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About The Comic Books We Have => Comics Uploaded => Topic started by: paw broon on May 14, 2012, 08:21:13 PM
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The first entries in the Non-English language section are 11 of the 13 issues from the Spanish 1940 series of winged heroes and villains. Plus, Grey Domino #7 from Australia in the British and Australian section.
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A couple of teensy problems.
1) You have uploaded zip files but in that is just a .cbr and in that are the comic book pages.
You just need to upload .cbr or .cbz .....
A cbz is just a renamed zip file and .cbr is just a renamed .rar file. So sometimes you will see .zip and they are ok because inside are just the comicbook pages. So what you have done is add another layer around so in real terms you have
one file .zip - > one file .cbr (really a rar) -> the pages
we need
one file (take your pick of .zip/.rar/.cbr/.cbz) -> the pages
Think of like a Russian Doll and you have put on another outer case. And I think you may have uploaded a couple recently like that as I have fixed a handful.
Second "problem" is that the .cbr (inside the zip) has foreign characters (accents etc) along with spaces. I think this is the way that you got it? The .zip is nicely named using a-z. I think that the chances are they will not cause any problems but if I was making a mission critical system then I certainly would just stick to standard characters and ideally use '-' or '_' instead of spaces.
So leave it with me I'l sort them out now .... so they'll end up being the inner .cbr file but I'll use the .zip name (but keep the .cbr extension.
In other words just to be safe could we have the foreign language uploads using a-z 0-9 and also not put them in an additional outer zip?
BTW the description, title and everything else you put on the page use the proper non-english characters. I have coded to allow for them and if they cause me a problem then I'll just have to jolly well sort it out!
I think the non-English section has really big potential. So keep them coming!
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First of all, apologies. Second, the curse of ignorance strikes again. Third, what does all that mean? I have no idea how to create a cbz or cbr file, or how to change the extension name. Sorry to cause further confusion but wouldn't a foreign language comic have foreign characters? I'm probably not understanding all this but don't waste time on me, I'll look for tutorials online. What I do understand is not to put them in another zip file, Needless to say, I didn't know they were already in a zip file. Apart from that, I'm happy. Now, are you sure I should keep going just in case I foul up again before I get this stuff right?
I'm reading it all over again. And again.
I should add that, some of the stuff I have stockpiled consist of series of jpegs? so I have to figure out how to collect them in correct fashion.
Love how you call them, "teensy problems".
I'll get there.
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Paw ... I am talking just about the file names. Not the images in them, or the descriptions you put up.
Am I sure you should keep uploading??? Well .. let me think about it Spanish Vampire comics ... that are proving really popular? I think they are really cool and so do lot of other people! A GREAT addition to the site. So yes ... keep them coming and I'll sort out any problems.
Right so the jpegs ... you put them in a zip! And then you have created a .cbz. Simples! Just make sure that the file names are alphabetic so they appear in order.
Paw, you are still #1 on my list for Technical Director .. and I am 100% sure you'll get there
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O.K. Let's see what further chaos I can cause. A coupe of hours getting my head round some complicated French grammar this morning and now I have to re-read the computer tutorials I found online. Spanish vampires, eh? Going down well? Great. Just to finally prove how tasteless I can be, I have many Mexican superhero wrestler comics and some photonovels. A tad too far? Actually, I have to check dates and indicia before I do any more with them.
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Fingers crossed for the dates! They sound perfect!
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Just an update on my education. Having followed to the letter the instructions on how to create a cbz file, I get as far as clicking ok on 7zip and get the warning that access is denied. Instructions on another tutorial were for clicks on buttons I don't have. Nothing I do allows me to rename as cbz. This is not making sense, so I'm completely stuck. To add to the problem, my old printer/scanner just doesn't work with this new machine. It's so old that the Epson site doesn't recognise the model. More expense.
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Hi Paw,
If you can make a ZIP file you are likely fine for uploading.
If you are using a PC, right click on the ZIP file and choose 'rename' and change the ".zip" to ".cbz"
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Thanks for the help. I'm doing something wrong 'cos 7Zip doesn't give me that option. I think.
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Paw Your sufferings have been everyone else's gain.
I had a thought when I was doing the washing up (my life is not all rock and roll). 5 minutes work and 2 lines of code and now ... drum roll
CB+ now only delivers .cbz or .cbr. If the file is uploaded as a .rar .... then when it is downloaded it comes as a .cbr .... if a file is uploaded as a .zip it is downloaded as a .cbz.
In other words you do not need to rename .rar or .zip (for this site anyway) and also it means that it will stop the confusion when people download a .zip or a .rar.
So THANKS Paw!
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Well that should make things easier.
Thanks Mark
Joe
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Your work makes everyone else's life easier
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It was 5 minutes if that, but Paw takes the credit! I wouldn't really have thought about it until I felt his pain.
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See what washing the dishes will do for you, apart from wash day hands. A couple of hours in the garden restored my equilibrium. Thanks all.
Rock'n'roll. I was on a train from Dumfries to Glasgow 40 odd years ago to see The Stones at Greens and Keith and Charlie walked past my seat. Yes, in those days they travelled by train. I was too flabbergasted to say anything and too well on to get up and find where the rest of them were. Concert was exceptional. Groundhogs supported and they were the loudest band I've heard and there's only 3 of them. Cherry Red - look it up, load it down, turn it up and jump about.
Back to comics.
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Santo. El enmascarado de Plata #1. A photonovel. If this is not acceptable please let me know and I'll take it off. It is good fun though.
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I have yet to get into the garden ... every time I go to do it the weather gets bad and when it is good I am deep in summat here. I have I think 60+ chillies to plant out
I guess you must have seen Alex Harvey? I am really not into music nowadays, but I loved his stuff. I never saw him but his Deliah must rank as one of the all time great covers. In my book the greatest was Roy Orbison and that coming from an ex-punk (well ex semi-punk).
But WOW!!! That is great even though I don't understand a word of it. Keep them coming and we'll somehow check that they are long term OK. Personally, I really can't see that they will cause a problem and are a really fun addition to the site.
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Santo. El enmascarado de Plata #1. A photonovel. If this is not acceptable please let me know and I'll take it off. It is good fun though.
Boy did I get a kick out of this one Paw. I have several of the Santo movies on DVD but have never seen one of these photo-novels.
Very cool!
Thanks
Joe
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Glad you enjoyed it. I think I've found the issue with Santo using the jet pack. Wonderfully awful.
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That was way cool Paw
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Flying Santo now up. Just trying to arrange another rocket story. These photo novels were quite the thing in Central America and Italy. One of the legendary super-criminals was Killing (Kilink) and his stories were in photo format. He also had a number of dead cheesy films, all made in Turkey. The all time best (imo) super criminal is Kriminal. The guy with the skeleton costume, long running series and 2 films to his name. Kriminal was in comics, many of which were by Magnus.
Schoolgirl now up as well. I couldn't organise a boys storypaper in time, so you'll have to make do with Miss Redfern, Bessie Bunter and Co. for the time being while I try to convert pdf's to jpegs.
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what was the origon of the Crimson Comet
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C.C. was an original Aus. hero, created by John Dixon. Here's a link to the Lambiek page. Tim Valor is a nice looking comic but C.C. is a genuine superhero. You'll see the illo. of Captain Strato, well I've never even seen a copy of that title and it intrigues me.
http://lambiek.net/artists/d/dixon_john.htm
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Flying Santo now up. Just trying to arrange another rocket story. These photo novels were quite the thing in Central America and Italy.
I first remember seeing Mexican photo novels when I was a kid. Having a large Hispanic population here in Arizona they would work their way up here from neighboring Mexico for that community. I never saw any with Santo though. Almost all I ran across were of the soap opera or romance variety which I had little interest in as a kid.
Best
Joe
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I was in L.A 2 years running, quite a few years ago now and found street stalls selling Sensacional de Luchas and Tinieblas comics. Bought lots. There were also Guerreros del Asphalt? and a martial arts comic and seedy romance titles. All were pocket sized but no Santo or Blue Demon. Or Fantomas, for that matter.
An experience, catching the bus from Universal City to downtown. A completely different world. Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, London, Cologne - edgy in places but easy. L.A.? weird, strange and exotic.
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Issue #1 of El Guerrero del Antifaz is now available. I love this series.
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Slick Fun Album is now up. (Well, as soon as Mark sorts out my mistakes). Please have a look at what some British annuals were like back then. Swan's stuff was a bit different and is nowadays very obscure. Apart from humour strips, they also featured detective, s.f., adventure and costumed hero strips.
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Absolutely a pile of The Champion story paper, now that Mark has them separated out form the original upload - ta muchly, featuring breathtaking tales of Colwyn Dane, Detctive; Rockfist Rogan and more.
A couple of issues of The Thriller, weekly "pulp but in tabloid format and with excellent, moody, threat laden illos. Still a couple more to sort out. 5 Romance Series prose pocket size from 1945/6.
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My pleasure, just a few rough edges for me to smooth on them, but Paw just keep them coming!
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I hope this next lot will be ok. 5 Spanish romance titles; a small pile of Rayo Kit - a landscape Spanish western series; an odd American piccolino that I've never before come across and some other lilliputs.
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thanks again paw
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Narf, Paw is really giving you a run for the money in bringing those obscure titles to the site!
Keep 'em coming, guys.
Best
Joe
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Is that a challenge?
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Not being very competitive, I worry about challenges. It's just that I'm incredibly curious about all the comics that lie behind the known stuff such as Spidey. Batman et. al. and love turning up those wee gems and the other dross. But if I find them online, it means that someone else also knows about them, is prepared to share and so we all keep it going and available.
It's like mining or drilling for oil, except our gold isn't black, it's 4 coloured (or b&w in my case)
I was at a comic mart in Glasgow today. Good fun - coffee was drunk, rolls were eaten and comics were bought. Lots of good patter and I turned up, amongst other stuff, a copy of Adventure (the British one) with part of an illustrated serial of The Outlaw, a masked man story. All in all a good day.
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OK, I own up, I got that last entry wrong and said Adventure when I should have said Hotspur.
Today, when I should have been packing my case, I uploaded AKA#10 to fanzines. Bill Hamilton had knocked his pan out after yesterday's mart when he rushed home to dig the mag. out. Then scanned it and e-mailed it to me. After all his hard work, I felt I should upload it ASAP.
An Alan Davis back cover, letters from weel kent faces, interesting articles make it a good read. But then, I'm biased as I wrote some of it.
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These great fanzines are one of the things that makes CB+ so much a plus
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Thanks very much Paw!
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15 issues of Aventuras del FBI. Published in Spain by Editorial Rollan, Madrid. Very tasty they are too.
Also a couple more issues of AKA.
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Tit-Bits SF comics #1 - a rarity indeed. Features art by Ron Turner - great spaceships and James Holdaway.
And Super Detective Library - Invaders from Space. Art by a guy I'm always going on about, Bill Lacey.
So good to be able to share these here.
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The name alone has increase it over the usual downloads
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Some really lovely art in those, Paw.
Thanks
Joe
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I slowed down to a crawl on uploads because I got stuck with some conversions from pdf to jpeg and couldn't get the conversion to complete. Had to give up on the those ones for a while till I figure it out.
I'll get there.
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Today, some issues of Cliper whch features the masked Mexican hero, El Coyote (not to be confused with the Italian Il Coyote) also in one of the issues, an El Encapuchado 4 pager and a Radar strip. Plus some issues of a Spanish lilliput, El Gavilan, another masked western hero.
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Since so much of the American odd stuff has already been here, I love this other stuff and you have become my favorite uploader Paw
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El Coyote - is fantastic. The draftsmanship and brush work are vigorous and exquisite. What fun stuff to discover. I am gonna have to buck up on my Spanish again.
Thanks Paw.
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Oh no, you may discover some underwater cover comics that you never knew of. You may end up driving yourself crazy trying to find originals :o
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A couple of days ago, a selection of a Chilean anthology comic, El Peneca with a mix of prose, articles and text strips, some of which are nicely illustrated. Tonight, a selection of Cuatro Capitanes and Piluchi which are Spanish landscape titles. Still having some trouble with converting pdf's - it's just such slow going. Found a lovely selection of Nelson Lee Libraries from W.W.1. Need time but don't have it. Great fun.
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Man I can't keep up with ya paw
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2 Sexton Blake issues from the pocket library series and if anyone fancies seeing Blake on film, try this :-
http://archive.org/details/Sexton_Blake_and_Hooded_Terror_1938
Schoolgirls' Own #66 from 1925 and Collins boys annual from mid '50's.
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A couple of days ago, umpteen issues of a terrific Spanish title, Platillos Volantes (Flying Saucers) and part of a western series, Mendoza Colt. Today, at long last, a Spanish superhero title I've been looking for for years, Aguilla Negra - issue #1 plus a collection of his stories with covers on the last page. Also, Aladino from Santiago de Chile with the Invisible Man and a text story of Super Condor.
Now if only I can track down, El Misterioso X, (big guy, cape, wings.) Something that has eluded me for years.
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I can't keep up with your goodies. You put on my favorite stuff right now Paw. I noticed Colt gets pretty good downloads. It seems that most of our visitors are more viewers than downloaders. Colt is more pages and seems to get more downloads.
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Pulgarcito #1, 1921, #26 1925. Plus more El Coyote (Cliper) and, wonder of wonders, after all this time, El Misterioso X. No wings though. I always thought he had wings.
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Sun which is a British anthology title from the '50's; Top Spot, a British mix of comics, stories, pin-ups with famous personalities of the time; Coloured Slick Fun, quite the little rarity and hardly remembered today apart from dyed-in-the-wool fans.
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German is a new section and we have 3 titles there now, thanks to narfstar.
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In Spanish comics we now have a new masked mystery man in his own section - El Puma. 15 issues.
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Paw you have made one awesome Spanish section! Sure makes me wish I read Spanish. BTW, I think I would classify El Puma as a western like Black Diamond. Unless I am missing something.
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This has always interested me. Do we classify stories set in cowboy times as westerns. Well, yes. But masked mystery men appear in many time frames and there are many "cowboy"/"western" heroes who are masked mystery men, secret identities and all. A slew of them in Spanish and other European comics as well as American and I tend to think that the hero should be the main factor in deciding how to classify the episode. Gene Autry is so obviously a western as is Jace Parson but many of the stories are set not in "cowboy" times as we would normally think of it, e.g. Cheyenne and Range Rider but in automobile times, making these stories less western, more action hero stories but we wouldn't call more modern setting stories other than westerns.
The masked "cowboy" keeping his i/d secret will normally be classified by me as a mmm.
There is another example, that of the historical hero. Again many in Spanish comics. The action is in, say, medieval times but the hero is masked. Is this a historical "romance" or a mmm story A bit of both but as the attraction for me is the guy in the mask (or flashy supersuit with some sort of emblem) then it's a mmm story.
I'm sure there are big flaws in my argument and I look forward to being demolished. You see, the attraction of the masked/costumed hero is the big thing for me.
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I have never been a fan of the powerless "superhero" other than Batman who transcends. So unless the western masked man has some "extra" power I tend to think of it as a western. I would call Ghost Rider a superhero but not most others.
