets of Love) (1953-01.Star)
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A purplicious cover from L.B. Cole. Steamy :).
Featuring "Scandal", a fairly jagged and incoherent ditty of a woman who starts to cat around from boredom in her new marriage and courts a rapscallion who dies in a car accident while trying to steal a kiss. After this is revealed in court, her husband leaves her. Distraught, she decides to murder the chap. Where did all the love go? ::) Disbrow signature in the last panel. Next up a one pager, "My Ten Cent Love," a great title for us comics fans, regarding a girl who finds out her fiancee has given her a dimestore engagement ring. Also, "A Twist of Fate" regarding a girl who's father falls ill and she is forced into working at a dime a dance hall. Can she find true love on the job and save her parents' home from forclosure? The text story is "Love Must Be Faithful". The third full length entry is "I Was Starved for Love" about a girl who never has any fun. She tries to get out a little and puts her mother in the hospital from worry. Caught necking in a stolen car, she's forced to spend the night in jail. Pa promises her a good whipping but a kindly officer steps in with some good advice for Dad to take it easy on the poor girl.
Enjoy!
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Will be up shortly
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Excellent, thanks very much guys!
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Darwin has uploaded these two Flatterman scans for us -
Police Comics 022 (paper)
Police Comics 020 (paper)
Both are c2c scans. Thanks Beau!
-Yoc
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I just upped them! Big thanks to Flatterman for these. That guy rules :).
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Yep, Flatterman would be a very welcome member of GAC if he'd like to join.
Our thanks for these needed fiche fills. :)
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Ho ho ho, a Christmas Spirit for your enjoyment. An early episode, the intellegent Orang becomes aware that he is not human as a scientist's beautiful daughter is devolved into a vicious killer. Also, Lady Luck shipwrecked at sea and Mr. Mystic must face the kidnapping of his fiancee hatched by Sarku the hindu murderer and denizens of the moon. Merry Christmas to all the comic lovers here on the site.
Spirit Section 1940-09-01 (Sunday Star)
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Great stuff, can't beat a little 'Christmas Spirit' though usualy I like mine in a glass-LOL
Merry Christmas.
-Nigel
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Thanks very much Darwin!
-Yoc
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Now at the ftp, Headline Comics 027 (1947-11.Prize)
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A gun moll so bad she'd kill a copper in the hospital?! You have to watch those blondes, you know.
The lead story from Simon & Kirby is Stella Mae Dickson The Bobby Sox Bandit and kicks off with Stella pointing two guns at the reader,giving the bankers hell, and yelling "The first one that moves while my husband rifles the vault gets a bullet between the eyes." A tale of love and violence ensues, truly a cross-country crime wave.
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The second story is "The Guns of Jesse James" out to debunk hero worship of this no good outlaw. The finale scene made me think of the recent and very excellent The Assassination of Jesse James... I'm not sure of the artist:
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Third up, from Bill Draut, "The Death of a Gambler King." I like this sort of interrogation montage in this single panel of inquiry into the mobster's death. Can the cops break this code of silence?
(http://i49.tinypic.com/24xj2jd.jpg)
"The Spark of Murder" is the text story from Allen Stand. An excerpt:
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Hmm, maybe little Bobby shouldn't be reading these comics after all :)
The fourth story, again with art from Draut is "Bring Me His Corpse," more brutality, geez. I'm sure it's scenes like these that kept the kiddies coming back for more.
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But is there more than meets the eye here? The action stops so that the reader can catch up with the detective. Always watch out for those merry widows.
Last up, "The Spirit Swindlers" from Simon & Kirby. A small town girl gets to the big town and a hat check job brings in her into contact with some small time racketeers with big time plans. The psychic racket, eh? Just be careful who you partner with
(http://i45.tinypic.com/11bjimb.jpg)
ah the innocence of golden age comics ;D
Enjoy!
Darwin
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thanks Dawin now onsite for all to enjoy
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Great work guys. Wow that's more violent than I thought was normal for Prize.
-Yoc
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Amazing to think that one day Simon and Kirby could be putting a no holds barred book like this together and pehaps working on a romance title the following day.
-Nigel
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Working on a romance after working on this one would be good therapy :)
In fact, I think I'll follow their example ;D
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LOL, now there's a smart monkey!
Nice avatar Beau. ;)
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Thanks Yoc, that's just a bit of Enoch Bolles from the cover of Gay Parisienne, February 1936. Here's the rest :)
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I swear I'm not really a collector of many things (after I scan comics or magazines I like to send them to fam or friends or resell), but I keep every girlie pulp I can get my hands on 8) A restore of the cover and scan of the full issue above will follow sooner or later at the yahoo pulpscans group. If any pulp lovers out there haven't heard of that place to share pulp scans, the address is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pulpscans
My scanner handle lends itself well to monkey avatars! I swear I'm not copying you, Yoc, you'll always be the number one monkey around here ;D
Tonight, as promised, a bit of romance. And, I'm happy to say, my first contribution to the JVJ project. I knew Twobyfour had scanned a bunch of romances recently, so I had him set me up with the raws for a few issues. Here's the first of three issues of this series in a row, Best Romance #5 from 1952
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This issue kicks off with a Toth/Saaf story about a judge's daughter who falls in with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. The trouble starts when she talk her boyfriend into letting her drive. Of course, with those eyes, who's gonna tell her no?
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But a little joyride gets ugly quick, a crash ensues and the boyfriend is ready to take the fall.
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2q9yja8.jpg)
Pop's snobbery has taken cruel proportions in his role as judge. He's such a bad guy, I'm not sure I can believe the story's resolution...
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A very nice opening story, but my favorite from the issue is definitely Love Won't Wait, a cautionary tale for tomboys - or is it? An interesting look at some of the social dynamics of a girl being just one of the boys.
Thanks to JVJ for the comic and index work and to Twoby for the raws. Issues 6 and 7 to follow...
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Thanks Darwin!
Narf, can you handle these? I'm anticipating uploading some more from freddyfly and finds from my blog culling soon.
Thanks :)
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The next issue, thanks again to JVJ for the comic and index work and to twoby for the raws :)
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how exactly should these be credited? We usually list the scanner as the author. It says twobyfour raws but mentions JVJ and provided here by darwination.
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I'm easy, Narf. These are Jim's comics that twoby has scanned and I've edited which is a mouthful, the index card page has all that on it, so whatever is easiest in the database works for me.
And hot of the press, to complete the series, issue 7! There's some sort of dust shadow at the bottom of the cover I wouldn't repair but the rest of the image is pretty nice. If someone has a super copy, the cover on this ish could always be replaced...
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2po1an8.jpg)
Thanks again to Jim for the books and indexes and twoby for the scanwork.
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Sorry for the delay now available thanks 2x4, Darwin and JVJ
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Thanks guys!
:)
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New Romances 005 (1951.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar).cbr
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Continuing with another JVJ book scanned by Twoby and edited by yours truly. Valentine's Day is coming up so it's time to get in the love groove. The opening story here "Marry in Haste" featuring Sekowsky art was the standout for me. A fun story of a girl who spends her year saving so she can live it up at a posh resort and hopefully find a new man in the process. When her hum-drum fiancee shows up, though, the tables are turned in a clever twist. "The Blame I Bore" is one of these stories that conveys the sense of an overwhelming gossip that must have existed in small town America, because it sure weighs heavy on the girls of the world. Our heroine has taken in the orphaned boy of her dead sister, but all the town can do is talk. A staple of the goldenage romance, the strolling hens...