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This is good and I hope others jump on with their ideas but perhaps in the great scheme of things it's not that important. Many years ago, I used to think that all those GA and British characters with gaudy costumes and/or masks but with no powers were a bit naff. But the longer and the more I read their adventures and also the stories of masked costumed mystery men in non-American comics, I realised that they could be just as good fun and so, the idea of the masked mystery (wo)man came to be as important as the powered heroes. Inconsistencies in continuity muddy the issue as well. Take The Black Terror. He had super powers but as the run went on he gradually became just a costumed mystery man, showing little or no signs of strength or invulnerability. Black Hood; Black Cat; Mr Scarlet; Billy the Cat; Guerrero del Antifaz; Phantom; Green Arrow etc. not a superpower in sight but I love them. Masked mystery men to me are not only cowboys or Crusaders or schoolboys, they change into something a bit above the everyday level and those masks and costumes take them to a different level for me. Bearing in mind this is all escapist fiction and nothing to do with real life. But I still enjoy a Gene Autry story alongside Billy the Cat and Sexton Blake alongside Mr. Scarlet.
I wonder if I should copy this into the Comics section to see if we get any other ideas?
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No harm in getting double exposure. I can't say I do not enjoy the old no powered hero stories. I just have a fundamental problem with them that will always bother me and somewhat diminish the pleasure.
Even more the powerless sidekick. Robin has to be one of the least practical ideas in the world unless we bring in Cat-Man's partner Kitten when she was younger. A little girl would not strike a lot of fear into many criminals. The Phantom and Tarzan always transcended their state in much the same way as Batman. Green Arrow I consider powered when he was using all his trick arrows. BTW Paw have you ever noticed how many "powered" heroes have been waylaid in stories by being hit in the back of the head. This was the Achilles heel in many GA sagas. Then of course the villain failed to take advantage of the situation and off the hero. The villain either took off or put the hero in some elaborate device to kill them from which the escaped (holy Batman TV show Paw)
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First series of Red Dixon - an early '50's Sf adventurer series from Spain. Series 2 to follow.
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Nice looking series Paw :D
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After causing Mark more headaches than he needs, because I didn't spot the big oops that was right in front of me, 2 issues of Gente Menuda, a Spanish juvenile magazine with comic strips from the 1930's. Plus more Red Dixon, this time from series 2. Anyone who enjoyed the flying saucer series, Platillos Volantes, should like this. El Puma #14 re-upped correctly and it's a nice issue.
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Paw I told one of our Spanish teachers about the comics we have here. She may be using our site with her Spanish classes ;D
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Excellent. Spreading the word is as much a part of all this as anything else.
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20 issues of Suchai, a Spanish lilliput/piccolo.
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Paw I sure hope you can find more Spaceman. Really great stuff.
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Actually, josemas is responsible for finding that one and, you're right, it is excellent. Norman Light was very good but there is so little of his work floating around. It's frustrating. I've been trying to find this sort of material for yonks and suddenly, someone else turns it up. But we can all enjoy it now.
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One of my own for a change. This is an extract from an annual. I have bits from annuals rather than the whole annual in some cases. Some were photocopied years ago. So I've scanned these few pages to give us a Falcon story with art by George Heath. Hope you all enjoy it.
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thank you
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7 issues of Lion, a British weekly from the '50's. And our first Catalan comic.
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Umpteen issues of Knockout. Some have art by Eric Parker, love it. And a number have Sexton Blake.
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MORE BOB and DORIS in Merry Maker please. This looks like a cool strip but there is not enough of it.
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As requested (and wasn't that sharpish)? another issue of Merry Maker. This is # 11, I think, end of the run. Plus Joyride; a Catgirl strip; Jolly Adventures.
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Thanks Paw this looks like it should have been more popular. Some great little features.
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Space Comics featuring Captain Valiant, an issue of Diamond Comics which is a reprint of fiction House strips and a real rarity, the only issue of Lucky Dice Comic from 1946.
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WOW thanks
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This wont float your boat if you can't read French. But, in an attempt to lure in more readers, I've uploaded 4 issues of a French Canadian "pulp" of Agent IXE 13. There are lots more but if we don't have space for them I can put the link in the links section.
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This wont float your boat if you can't read French. But, in an attempt to lure in more readers, I've uploaded 4 issues of a French Canadian "pulp" of Agent IXE 13. There are lots more but if we don't have space for them I can put the link in the links section.
I took French in high school, but I'm sure I don't remember most of it!
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Sure we have space (somewhere) ::)
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Big thanks for all the new uploads Paw
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Yeah, Paw's doing an exceptional job building up the non-english section!
Best
Joe
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Between Paw and Josemas we have been getting some really interesting items. I have become familiar with most of the US offerings so I am really glad to be getting this "other" stuff.
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Since I skived off and went on holiday, I thought I should take a run at some uploads to make up for lost time. So, I found some extracts from British comics and annuals. Harris Tweed was in Eagle, as was Albert Hall, the office boy. Lovely, eccentric strips. P.C. 49 is a great favourite of mine and we have 2 of the 3 feature films that were made but the radio shows are impossible to find. Here are 3 P.C. 49 stories even though they're not by the best artist. Another Silent Three story - sorry the page size is small but I couldn't increase them without blurring the text a bit. And, A Terry Brent story, featuring his young female sidekick. You'd never guess these strips are from School Friend - so typical. Plus Bill Cody, a Spanish landscape series and a couple of issues of Los Vikingos, another Spanish comic, a couple of days ago.
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I thought Los Vikingos was pretty cool
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At long last we have some examples of Blonde Panther but in her Spanish, censored version. The Spanish government took exception to her skimpy costume, so required a skirt to be added. The Italian comics didn't bother with that nonsense. Also, the comic strips from a School Friend annual from 1957 and 2 issues of a Mexican title, Aventuras de la Vida Real, from late '50's. There is also a new addition in the Hindi section.
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I think the censors were still not happy with the Blonde Panther.
If you notice the first two we see nice shapely legs and also a glimpse of the top of her stockings .. subsequent ones you are lucky to catch the very bottom of her knee. A bitter disappointment .. at this point I think I'll get my coat ...
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You're right. Mark. And here's how she should look:- http://www.lambiek.net/artists/i/ingam.htm
and here on an Italian site:- http://nuvoleparlanti.blogosfere.it/2009/02/pantera-bionda.html
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Oh yeah Paw that is how she should look ;D
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Well .. I am not so sure.
I think I prefer her in the first two we have. Collecting my coat time again ....
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From one extreme to the other. Check out Princesita Carolina in the Spanish section for innocent fairytale sort of stuff.
I think the issue of Hardi uploaded today to the French section should be o.k. I thought it was a good read.
Now, if only I can find more Blonde Panther, Italian style. But, given the effect it seems to have had on Mark, perhaps I shouldn't bother.
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I think narfstar might be the biggest worry over the Italian one. Plus I have enough difficulty with Firehair and Taanda. :)
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I've found 6 issues of Nelson Lee from 1920 which lead up to the Christmas issue. One of the issues is a classic haunted house mystery and it was a tradition in the '20's and '30's in many of these storypapers to have a Christmas mystery, often with a ghost and/or haunted house. Keep for nearer Noel, perhaps? These are in the Dime Novels section.
Plus #1 of El As de la Trapecia in the Spanish section.
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Recently, #1 of El Caballero Fantasma, 1947, an early historical masked man series. I think I'm on the track of more. Well, I think it's exciting. Also, in Dime Novels, Storypapers, a few British storypapers with stories by Charles Hamilton, under a couple of pen names - Frank Richards and Hilda Richards. Plus 5 issues of El Libertador, another Spanish historical adventure series.
Amending this to add, 8 new issues of L'Agent 1XE-13. Nice covers on some of these issues.
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With the hauls you keep bringing home I see a new reality TV series and a new name "Picker Paw".
I just can't believe the weird and wonderful stuff you and the other admin guys are digging up. Quite amazing!! BTW, you seen Narf's recent monster stuff?
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A second Catalan comic, this time part of a history series with an illustrated story of the first railway and an episode of a text strip recounting Catalonian history. The logo on the cover reads"with the compliments of history". Nice.
Amending this to add that Marvel Magazine #1 is now available in the Portuguese section. This is a Brazilian Fawcett reprint form 1953.
And now, first 3 issues of the Spanish superhero comic, "El Murcielago" (The Bat). From 1943.
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I hope you all will have a look at this:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=29230
Not much else to say apart from my description, "This is a simply excellent piece of work by Emilio Freixas "
Enjoy it.
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We now have a Portuguese language version, from Brazil, of Captain Video. In Brazil it is titled Capitao Z and this comic is in landscape format. Stranger still is the copy of, "O Cavaleiro Fantasma" which is a Brazilian reprint of the Australian comic," The Phantom Ranger", a long running and popular title in Australia.
Both are in the Portuguese section.
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I have wanted to learn Spanish and these books make me want to learn even more
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A small pile of Nelson Lee Library with some lovely atmospheric cover illos. And a Christmas Magnet, featuring Billy Bunter. I love the Bunter stories and laugh out loud when reading but you might be scratching your heads outside the UK.
Spanish? Go on, narfstar, you know it makes sense.
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The final 3 parts of the 6 part Spanish comic, El Murcielago. Early Spanish superhero comics and well worth a look.
Amending this to add, another pile of L'Agent IXE-13, courtesy of http://ixe-13.blogspot.co.uk/
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2 issues of the Dutch superhero comic, Mirakel Man, which is a reprint of the Spanish original called, Superhombre.
Modifying this to add, 4 issues of the Spanish original Superhombre. Enjoy them.
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My Ne'erday gift to CB+, albeit a bit late. So, the first 30 issues of DON Z, another Zorro clone but a really good fun version, this time from Spain and published in landscape format. Plus, a genuine superhero, El Duende - again a Spanish landscape comic. Hope you enjoy them - I do.
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Some of you....... narfstar, perhaps, wanted obscure, well have alook at Streamline in the UK an Aus. Section. There is a Dennis Gifford back up stort as well.
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Thanks for more cool stuff paw and check out my recent cheap win on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=181055036476
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Now that's exciting. Australian. Masked cowboy fights aliens, by the look of that cover. Can't wait to read it.
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It will be on my quick to scan list
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I may not be able to understand it but Casiano Barullo is a good looking series
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I agree. The artist has a very interesting style. Sort of a cross between Alex Raymond and Will Gould.
Thanks
Joe
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Thank you. I rather like it as well. Actually I have #3 also but can't get it to upload to the site. I'll keep trying.
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Is each issue complete or is it a continuing story?
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Continuing stories it seems but sort of complete episodes in each issue. My Spanish is poor and it takes me ages to read an issue.
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Sorry, there is something wrong with the #3 file. On my computer it shows 21.6 mb but when I upload it it's only 500 odd kb. Out of my depth here.
#s 11 & 12 coming up, I hope. Fingers crossed.
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As Narf stated, the artwork is very impressive. I'm trying to dig up some background details on this strip, but there doesn't seem to be much history on it. Anyone have a good link with some details on the strips history, art, and production?
--Dave
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Dave, there is some info, which you probably already found, but it's in Spanish. Here:-
http://www.tebeosfera.com/obras/publicaciones/casiano_barullo_grafidea_1952.html
and here:-
http://lamansion-crg.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=56466&hl=
And a bit on Ricardo Beyloc here:-
http://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/r_beyloc.html
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Paw,
Based on your links, I found this: http://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/beyloc_ricardo.htm
It gives a little info on the artist.
I would love to have a little bit of time to rescan and wipe the word balloons, translating some of this into English. I make a motion we add some hours to each day. Any seconds?
--Dave
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Amen DAve
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Some of you should find this interesting. From my own collection, a 1946, French, b&w reprint of a Masked Marvel story, which I bought last time in Paris. At only 8 pages and measuring 8 1/4 inches by 6 inches, it reflects the paper shortage on Europe after WW2. In the translation, he's called The Masked Man. It would be good if anyone could tell me which American issue the story is from.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=30060
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from Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v2#8 (August 1939)
according to GCD
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Thanks cooperway4. Not having a French comic guide, I can't find out if other MM stories were translated. But I'm about to upload a French Blue Beetle comic, which looks as if it might have been retouched, as happened with The Phantom in Italian versions. It would be good to have opinions on this.
Editing this to add the link to Le Capitaine X13:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=30074
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Right, this has taken me a long time - too long perhaps. You might have noticed that the AMOK section under Spanish comics was empty. There was a copy of #1 there ages ago but there was something wrong with the file so we took it off. And could I find another copy? Nae luck! Then, suddenly, I fell over copies of #s 1,2 & 3, whose links hadn't disappeared from Mediafire. Now they are on site and that was a long story which is probably of little interest to anyone but me. They are nice comics.
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Apart from 12 issues of Castor the Invincible, which I think I've spelt wrongly on the title, now up are another 2 Thunderbolt Jaxon stories and a Silent Three adventure. All in the UK section. I must apologise for the quality on the TJ scans as they were scanned from old, not very good, photocopies and with my limited skills, that's the best I can do with them. But, hopwfully, the rarity of the strips will outway the poor state they are in - unless someone can have a footer about and improve them? ;)
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Thanks Paw Thunderbolt was very readable.
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I've just uploaded 3 examples of Dixon Hawke Library, supplied by hoover. These are great additions to the site and certainly compliment the Sexton Blake entries. Hawke was also, unofficially, known as The Scottish Detective. There were over 500 issues of the Library and his exploits appeared in other publications. Thanks hoover, this is good stuff.
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A new Silent Three story scanned from very old cuttings from a School Friend Annual. This one is a crossover in which The Silent Three meet The Grey Shadows. I've tried to improve the quality but I'm at the limits of my very slight abilities. My guide doesn't list the annuals but I have just found a frontispiece which, I'm sure, is for this story and the date is 1952.
After quite a search, I've found some other old photocopies and cuttings of Silent Three stories - much like the recent Thunderbolt Jaxon stories. But they need a bit of work.
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I tried to play around with your first page. Here are the results. What do you think? I had to reduce it a great deal to fit it here with the size limitations ant all you know?
Richard
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That is better. Good work.
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3 more Silent Three stories but I don't have dates for them, so I suppose, 1950's. Scanned from cuttings and old photocopies.
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2 more issues of Casiano Barullo. Hope you enjoy them.
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Another issue of Cassiano Barullo - #16. Some new Portuguese language titles incl. Fawcett reprints from Brazil and a new superhero, to me anyway, Raio Negro.
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More French Canadian pulps courtesy of Jean Layette's excellent blog, Le Blogue de l'agent IXE-13. Check them out in the Non-English Books section.
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And now, for your delectation and delight - 2 issues of the French Canadian pulp, Domino Noir. With thanks to Jean Layette and his excellent blog:-
http://quebec-detective.blogspot.ca/
(downloading them to my tablet to enjoy later.)
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Issues 1 & 2 of Aventures de Cow-Boys. With thanks to Jean Layette.
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Thanks for the Quebec pulps. Giving these a quick look, I'm surprised by the simple French--I can almost understand them, with my limited ability in French.
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Yes, jimmm, it seems relatively easy to understand. The Domino Noir books have nice descriptions of the hero slinking along in the darkness, almost invisibly, face covered by his black mask. Great stuff.
There almost seems more text in the issue of Hardi that we have on site.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=28813
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Holy mascarpone, am I slow at scanning!!! An issue of The Ranger from 1931 which has a great Black Whip cover and a couple of interior color illos. Tried to clean it up as best I could but it's still a bit of a mess. Didn't help that the thing was falling to bits.
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Nice thing about comics that are falling to bits you do not have to worry about hurting their value
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Hello Paw Sir!
Love the Black Whip..............That is two adventures now.....anymore of the Great Black Whip? Now I seem to remember a chap or two with wings, being at work I cannot say for certain where I saw these two other than I know they were from the UK. Any Idea whom I am speaking thereof? You have done such a great service here Mr Broon! I tip my top hat to you sir!
RB @ Work.
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Actually, there are a few winged heroes in British storypapers and libraries. We've already talked about The Night Hawk here, somewhere, and Flying Justice made an appearance in the early part of the 20th century. The Human Bat had a book all to himself and in the '50's (?) a bloke called Black Wing had a couple of stories.
I think I might be on the trail of another episode of Black Whip - just need my pal to part with the paper for a few days.
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An early Adventure, #754, with The Red Hood on the cover and another Portuguese language landscape form Brazil.
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An issue of the Rover from 1934 with a complete Black Sapper story and a great Black Sapper cover.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=31103
Accompanying music for this was The Groundhogs givin' it absolute laldy. Volume up as Linda's away out.
Have a listen to Cherry Red. Warning: this should be played really LOUD.
I saw them support The Rolling Stones at Greens Playhouse in Glasgow, early '70's? - they were louder than The Stones. What a great racket - and only 3 of them.
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An edition of Le Petit Vingti
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A bit late but the anticipation has been worth it for me. Another Issue of The Ranger with a Black Whip story. From a very tatty copy so I hope it doesn't spoil the enjoyment.
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An issue of Jet Fury by Larry Horak. This is another strange format comic. Landscape but opens like a calendar with the back page upright. This example is also very poorly cut and pages are askew. It seems to be Australian but there is no indicia and I have a slight suspicion that it might be a New Zealand copy.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2437
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Great title I hope you find more
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Actually, mon ami, there is another Jet Fury in a bundle beside the desk so, as I said to Hoover, if I can cram another day into the week..................
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Just to satisfy narfstar, I moved up the next Jet Fury and #17 is now on site:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=31517
And you all thought Charlton production standards were poor, well take a look at this. And that's the best I can do with it.
See us folk that chase after obscure superheroes?
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Many thanks Paw I love me some obscure Superheroes
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Just uploaded - Char Chapman #2 and Grey Domino #51, an upright format this time.
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More great stuff Paw. You and Joe have come up with some really great non-US stuff. This is what I mostly download now.
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I think I forgot to mention that there is another issue of Captain Havoc and the Phantom Knight available:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=31522
But I read the comments of Superman and Ozman (thanks Ozman for pointing out that it is an Aus comic, this version being printed in N.Z.) and I noticed the remark that so many British comics were so amateurish. Now this is interesting and there is no arguing that there is a lot of poor quality art in British comics but there is so much that is good and, in many cases quite excellent. A lot of it we can't host on CB+ but there are already examples of Ron Turner, Jim Holdaway, Harry Banger, George Heath, Bill Lacey (a particular favourite of mine - particularly on Blackshirt) and much more. Perhaps I might suggest a closer look at the UK/Aus section. As a start, read this copy of Express Weekly:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=28516
And then this:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=26644
while bearing in mind that this standard was kept up in umpteen different titles every week.
Most countries have many examples of poor or amateurish artwork in their comics.
Just a thought and I'd be interested in any comments.
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Certainly American comics had their share of amateurish/crude artwork. There was a point in time, in fact, where DC wouldn't even reprint some of their GA material because they were too embarrassed by the crudity of it.
Still I find a charm and energy that appeals to me at times in even some of these "lesser" works.
Best
Joe
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Yes, that's part of the appeal.
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Mister X in the French section will please some of you - costumed hero with an atomic belt.
And Yelmo Negro in the Spanish section. I have to admit to a bit of selfishness here as the comic is very obscure and in very poor nick. You could spit through the paper it's so fragile and there is a lot of shine through, so this way, I shouldn't have to open it again. I know nothing about it and I've had a look in a couple of Spanish comics history books, to no avail. It's a big landscape comic measuring 12&1/2 inches wide by 8&1/2 inches high.
I bought it some years ago in Barcelona.
If anyone can shed light on it's history.....................
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Certainly American comics had their share of amateurish/crude artwork. There was a point in time, in fact, where DC wouldn't even reprint some of their GA material because they were too embarrassed by the crudity of it.
Still I find a charm and energy that appeals to me at times in even some of these "lesser" works.
Best
Joe
I find it strange that many comic lovers have such high standards, refusing to look at material they consider sub-par. I guess if the only reason you're reading comics is pure entertainment value, then it makes sense to stick with what you know. But then why bother looking at any comics from a different time? These are bound to conform to aesthetic norms outside ones experience in the here and now.
But if you're going to go up that comic book Nile, to find its source, then you ought to prepare yourself to see some weird and alien sights that challenge your view of the world.
And you can't really appreciate the leaps and bounds (or the failures) made in the development of comics, without knowing the base level that they started at. If all you ever look at is the good stuff, then you can't really understand how good it is, unless you at least sample some of the bad and mediocre stuff.
I consider it something of a minor miracle that so many Golden Age comics had good art and stories, because comics were selling like hotcakes back then. There was no real incentive for the fly-by-night publishers to hire good talent and put out good comics--because they could make just as much money (maybe more) publishing bad ones.
I'm keenly interested in the history of Canadian comics, even though any real good talent usually ended up going somewhere else, where they could make more money. A lot of Canadian comics had second rate art, but even the bad artists tended to improve over time. Whenever I find a Canadian comic where the artists and writers made major break throughs in exploring the medium, it gives me a great thrill.
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Nice one, jimmm. I wish I had your ability to express some of these points.
I sometimes wonder if some N.American comics fans do lack a bit of perspective. In the U.K. we were used to our weekly anthology titles plus lots of comics which were made to look like American ones, even though, in many, there was no American involvement at all. But here we were also exposed to N.American comics through them brought in as ballast on ships, or you could find them if you were near an American base and later when distribution to newsagents started. So, many older fans here have seen a wider range of drawing styles, storytelling styles, formats etc.
My problem with clear thinking on this is that I tend to pursue the unusual, obscure, different and I occasionally forget that other comics fans have comfort zones and wont be interested in the stuff I track down. But I'd hate to be in a position of relying only on modern American comics for my entertainment but, then again, if you don't have that exposure to, or interest in exploring other material, who am I to object. Fortunately CB+ does a good job in spreading the word, educating perhaps?, and exposing fans to material which they might never discover otherwise.
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Thanks to all round good guy, Steve Holland at Bear Alley
http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/
A bit of a rarity this, a Lesley Shane newspaper strip by Oliver Passingham. I've been a fan of Ms.(or Miss, given the era) Shane for ages but I know the stories from the digest Detective Picture Library, so this is a pleasure. Steve mentions that he has tracked down another story which will appear on Bear Alley soonish but the quality of the originals seems to need some work to get them even to this standard. Hope you all enjoy it.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=31728
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First, to the folk who downloaded Zorro #58, there was a duplicated page 16, so I have deleted it and uploaded a corrected version. This comic was a British title but, I think, was a reprint of a French comic. No info. in the British guide.
For comparison and, hopefully, enjoyment, an Italian version of Zorro.
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Thanks. Paw.
As usual something very interesting stuff.
Best
Joe
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Our second issue of Crimson Comet is now available:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=31824
And, despite the question mark, I'm sure the art is by John Dixon.
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An issue of The Shadow - no, not that one. This is the Australian version and, like the Spider, Jimmy Grey not only becomes The Shadow but also uses the identity of Limpy, petty thief.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=31826
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3 more issues of Casiano Barullo. Nice stuff indeed!
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I do like the art on these issues of Casiano Barullo.
Thanks, Paw
Joe
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In the Spanish language section, more issues of El Peneca, including a Special from 1936 which contained a prose adaptation of The Merchant of Venice and a Buck Jones text strip. What a strange mix. All from Santiago de Chile.
For those like me who collect masked men appearances, a couple of the issues contain stories completely new to me.
Also another issue of Marcos, Spanish s.f. series.
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3 issues of Mamita from Chile 1931. Stories for younger readers.
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10 vols. of Diego Valor, A Spanish space hero title. This was a piccolo - a small landscape comic - and each of these files is a compilation of 6 piccolos. Altogether #1 to #60 of the weekly series.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2451
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Finally, 2 issues of Aguia Negra (Black Eagle), a Brazilian comic. Good superhero stuff and in the back of one of them is a Portuguese translation of an Australian Shadow story. Digging around pays off again.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2458
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The 2 parts of a Spanish comic version of the Jules Verne story, "The Mysterious Island" This is old but I don't know how old.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2459
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2 more issues of the popular series, Casiano Barullo and 14 of the 16 issue run of Fredy Barton El Audaz, which sits well beside the Platillos Volantes series. This is a nice looking comic. All in the Spanish section, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2394
and here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2463
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Another series that makes wish I knew Spanish
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A new (to me) Brazilian comic, Capitao Sete.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=32456
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First 7 issues of yet another version of Zorro.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2468
More to follow.
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A small pile of more Don Z.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2388
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As Graeme has been charging along with Greyfriars and Bunter, I wanted to add some some St. Frank's and Nelson Lee. So another 5 and a pile more to follow.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780
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More issues of the Spanish version of El Zorro with some nice covers.
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I am taking baby steps to learn spanish so I can read all these neat books
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The French lady who is our French teacher, is also starting to learn Spanish. It's odd to hear her halting efforts when her English is SO good. Mind you, I've been learning French for a while and I often come to a stuttering halt as my lack of vocabulary shows its ugly face.:-[
I think I'm right in saying that the Spanish (i.e. from Spain) comics we have are only a small part of what was published up to about mid '60's. The search goes on.
I read in the paper that Spanish is now the 1st language of around 40% of the population of the U.S.A.
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Another 10 issues of the Spanish superhero comic, El Duende, and rather nice they are too.
More of Nelson Lee Library and there are some good, exciting covers on some of the recent uploads. More to follow with some issues seeming to have short detective stories at the back, featuring Gordon Fox. Obviously the great Nelson Lee didn't mind sharing his journal with other 'tecs.
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5 more issues of El Duende. Hope you enjoy them.
Plus, 5 issues of El Pequeno Luchador.
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Continuing the effort to balance all those Magnet issues with Billy Bunter, some more Nelson Lee Library classic school and detective weeklies.
Check out the great schoolmaster detective; his assistant, Nipper; the useless Handworth and the rest of the cast in their school stories, adventure stories, yellow menace stories and all the rest here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780
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Thanks to Steve Holland at http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/, we now have a second Lesley Shane newspaper strip. Early to mid '50's? Art by Oliver Passingham. Scans were from poor copies but still highly enjoyable stories.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2498
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Another small pile of Nelson Lee Library in Pulp Fiction. I'm afraid we are now at a place where there are issues missing in the run.
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6 issues of a Spanish series from 1958. A well done, pirate/adventure series. See it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2479
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That is a very well drawn series and looks interesting. Makes me more determined to learn Spanish
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2 more Spanish comics from late '50's. Cuentos da la Abuelita. Little tales/romances for younger girls.
Plus 3 issues of the Spanish western series, "El Temerario"
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2506
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Temerario looked pretty cool
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Another 10 issues of Nelson Lee Library.
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In the UK and Aus section, Space Ace #1, an Aus. b&w reprint title.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=33829
And Gene Autry #15, a WDL b&w reprint
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=33828
All my own work from tatty comics which I have tried to tidy up.
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Some of you want obscure. Well, here's obscure:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=33875
This is a French landscape title from the late'40's, I believe, and, there is a costumed mystery figure, secret passages and the usual handsome hero to boot.
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Thanks Paw. Can you check the unapproved files. There is some nonUS stuff that you need to check if it is OK.
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Another 10 issues of Nelson Lee Library and another Spanish version of Atomo Kid, in the Spanish section, of course.
And, after fighting with the scanner and a tatty old comic, (there should be another grade for comics alongside G; VG; P; FN etc. FTB - falling to bits) I've managed to get a coherent copy of an old French title up on site. This dates from 1945 and I had always thought that during and just after WW2, comics like this were only published in the south of the country, Nice for example - the part not under direct Nazi rule. Don't know how I came to that conclusion but if anyone can shed any light on this, I'm sure we would all like to have it.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=34086
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Another 1940's French comic - Le Torrent Souterrain:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=34099
Plus a 2nd issue of Young Britain added in the pulp section. This issue features a chapter of the serial, "The Purple Planet":-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=34100
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2 superhero comics new to CB+. You might want to take a look in the French Language section - especially Richard and narfstar.
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Yes, just realised there is something wonky with the Fulguros upload. Should be fixed today. "Bear with", as they say.
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10 more issues of Nelson Lee Library.
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3 issues of Coloured Slick fun. Some with adventures of Darrel King; TNT Tom; Phantom Raider. Very badly trimmed comics and really cheap printing but saved by the excellent examples of humour strips by Harry Banger. Apologies now for one of the strips, "Coal Black Jones", which is about as un-p.c. as it gets, but was quite common at the time.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1993
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I had to have a really big dig for more Spanish material as many of the Mediafire links had disappeared. But it was worth it as I found a small treasure trove of umpteen issues of El Espiritu de la Selva, a masked hero in The Phantom tradition with a history going back centuries. First 15 issues now available and a pile more to come. Also, I'm working on a run of El Poder Invisible (The Invisible Power), featuring an invisible criminal, reminiscent of one of those movie serials.
And also now available, a compilation of a couple of issues of a Spanish MMM, Galator. There is another compilation, this time of El Capitan Sol and when I can figure out why it's not loading properly, I'll upload it.
Don't know what happened there but, it's now available.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2576
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=34362
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=34363
And El Poder Invisible, the first 10 issues
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2577
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Out"freaking"standing! you will keep me busy downloading while I scan this week. thank you very much Mr Broon. <Big Smile>
Mr Goldenage
attached is a book that arrived Saturday
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O.K. Superman and anyone else who might be interested, there is another Coloured Slick Fun on site. Sorry about the state of it but the original was so badly printed.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=34386
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Another 15 issues, each, of El Poder Invisible and El Espiritu de la Selva. Have a look in the Spanish section.
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A pile more of El Espiritu de la Selva and El Poder Invisible. The Invisible series is now finished but #33 is missing and doesn't seem available anywhere.
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Another 15 issues of Nelson Lee Library from 1921/22 incl. the Christmas issue #342. All in the pulp section.
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Ignore that last post, I made a right horlicks of it. Duplicates all over the shop. Sorry.
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Eventually got the new Nelson Lee Library issues on and you can find them in the pulp section. Anyone who's a detective fan should have a look at series 2 of NLL as they feature back up stories of Nelson Lee in his capacity as the great detective.