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The text story is pretty cute, I'm certain I've seen the scenario before in some film but can't recall which one. And the comic concludes with a story of class snobbery, also a main concern of goldenage romance, but this time it's our heroine's preoccupation with what others might think that's causing the real damage. Can this secretary find the will to bring her boss home to Mom and Dad? I still never get over how often a secretary falls in love with the boss in these books. A working girl fantasy and H.R. nightmare all in one, heh heh.
Enjoy!
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Thanks Darwin and TwoXFour, I'll get them up on Friday afternoon.
:)
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Darwin, 2x4,
I just heard the moving of files from the old server to the new server has started. We've been warned NOT to upload new scans to the site until AFTER the move has been finished. Once that's done Narf and I will get any news scans up ASAP. Any uploads sent to us via Mediafire or other storage site can be added right away though by sharing the link. If any uploaders just post your direct share links and I will take care of the rest.
So your latest romance books are up as links to Darwin's Mediafire links until the new server has been established.
-Yoc
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Sure, Yoc. I can post my mediafire links in the meantime, no problem.
Here's my folder for Best Romances:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a85bb64dddb348338066db0503cf4f2c163f17708165c15d
And the folder for New Romances to which I'll be adding:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a85bb64dddb348338066db0503cf4f2c87b5cba939e44dbb
And I'll take the opportunity to thank all you guys for the behind the scenes work here at the site. Making sure new scans get added to the database, handling server problems, and fixing all the other technical hassles round here takes time and effort. You're guys are the straw that stirs the drink around here ;)
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You're very welcome Darwin.
Actually if you check you'll see those two are already up as 'links only'.
http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/stats2.php
And as always thank-you for being such a great scanner in quality and variety!
:D
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I think I dropped some posts around here with the hiccups going on, excuse if i've missed or double posted
New Romances 006 (1951) (Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar).cbr
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Thanks to JVJ for letting us scan his comics as well as for these awesome indexes and to Twobyfour for the raws.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mftymtytnnl
Sabu, Elephant Boy 030 (Fox, 1950-June, 36p, c2c, Darwination-BeagleBoy).cbz
(http://i48.tinypic.com/9i5z6p.jpg)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mytjmnywnde
The first issue of Sabu. GCD says the first and last stories are Wood. Here's the wiki on the real-life Sabu:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_Dastagir
Big thanks to Snard for the edit work!
New Romances 007 (1951.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jfydtinfvkz
Thanks to Twobyfour for the raws and Jim for the comic and index.
It'll be a cuddly valentine's day this year, brr. But reading comics on my laptop in bed helps keep my legs warm 8)
First Love Illustrated 044 (1954)
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Harvey romance, I love it :)
Thanks to Snard for edit!
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zmtm3geommm
P.S. is posting links still the way to go? Should I up these to the FTP as well? ???
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links are fine. I already picked this one up. Could not put it onsite yet still not functioning :-[
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Please keep using Mediafire until we are sure everything is set for the server Darwin.
Thanks for the latest!
:)
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Pay-Off 001 (D.S. Publishing 1948-July-August 52p c2c Darwination-BeagleBoy)
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Thanks to Snard for the edit!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X5ZFVIAJ
Had to use megaupload today, as mediafire was acting wonky. I'll put a mediafire link up too for this one when it's working again.
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nice! I like it! :)
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As promised, a mediafire mirror for this last one:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tgthzlinex2
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Thanks very much Darwin!
:)
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Thanks Darwin for Pay Off1 and Sabu 30 now up
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Thanks for uploading them narf!
:)
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A new one from Pyramid :)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/357254559/Jingle_Jangle_Comics__04__August_1943___Pyramid_.cbz
or
http://www.mediafire.com/?nnqmmtqjgmw
Thanks for the scan, dude. The Jingle Jangle Tales is a wild entry.
P.S. I see the ftp is still down, should I be uploading these via some other mechanism or are we on manual for the time being?
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The upload button has been working fine
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Darwin, you've got mail.
:)
Thanks for another Jingle Jangle.
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Awesome, Yoc. Am hooked up to the new FTP, thanks :)
Sending up the Jingle Jangle now.
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Great, Dar! Almost as good as another issue of JUSTICE TAKES AN INDUSTRIAL LASER TO THE INNARDS OF THE GUILTY!!
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Now up, thanks Beau!
:)
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The Perfect Crime 027 (1952-08.Cross)
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Not a terribly p.c. question, but is this two black dudes smackin' round a white girl? :o
I saw this and had to have it, I'm a sick puppy - I know. This title has some fairly grisly covers in there toward the end of the run.
Now at the FTP or here
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nitwmzz2xzh
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Thanks darwin really cool looking comic now awailable
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Crime Detective Comics v02n06 (1951-01.Hillman)
(http://i43.tinypic.com/2vjcu3d.jpg)
Thanks to Tielk for the edit! Now at the ftp, or the file can be gotten here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nom5fwmtkcr
Enjoy!
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Thanks darwination! I've been ignoring so many good comics and you have scanned a million of them. ;D
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Adventures 01 - In Romance (1949) (St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
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Ooh, boy, this is a neat one from JVJ's collection, big thanks to him for sharing and also thanks to Twoby for the scan work.
I've been interested in this series since reading the Leonard Starr in John Benson's book on the St. John romances. Accompanying the interview is the photo used as reference for this excellent cover. The model used in the photo is Nadine French King who in another interview in the book describes running the office for St. John (Nadine appears on the back cover of this issue, they worked together on some sort of in-house merchandising). Jim didn't include the index for this one because the full index on the St. John books is available here
http://www.fantagraphics.com/downloads/stjohnchecklist.pdf
which lists this issue's contents as:
ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE 1, November 1949. Cover: painting by KING Oversized pages.
KING September Squall
STARR Stopgap: the Saga of Coby Nash
BOLLE Heels Over Head in Love
STARR The Black Lily
I think you can tell they put some effort into the issue. I most definitely had a good time working on it. The layout is kind of irregular, and, in some places the pages sort of spill into one another or the printing drifts off the page, but it's kind of neat that way ;)
At the ftp, and at
http://www.mediafire.com/?wnuqivzlxmo
Enjoy and thanks to all the other site scanners, administrators, donators, etc. It's always such fun to have a big stack of "new" golden age comics around to read.
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I am not able to download the nice comics anylonger on the site and wonder if I have done anything wrong?
I get a message that say critcal error has occured
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I am not able to download the nice comics anylonger on the site and wonder if I have done anything wrong?
I get a message that say critcal error has occured
We expect an update from our site owner. The download site is currently malfunctioning and none of us can sign in to download. Have patience, it is being looked into.
B.
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Many thanks for the information It really is very much appriceiated:-)
I thought I had made something wrong so that's why it stood critical error!
but then I know, many thanks again!
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Another issue of Jingle Jangle Comics just in from Pyramid
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Now at the ftp or available here
http://www.mediafire.com/?yehynnyzmyk
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/375197575/Jingle_Jangle_Comics__27__June_1947___Pyramid_.cbz
Thanks, Pyramid!
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Thanks much Darwin! ;D
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Spirit Section 157 (1943-05-30) (Chicago Sun)
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Big thanks to Emcee for the nice edit work, now at FTP and
http://www.mediafire.com/?vh1dmomn2r2
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/375656104/Spirit_Section_157__1943-05-30___Chicago_Sun___Darwination-emcee_.cbr
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Nice work -- thank you for sharing it with us!