Also, issue #1 of O Pequeno Xerife which is a Brazilian reprint of the Italian series:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=34872
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A new Spanish series for CB+ Bill Kraker, a jungle series published in Barcelona in the late 1950's. First 5 issues on site here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2588
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Next 10 issues of Bill Kraker and another new Spanish title, this time a series for younger readers. Ardillita can be found here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2590
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Comicolour Album from 1953. A G.G. Swan book, which fits nicely alongside oldtimer's recent Swan uploads.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=35164
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Another G.G. Swan album, this time Slick Fun Album 1956. This was tracked down and I eventually got my hands on it, only to find it was in pretty bad nick with taped pages, tears, nicks out, and that in addition to the usual "high" standards of Swan books - bad trimming, pages askew etc. For all that, this is a great addition to the site as it includes the origin of Super Stooge, in which Stoogie, a regular cover feature in the comics, becomes a super man. Drawn by Bang, this is a great humour strip.Lovely stuff.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=35215
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I'll have to add Super Stooge to my list of things that are Super, when I get a chance.
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jimmm, you know about the French Super Boy? If not, here he is:-
http://www.bedetheque.com/album-155318-BD-L-homme-qui-voulait-noyer-la-terre.html
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jimmm, you know about the French Super Boy? If not, here he is:-
http://www.bedetheque.com/album-155318-BD-L-homme-qui-voulait-noyer-la-terre.html
No, I didn't know about this Super Boy. Another one to add to my list, thanks.
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Another 15 issues of the Spanish superhero, El Duende. You'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2389
And another 6 issues of El Libertador, which you'll find here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2338
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Thanks for those more cool stuff
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I think we now have completed the Xuxa series, or, at least, that's all I can find:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2351
Another issue of O Carlitos:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=35341
and a Brazilian/Portuguese Rocky Lane reprint:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=35340
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cool
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8 issues of the Spanish reprints of Captain Marvel, with Nyoka back-ups.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2087
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2 issues of a Portuguese language Brazilian landscape title which reprinted Monte Hale stories in b&w.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2603
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Another 12 issues of Nelson Lee Library, from 1922.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780
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A "new" Spanish series now up. This one is El Hijo del Diablo de Los Mares and you'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2604
Took me ages to find links for this and a few other series, which will follow. I knew they were there but, finding them? All with thanks to:-
http://howtoarsenio.blogspot.co.uk/
Off to work on the others. Hope someone enjoys them.
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Another "new" Spanish series for CB+. This time, El Pequeno Mosquetero. 21 issues and you'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2606
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And yet another "new" Spanish series, El Sargento Virus. A typical historical swashbuckler published in Valencia. These uploads feature 4 issues of the title in each vol. There are 24 comics in all in 6 vols. and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2613
With thanks to and courtesy of:-
http://howtoarsenio.blogspot.co.uk/
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A complete 16 issue run of Orlan, El Luchador Invencible. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2615
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You are just En Fuego my friend....thank you for all the wonderful books. You are Aces!
Richard
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Today, 10 issues of El Caballero de Las Tres Cruces. A classic spanish historical adventure/action title and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2621
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There is a new Spanish section for Atomo Kid and I've added a 1957 Almanaque. You can find the 3 comics here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2634
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This time, a nice Spanish Jungle title from the early '50's. The first 10 issues of Yorga, and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2638
More to follow.
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Yorga was an Italian fumetti character first appearing in 8-13-1949 and ending in 6-11-1950 no douobt reprinted all over the place. But any Yorga is a good Yorga. I have only one Yorga to scan and post and when I do it will go into the Italian Language section.
RB @ Work
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When I went back to read the intro. on the site where I found the comics, they note that they are reprints of Italian originals. Well done, Richard.
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Yorga looks really good and makes me want to learn Spanish even more
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A new masked mystery man for CB+. This time a historical series set in Venice in the 16th. century. It's a bit laborious downloading these comics page by page, (it's just the way the source site is set up) but I think it's worth it and I hope you do also. You'll find the first 5 issues here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2641
Plus the next 5 issues of Yorga.
Excitingly, I think I'm on the trail of an old, obscure, Spanish comic from 1947, featuring yet another historical MMM. El Caballero Fantasma. Slowly but surely we're getting to some of those old titles I thought were there but couldn't find.
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Thanks for the labor paw we are glad you did
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A nice little series and another Spanish historical swashbuckler, D'Artagnan and the 3 Musketeers:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2644
Issues 8 & 9 are missing and I can't find them anywhere, sorry.
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2 excellent new Spanish series are now available. The first 5 issues of El Capitan Coraje are here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2645
and the complete Flecha Negra is here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2646
Phew! I need a lie down in a quiet room. But, I've made a sauce for pasta for dinner this evening and there's olives and a bottle of decent Italian red to go with it. Sl
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Lots of nice looking art too bad they were so small originally
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I downloaded #2 of El Capitan Coraje and it looks fine when I open it. Just downloaded #12 of Flecha Negra and, again, it looks the correct size. In fact on my pc screen, it's close to the actual size of the comic.
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Not the scans the original comics. The art looks cramped. They would have been great in a larger size
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A small pile of Nelson Lee issues, incl. #507 which features The Hooded Unknown.
Modifying this to add that I've literally just had a big pile of old Spanish scans dumped on me. Take me a while to sort out what we have on site and what is new, and anyway, it's our 40th anniversary this weekend, so Linda and I are off for a few days to celebrate.
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Apologies for the lack of new stuff. I did find a pile of Spanish comics but can't remember where I filed them.
I go away for a week and my memory seems to have disappeared. The delights of getting older :-[
It's really annoying, all this stuff appears out of the blue AND I CAN'T FIND IT! :'( ;)
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18 issues forming the first part of this title (I think) El Caballero Negro and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2669
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First part of the series, El Diablo de Los Mares plus 2 almanacs from 1948 and 1949.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2670
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#s 12 to 24 of El Duque Negro, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2364
and, 6 issues of MONTANA, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2674
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A few more issues of Nelson Lee Library, which you can find, oddly enough, in the Nelson Lee section.
If I can time this right, I should have one of the great Nelson Lee Christmas stories ready for a couple of weeks before Christmas for your delectation and delight. Well, it does it for me ;) Some of the Chrismas stories in Magnet and NL are great fun, often with a ghost or haunted house and you could do much worse at this time of year than checking through the excellent selection on the site.
Also today, another 10 issues of the nice looking Spanish title, El Diablo de Los Mares.
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20 more issues of Nelson Lee Library as we head towards the Christmas story for 1923, "The Ghost of St. Franks"
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We now have the complete series of El Gavilan on site. Thanks to Tebeos de Factura Hispana who published a link to the full run.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1813
And some more Nelson Lee Library taking us to the end of Sept. 1923
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780
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In keeping with the suggestions of listing Christmas books, we now have the issues of Nelson Lee up to and incl. the Christmas 1923 no. For those who fancy a very old fashioned Christmas read, here are the links to the 2 last 1923 issues, which ends with, The Ghost of St Franks.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=38725
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=38729
And, for your delectation and delight, 6 issues of the Spanish superhero, Superhombre. Rest of the series to follow in installments.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2373
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More #s of the Spanish, landscape reprints of Captain Marvel. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2087
Close to the complete set to follow.
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cool
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Thanks narfstar.
The next 10 issues of Capitan Marvel:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2087
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The next 10 issues of El Capitan Marvel now available:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2087
And more issues of Superhombre:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2373
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Issues 31 - 40 of El Capitan Marvel now available.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2087
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In the ongoing effort to have all 88 issues of the Spanish El Capitan Marvel series on CB+, #s 41 - 50 are now available:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2087
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Another 10 issues of the Spanish comic, Superhombre. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2373
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#s 51 - 60 of El Capitan Marvel now on site and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2087
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Issues 31 - 40 of Superhombre and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2373
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# 61 - 70 of El Capitan Marvel now available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2087
Enjoy them. Soon we will have a complete run of the comic on site.
A new addition to CB=, the complete 11 issue run of the 1947 comic, Ricardo Manteca y Jorgito Apuros. You can have a look here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2709
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More good stuff and I still do not know spanish :'(
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For your delectation and delight, 15 more issues of Superhombre. A wee Hogmanay present, and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2373
Off for my tea now and then get ready for the bells. ;D
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4 issues of a Spanish "striscia" (were there more? Not sure yet) Angeles de La Calle. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2711
Modifying this to add that there were more of this series and the ones we have here are reprints of the Italian fumetti, Angeli della Strada.
I think the Spanish run was 27 issues, drawn by D'Antonio. 1951.
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Those sharp peepers of misappear noticed that #2 of the 2nd. series of Platillos Volantes was missing. As I'm sure you have all guessed, I missed it on the FTP upload. However, after a rake about in my files, I found it and it's now available, completing the run of course. :-[ ;)
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We now have the complete series of Superhombre and a proper conclusion reached. A nice, if slightly sad rounding off. Find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2373
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A new French comic, Jim L
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A new series of Spanish romance comics. Serenata is a weekly with stand alone romance strips designed for young Spanish ladies. There were over 300 issues but I can't find them all, at the moment about 100 is my lot. The comic also printed the words to 3 popular songs and a photo of the artiste who performed them. One of the next bunch to be uploaded has Pat Boone. Can you wait? Have a look here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2712
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A few more issues of Serenata and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2712
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Another 2 issues of Large Feature Comic and you can find them here:
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2706
With thanks to and courtesy of http://oldcomicsworld.blogspot.co.uk/
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Following the Fantagraphics request, I had a dig in my boxes and came up with this British reprint of Blue Bolt, published in 1952 by Gerald G. Swan. Have a look:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2718
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British reprint of Target Comics. This is #7, which, according to the guide, does not exist.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39601
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2 more British reprints of Blue Bolt, this time # 9 & 13. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2718
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2 more old British comics from my collection. Prang Comic from 1948 is here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39618
And Red Flash Comic, unnumbered but might be the 1st. of a 2 issue run in 1948 is here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39617
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Awesome!
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Such a nice chap, that mr_goldenage. Amazing what a trawl through your old comic boxes will turn up!
Now we have a 2nd. Masterman comic and this is the origin story, plus a Dick Briefer reprint and a King-Ganteaume s.f. strip. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39619
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A new addition to the G.G. Swan section. This time Picture Epics #1 - Back From the Dead. Very poor quality. If anyone can have a go at improving the quality, it might be worthwhile.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39623
Modifying this to note that I have uploaded Captain Atlas, a strip from a Slick Fun Album, and to warn that it was scanned from old, poor photocopies that I made some 25 years ago. It's a good fun strip, despite the quality and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39627
Another modification, this time to add that there is a new superhero story available, and it is Captain Conquest and the Men From Mars, drawn by Mike Hubbard and from 1952. I scanned it from photocopies I made 25 years ago.:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39639
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Majorly Awesome!
RB @ Work.
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Another issue of Masterman. This time #12 which, according to the guide, doesn't exist. Fortunately it was lurking at the back of one of my boxes and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39668
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Broon Sir... You are THE Man!
RB @ Work
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Sherriff of Tombstone #13 now available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39708
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Fargo Kid #5 now available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39731
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A new superhero comic now in the French language section. This is Satanax #2 from 1948. As the comic is larger than my scanner, this is the best I can do with it. Still, I hope you enjoy it.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39772
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Great addition thanks Paw
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Thanks, I really like Satanax but, up to now, it's the only one I've found.
Today, the first 10 issues of a new Spanish title, 2 Americanos en Europa and very nice it is too! You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2736
Just added 2 pages, 1 in Mallorquin and 1 in Spanish (they both say the same thing) which were handouts for the Wally Wood exhibition in Palma de Mallorca.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39801
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A new compilation. Keeper of The Dread Sword was a front page serial in the weekly Adventure paper in 1948 which in turn was based on a previous text serial in the same paper. Features a masked mystery man with a giant scimitar:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39826
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Doll Man #3 is an Australian reprint. Doll Dog turns up as well. ;D
The claim that the comic was drawn in Australia is interesting - see P.18
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?ACT=editdl&did=39467&symid=39870
And another Aus. title. This time, Tim Valour#13 with some nice art from John Dixon.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39873
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A Mexican reprint of a Cap. Marvel. This is #14 from 1953. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/index.php?dlid=39885
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Added a new section in Aus. and N.Z. comics. This is Tim Valour. #13 was already on site and I have added #14 today. Nice comics with art by John Dixon and the cover of #14 is really good.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2738
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Nice looking book
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A new Spanish series for younger readers. Azucena was designed for younger ladies and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2740
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A third issue of Tim Valour - #28. This issue might be prior to the other 2 issues, note that the other 2 have New Series printed on the covers. Then there is the format which is an older Australian format, I think. This issue looks normal, like a standard portrait comic, but when opened, it is landscape format. The staples are at the top of the cover. Can anyone shed any light on it?
In poor condition, this is as good as I can make it. It's also the last example in my boxes. So, unless some of our Antipodean members can conjure up some more, we're stuffed!
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39969
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Paw,
It is humbling to us all that a sentence of such literary eloquence now graces our forum :)
So, unless some of our Antipodean members can conjure up some more, we're stuffed!
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I wonder whether #28 may actually the newest book. You have a good point concerning the format. However Dixon's art in #28 seems more mature than that in #14 and #15. The faces, figures, and drapery are more assured. There's also a greater level of detail on the aircraft and the backgrounds. Maybe by issue 28 the publisher figured the "new series" label had run its course and dropped it. I don't know why they'd have decided to change from portrait to landscape format, though.
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So glad quality prose has a place and is recognized by the cognoscenti! I continually endeavour to raise the standard of writing and it is heartening to receive such praise. ;D
Tim Valour #28 - Thanks crash. I take the point about the art and have noticed the price increase from 6d to 8d, which adds weight to this being a later comic. I've had a close look at the originals and the price is printed, not overstamped for the British market. But it's the format change that concerns me with the landscape format, and especially this odd hybrid one of the staples at the top of a portrait cover, being an older Aus. style.
I hope some others can offer opinions, please.
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A new addition to the British comics section with, "The King's Captain". A 68 page, b&w pocket library featuring D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. The cover was in tatters but I found a replacement. The rest of the comic is in appalling condition but at least you can enjoy the excitement and action of a great swashbuckler.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40045
And another British title, Samson #2 from 1955
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40047
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#s 21 - 30 of El Diablo de Los Mares in the spanish section:-
http://sensacionaldeluchas.blogspot.co.uk/
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Another 8 issues of Nelson Lee Library from #448:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780
And an Australian reprint of The Avenger with 3 Bob Powell stories and a back page by Fred Guardineer.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40170
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2 new additions to the Aus/NZ section. Another issue of The Adventures of Captain Havoc and The Phantom Knight. This time in landscape format and this edition is a N.Z. reprint.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40205
And #22 of Jet Fury. This is another odd format comic, with an upright cover and landscape interior pages. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40206
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more cool stuff as always thanks Paw
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Another 10 issues of Nelson Lee Library:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780
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Super Thriller with Ace Hart the Atom Man. I scanned this from an unofficial facsimile . The original dates from early 1950. Published by Foldes Press, Edinburgh.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40387
Plus, Atomic comic from 1947. Scanned by jimpy.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40388
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A new addition to the French section, from 1948, which I bought recently in a second hand bookshop in Palma de Mallorca. The bloke in the shop had no idea where he got it. In poor condition, with badly trimmed pages on thin paper, it is readable and I hope some of you will enjoy something a bit different
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40439
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Ace Hart is always welcome as is something different.
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New addition to the L. Miller, British comics section with Space Commander Kerry #51. Art by Mick Anglo.
1953.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40459
Modifying this to add that we now have a new section in Aus/N.Z. comics for Phantom Ranger. Only 2 comics at the moment, but at least a start.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2759
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3 very interesting womens/girls romance story papers, courtesy of Ufikus. 1 x Miracle and 2 x Secrets and Flames - all from 1946. You can find them at the bottom of the story papers page.
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10 more issues of Nelson Lee Library. Near the bottom of this page:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=100
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Following comments on our Aus. comic in the reading group, I made an effort and spent time searching through my boxes. So, we now have an issue of Sergeant Pat of the Radio Patrol:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40588
and an issue of another Aus comic, this time an original, Flynn of the FBI, by Arthur Mather, the artist who did the Aus. Captain Atom.:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40587
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Thanks for uploading these books! I may be the only one, but I've always enjoyed the Radio Patrol strip, both for story and art. This example is rather later than I've seen before...the cars are late-40s/early 50s. Radio Patrol was really a child of the 30s and I suspect the novelty of police cars with radios had worn off by the time this story was published.
I scanned Flynn of the FBI but I haven't read it yet. The artist (is that Maher? I can't read the signature clearly) swiped his women from Mel Graff's X-9, though the other characters seem to be his own. Graff's layouts and handling of backgrounds had an influence on Maher as well. Very interesting.
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Yes that's Arthur Mather who also did Australian Captain Atom.
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2 more Super Thriller issues, featuring Ace Hart and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2775
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More good stuff thanks Paw
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I mentioned a few weeks ago that I thought I had a copy of the Aus, Garth. Well, I found it 8) - and it was in bits. Took me a while to scan it 'cos it fell apart and the pages got mixed up. However, nobody is interested in all that nonsense, you only want the comic. ;) This is a landscape comic by Atlas and you will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40817
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Finally, an original French version of Atome Kid. Issue #1 is now onsite here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=41158
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A new addition the the Italian language section. A striscia, which is an oblong comic just over 6 1/2 inches long by 3 1/4 inches high. This one is part of a Sherlock Holmes story, published by Edit. Fumetti, Milano, Dec. 1957. Art by G. Cossio. Enjoy it:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=41167
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2 new additions to the Spanish language section. Los Mosqueteros#1:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=41305
and La Leyenda del Puma#1, which is in the El Puma section and not by Boixcar. Not sure which version came first:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=41304
Both these landscape comics I bought in a 2nd. hand bookshop in Palma de Mallorca and both were in poor condition. I've had to crop them quite a bit but there are still some flaws showing. At least we have 2 more first issues. Enjoy them.
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Just to add the the Freixas delights now pouring onto the site, here is El Capitan Misterio. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=41406
What a mask/hoody thingy! The Hood; El Encapuchado; El Hombre de la Estrella and a few more all had this style of headgear and it looks really menacing.
You can see the cover to the last hero above, here:-
http://tebeosbajosospecha.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/el-hombre-de-la-estrella-bruguera-1947.html
OOPS, made a mistake with that El Capitan book and I'm afraid it's no longer available. Apologies.
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Hi Paw I am uploading some UK comics for you. Could you check and put what you think is a good stopping point for the titles we carry? I have some others not sure if I should post.
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Another example of a striscia. This one is a slightly more obscure title I think. The Phantom/Ghost Archer - although when you read it you wont find him firing many arrows or being particularly phantomy/ghosty.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=42467
The size of this comic is just over 6 1/2 inches long by 3 1/4 inches high
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My first scan with my new machine. Still getting to grips with it, so, if the finish is not the best, that's my fault.
Jet Fury#25 and you will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=47009
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Atome Kid 03 in the French section here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=47021
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The first Captain Valiant issue. Typical weird numbering as it is #50. More Mick anglo goodness and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=47022
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Comet #437:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=47070
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Another Space Comics, this time #56.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=47075
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15 issues of Nelson Lee Library and we're moving into the Phantom Protector series. As usual, some atmospheric covers. You'll find them in the Nelson Lee section coming up to #500 and above.:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780
Following right along, 4 issues of The Thriller - #81, 95, 352, 546. In the pulp section:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=740
Plus, in the story paper section, 3 pre-Sexton Blake issues of Union Jack, a new issue of Modern Boy.
There were some problems with some of the Nelson Lee batch. Fortunately Mark noticed - is that bloke eagle-eyed or what? - so I've uploaded complete files. You could do worse than read #498 - 500 as it's the Christmas story - The Ghost of Glenthorne Manor. Also in the back of some of these issues there is a Nelson Lee detective story co-starring girl detective, Eileen Dare.
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In the Odds and Ends section, 2 poster stamps booklets from British Rail. 1935 and 1936. These were giveaways with The Childrens' Newspaper.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=47160
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=47159
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nice little additions
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At long last I tracked down the original landscape issues of Capitan Sol - masked Spanish hero. The complete 10 issue run from 1948 is now on the site and I've moved the later collection to the new heading as well.
The comics were printed on really thin paper and there is a lot of shine through. Well worth a look.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2930
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Thought you might be interested in this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-1935-Champion-Library-Cave-Boy-Erek-by-Douglas-Dundee-164-/191328165338?pt=Magazines&hash=item2c8c0c1dda
He has several others you may be interested in
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That's tasty. Thanks. I'll follow the listings for a few days and jump in when anyone else least expects it. Holy Moley, postage is expensive! Actually, those are rare here. They just do not show up often at all.
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Another issue of The Merry Maker. This time #9 from 1946. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=47217
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I found some more issues of the Spanish translation of Kit-Boy and have uploaded 3 of them. I had to do it using the upload button as mass upload refused them. More to follow, but slowly. You will find them in the Spanish language section.
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Another issue of Space Comics. This time #57 and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=49464
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Today, Space Comics featuring Captain Valiant #63 and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=49642
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Apologies to all who downloaded Space Comics #57 as there were 2 pages missing. Now fixed and it's here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=49643
Thanks to Darci who spotted the mistake.
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The next 10 issues of Nelson Lee Library. The Phantom Protector makes an appearance and there is the start of the new detective serial wherein Nelson Lee takes on Professor Zingrave. Some good atmospheric illos. 1925.
You can find them nr. the bottom of this page:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=200
Modifying this to add that I have uploaded some issues of The Dreadnought from 1915 to British Story Papers.
These contain school stories plus Sexton Blake episodes and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2951
Thanks to the ever excellent Friardale site. They do wonderful work.
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Something new for CB+, Dutch mini comics from post WW2 . Lex Brand, a private eye series by Ben Abas, dating from 1948. These are small, about the size of a cigarette packet and, in this case, have around 68 pages. Called Beeldverhaal, some series have one illo. per page.
You can find #'s 1 to 5 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2953
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thanks Paw always like to see new stuff
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Do you own the physical copies?
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Yes, I have a small pile of Dick Bos and a couple of other titles. But they are in poor condition.
I have found 4 issues of De Moker and they are now available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2954
#3 I have had to scan in front and back covers from my own copy.
These are the same size as the Lex Brand issues. And from the same period - late 1940's.
Hope everyone enjoys them.
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Loved the De Moker. Thanks Paw
Mr_Goldenage
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Some more issues of the Spanish masked hero, El Espiritu de La Selva and you can find them at the bottom of this page:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2576
Modifying this to add more uploads. 2 issues of Aventures de demain, #4 of which is a reprint of a British pocket library featuring the hero, The Black Shadow. Art by Bill Lacey.
An issue of Corriere dei Piccoli in the Italian section.
An issue of Radar from 1947 in the French section.
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cool stuff thanks Paw, but sure hate the lettering on Espiritu de la Selva
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An album of football (soccer) cards from Brazil and dated 1947
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=51596
And from 1954, an issue of Junior, a western comic, also from Brazil. Half of the first 2 pages of story are missing, torn off.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=51597
Narfstar is right, the lettering on Espiritu de la Selva is really off-putting. Difficult to read. The comics main claim to fame, for me, being a resemblance to The Phantom - character and legend. Another similar legend is the one for Phantom Ranger, the Australian hero and I think I've found a couple of the Brazilian reprints online, if I can collate the scans, I'll upload them, just needs some time.
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More of that difficult lettering as there are another 5 issues of El Espiritu de La Selva:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2576
Plus 2 more issues of Cavaleiro Fantasma, which, I think, might be original as opposed to Australian reprints and we'd all love to know if anyone can shed info. on this:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2369
From France, a 1949 comic:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=52259
and a new section, Jim Cartouche:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2960
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My Spanish and Portuguese aren't that good, but I don't see what is so wrong with the lettering. It looks pretty good to me.
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See narf's comment above. As for me, it has always seemed a bit harder to read - and I've been used to it for a few years now. Feels as if you have to to work hard to figure out some of the text and not only because it's in Spanish.
But I'm glad you find it fine as this is a good comic, especially as it features one of the sub-Phantom characters.
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I don't speak Portuguese but Cavaleiro Fanstasma looks good and is easy enough to follow with just the pictures. I always enjoy seeing new characters from around the world.
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This time it's #1 of Silver Starr, by Stanley Pitt. Scanned from a badly photocopied original -that is, many pages were photocopied squinty - at least we all get to see this classy but elusive comic.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=52340
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Paw....
Brilliant! Simply brilliant!
Thank you for this cool book from AU.
Richard
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This time it's #1 of Silver Starr, by Stanley Pitt. Scanned from a badly photocopied original -that is, many pages were photocopied squinty - at least we all get to see this classy but elusive comic.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=52340
Great looking comic using CDisplayEx! Really fixed the faded look of the colors!
Love the oldies of SciFi!
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Some more issues of El Espiritu de La Selva. Unfortunately #70 is missing form my downloads and I can't find it online - yet. Getting close to completing the run, if I can just find that #70. Anyway, you can find the others here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2576
Also, 3 issues of a French title from 1948. Targa is available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2979
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This time, Space Comics #74 from 1954. The original was in bad nick with small tears and sellotape holding the covers on. Signed cover - Mick Anglo and interior art by Denis Gifford on Speedsmith and Dudley Page on Cap. Valiant:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2919
Also a few more Espiritu de La Selva:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2576
Getting there.
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Nice example of Yarmak added today. Art on the Yarmak story by Stanley Pitt:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=53389
Also a new addition to the French section, Le Dragon Vert:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=53388
Also another French comic. This time a weekly anthology title, Le Journal de Toto which has a page of the serial, Le Dragon Vert. Not the same one as above:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=53390
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Today, a Falcon story from a 1952 Radio Fun Annual. This is before he gained the flying suit:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=54468
Another Thunderbolt Jaxon story:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=54469
And in the pulp section, Wild West Weekly from 1938
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=54470
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A few more Nelson Lee Library and a small pamphlet for British sport books which you will find here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=55448
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Texas Rangers in Action 33 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=55529
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As it's about time I did a bit of work around here, I've uploaded the first 10 issues of Inspector Dan. This is a tasty weekly loaded with action and well done by Eugenio Giner.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3018
More to follow when I sort them out.
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I've read a lot about Inspector Dan in histories and fanzines but I've never had the pleasure of seeing one complete. Thanks for posting these!
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Found another Billy the Kid. This is #25 and it's here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=55730
Typical high quality Charlton printing. All those squinty pages take ages to sort out.
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#s 11 to 20 of Inspector Dan and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3018
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Billy the Kid #28 this time:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=55753
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Added Inspector Dan 21 - 30 and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3018
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Inspector Dan #31 - 40 and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3018
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More Lex Brand. # 6 - 10.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2953
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Yesterday another Australian issue of Sergeant Pat of the Radio Patrol. By this time the stories were Aus. originals with art by Arhur Mather. You can find that issue here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=56722
Today, another 4 issues of the weirdness that is Lex Brand. They are in the Dutch section and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=50323
Modifying this to add that I've uploaded another few issues of Inspector Dan. I've found #41 which was missing from the pile I found elsewhere, so it looks like we're slowly heading for a complete run.
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Inspector Dan #46 to #50 added today and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3018
Modifying this to add that I have now finished uploading all 20 of the Lex Brand Dutch beeldverhaals that I have. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2953
With any luck someone else might be able to source more of these tiny Dutch comics - please :)
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A new addition to the French language section with a landscape title from around 1950, I think. The comic was found on an obscure internet site and I have no idea who the original scanner was. This could be quite a rare item, at least I've never seen it before. Art by Nazieb, who was a prolific French comic artist - see the Lambiek link on the entry:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=56790
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4 more French comics. Conquerant from 1947, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=57599
And a new section, Collection Hurrah! with 3 isues of the title, all from 1950. The comics on site will not show the exclamation mark of the title as it causes an upload error.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3055
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A new Spanish title, Diamante Negro:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=57625
And a new addition to the French language section with a 1940's landscape title:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=57626
Finally, another French title, this time from 1953:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=57627
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A new Spanish superhero entry with El Rayo Fantasma. A 4 issue compilation:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=57666
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awesome
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Another 2 French comics. P'tit Gars here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=57680
And Zar'O Sherif here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=57679
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A cigarette card album, circa 1930's, featuring BBC radio personalities incl. Gracie fields, The Hulbert Bros. band leaders etc. This was issued by W.D. & H.O. Wills and the album cost 1d (one penny).
I found this in a local charity shop and it is in pretty bad nick, so if anyone wants to have a go at improving the quality of the scans, please go ahead.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58127
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I started Googling from the front of the book to find clues to a publication year, only to discover that in Sir Henry Wood's entry the writer says right out that "this year" is 1934. So I guess this was published in 1934. I found many interesting stories about these fellows. George Allison was the Beeb's leading soccer announcer even while he was boss of Arsenal F.C. Wasn't that considered a conflict of interest back then? Derek McCulloch has been accused of sexually abusing kids during his long run hosting "Children's Hour" while the BBC covered it up. Wikipedia calls Christopher Stone "the first disk jockey in the United Kingdom." I wonder what happened to his collection of 12,000 records, which had surely grown by the time he died in 1965. All very fascinating. Thanks for posting this document.
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cool stuff and the scans were fine
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I stumbled upon 2 new Buffalo Bill issues, 1 with art by Denis McLaughlin, the other by Ron Embleton. Both published by TV Boardman/Popular around 1949/50. So, as we already had some Boardman/Popular books and annuals, I've made a new section and gathered them together. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3071
There is also a 4 page strip from a mid '50's annual by Ian Kennedy and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58159
The website where I found them:-
http://cloud-109.blogspot.co.uk
is interesting.
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Another reason for creating a TV Boardman section - apart from those 2 Bufflo Bill comics - was unearthing in my boxes, an issue of Swift Morgan. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58163
Plus, 3 issues of Roy Carson found in my boxes, and they are available in the TV Boardman/Popular section:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3071
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I liked Swift Morgan. Boy the art was way off or way on. Some really great looking panels and people and some pretty poor ones.
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I agree with Narf on Swift Morgan. It looks like the best panels are when the artist had swipes or photos to work from. Still a commendable job. I'll bet King Zezon has a sore neck from supporting the weight of that horsehead helmet.
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I have moved the previously unknown origin Swift Morgan story to the TV Boardman section as I'm now pretty sure it originated in either Boardman's Adventure Annual or New Spaceways Comic Annual.
The Buffalo Bill story that was in The British section is now in TV Boardman as it comes from Buffalo Bill Wild West Annual #3 (1952). Thanks to Bigwords for the info.
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Futher digging has turned up another 2 TV Boardman Annuals. New Spaceways Comic Annual from 1954 with reprints of previous Boardman comics and Quality material.