B. ;D
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Hollywood Confessions 01 (St. John) (1949) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
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Another treat from Jim's collection for you romance fans. I'd been hoping to scan it and have lost a few auctions on ebay chasing it, so I was stoked when Twoby offered me the raws.
The St. John Romance Comics Checklist list credits as
Love Came Second Kubert art, written by Kubert according to Kubert
Too Ugly to Love Giunta/Kubert, written by Robert Bernstein according to Kubert
Something New in Comics Text/Kubert
My Heart Was Blind to Love Text, probably written by Dana Dutch
I Loved and Lost Rosen/Kubert art, written by Robert Bernstein according to Kubert
At the ftp or available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zmwh5noz2qg
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R5OL26YT
Thanks again to Jim and Twoby and to all the scanners out there in scanland filling out our library.
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Thanks! ;D
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Uploaded scans from our friend Darwination!
Adventures 01 - In Romance (1949) (St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
Hollywood Confessions 01 (St. John) (1949) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
Jingle_Jangle_Comics_027__Pyramid
Spirit Section 157 (1943-05-30) (Chicago Sun) (Darwination-emcee)
Thanks to JVJ for his continued support, and to Pyramid, Two-Dar & Emcee for their efforts to bring these books to fandom at large.
B.
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A new Spirit Section, thanks to Emcee for the edit work!
Spirit Section 243 (1945-01-21) Chicago Sun
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At the FTP or available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ozjxmyixxim
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HDNGOIPU
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Thanks much Darwination!!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Hollywood Confessions 02 (St. John) (1949) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
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Featuring some great layouts from a young Joe Kubert. He was promised a piece of the action of this comic he packaged but demand never panned out, nice stuff though. Thanks once again toJVJ for letting us at his collection and to Twobyfour for the raws.
Available at the ftp or at
http://www.mediafire.com/?hmml3t1o3um
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OJPC2IKZ
samples:
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Hollywood Confessions 02 (St. John) (1949) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
Thanks much sir! ;D ;D ;D
B.
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At the ftp:
Famous Stars 001 (1950.Ziff-Davis).cbr
Famous Stars 004 (1951-05.Ziff-Davis).cbr
Not my scans, but I found a couple of issues of Famous Stars we were missing when I was tracking down that title the other night. Fun comics! Thanks to Marbleriver and to whoever scanned issue 1. It'd be nice to see this series get finished out if anybody is holding ;)
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At the ftp:
Famous Stars 001 (1950.Ziff-Davis).cbr
Famous Stars 004 (1951-05.Ziff-Davis).cbr
Not my scans, but I found a couple of issues of Famous Stars we were missing when I was tracking down that title the other night. Fun comics! Thanks to Marbleriver and to whoever scanned issue 1. It'd be nice to see this series get finished out if anybody is holding ;)
Thanks very much! They're live now! ;D
B.
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First Love Illustrated 039 (Harvey 1954-Apr 36p c2c - Darwination & BeagleBoy)
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Big thanks to Snard for the editing duties.
I really like the cover on this issue, but isn't the constant voyeurism on the Harvey covers a little weird? The dark London streets, the redhead in red and the purplicious background, naughty naughty ;).
At the FTP or avalable here
http://sharebee.com/cc262e9b
or
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2ydz1zwj2ma
Sampleage:
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Enjoy!
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I'm not sure if this one really belongs on the site, but it is sort of a platinum age forbear to the comic, so I thought I'd share in case there was any interest. Since it's not a comic, I'll just stick to the external link.
Fun Section 1912-03-31 (N.Y. World)
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Here's the kids' section of the New York World, an odd mix of cartoons, jokes, puzzles, and advertising. This publication's claim to fame would be the publication of the first crossword puzzle in 1913. Thanks to McCoy for the edit.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mjgydjyv2nj
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Fun Section 1912-03-31 (N.Y. World)
Thanks for this one! ;D ;D ;D
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Spirit Section 209 (1944-05-28.Chicago Sun)
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At the FTP or available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zzmgzinmtdj
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Thanks much Darwination! ;D
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One upped for Pyramid, thanks Pyramid!:
Jingle Jangle Comics 033 (June 1948)
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at the ftp or here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?o202501rlvq9bxn
Also, two more Fun sections. Not comics exactly, so not at FTP, but in case there's interest I'll post. Thanks to McCoy for the edits on both.
Fun Section 1912-04-28 (N.Y. World)
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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zjwji3y1tjm
Fun Section 1914-06-07 (N.Y. World)(D&M)
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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wytukizt0ty
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Jingle Jangle Comics 033 (June 1948) -- now live at the download site. Thanks much Darwination!!! ;D
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Thanks to both Darwin and Pyramid for this one. As you're probably aware it's one of my favorites!
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Teen-Age Temptations 002 (1953) (St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
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One of my favorite Matt Baker covers. Thanks to JVJ for letting us at his collection and to Twobyfour for the raws.
At the FTP or available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?yrokmr68oi1a3t5#1
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Teen-Age Temptations 002 (1953) (St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
One of my favorite Matt Baker covers. Thanks to JVJ for letting us at his collection and to Twobyfour for the raws.
At the FTP or available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?yrokmr68oi1a3t5#1
Thank you sir! It is now live on the download site!
B. :)
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Teen-Age Temptations 003 (1953) (St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
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Thanks to JVJ for letting us scan his fantastic collection and to Twobyfour for the raws, it is such a treat to read these comics! All the stories deal with the choices teen-age girls make on the cusp of adulthood, usually between two men. The first story with Mort Drucker art, "I Wanted Life Long Thrills," involves a girl going steady with a pilot who's away for long periods of time. Enter an old beau who had left town without so much as a word. They begin to fool around, cue the emotional rollercoaster. An interesting ending, perhaps opposite of a typical resolution. The second story, "The Kisses I Couldn't Forget," features some nice art from Ric Estrada and involves a crafty girl with the key to making men interested, learning their hobbies! She works with a boy she's interested in on a new machine, but he's more interested in the machine than the girl, so she turns to some darkroom fun developing into a love triangle. But the photographer's not getting played, he's the one doing the playing! Thirdly, the gem of the bunch, with story attributed to Dutch Dana by John Benson with art from Matt Baker, a somewhat scandalous ditty, I suppose, in which a girl lies about her age to marry her long-time beau who's headed for the service. They marry and spend a night together, but the girl instantly confesses to her mother and the marriage is annulled. Her new reputation as a bad girl drives our heroine to lie about her age again, this time to enlist in the armed services and escape town. A story of maturation and growth, I do have to agree that Dutch's stories really break the mold - I imagine teenage girls loved them. And lastly, "To Young To Wed," in which a conniving lass behaves badly and is forgiven by her adoring man, you have to wonder where they found all these pushovers. Great fun! Again, thanks to JVJ for sharing these fine St. John romances with us.
At the FTP
or
http://www.mediafire.com/?gvzuaj45s6jq4gm
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Teen-Age Temptations 003 (1953) (St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
Thank you sir! It is now live on the download site! ;D ;D ;D
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Spirit Section 120 (1942-09-13.Chicago Sun) (Darwin)
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At the ftp and available here
http://www.mediafire.com/?2je41gs41btqfi9
And, not a comic, so not at FTP, but I thought Baker fans might appreciate a peek.