Buffalo Bill Wild West Annual #4 1952.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3072
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I've put together a small compilation of Terry Brent stories from School Friend, using scans form my own collection and scans from Boutje Fedankt's defunct website.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58185
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Entire British Pathe movie library on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe
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A compilation of The Flaming Avenger illustrated text story from Rover, 1933. Wasn't sure what was the best section to host this. It's currently in Compilations but if anyone prefers it somewhere else, let me know.
This is a costumed superhero with a touch of Iron Man but decades before. The story appeared in 2, 3 or 4 page, weekly installments and, unfortunately, one 3 page part is missing, but there is a good chance that the missing issue will be re-upped and I can complete the file. Shouldn't spoil your enjoyment of a rare character.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58209
This is one of a number of illustrated text stories featuring costumed or masked mystery man in early British storypapers, but it is so difficult to find complete serials.
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I've re-uploaded the missing issue. I've also uploaded it to this site if you prefer to get it from here.
Hoover
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Hi Hoover! Cool, I have made it live! Best Mark
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Great service, hoover and Mark. I've done the necessaries and the complete story is now available in Compilations. Thanks ;D
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The first 5 issues of Chandamama, a Hindi magazine for families and younger folk, are now available in the Hindi language section.
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A selection of Beaver Patrol single page humour strips from Knockout with art by Reg Parlett. Thanks to Boutje Fedankt who put this and piles of other collections together. Thanks also to Kashgar on comicsuk.co.uk who was kind enough to i/d the artist for me.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58413
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The Gem - a small pile of new additions. Thanks to Harmsworth and Friardale who did all the work, I just changed the description slightly to suit our listings. These are good reads and typical of boys' papers of the time. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2284
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Six-Gun Heroes #77. Terrible condition and found in a box under a table at a mart. But it's got Gunmaster ;D
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58593
And another small pile of The Gem, again all thanks to Harmsworth and Friardale:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2284
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I admit to being a fan of Gunmaster thanks
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Another issue of Corriere dei Piccoli. Even if you can't read Italian, some of the ads are worth a look.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58630
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The British Zorro now has a section under, "L. Miller & Co." as there are now 2 examples, as I added #88 today. Please note that #88 features the first part of a 2 part story and I don't have the 2nd. part. Sorry. These stories are French reprints and I think have been reprinted in Italy also:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3095
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Another addition to the L. Miller section with Kid Dynamite #56 from the late '50's:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58773
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More for the L. Miller section with the addition of Davy Crockett #26 which has early Don Lawrence art:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58778
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This time I've added Daniel Boone #6 to the L. Miller section.
The original is in bad nick and pages are torn as well as having been printed off centre and badly trimmed. So lots of cropping on this scan:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58787
The Rock Riley story might be a Charlton reprint. Can anyone confirm or otherwise?
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I've added a Davy Crockett section to L. Miller. Also corrected the attribution for DC #04 to reflect that the scanner was ernesto_hombre.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3097
An apology. I wrongly attributed art in Daniel Boone #6 to Castells, so I have altered the notes on that comic. If anyone can i/d the artist on #6, that would be good. Well, better than the art anyway.
The work, however, does seem to have been done for Mick Anglo Studio.
Modifying this again to note that another issue of Daniel Boone - #31 - has been added to the site and I have created a Daniel Boone section for L. Miller:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3098
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Kid Dynamite #64 now available in the L. Miller section:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58803
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Masked cowboy Razzo Bill has been added to the French language section. His adventures appear in the series, Collection E.L.A.N. and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58813
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I had forgotten about this comic and found it by accident the other day - filed in the wrong place :-[
Anyway, better late than never, another issue of the French superhero, Fulguros. This time in the tale of The Rajah's Son. From 1952 and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58818
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Pretty well drawn character
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A bit of a rarity this time with Whacky Rodeo #2. This was published in Glasgow by Funnibook Company and up till stumbling on this scan, I'd never heard of the company. Many thanks to Slinky for the scan.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58828
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Another episode of the French series, Mister X, in Collection Eclair, #43. 18.11.1947. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58841
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A new section in British Comics. A. Soloway of London published comics from 1940 to 1949? The section only features one of their titles, All Star Comic, and we have to give all credit to "bede" for the scans. These are rarities and well worth a look as examples of the type of comic available in the U.K. during the war and right after.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3106
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Very interesting to see these books. "Argo" looks great, though it's mostly swipes. However I find "The Man from the Past" most appealing despite its clunky artwork.
What size were these comics? They seem to be wider in proportion to their height than other magazines. Were they "mini" books?
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As far as I can be sure, from my info and the guide, the first vol was 8 page tabloid size. After that it went to 16 page half tabloid. The guide suggests there were 27 issues in total.
Once again, I have to say that all the credit for these should go to bede, as all that I did was make up a new section for them and upload them to that. Perhaps when bede sees I've done that, he might want to change the attribution and might be able to add more info.
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First of all I should explain that when I am asked to select a username when joining anything new I tend to make up a new name. I was hoover on here before I joined Scanarama where I selected Bogof39 and then when I got into the database there I selected bede. If it is of interest to anybody Hoover is my cat, whose photo is at the left, taken when he was about one year old.
The Soloway titles are from a bound volume I just got and if paw would like to add the other issues I've scanned it will save me the trouble. I know little about the titles and I'd never heard of them until last month although I was eight when they ceased publication.
hoover
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More Soloway goodness with the addition of some Comic Adventures and All Fun. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3106
More to follow.
Many thanks to hoover for these great discoveries and scans.
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As promised, more Soloway comics. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3106
Thanks are again due to hoover for these rarities.
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Thanks for doing all the work paw. You have missed Comic Cpaers v2n3 and v2n4 plus All Fun v1n1.
hoover
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Aye, that's about right, isn't it? I just got a bit excited about all these great, obscure comics. In my somewhat weak defence, I was searching for info. on Soloway and putting out questions to some other collectors for help with the company, contributors and titles, all at the same time. :-[
I have gathered up the All Fun #1/1 , but the other 2 Comic Caper issues return a "not found" result and I notice there is no mention of which site they are on. I'll make a note on the Indexing Website and we'll see what happens.
Amending this to note that the 3 missing Soloway titles are now available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3106
And to say thanks to hoover for spotting the omissions, and to me for asking for them to be re-uploaded on the originating site ;D
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New in the UK section, a new section for Flash comic - no, nothing whatsoever to do with the superhero of the same name - from the late '40's. Also, a new section, The Hotspur Publishing Co. Ltd. to host the existing Secret Service titles and a new comic, Panto Pranks.
Along with that lot, you'll also find an issue of Moon Comic and Sky High Comic. Thanks to Jimpy for some of these scans but I'm afraid I can't find scanner info. for the others.
All in the UK section, I hope.
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A small selection of Nelson Lee Library. You will find them nr. the bottom of the 3rd. page. With thanks to Friardale:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=200
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A new section today with Schoolgirls' Picture Library. 17 issues now available from the late '50's. This title featured, among other one off stories, appearances by 3 groups of hooded, robed, masked, private school types - Silent Three, Gray Ghosts and Secret Avengers. The comics are digest sized and the scanners have decided to scan 2 pages at a time. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
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Phew, this has taken me a while. Excavating and downloading files from the site found by crashryan:-
http://bdvintagerares.blogspot.com
Checking dates, language, changing description to suit CB+ and uploading them. I admit that I got into a bit of a fankle :-[
Anyway, you will a new French section for ARDAN from early to mid-50's. $ comics here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3124
Targa 01 from 1947:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59313
Panthere Blonde:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59312
Roag from 1947:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59316
And Robin 2:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59316
An early jungle hero in an edition of El Peneca from Chile in the Spanish language section:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59311
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Hi Pawn!
Glad to see you enjoy our french blog http://bdvintagerares.blogspot.fr/ (http://bdvintagerares.blogspot.fr/) as us for CB+ ;)
There's a lot to read.
Best regards,
Starman aka Doc Mars :)
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C'est toi, Doc Mars? Il y a 2 semaines crashryan a post
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Yes it's me :)
We are four (like the Musketeers) to direct the blog and feed the monster ;)
For comics in CB+, 1954-55 is your limit?
I'll surely upload some old french comics "from the vault" later as i've done with Amok.
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3 more issues of Radio Fun, which is a lovely wee comic. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3070
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In the Dutch language section, another issue of the beeldroman, Lex Brand, #21 and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59412
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In the Dutch language section, another issue of the beeldroman, Lex Brand, #21 and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59412
Hi Paw,
I have issues #22 and 23. Can I upload them?
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Please do Starman ;D I'm having trouble downloading further issues from another site, so your issues are more than welcome.
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Following a serious rake through my hard copy files, I turned up #2 of aka, the fanzine, so it's now available for anybody to read and hopefully comment on. Rather an eye-catching cover though, don't you think?
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59423
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Please do Starman ;D I'm having trouble downloading further issues from another site, so your issues are more than welcome.
It's done :)
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For all you masked, costumed (superhero) fans, the first appearance of The Falcon - the real one, not Sam Wilson - in the flying suit as The Winged avenger. 2 lovely pages in the middle of Radio Fun # 695 from 1952. Hope you enjoy seeing this.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59450
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Following my compilation of hoover's scans of Adventure with Zero the Silent, I've now added a new compilation, this time using hoover's scans of the second ever Black Sapper story which appeared on Rover in 1931. Although not that easy to read in places, it should give you a good flavour of the arch villain and his amazing burrowing machine. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=60208
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Radio Fun Annual from 1951. I don't think we have this one on site. you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=60563
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As compilations seem quite popular right now, I've added another one. This time it's the incomplete tale of The Phantom Avenger, a masked mystery man whose adventures appeared in the story paper, The Triumph, in 1932.
hoover, and ernesto and josemas provided the original scans and I just extracted the pages and put them together.
You'll find it here and I hope you enjoy what there is of it:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=60702
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Another compilation. This time a prose story from the 1940's and the later adaptation as a comic strip from the late '50's, titled, The Purple Planet Needs Air and adapted as The Purple Planet in the comic strip version which is considerably shortened. There are a number of examples of this practice with British titles as comic strips were gradually introduced to the traditional storypapers.
Grab this as soon as you can as Mark might have something to say about it :-[
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=60792
I didn't have a note of the original scanner/s, so if any of you can let me know the proper attributions, I'll change the description.
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The version in the New Hotspur was a repeat of a 1952 run in the Rover.
hoover
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That's excellent. Thank you. I'm off to try and track down the Rover version.
Today, another compilation but this time really short, just 4 pages of story. From Adventure in 1948 comes, Black Slink, The Shadow Spy. As you'll see from the notes with the file, I know sfa about the strip, character or artist, so any and all help gratefully received:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=60839
Original scans by hoover, to whom many thanks.
A suggestion to anyone downloading my files, for viewing on a pc, please use CDisplay.ex or comiccrack up to date versions, or similar. On android, please try PerfectViewer or similar, but PV is excellent.
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Another compilation, this time 2 Dick Barton adventures from Comet, 1953.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=60910
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The very first issue of Nelson Lee Library from 1915:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=60943
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I almost missed this next lot, having forgotten to check Tebeos de factura hispana for some days. So when I looked today, there they were, #s 1 - 27 of the masked mystery man, El Encapuchado and the link was about to expire. More importantly, we got them and they are now available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3165
This hooded crimefighter appeared in 1946, drawn by Adriano Blasco and featured in a run of landscape comics. He also starred in a series of very popular "pulps" in Spain.
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go Paw go
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As of today we now have #4 of Super Detective Library from 1953, The Return of The Third Man. A typical pocket library and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61088
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Yet another compilation, this time from Sun, 1952. Jak of The Jaguars stars in this adventure and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61094
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Paw,
Since you are in the UK, you have much better access to certain British series than I. I would love to see the Fleetwood line of comic, especially the THRILLER series before they began BATTLER BRITTIAN and the alternating war heroes series. I'd love those that did adaptations of great books. I do remember one I read that was titled THE THREE MUSKETEERS but actually adapted THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK.
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As I wrote to one of our other members recently, scans of these pocket libraries are like hens teeth. The books are a nightmare to scan without destroying the originals and the few we have, or that are available, are all from copies that are literally in tatters. The originals are expensive and not many collectors want to dismantle valuable collectibles for scanning. As you know, because of the bad staples which always are rusty, putting an issue back together needs new staples and therefore it's not original anymore and the value drops. However, on ebay uk there are a number of facsimiles for sale at about
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Ditto, well said Paw Broon, the Hen's Teeth analogy is apt to many other comics as well.
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A new compilation of 2 Nick Swift of The Planet Patrol stories. Art on 2nd. story by Ron Smith.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61141
Anyone downloading this, please ensure you use up-to-date versions of CDisplayex; ComicRack, Gonvisor or similar to read the file.
Original scans by hoover.
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Son of The Electric Shadow appeared in Adventure in 1953. The compilation has some pages in B&W.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61144
Thanks to hoover for the scans.
Anyone downloading this, please ensure you use up-to-date versions of CDisplayex; ComicRack, Gonvisor or similar to read the file.
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A small new section for Barrett Publishing, England. We have 2 issues of their title, Bumper Comic Book. A young persons comic:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3169
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A compilation of a Don Deeds adventure, an obscure story from Comet, which ran from the end on 1950 - to early 1951. Art by R.W. Plummer, I think.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61154
Anyone downloading this story, please use up-to-date CDisplayex; ComicRack, Gonvisor, or similar to read it.
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Another Jak of the Jaguars compilation. This time, the origin story and you'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61267
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A real rarity this time. I was looking through old files and came up with a pile of photocopies from years ago of a great Edgar Wallace newspaper strip adaptation. I've tried to tidy the pages and bits and pieces up and put them in a readable order. So, from 1937, here's Terror Keep, featuring the amazing Mr. J. G. Reeder of the Public Prosecutors office bringing the mad John Flack to justice. Art by Jack Monk, who is a favourite of mine as he drew the Buck Ryan strip. Hope you enjoy it.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61274
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Page 27/28 reminded me of Willow the Wispp on page 31 of Key Comics 5
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From photocopies of a story from Swift Morgan Spaceways comic, the SW story, The Beast From Outer space. Art by Denis McLoughlin. I had to make a cover using bits and pieces from the internet. If anyone can improve the cover, please have a go.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61286
Modifying this to note that, thanks to hoover, there is a better front cover for the file.
Also, would anyone downloading this or any other of my files, please try not to use the old Sequential Image Display. It doesn't appear to work. Don't know why.
Please do use up to date versions of CDisplayex; ComicRack; Gonvisor or similar.
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how about this?
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Yes, I saw that cover but it's not a Spaceways Comic cover. Actually, what I meant was, could anyone get rid of the gap between the top image and the bottom image on my not very good paste-up, or otherwise improve the layout, 'cos I'm not very professional with this stuff :-[
The cover I used listed 2 stories with some extraneous stuff about the 2nd story, which I don't have and can't find, so I chopped it up and used the bits that referred to the Swift Morgan story. for me, that was pretty good ::)
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An early Crimson Comet, #18, and you'll find it in the Australian section, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61373
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An oddity today. A French language version of Cap. Marvel Jr, from the Belgian magazine, Bravo, 1950, with art by Uderzo. As I have noted in the comments, I have no idea where this file came from, so, if anyone can shed any light on it, I will change the attribution. Well worth a look and I hope you enjoy it.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61574
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Using hoover's raw scans of The Skipper #'s 162 - 181, I've brought this villain as hero serial together by making up front and back pages. Exciting stuff from 1933/34.
/?dlid=61621
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Today, a new section in Spanish comics for Hazanas Belicas, a war series created by Guillermo S
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You find the neatest stuff just wish I could read it
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A new section in UK Comic Books today. Barrett Publishing Company, London, produced The Bumper Comic Book, a young persons comic, possibly in the 1940's. There were 16 issues and, thanks to Harmsworth, we have 2 on the site. Very little information is available for this company and title, so all help will be most welcome:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3182
Also, 2 issues of The Joker - #130 and 375 from 1930 and 1935, respectively - a British anthology humour strip and prose thriller comic. hoover scanned these 2 issues. both issues have amazing,busy, good quality humour strips in the middle pages and are well worth a look. Guaranteed to raise a smile. :-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61707
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5 more issues of El Zorro in the Spanish section:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2468
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Dell 4 color, 534 Western Marshal added today. Oh, I do like this one.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61959
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Another Dell. This time Six Gun Ranch and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61968
I bought a small pile of slightly pongy, low grade comics at a recent mart and this and yesterday's are a couple of them.
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I recently bought a Classics Illustrated copy of Treasure Island from a bargain bin and when I took it out of the B & B the whole house smelled like old cigarette smoke. It was the 1st time I ever sprayed Febreeze on a comic book.
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OOOH-errr, missus! Pongy periodicals are a right oooh-nasty.
This lot weren't just smoky, there was an old foosty aroma too, but at least they were cheap. I've had them airing at an open window for a couple of weeks - despite the Scottish weather! They're a bit less whiffy now.
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Heroes 4 Sale (yes, named after the comic shop in the movie True Romance) in Vandalia, OH (near Dayton) is the maist foosty comic shop I've been to, and I love it! Though there is a shop in Alexandria,VA (that I have not visited) that also sells exotic plants along with back-issue comics, I suspect that one may be even mair foosty than Heroes 4 Sale.
I confess to having to look up 'pongy' & 'foosty' I now plan to use them in casual conversation.
Foosty https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foosty
Pongy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pongy
It's not the comics that make this place great, it is the new words and factoids you pick up in the forums! ;D
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Febreze--it fixes the comic books you've gone nose-blind to!
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Nice one, crash! You'll be submitting that to their marketing dept., of course? ;)
Isn't Krac sounding more and more Scottish? And no bad thing.
A number of Scottish words come from French and Dutch. French was the official language of the Scottish court before we were sold to England. And there was a lot of trade between Scotland and France and Holland.
You might fancy a look at the great Stanley Baxter doing his "language lessons" in his tv show. Glaswegian at it's most incomprehensible:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCk_yNuTGk
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Thanks for the link, paw. I'd never heard of Stanley Baxter. The skits are hilarious!
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Another 4 Color and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61978
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another foosty one?
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Pure mingin' this one!
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This time a Fawcett missing from our files. Monte Hale Western #57. The original is falling to bits and has cellophane on the front cover. Best I can do with it. At least I didn't pay much for it.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=62000
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Another Dell 4 color. This time Desert gold and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=62010
To view on a Windows machine, please ensure you have up to date versions of CDisplayEX; ComicRack; Gonvisor or similar.
If on an android device, please use up to date versions of PerfectViewer or similar.
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The first one for a while and it's a compilation of a June Gaynor detective text serial from Girl's Crystal, 1945
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=62363
Let's hope this one opens for all who are interested.
The pages were extracted from pdf files found on Friardale, where there are no scanner credits, so, thanks to whoever scanned the issues.
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Enjoyed the June Gaynor serial. [Spoiler alert) Considering that Uncle Ned is suspected of being the Grey Falcon. it's sort of strange the Falcon doesn't turn out to be anybody special.
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You should find that the Girls' Crystal issues on Friardale have been on this site for years.
hoover
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Yes they have been but some of the issues used fro the compilation weren't, so I used Friardale. Actually, you probably noticed that the compilation is missing the first 2 chapters, something I'll rectify shortly. It was more a test upload for me with this one. Also, I like the idea of taking complete stories from anthology pubs and letting folk read them without having to wade through a pile of issues at 2 or 3 pages per issue.
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Hi Paw!
What is the link for Friardale? Thank you in advance.
Richard
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http://www.friardale.co.uk/
There you are Richard. Remember, lots of the stuff on Friardale has already been uploaded to CB+.
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Thanks Paw!
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After a really quiet time for a couple of reasons, I have started a new section under Spanish comics. El Vengador del Mundo. #'s 1,2,3 and 5 are now up. Plus #10 of Kit-Boy, also in the Spanish section.
I seem to have lost/misplaced my notes for some of these scans, so if anyone can i/d the original scanner, let me know and I'll change the attribution.
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Captain Future by Norman Light. This is a compilation of 2 CF stories, probably from an issue of Spaceman, with an added cover illo from Spaceman #9? The scans are from old photocopies.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=64724
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After a really quiet time for a couple of reasons, I have started a new section under Spanish comics. El Vengador del Mundo. #'s 1,2,3 and 5 are now up. Plus #10 of Kit-Boy, also in the Spanish section.
I seem to have lost/misplaced my notes for some of these scans, so if anyone can i/d the original scanner, let me know and I'll change the attribution.
Hi Paw
How are you?
For Vengador del Mundo i have "Ravillco & Vicsildavia" as spanish scanners, do you want the others (to #16)?
For Kit-Boy I have "Solymos & mahc" ;)
More infos about these spanish comics here
http://www.tebeosfera.com/obras/series/vengador_del_mundo_el_prado_marculeta.html
http://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/marculeta.html
http://www.tebeosfera.com/obras/publicaciones/kit-boy_soriano_1956.html
Best Regards
Doc Mars
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Hi Doc,
Oui, s'il te plait. Je suis en train de t
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4 more issues of El Vengador del Mundo and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3213
Thanks to Doc Mars we now know who the original scanners were. This is a great site with great members - and all that knowledge. Isn't that excellent.
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The Captain Future compilation was missing various pages - and I can't figure out why - and thanks to eagle-eyed K1ngcat noticing the errors, I've deleted it and scanned a new version with all the pages. As they were done from old photocopies, I can only assume some fell out of the old paper folder I had. With luck, this new version is o.k. :-[
Also, a new section in Spanish comics. This time, Diamante Negro which is a one tier high landscape comic. This time I know the scanners but haven't a scooby who published it. So, if anyone can help?
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3217
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For all you Spanish comics fans, another new section. This time, El Pirata Cobra Blanca, a rather tasty 12 page landscape comic with lots of pirate action. Find issues 1 - 12 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3218
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I've uploaded a few things recently but forgot to post about them. As I've forgotten the first couple of items, all I can tell you about are today's 3. Bubbels is an old British weekly for younger readers in the British section. In the French section, an issue of Lisette, more prose than comics and a Pic & Nic landscape comic.
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A really obscure Italian landscape comic today from 1939. Lo Sciabecco Fantasma was drawn by Cossio. Published in Milan.
I put this file together from individual pages found on a site quite a while ago and only recently got around to finalising it and uploading:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=65251
N. African pirates, a masked corsair, sword fights, sea battles. What a lot of action in such a wee comic!
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A new section in Portuguese language comics, Biriba Mensal. This Brazilian monthly reprinted Marvel Family stories in the early to mid '50's.
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New section on Spanish language comics. This time Coleccion Post Guerra and there are 3 issues - 1; 8; 9.
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At long last I found another issue of Space Commander Kerry. I scanned this from a facsimile copy that I bought recently. So I've made a new section for the title in L. Miller.
Mick Anglo.
Lots of it makes no sense, particularly the first story. Enjoy, if you can!
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3240
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A new set of compilations today. This might not interest many of you, but I've been looking into early Spanish hero/villain pulps recently and have put together covers and interior illos. from a few titles. (Although I have a feeling that "S" was in an early Spanish comic).
Interestingly with El Encapuchado, we already have his later incarnation as a comic on site. The previous version in the pulps featured 2 masked, costumed female characters and I leave you to discover them on your own.
No knowledge of Spanish required for enjoying these files but I hope this might encourage some of our Spanish members to seek out more of these wee gems.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3241
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It's hard to tell from the covers whether El Encapuchado is supposed to be a good guy or a bad-but-slightly-good guy like Diabolik.
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A new section in Dutch language comics. Steve Drake. 2 issues of this late '50's beeldroman, small fag packet sized comic books with one illo per page.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3242
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Another new Dutch language section, this time featuring De Schaduw - yet another beeldroman or beeldverhaal. i.e. a small, cigarette packet sized comic with one illo per page. I've been looking for this and some other titles in this format for a while and now some luck. Dating from somewhere between 1945 and 1950, you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3243
Also, a Lilliput. One of those single tier comics that appeared in some European countries.
(There are other examples of the format on site, notably, Plutos in the Italian section - uploaded by mr_goldenage and translations by crashryan)
This one though is an issue of Raka and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=65527
I've listed the scanner(s) as "Unknown" as I can't find any info on who did the work. Sorry.
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A compilation of a text Night Hawk story from Nelson Lee Library #61, March 1931. This is one for all you fans of masked, winged mystery men.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=65878
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New section in Spanish comics. El Hombre de la Estrella from around 1947. Historical masked mystery man story. Great Hood type hood. Big sword. Great chest emblem. First 4 issues and with patience I might get some more from misinolvidablestebeos.
You can find them here:
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3269
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25 issues of Nelson Lee Library, which fills the gap on page 3 of our listing. In the run is issue # 34 which is a Christmas issue featuring, "The Spectre of Handforth Towers". A great seasonal read. You will find the new ones here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=780&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=200
Plus, 2 issues of the Miller reprint Captain Midnight series in the British section and another Grey Domino in the Australian section. These last three courtesy of Boutje Fedankt's site.
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A new British Annual, Crackerjack Western Book, 1959. Hardback. Mix of illustrated text stories and a few comic strips.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=66596
Once again I'm plagued by lost/missing notes, so if anyone can shed light on who scanned the book, or where it came from, let me know and I'll change the attribution. Ta.
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After a lot of chasing around, and thanks to my friend, Glenn Miller, I finally got in touch with Dominic Regan who gave me permission to scan and upload some issues of his mid '80's ' zine, Paper Empire - later Captain Empire. We now have Paper empire #1 & 3 and Captain Empire #1, which is really the fourth issue of the 'zine but contains only a Captain Empire story and should be read after PE #3.
Well worth checking the notes Dom printed in the 'zine, for an idea of who was about in comic fandom at the time.
Thanks to Dom, one of the nicest blokes in comics.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3281
I'm now in a position to fill in the gap in the Pantera Rubia series and add substantially to what issues we hold on CB+. It's taken me quite a time following odd, wee leads, but I found them and you can see them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2276
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A new title in the Swan section of British comics. These additions are 2 issues of Schoolgirls Album - 1945 & 1947. All illustrated prose with a colour cover. Rarities. Back covers have ads for other Swan Albums. All thanks must go to montymercury, HuckyC and bede/hoover for the scans.
You'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3285
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Regarding "El Corsario X," this looks more like a Spanish dime-novel than a pulp magazine. Similar in style to the old Deadwood Dick dime novels.
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Yes, you're right. I' m a bit careless about the classification. We didn't have Dime novels here, because we didn't have dimes. There were tons of these "Dime" novels in the UK and throughout Europe and El Corsario X is only one. This site has more examples of Spanish chapbooks/dreadfuls or whatever you want to call them:-
https://eldesvandelabuelito.wordpress.com/
Here, publisher like Newnes and others published lots of titles. Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, numerous detectives. And France was awash with them. They always have seemed to me like pulp writing, so I tend to use the term, usually with a country in front of it. ;D
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Another issue of Coloured Slick Fun, this time #71. Courtesy of Boutje Fedankt. Some manic humour strips as usual and a TNT Tom page. Great stuff and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=67700
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Additions to the Spanish historical hero, El Hombre de la Estrella. Great costume. We now have issues 1 - 11 having today added # 5 - ll. Scanned by CelsoRabat and sourced from those nice people at Aquellos Inolvidables Tebeos. This series comprises 26 issues and dates from around 1946. With any luck the rest will turn up. Fingers crossed.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3269
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A WDL British reprint of a Toby Press Billy the Kid. The British number is 14, published mid '50's.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=67963
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Thanks to Kracalactaka doing an amazing job editing my RAW scans, we now have a couple more British reprint titles.
Cowboy Western Comics 03, a Miller title:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68072
and Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine 14, a Foldes/WDL title:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=67975
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A bit of a rarity this time with Super Thriller Comics # 21. Although I've previously added other issues of the title to the site, and been a fan of Ace Hart since I was a wee boy, I've never laid eyes on this issue. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68076
With thanks to Kracalactaka for the edits.
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In the Dutch language section, I've made a new heading for Raka, a Dutch lilliput. We already had #9 and I've found and added #3 - in a slightly different format, and #8.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3293
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For the Sexton Blake fans out there, this is a compilation of a '50's Blake strip in Portuguese from the pages of Cavaleiro Andante. Art by Roland Davies:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68360
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I've been excavating, again. Delving around in odd, foreign blogs etc. The Blake strip above came from the same site as this Portuguese Sherlock Holmes strip. Art by Fernando Bento:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68372
I just need a bit of time to mine some more stories. I've the feeling I've been on this site before but I probably lost the bookmark when my pc gave up the ghost.
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A new section today in the French section, this is for 3 issues of Aventures de Pecos Bill, early to mid '50's, I've had to attribute these to "unknown" as I lost my notes of where these and other scans came from, and I've been holding off posting them thinking I might turn up the notes. So, apologies all round and if anyone can tell me whose scans these are, I'll change the attribution :-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3304
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A new section today in the French section, this is for 3 issues of Aventures de Pecos Bill, early to mid '50's, I've had to attribute these to "unknown" as I lost my notes of where these and other scans came from, and I've been holding off posting them thinking I might turn up the notes. So, apologies all round and if anyone can tell me whose scans these are, I'll change the attribution :-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3304
Hi Pawn
Seems to be from http://bdvintagerares.blogspot.fr/2016/01/pecos-bill.html ;)
I made it :)
Quantum, Bobo and Aven did scans of issues 14 & 15 ( http://emulebdz.p1g1.org/index.php?showtopic=6642&hl=pecos+bill )
a gift from Dominique Mariez for issue 45
Pecos Bill (french first serie) ran for 8 years (1950-1957), adaptation of an italian comic created in 1949 by Guido Martina (s) drawn by Pier Luigi De Vita, Rafaele Paparella and also D'Ami, Canale and Dino Battaglia.
Best regards from France
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You're a lifesaver Starman. Thanks, and I hope all our members and readers will visit your excellent site 8)
I have to add that I was reading your site's entry on Cobra and hervhe has posted an explanation of the history of the title that explains the connections very well. I knew that Cobra and Naja were based on Sadik but thanks to hervhe I now have the Italian and French publishing history. Also some info on more recent appearances which I knew nothing about.