RAGE v01n02 (1957-02.Arnold)
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The second issue of this Everett Arnold-published sweat magazine. Featuring two Matt Baker splashes. Also featuring an article written by Elvis in defense of rock and roll (I can see Elvis reading this stripe of magazine) as well as articles on Blaze Starr, a one-legged mountain climber, Is a Woman Making You Impotent? and more. It's interesting to see Baker work in this different medium.
scan available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?pnkxfcp988uxz2u
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You can get the first issue, which has no Baker art though it does provide a context for the Elvis article, here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yzjymnl1tti
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Thanks for the look at some of Matt Baker's wash work.
Some of those sweat mag covers are a real hoot!
Joe M
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Spirit Section 120 (1942-09-13.Chicago Sun) (Darwin) is now live on the download site.
Thank you Darwination!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Thanks for the look at some of Matt Baker's wash work.
Some of those sweat mag covers are a real hoot!
Joe M
Glad you enjoyed it, Joe. I've got 6 of the first 7 issues of Rage, and I think maybe all but issue one have Baker art. I'm not sure how many issues there were, but even seven is more than most suspect. I'll be scanning the issues I have in order, and hopefully I can locate the issue I need in the meantime (tho I'm not counting on it). Arnold's venture into sweat mags included at least one other title, Courage, which lasted 3 issues. Vintage magazine scanner McCoy has scanned the first issue, and I might as well put it up here (thanks McCoy!) since we are talking about it. 8) I'm not sure if he has any of the other issues, but I hope so. If anybody knows of any other magazines Arnold was putting out at the time, please do let me know...
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get it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mojd4zzdyoi
The 2 Baker splashes from the issue
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Also, another entry for the Spirit project :)
Spirit Section 207 (1944-05-14.Chicago Sun) (Darwin)
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at the ftp or available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3p0a3l2hx56tmu2
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Spirit Section 207 (1944-05-14.Chicago Sun) (Darwin) is now live on the download site!!!
Thank you Darwination!!!! :D
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Darwination, I don't know which to thank you for more, the Spirit Sections or the Baker pulp work. WoWoWow! :o
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Kitty 001 (St. John) (Oct 1948)
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The sole issue of this teen comic. With cover and lead story art and dolls from Lily Renee. Thanks to JVJ for sending out his comics to us scanners and to Twoby for the raws.
At the ftp or available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?f6t1zcccejsl8ly
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Kitty 001 (St. John) (Oct 1948)
This file is now live on the download site.
Thank you! ;D ;D ;D
Postscript....sometimes I can't spell to save my life. ;D ;D ;D
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You DO make my comics look good, Darwination.
WOW!
You're welcome.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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A comic I never heard of or saw before. Not many of those left.
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Postscript....sometimes I can't spell to save my life. ;D ;D ;D
I can spell fairly well but have never learned how to type decently and am an all thumbs sort of typer so I make tons of typos and if I didn't go back carefully over everything I type to make corrections I'm sure my emails, posts etc... would look horrendous.
As it is I sometimes later look at stuff I typed previously, when I was tired, and cringe at how badly worded some things are.
Joe M
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I just turn on auto spell check in Firefox, Jose,
and whenever I misspell a word, it gets underlined in RED and I right click the word and it gives me options on the correct spelling. I HATE misspellings and there is really not much excuse for them except not caring. Which I find hard to understand, especially with the obvious levels of education of most folks here. Laziness in grammar and spelling is one of my pet peeves.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Auto spell only catches some "misspellings". If I'm real tired when I'm typing I can easily screw up words like "they're", "their" and "there" or "do" and "due" or "are" and "our" even though I know perfectly well how to use each one of them.
Auto spell won't catch those sorts of things since they are actually spelled correctly so I always try to go over anything I've typed before posting to catch those sort of boo-boos. Of course if I'm too tired I don't always catch everything every time but I try.
Auto spell does help me spot those 'all thumbs" sorts of mistakes I do so often where I bump the wrong key(s) or where my brain and fingers get out of sync and I invert letters within a word. A wonderful tool.
Best, Joe
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Granted it won't correct your grammar or flag misuses for you, Jose, but it will at least indicate bad spelling. Take what you can get and use it.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
Auto spell only catches some "misspellings". If I'm real tired when I'm typing I can easily screw up words like "they're", "their" and "there" or "do" and "due" or "are" and "our" even though I know perfectly well how to use each one of them.
Auto spell won't catch those sorts of things since they are actually spelled correctly so I always try to go over anything I've typed before posting to catch those sort of boo-boos. Of course if I'm too tired I don't always catch everything every time but I try.
Auto spell does help me spot those 'all thumbs" sorts of mistakes I do so often where I bump the wrong key(s) or where my brain and fingers get out of sync and I invert letters within a word. A wonderful tool.
Best, Joe
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As it is I sometimes later look at stuff I typed previously, when I was tired, and cringe at how badly worded some things are.
Joe M
There is a "modify" button on your posts. If mistakes really bother you when you're reading, you can go in and edit.
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As it is I sometimes later look at stuff I typed previously, when I was tired, and cringe at how badly worded some things are.
Joe M
There is a "modify" button on your posts. If mistakes really bother you when you're reading, you can go in and edit.
Jon,
Thanks for pointing this out to me.
I'm already taking advantage of it.
Best, Joe
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Pictorial Confessions 001 (1949.Canadian Edition)
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The first issue of the St. John romance title scanned from JVJ's collection by Twobyfour with edits from yours truly. A fun romance comic here with much Matt Baker art. The cover reminds me of my grandad's oft-repeated line - "I never laid a hand on the broad".
The comic kicks off with "I Threw Away My Reputation on a Worthless Love" which opens with the scene that inspired the cover (the cover came second right?) in which pops catches his daughter necking with the town scamp. Some of these girls always seem to fall for these bad actors, and this guy is a real jerk. An opportune moment for an art sample:
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Blondie is thick-headed, though, and she takes him back again and again. Will she ever learn?? ::)
Next up is "My Double Life Caught Up with Me" wherein Jane accepts a ride from an older man in the "scandal set" after her bike blows a tire. She takes an interest in this gent who has flunked out of school and returned home to freeload off his parents but quickly notices that her friends from school are castigating her for her involvement with this rich social set. Will the wolf feast upon the lamb? An interesting resolution...
The third story is " I Talked Myself into Love Troubles". The splash:
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The story opens as the protagonist Kathy is ready to get into a catfight over her new beau. She's only known the guy for a couple dates, so what's she's really upset about is the fact that, though she gets a lot of interest, every fella she sees runs off after a few dates. You pick up quick on the reason why as she mistakenly throws herself at the next boy she meets, desperately hoping to snag a man through sex appeal. She considers her reputation not until after he fails to call and worries that his gossipy sister put the word out. Can love find a way?!? I really like this one.
Last up is "Two-Timing Taught Me to Love," another one of these Dana Dutch stories of a girl ready to explore the world of older men and dancing and necking. Not to mention willing to steal such an older man from her little sister. The web of deceit grows wider as the protagonist lies to parents, more men, and her high school boyfriend who she is two and three and four timing. What will happen when the weight of this tangled web comes crashing down? Ah, the drama of young love...
The issue is available at the ftp and here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zk7dcgzllerl12v
Twobyfour has scanned the next two issues, and I will get to the edits as I am able. Again, big thanks to JVJ for giving us access to his comics, as I'm loving working on all of these great St. John titles. :D
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Pictorial Confessions 001 (1949.Canadian Edition)
This is now live on the download site!
Thank you very much sir!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Pictorial Confessions 002 (1949.St. John) (JVJ-2x-Dar)
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Thanks to JVJ for the paper and Twobyfour for the raws.
Available at the ftp or here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ip9z3atpl64d0qg#2
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Pictorial Confessions 002 (1949.St. John) (JVJ-2x-Dar)
::cough:: :o my, she is a beauty...the book is now live on the download site.
Thank you!!! ;D ;D ;D
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The final issue of the series under this title, as it continued the numbering as Pictorial Romances 04 two months laster. Thanks to JVJ for letting us at his collection and to Twobyfour for the raw scans.
Pictorial Confessions 003 (1949.St. John)
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This issue features art from Matt Baker, Joe Kubert, and Jack Sparling.
Available at the FTP or here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bbj5e4bpjq81v47
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Pictorial Confessions 003 (1949.St. John)
Thank you Darwination, Twobyfour & especially JVJ!!!
The file is now live on the download site! ;D ;D ;D
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Cody of the Pony Express 008 (1955-10.Charlton) (GambitNation)
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Thanks to Gambit for the raws!
At the FTP or available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?oa9p1ssfujmnkih
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Looks awesome Darwin! Thanks!!!
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Not my scan, all thanks to Konky for the issue!
Terrors of the Jungle 007 (1953-12.Star) konky
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available at the ftp or here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bdxszm1vl7bp79u
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sweeet find, darwination! Mucho gracias
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Great cover I have not had a chance to look inside. thanks
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Spectacular Features Magazine 012 Iwo Jima (1950-06.Fox) (Darwination)
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I've been reading James Bradley's Flags of Our Fathers (which is an investigation of the famous photo featured on the cover of this issue) and will blog this issue as the last entry in a series of WWII scans over on my blog @ http://darwinscans.blogspot.com/ in a day or few. I thought I'd go ahead and stick the issue up here in the meantime :)
Having trouble getting an FTP connection, so I'll keep trying. In the interim, the scan is available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tpj9e5y3xphp14h
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I've been reading James Bradley's Flags of Our Fathers (which is an investigation of the famous photo featured on the cover of this issue) and will blog this issue as the last entry in a series of WWII scans over on my blog @ http://darwinscans.blogspot.com/ in a day or few.
I read Bradley's book two or three years back. A very good account of the Iwo Jima story. Much better than the Clint Eastwood movie adaptation. Bradley's father, for those who might not be aware, was the late "Doc" Bradley, who was one of the men raising the flag in the famous photograph.
James Bradley has since written a couple of other books about war and the Pacific theatre (Flyboys is one title that comes most readily to mind) that I've been meaning to check out.
Best
Joe
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Spirit Section 095 (1942-03-22.Philadelphia Record)
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Still having trouble uploading to the FTP, but in the meantime you can grab it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0x32602y3y8ftf8
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Spirit Section 095 (1942-03-22.Philadelphia Record)
Still having trouble uploading to the FTP, but in the meantime you can grab it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0x32602y3y8ftf8
Thank you Darwination! That feature is still fubar'd. :-\ Highly annoying.
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Whew, it's been a while :o A Winter flu, X-mas, other projects, yada, yada, but here's a nice one!
Teen-Age Romances 011 (1950-08.St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
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Poor Al has all these Baker beauties catting over him, poor fella ::)
Superbig thanks to JVJ for providing the comic and also to Twobyfour for the raws. It's a Matt Baker-heavy issue with three comics from him as well as the illustrations for a text story.
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j5y83tt4mcharju
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Wow! That's a beauty, D! Well worth the wait. Thanks to the contributions of all involved. Love that Baker titillation stuff!
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Teen-Age Romances 011 (1950-08.St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
Thanks Darwination! This one is now live on the download site. ;D
B.
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Teen-Age Romances 012 (1950-10.St. John) (JVJ-2x4-Dar)
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Thanks as ever to JVJ for letting us golden age scanners at his great collection and to Twobyfour for the raws! It's great fun to work with these fine St. John romances, and restoring each Baker cover is a real treat. Featuring interior art from Matt Baker and Ruth Atkinson (and perhaps another artist).
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j2y9cj9de97edbi
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You guys are on a hot streak! Incredible work...Bravo!
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"Teen-Age Romances #12, October 1950, c2c by St. John Publishing Co. A JVJ book with scans by Darwination and the edits done by Twobyfour."
Thanks guys!!! ;D ;D ;D
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More St. John romance from the JVJ collection, woohoo! Thanks to Twoby for the raws. The copy was a pretty wavy, but I did what I could with it. The cover ended up being a hybrid of Jim's cover (which was pretty rough) and a Heritage cover.
Teen-Age Romances 010 (1950-06.St.John) (JVJ-2x4-Dar)
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available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?c6g90cjx2xac3jf
Artists in the index for this issue include Matt Baker, Hy Rosen, Chuck Miller, and possibly others. Some splashes:
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On the St. John checklist, this one's credited to Chuck Miller Hy Rosen, but I think I see some Kubert in there as well?...
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Again, huge thanks to Jim for letting us at his comics. More to come...
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Teen-Age Romances 010 (1950-06.St.John) (JVJ-2x4-Dar)
Thanks much Darwin!!! The file is now live on the download area.
B. ;D ;D ;D
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Something wrong with that Miller attribution, guys,
"Invitation to a Broken Heart" is Hy Rosen (and that Kubert feel is very evident in many Rosen strips).
You're welcome.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Yep, you're right, Jim. Your index does list that one as Rosen.
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Teen-Age Romances 014 (1951-02.St. John) (JVJ-2x4-Dar).cbr
(http://i52.tinypic.com/6p21l4.jpg)
Another excellent St. John romance from the JVJ collection! Thanks go to Twobyfour for the raws. Featuring cover and 3 stories from from Matt Baker, as well as a story from Carmine Infantino and TAL.
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?c7rtzjy0yn15g4h
A sample slash from a cute and well-handled story, I'm guessing you can figure out the topic just from the splash, heh heh.
(http://i56.tinypic.com/imo3sw.jpg)
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Teen-Age Romances 014 (1951-02.St. John) (JVJ-2x4-Dar) is now live on the download site.
Thank you Darwination! JVJ! 2x4! Much appreciated! ;D ;D ;D
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Teen-Age Romances 016 (1951-06.St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2v9vz8i.jpg)
Another fine romance for y'all today from the JVJ collection! An all-Baker issue. Whew, Archer St. John sure kept him busy. Per usual, a titillating cover, people are starting to talk! As with many of the Baker covers, Baker tends to use some a small collection of distinct character types. There's the judgmental bystander, short-haired and leaning back with hands in pockets, washing her hands of the situation paired with the surly and controlling brother, grabby and mean and on the verge of violence. Then there's our heroine, the beautiful blonde, torn but following her heart, come what may with arm around the bad boy, not smug in facial expression as you might expect, although his body language certainly shows a laid-back arrogance you wouldn't really expect in this confrontation. A fully-set scene for certain placing the voyeuristic reader in the position where she (or he :)) might condemn the wayward lass as well as sympathize.
Within, there's the inside covers' story with a Baker spot illustration, "How I Found Romance," which seems to offer some strange advice on how to find romance.
(http://i51.tinypic.com/14sgzya.jpg)
The comic leads with "I Was Scarred by Love!" regarding Karen whose boyfriend goes into the military with promises to be true but never returns a single letter. Soured completely by men, the heroine coldly turns down all offers for dates from the boys. Her officer father suggests she get her mind off it by volunteering at the V.A. hospital helping injured boys back from Korea, and Karen reluctantly agrees. Dutifully going about her work and spurning all advances from patients, Karen nonetheless begins to think about Ray, and her dad even gives her the green light:
(http://i55.tinypic.com/2mhzsav.jpg)
Can a girl scarred by love ever move on?! Next up is "I Was a Cheat." Watch out for this cutie, she looks like trouble!
(http://i55.tinypic.com/33uct5g.jpg)
Baker gets to put his sense for glamor on display as this little secretary tires of her boyfriend and hits the town with the upper-crust. Will she ever come to her senses?! Then there's "What is Love?" in which Emily and Bob, longtime sweethearts, decide whether it's time to tell the world that they are in love. But Emily has her doubts, and she shares few interests with Bob. They seems to work it all out in very thoughtful manner...Next is "I Tried to Buy Love -- With Kisses" which begins when Muriel slaps Barbara down at a party for moving too fast with her little brother and turns out to be a thoughtful discussion on the role of necking in a healthy relationship. Barb's parents are surprisingly open-minded on the subject, geez. Last up is "Forbidden Fruit," the tastiest kind, I hear, a story of April's attraction to bad seed Ronnie, a man her older brother has forbidden her to see. Her brother brings his friend Larry home for the weekend hoping to spark a romance, but April has a plan to use the situation to her advantage:
(http://i52.tinypic.com/qxt3rt.jpg)
Will the devious April get her comeuppance? Or will some poor sap forgive all her transgressions? Hmm...
A fun issue, thanks as always to Jim for letting us scan his collection (and to all the donators that help shuttle the comics about) and to Twobyfour for providing the raw scans.
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?x6ff2ofayop0h2v
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Looking good as always guys, thanks.
Geo
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A new Fawcett scan from Senor Pyramid for your enjoyment
Comic Comics #06 (September 1946) [Pyramid].cbz
(http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/48/cc6f.png)
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?xmjausbgdvgbfep
Thanks, Pyramid!
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Diary Secrets 010 (1952-02.St. John) (JVJ-2x-Dar)
(http://i55.tinypic.com/2r3k121.jpg)
With continued thanks to JVJ for letting us scanners at his collection and to Twobyfour for the raws. Featuring a cover and a story from Matt Baker as well as art from Ruth Atkinson and Lily Renee.
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?44qpc1iawis95i5
sample splash:
(http://i54.tinypic.com/1fz42o.jpg)
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Diary Secrets 011 (1952-04.St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i54.tinypic.com/282nnh2.jpg)
Well it's been a while since my last entry for the JVJ project, but here 'tis. Thanks as always to JVJ for letting us golden age scanners scan from his marvelous collection and to Twobyfour for the scanwork. Featuring all Baker art according to the St. John index and a story entitled "I Was Afraid to Fall in Love" in which a Bettie Page-looking lass is spanked and left to drown on the road to love, sheesh.
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hsasmrj6wazpwj5
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Gangsters and Gun Molls 02 (1951-12.Avon) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i56.tinypic.com/aaul2t.jpg)
Thanks to Twobyfour for the raws and to JVJ for allowing the golden age scanners at his collection and for the indexing work. A fun Avon crime comic featuring a fantastic frontispiece by Raymond Kinstler as well as art from Sid Check, Goldfarb & Baer, Moe Marcus and Jack Kamen.
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8bi1cvdgv5on677
A page from the Kamen story:
(http://i56.tinypic.com/f1ccp1.jpg)
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Teen-Age Romances 018 (1951-10.St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2qa8y9k.jpg)
Catty girls always resent another chic having fun...Thanks to JVJ for the paper and Twobyfour for the raws. An all-Baker issue!
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?pm3uipoi2ulxq24
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Gangsters and Gun Molls 04 (1952-06.Realistic) (JVJ-2byNation)
(http://i54.tinypic.com/ibhwtt.jpg)
The final issue of the Avon crime title featuring a very nice cover from Syd Shores. A continued thanks to JVJ for letting us scan his comics and for his index work and to Twobyfour for providing the raw scans.
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?c918o0859qhpi7l
Jim's index:
(http://i54.tinypic.com/24kwjuh.jpg)
Samples. Frontispiece for Raymond Kinstler, I love these:
(http://i51.tinypic.com/s18fuw.jpg)
The cover follows a panel from the first story within, a bad girl tale from Syd Shores:
(http://i54.tinypic.com/2s9u2bt.jpg)
Hooliganism runs in the bloodline! Those Elkins boys learn the hard way - Crime does not pay, it slays! ;D
(http://i55.tinypic.com/10fdsud.jpg)
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Cowpuncher Comics 002 (1947-09.Avon) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i52.tinypic.com/2vmd2js.jpg)
Hey there cowpokes, an early Avon western for your enjoyment today from the JVJ project. Thanks to Jim for letting us scan his comics and for the index work and to Twobyfour for the raws. Featuring work from a young Joe Kubert, Bob Fujitani, and others.
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?35t9incnmo6yqs9
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Thank you sir!
That "headlight: cover looks more something I'd expect to see from Fox!
Best
Joe
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Lol, yeah, that's a classy cover alright, Joe. I think this one might get the GGA denomination, too, tho it's a bit more subtle
Cow Puncher Comics 003 (1947.Avon) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i53.tinypic.com/28jzds3.jpg)
A fresh scan from the JVJ project. Thanks to JVJ yet again for letting us at his comics and for his indexes and to Twoby for the raws. This Avon Western features Allen Ulmer on "The Legend of the Fiery Riders" in which a Texas Ranger encounters ghostly bandits that are terrorizing the surrounding ranches, Jack Warren's strip-like "Wild West Ro-di-dos" has Sheriff Hicup pounding the owl-hoot trail to avenge a deputy who died with his boots on, Henry Kiefer drawing "Tales of the Silent Spaces" in which the sons of Senora Sally are called back to her ranch and must promise their mother to handle the gang that has terrorized her ranch without resorting to gun play, the text piece "Fifty to One" in which a marriage proposal is interrupted by Sitting Bull and his horse thieves, "Trail Tales" on the origin of chaps, and lastly Jill Elgin's always fun Kit West in "Prisoners" in which Kit is accused of being an injun lover and recounts her childhood captivity to demonstrate that all Indians aren't bad, though you wouldn't know it from this page:
(http://i55.tinypic.com/vx1343.jpg)
There's an odd ending to this one. It's certainly a strange story with mixed messages sure to set your PC bells a ringin'.
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?021b204qpxxj3hc
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Most grateful for this gem! ;D ;D ;D
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Very nice scans, I like the summaries as well. what is a gun moll?
Janus
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A gun moll is basically a gangster's girlfriend. A common enough term back in the 1930s and 40s- I've seen it in numerous pulps and movies from the period- but archaic to 21st century readers and movie goers.
Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie and Clyde fame) who was Clyde Barrow's girlfriend is probably the most famous historical example of a gun moll.
Best
Joe
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Teen-Age Romances 013 (1950-12.St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/H71kP.jpg)
Matt Baker comics wooo. Continued thanks to JVJ for letting us scan his collection and to Twobyfour for the raws.
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ul2mgk32k2ubgl0
Samples.
(http://i.imgur.com/rKCkM.jpg)
Don't treat your St. John comics like that, woman!!
(http://i.imgur.com/BGG0w.jpg)
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Cool!
More Matt Baker awesomeness!!
Thanks
Joe
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Apparently, I get the urge to scan Spirit Sections at Xmas time.
Spirit Section 188 (1944-01-02.Chicago Sun) (Darwination)
(http://i.imgur.com/DbDrA.jpg)
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?h0mqujbdnv0xmmo
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Thank you sir for "The Spirit" of Christmas!
Best
Joe
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Thanks for all Darwin. Syd Shores in underappreciated based on the scans you sent
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You're very welcome, guys.
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New Romances 008 (1951.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/boTkT.jpg)
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?sklaosxbvlyh4wn
A fresh one for the JVJ project, thanks to Twobyfour for the raws and to Jim for lending us his collection. Featuring art from Mike Sekowsky, Art Saaf, Valerie Barclay, Alice Kirkpatrick, and others. Twoby sent me a disk with 13 more sets of raws in a run of this comic, so there will be more coming.
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Cool!
Looking forward to checking this one out.
I did not know that Barclay did any work for Standard. I thought she was pretty much a Timely/Atlas fixture.
Thanks mucho
Joe
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New Romances 009 (1952.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/FzOIh.jpg)
Continuing the run of New Romances. Big thanks to JVJ for lending us golden age scanners his comics and to Twobyfour for the raws!
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cn2s75seitvsfv3
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Thank you sir. I see were filling in a few more gaps in those Standard Romance titles with your diligent efforts (and JVJ's generosity).
Best
Joe
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New Romances 010 (1952-03.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/WE6NS.jpg)
More from the JVJ collection, thanks to Twoby for the raws. Featuring art from Artie Saaf, Alex Toth, and others.
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bz0irak8mh0oui8
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Thank you sir.
Always good to see any comic with art by Alex Toth in it!
I also like that first story by Art Saaf- lots of nice characterization in his characters' faces and figures.
Best
Joe
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Yeah, I was thinking exactly the same thing about the Saaf story. The faces are so expressive, a great quality in the romance genre.
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New Romances 011 (1952-05.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/eLwaH.jpg)
Jim's index lists the artists as Alex Toth, John Celardo, Paul Robinson, Nina Albright, and Vernon Greene.
The scan is available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cm2pill6ecrq2r3
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Thanks again to you and JVJ for another nice romance comic.
Always love to see more Toth and am glad to have the art IDs to help sharpen my art spotting skills.
I might point out that whoever applied color to the B/W photo used on the cover obviously didn't know that Liz Taylor had "violet eyes to die for."
Best
Joe
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New Romances 012 (1952-07.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/0CVTB.jpg)
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?i10cs2d2g3tq4w1
From the JVJ collection, thanks to Twobyfour for the raws. Featuring "I Need Your Love" in which a proud tomboy can't find a date for the senior prom, wants to be kissed for the first time, and must outmaneuver her sister for the neighbor boy's affections. Also, "Wrong Kind of Man" wherein a pair of fiancees face divergent career paths, she gets a promotion and he gets fired in a tough economy. He can't find a job and postpones their marriage, unwilling to live on her capable salary. He finds a job in AR and expects her to leave her career behind? Can career and love co-exist?! There's "My Silent Heart" in which a young swimmer gets clubbed over the head by a clumsy oarsman. Twice. It must be love. Lastly, "My Guilty Heart". Maybe they could have changed the title a little more from the earlier story, hmm. A whirlwind romance is too good to be true, as Jennifer can't stand living with her man's brain-damaged little brother that he looks after. She demands the brother be sent to an institution, whoa. Enter God's Wrath in the form of a tornado, can love find a way?? More stories of 50s anguishing romance within...
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I looked the book over and was only able to ID one of the artists (The second Celardo piece) before getting to JVJ's art ID card. I even missed the Sekowsky one pager and I almost always spot him. I guess I'm just not feelin' my Wheaties today. Sigh.
Anyway thanks to all concerned for another piece of romance. :)
Best
Joe
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New Romances 013 (1952-09.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/CI3Rx.jpg)
with thanks to JVJ for letting us scan his comics and to Twoby for the raws!
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j1q2efzo0nq8r85
Index:
(http://i.imgur.com/pksKN.jpg)
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Another interesting issue.
I found Cardy's story a bit too reliant on talking heads (maybe he felt stifled by a pretty text-heavy script).
I liked Peppe's inks on Sekowsky. Hope to see more of this team.
Those Paul Robinson (not an artist I am familiar with) one-pagers have a nice light touch to them. I can picture him doing a good job with teen-humor books.
I have a hard time identifying Sid Greene's work from this period with his sixties art which I am more familiar with. Maybe it's because someone else is inking his work here that its throwing me.
Anyway thanks to all concerned for this latest goodie!
Best
Joe
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New Romances 014 (1952-12.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/OdSmJ.jpg)
A nice issue! Thanks to JVJ for the comic and to Twoby for the raws.
Jim's Index
(http://i.imgur.com/i3QcP.jpg)
Sample. It looks like the opening to a horror movie but belongs to that most common formula from the love pulps and romance comics wherein a girl meets a dashing new suitor and must choose between an exciting new man and her humdrum steady. Of course, the new guy usually turns out to be a real jerk...
(http://i.imgur.com/DP4tT.jpg)
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?t540h1g4db8lkud
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Another nice lineup of artists. It's been interesting seeing Violet (Valerie) Barclay's work for Standard. For so long I had her so aligned with Marvel/Timely in my mind that I never really thought about her working elsewhere.
Thanks to all concerned for this
Joe
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New Romances 015 (1953-03.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/M7SG7.jpg)
Thanks to JVJ for the comic and Twobyfour for the raws.
Jim's index:
(http://i.imgur.com/vOXHp.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/EKq7w.jpg)
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xt13t8ztx1dn9uo
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Ah I see we have an inker on Sekowsky's pencils noted here. I assume that it's Gene Fawcette that JVJ has noted since he was popping up in a number of Standard titles in the 1950s.
Vince Colletta- this one-pager is fairly early work for him in comics. Vinnie's gotta be just about the most prolific artist in the romance genre too with work appearing in one romance title or another consistently from 1952-1974 for a variety of publishers including Marvel, Charlton, DC, Harvey, Youthful and Standard.
Thanks to all for this 'un
Joe
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Vinnie's one of the more often vilified artists in comics (by Kirby fans), but I really like some of his romance work. I'm not too familiar with the silver age romances, but I've seen some great stories from him in the Atlas love books. I didn't realize that he got his start with Standard (I never know what to call this company).
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Hy Eisman was one of my teachers when I attended the Kubert School and he worked with Vinnie producing the art for these romance stories a bit later (c. late 50s into the 60s) primarily for Charlton and Atlas/Marvel. He had various funny stories of how they took shortcuts in churning out the stuff for low paying Charlton and always vigorously defended Vinnie when any of the students got too carried away in "criticizing" Vinnie (which did at times get a bit too personal).
Between Hy's defenses and Vinnie helping out Tex Blaisdell (one of the more popular teachers at the school) in getting some work students shifted their Colletta criticisms to carefully worded commentary on specific works of his and dropped all personal attacks.
Best
Joe
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New Romances 016 (1953-06.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/PAc49.jpg)
Continuing with New Romances, thanks to Jim for letting us scan his books and to Twoby for the raws :)
(http://i.imgur.com/MJMcQ.jpg)
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?06f56i9n5588ilb
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New Romances 017 (1953-08.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/brMiY.jpg)
Love marches on! Four more issues to a complete series. Thanks to JVJ and Twoby for the comic and raws.
Index:
(http://i.imgur.com/BfZfK.jpg)
Sample, a nice splash page from Alex Toth:
(http://i.imgur.com/3VJ5t.jpg)
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qyw3rrr8u60zjhn
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A couple of very nice issues these two. Lots of great Toth art and some nice stories by Sekowsky, Saaf and Cardy too. Plus art appearances by a couple of the ladies of the GA- Ann Brewster and Violet Barclay (I particularity liked her inks on the Sekowsky one-pager).
Thanks again to one and all for making these available.
Joe
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A hearty thank you from me also. I know so little about romance comics and these are real eye openers. I'm beginning to see the light. Lovely stuff.
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Paw,
I gotta admit as a kid I wouldn't have touched a romance comic to read unless I had absolutely exhausted every other possibility but as years went by and I got older I started appreciating artists and began occasionally looking through some and found that a number of them contained some really fine art.
Seems that there are so many JVJ romance comics getting scanned lately that I can't keep up with 'em all.
These titles from Standard are especially interesting because it was at Standard that ALex Toth finally got a chance to let loose and mature as an artist after years of being stifled by editors like Julius Schwartz at DC. Standard's art director, Mike Peppe, seems to have been particularly enamored with what Toth was doing then and inked a number of Alex's stories himself.
Other artists working for Standard at that time, such as Mike Sekowsky and Ross Andru for example, seem to have picked up on what Toth was doing and started incorporating his approach into their own work at this time too, which, IMHO, improved their work from that period onward.
Best
Joe
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Romance comics are where all the drawings of girls are. ;)
I'd hoped to finish out New Romances this weekend, but, alas, it didn't happen. Ah well, here's to lazy weekends. Thanks to JVJ for his books and Twoby for the raws. Sadly, we managed to let the back cover on 18 get away without a scan, so if anybody has the issue handy please do feel free to add it.
New Romances 018 (1953-10.Standard) (no bc) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/fI4BL.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/WWpTU.jpg)
New Romances 019 (1953-12.Standard) (JVJ-2x-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/uHKKN.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/ykwbd.jpg)
They're in here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2touqet2t35v9
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Thank you all for another couple nice doses of romance!
Issue #18 has a particularly nice nice Toth story. The Colletta 7-pager in the same issue is also interesting as we see him using some Toth-isms in his art.
Best
Joe
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New Romances 020 (1954-03.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/irbwA.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/isP17.jpg)
Thanks to JVJ for the comic and Twoby for the raws, one more to go!
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bvzzc5t6d8pxnz9
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Another nice issue. Thanks to all for getting it scanned and available for our enjoyment.
Btw, can anyone tell me what the asterisk after the names of certain artists means on Jim's card?
Curious
Joe
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Here you go Joe
http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1029.0.html
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Thanks Narf.
Joe
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New Romances 021 (1954-05.Standard) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/DJolB.jpg)
Big thanks to JVJ for letting us scanners at his great collection and to Twoby for the raws. Series complete!
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tcej9k2qawsfw9p
(http://i.imgur.com/1qUYW.jpg)
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Thanks for another nice bit of romance there Dar.
These Standard books sure had some pretty consistently good art in them during this period.
Best
Joe
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Heh heh, oh my, I got the "Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 60 days" alert posting in my own thread, it has been a while. ::)
jungle comics and a slave girl story from Avon featuring a Kinstler cover with a monocled villain riding an elephant and firing a machine gun, watch out white princess!
White Princess of the Jungle 02 (1951-10.Avon) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
(http://i.imgur.com/3BDjJ.jpg)
Thanks to JVJ for letting us scan his collection and to Twobyfour for the raws.
Index:
(http://i.imgur.com/VeJG0.jpg)
available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cxqv07nttrobpea
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Nice! Kinstler cover, ifc, and lead story. Looking forward to seeing that.
Also see that Tex Blaisdell worked on one of the stories herein. Tex was one of my regular teachers at the Kubert School and a prince of a guy! Always curious to see some of his vintage work.
Thanks to all concerned for this one.
Joe
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Judge v092 n2365 (1927-02-26.Leslie-Judge) (Darwination).cbr
A fresh one:
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/7i93o38ycn8xdr4/Judge_v092_n2365_%25281927-02-26.Leslie-Judge%2529_%2528Darwination%2529.cbr/file
(https://i.imgur.com/tcrVcvA.jpg)
Dealton Valentine cover, a closer look here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/197841258@N07/52857490906/in/dateposted-public/
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I saw a recent College Humor scan go up (appreciated! I have totally lost my bearings on how stuff gets up to the GA sites after so long absent, Yoc is grabbing the GA stuff for me at DCM) and want to add some more available scans, not sure if it's enough yet to get it's own title header or not. I plan on a blog post later today or this week on the mag but here's some available scans for the site. Phil SP's index is here which may help sort out some of the funky indicia and numbering stuff at play in these filenames:
http://www.philsp.com/mags/college_humor.html
A couple of early issues from Bruce Long at Taylorology who scans some super scarce pubs from the 20s.
The Collegiate World v04 n04&05 (1922-01&02.Collegiate World) (Taylorology).cbr
(https://i.imgur.com/F1dJZAr.jpg)
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/6u0cy0e8spu757x/The_Collegiate_World_v04_n04%252605_%25281922-01%252602.Collegiate_World%2529_%2528Taylorology%2529.cbr/file
or at the IA: https://archive.org/details/collegiate-world-jf-1922
College Humor v01 n03 (1922-09.Collegiate World) (Taylorology).cbr
(https://i.imgur.com/Ffq6z8I.jpg)
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/o6r1ei97c3y0bqd/College_Humor_v01_n03_%25281922-09.Collegiate_World%2529_%2528Taylorology%2529.cbr/file
https://archive.org/details/college-humor-sept-1922
This one's my scan, McCoy's edit
College Humor and Sense 119 (1933-12.Collegiate Reporter)(Darwination-McCoy).cbr
(https://i.imgur.com/3mLwwts.jpg)
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/se80wik5bnnzai6/College_Humor_and_Sense_119_%25281933-12%2529%2528Darwination-McCoy%2529.cbr/file
(no IA page yet but plan on it. I cut joins in scans I tag IA so that their reader works properly, I would imagine we have similar concerns in our reader, too?)
Lastly, a later issue from Saskia, a couple of years before the covers switch to a pin-up photo sort of format
College Humor v09 n03 [1939-03.Collegian Press] (sas).cbr
(https://i.imgur.com/yW9aHhG.jpg)
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/f51rycrm7f9dbr6/College_Humor_v09_n03_%25281939-03.Collegian_Reporter%2529_%2528sas%2529.cbr/file
https://archive.org/details/CollegeHumorV39N03193903
I have one more issue in my boxes to scan with the Fitzgeralds, Groucho Marx and other stuffs. There was a period where this mag was really something else -
EDIT: oops, the image host I used didn't quite shrink the covers down enough for forum viewing, will cut em to 600 or whatever in photoshop next time...
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Info on periodicals
Pre-1923 are all Public Domain and here is a great list of first renewals etc. Quick and dirty is just to upload issues before the first renewal of any content in the series and leave it at that
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html (https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html)