If anyone fancies a look at this fascinating series - only a tiny part of French and Italian comics - use this link:-
https://bdvintagerares.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/cobra.html
Mind you, of all the great French/Italian villains, I prefer Kriminal ;D
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A new title in the French language section - Jean Lynx le Nyctalope, and we have 3 issues from 1949, thanks to bdvintagerares.blogspot.co.uk
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3305
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A great find this time with Buffalo Bill Wild West Annual #10. Lovely McLoughlin art throughout. With thanks to Wee John, Kracalactaka, a noony moose.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68655
Oh, and by the way, it's in the Boardman section because it's a Boardman book made and published by Purnell.
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A short story from the pages of Knockout Fun Book 1947. I can find no other mention or info. on The Flying Beetle, so, if any of you can help, that would be great.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68701
Just to add, it should be available tomorrow(Saturday) - I'm sure you can't wait ;)
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For anyone following the exciting adventures of El Hombre de la Estrella, we now have # 14 available, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68805
There were 26 issues in the series and slowly but surely, we're picking them up.
Thanks to misinolvidablestebeos.blogspot.
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A compilation of 2 Zorro stories from a Portuguese comic, Album do Cavaleiro Andante, in 1955. Art by Andr
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Additions to the French section today with numbers 4 -10 of Atome Kid from 1956. We already had #1, 2, 3 and Spanish language reprints. I must have downloaded these a fair time ago and found them on a hard drive. Unfortunately I can't remember where they came from.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2918
Just to add, they'll be available later. I forgot about Whiz Bang Wednesday, again, OOOOOPS.
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Hi Paw
I own the 35 issues of french comic first serie Atome Kid :)
I'll upload them one of these days ;)
Gomard20000 did most of the scans, Gauloit the issue 9, Full-Throttle did the corrections
Best regards
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Thank you very much Starman we will appreciate it.
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Today a new section in Spanish comics with the addition of Juan Bravo. We have the complete 33 issue run from 1953 - 1954. Art by Jose Ortiz and well worth a good look.
All thanks to the scanners and historians on
https://misinolvidablestebeos.blogspot.co.uk/
who do a wonderful job
You can find the books here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3323
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Another new section, this time in compilations. A few members here suggested we host some of the Spanish language compilations from the great resource which is https://misinolvidablestebeos.blogspot.co.uk/
I've been reading through their listings and have found some great stuff that we can host here. All 1950's or earlier.
With thanks to all the scanners involved.
You can find the first 2 entries here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3324
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El Corsario Azul looks pretty good... was that originally a Spanish language newspaper strip?
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Hi Dl, no, it was originally a 12 issue comic by Ediciones Cliper in 1949. But to an extent, you're right because there were subsequently additional stories in El Coyote - (50's) and these were full page b&w strips which could easily have been mistaken for a newspaper strip. These are the pages collected in this compilation.
There's info (in Spanish) here:-
https://misinolvidablestebeos.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=el+corsario+azul
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Another 2 EAGZA compilations today. This time a nice western strip, "Jibaro Vargas" and more adventures of one of the great Masked Mystery Men, El Encapuchado.
Once again, all thanks to https://misinolvidablestebeos.blogspot.co.uk/
You will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3324
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3 EAGZA compilations today. You'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3324
Early work from Enric Badia Romero; Early work from Julio Ribera; and for all you superhero fans a short compilation with Mr.Radar and El Hombre Electrico by Alfons Figueras, both stories from the mid to late '40's.
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Quite a lot of obscure but, hopefully, interesting books. The last 2 of the 4 issue Steve Drake Dutch beeldverhaal. These are the ciggy packet sized comics with 1 illo per page you can find #3 & 4 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3242
To complement the Spanish issues of Superhombre we now have 9 issues of the Dutch reprints as I have added another 7 issues. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2372
And Collins Boys' Annual from the mid '50's. This annual features a story by David Stephen, naturalist and, many years ago, a close friend of my dad and I was named after Mr. Stephen. More interesting to the rest of you will be the illustrators as they include Nat Brand/Len Fullerton. Well worth a look. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69448
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Okay Adventure Annual 1956, and
Okay Annual of Adventure Stories 1958 - minus the Dennis the Menace pages.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3072
With any luck, I've got this right this time.
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4 new additions to EAGZA today. An interesting range of styles and genres. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3324
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A bit of a treat for superhero fans (well, that would be me ;)). A collection of Misterix stories in Spanish, from around 1953 drawn by Paul Campani. Hope you enjoy them. I did.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69547
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A nice find today as misinolvidablestebeos posted the run of the masked historical hero, Mascara Verde. This was published in 1949. B&W interior with colour cover. Good swashbuckling action. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3337
Once again, all thanks to misinolvidablestebeos, and Carlos Z for preserving this material.
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Hi Paw
I try to upload twice Hardi les Gars! on CB+ but i got a 405 error >:(
Can you upload yourself the album ?
Many thanks
Doc Mars
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No problem Doc. I'll upload via FTP. I've also made a slight change to the file name the file, which I think will help ;)
Right, it's up and available now.
This is a great compilation of issues # 5 - 16, 1946. This compilation appeared in 1947. Scans by Lacomete and retouches by our pal Starman. Thanks to all concerned and to
bdvintagerares.blogspot.co.uk
for letting us host the book here.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69601
Highly recommended and well worth your time.
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There is a new section within French comics, for Hardi les Gars, and you will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3338
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Thanks to the power of work hoover has put into this we now have access to compilations of s.f. stories from the British story papers. These range from the early '30's till, in our case, the late '50's.
All good wholesome fun. Pulp style stories but very British, in publications which are sometimes described as peculiarly English. Which is odd given that many of these stories appeared in a Scottish company's comics.
You will find four of them here, and I'm sure you will enjoy them:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3344
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We now have a Sexton Blake comic strip section. These are compilations from various Knockout Annuals. hoover was obviously working on one of them while I was collating pages and creating basic front pages for 5 others. Thanks must go to the original scanners and, once again, hoover.
You will find the 6 stories here. Enjoy them:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3348
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For ages I've been trying to find scans of the classic British newspaper strip, Buck Ryan, which appeared first in 1937 with story by Don Freeman and art by one of my favourites, Jack Monk. EAGZA have produced 2 vols in Spanish. I have one of them, the second. Again grateful thanks to http://misinolvidablestebeos.blogspot.co.uk
So, if the only way we can read some of these great strips is this way, that'll have to do.
Hope you enjoy the stories:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69759
We already have a Jack Monk strip on the site, Terror Keep, which is an adaptaion of a Mr J.G. Reeder story by Edgar Wallace.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61274
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https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69759 This link gets me where it is supposed to - except for the fact that all I get is an error message.
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I've just this minute downloaded the file and it opened fine. Not sure what's causing the problem. It is taking a long time for the software to show the file properly or add the illo.
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I'll take a look, probably improperly formatted, there have been a lot of those lately. Usually the prob is that instead of all being jpg one or more files is png or something and that mucks up the works. The fix is usually to DL the file and unzip it then do a bulk edit on all the files that re-formats them all to jpg.
I just Downloaded and noticed right off the top a non-uniform file naming schema, that can cause problems too.
no two cbz readers seem to prioritize file names the same way. Thus a book that looks ok on your tablet, may be out of order on CB+ or in Cdisplay.
Broon,
going forward, you should open these books up and do some exploratory surgery, making sure all the file extensions end with .jpg
also make sure they are all named the same way ie scan-001, scan-002, etc
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Thanks Krac, I'll have a look at the file.
On a happier note, another 2 Sexton Blake comic strips. A bit shorter but hopefully entertaining. They are, The Cracksman's Alibi, and The case of The Torrelli Twins. You will find them on this page:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3348
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all fixed Broon, look in the eagaz section
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We now have a section for the Splash Page, reporter stories in "compilations". Splash Page is a character from Sexton Blake stories.
I've added a 2nd. adventure, "The Grey Rocket". You can find it and our original compilation here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3350
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A 3rd. Splash Page story today. This one is titled, Splash Page and the King of Diamonds. From Knockout Fun Book 1951, and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69787
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Another exciting Sexton Blake comic strip. This time it's Sexton Blake and Tinker and the League of Crime.
From Knockout Fun Book 1956, but it might be a reprint from a weekly. Hopefully someone can shed some light on it. Also on the artist 'cos I haven't a clue, but it's fast moving action.
You'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69788
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Realising we had a small pile of individual issues in the compilation of Hardi les Gars, Mark suggested we extract them and host them individually. As usual, he's on the ball while I couldn't see beyond the compilation. All done, so help yourselves. Just a note that there are 2 pages of the text story missing from #6.
These comics date from Nov. 1945 - June 1946 and they're bursting with adventure and fast moving stories.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3338
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Great to see these in their own section. Lots of good stuff in Hardi les Gars, notably translations of the Virus stories, "Mage of the Black Forest" and "The V Pole." This is the series in which Italian artist Walter Molino was Francofied into "V. Molineaux."
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Holy macaroni crash, you really are a fount of all comics knowledge! I didn't know that about Molino and assumed he was French. Yes some really tasty stuff in HLG. All thanks to Starman and his site for providing CB+ with some excellent, and important, old French comics.
Today I've uploaded an illustration of Freelance done for me by a customer of aka all those years ago, John Culbard. There's a Phantom illo. in one of my files - somewhere. John was, and probably still is, an all-round good guy.
Found 2 other illos and have added them to the file plus John's note of just who the heroes on the 3rd page are, but I'm sure you lot will spot them right off.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69825
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Today, the first Buck Ryan newspaper strip story from 1937, with early Jack Monk art. Action all the way.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69834
I should add that this is a product of it's time and some of the language would be offensive today, as would the violence against women.
The early Monk art is more basic and cruder and would improve considerably over time.
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Thanks for posting this! My first Buck Ryan in English. Great story. The art has its ups and down but mostly ups. But, gosh! My ears burned from all the darned swearing! Shucks!
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Excellent.
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I second Crash's thanks, Paw. I started following the Buck Ryan reruns in the Daily Mirror online last year but these you've posted are from much earlier in the run and give an added perspective on the character.
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Another Buck Ryan strip today. This time, The Mystery of The Silent Bomber from late '39 to mid '40, so we're now in WW2. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69851
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Another Buck Ryan strip today with The Laughing Killer from 21st. May 1947 - 2nd. Aug. 1947
You'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69876
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Courtesy of Boutje's excellent site, 2 additions to the British reprints of Marvel Family (L.Miller) #64 & 66
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1358
As Krac points out, one of these comics is unreadable, so it's gone. Hopefully we will find another copy - sometime.
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A new compilation with the adventures of Captain Condor from our Lion Annuals and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69891
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From a find by bairns55 and some minor edits by me, this is an obscure one from 1945. A British humour title and a one off by an equally obscure publisher, Philip Marx.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69912
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Today a classic strip by Curt Caesar in a French translation from an Italian original. The Will Sparrow story is from 1941, has great airplanes, lots of action and is a great read. You'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69963
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New French upload today with Big Bill Le Casseur #1 from 1947. Art by Chott, who also drew Fantax.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69977
Forgot to add that Chott is the pen name of Pierre Mouchot, before someone else picks the omission up.
While I'm here, there's another French classic today, and that's # 67 of Amok, the series from 1948:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69978
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A very early French textstrip - 1904 - today, and found on the excellent site of Professeur Labor Improbus
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70473
Adding another title in the French language section and again from Professeur Labor Improbus. This has 3 parts of an early - 1938 - series about the battle against The Red Cagoul, a hooded, robed, fascist organisation, and in the the 2nd. and 3rd. episodes we have, the masked mystery man Loup Garou, L'Homme Masque' and his female counterpart appear with their gas guns to aid the civilian heroes.
Art by Nicolas Mengden.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3363
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With thanks to Jimpy we now have another Frankenstein reprint, this time #5, which is the last issue in the Arnold reprint series.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70509
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I've uploaded a new version of Captain Atlas to the Gerald G Swan section, this version has the original story plus a 2nd story found on the internet. I'm afraid I have no idea who scanned the new story.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70696
Also, a compilation of TNT TOM pages and stories from various Swan comics and Albums.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70697
Both these heroes are very obscure but as I'm a fan of obscure superheroes I'm chuffed to the gutties to have them on the site. I've spent a lot of time raking through the backwaters of the internet trying to find more of both characters, but if anyone can dig up more strips, please let me know and they can be added to the files.
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A new addition to Gerald G Swan with a 2 story collection of Mr. Apollo, a bit of a rip-off of Captain Marvel.
It seems to be the sun's energy which lets schoolboy, Jerry Gunn, to change into Mr. Apollo:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70711
Again, these seem to be the only 2 stories which have been scanned up to now so if anyone can turn up others - he was in at least one issue of Dynamic Thrills (#7) - we can add them to the volume.
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A "new" Buck Ryan story today, from 1945. Scanned from old photocopies so the quality isn't that great in places. I tried to find scans on the internet in case they were of better quality but no luck.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70772
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Another "new" Buck Ryan story today. The Case of The Broken Thistle is from 1945. Scanned from old photocopies and the quality isn't the best. Hope it's readable.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70785
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Thanks to paulSB8787 coming through with the goods, we now have the 2nd. Buck Ryan strip, this from 1937. Although there are some strips missing, the start and finish are present. But it almost doesn't matter as it's a treat to be able to read this adventure. There's not much more the creators could have shoehorned in.
The story never had a title but as The Hooded Terror is the seriously nasty bad guy, I couldn't resist using him for our title.
You'll find the file in the Buck Ryan section here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70807
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Thanks again to paulSB8787 who supplied the strips, we now have the 3rd. Ryan thriller. Although there are some strips missing, the start and finish are present. We've invented a title for this previously untitled story.
Where there are jumps in the continuity, try reading the top of the page summary.
This, I think, is also the 1st. appearance of Zola.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70823
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Trying to snag this but all I get is the Baker Babe and a blank download page.
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If you click on the icon on the 'latest comics' you can get it.
This is the right page
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70819
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A "new" Buck Ryan story today and all thanks to Wiseman for his patience in collecting the raw pages for this one. And, "PHEW", that took me a while to put this one together. A lot of cutting the originals in two, a bit of cropping and some re-sizing to get them a bit more readable. Great fun.
Even better news is that Wiseman has supplied another 2 stories. It'll take me a bit longer to get them organised as they're a wee bit bigger than this one, and, after a while, my concentration goes.
Anyway, you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70839
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Another "new" Buck Ryan thriller today and again thanks to Wiseman for coming across with the goods. This one is from late '43 - earlyish '44 and it's got all sorts but also, at the time, illustrated the fear of axis spies working in the U.K.
Does Zola have a part to play in this one? Just wait!
You'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70848
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Following on from the Axis Spies story, Wiseman has provided the strips in various shapes and sizes for the Burma adventure. In the middle of the story the newspaper changed the page layout for the strip going from 6 tiers per day to 5 tiers, so I've had to create a sequence of 3 tier pages followed by 2 tier pages. And page 11 is a bit less sharp than the rest. At the end there were a number of individual strips, so I've amalgamated them into a set of 3 tier pages. It all seems decently readable.
Thanks must go again to Wiseman
Hope you enjoy it:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70859
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Next Buck Ryan up today. This story follows on immediately from the Spies in Burma adventure.
I found the attempts at communicating with "natives" using "pidgin" somewhat cringeworthy. Signs of the times? That was then? Apart from that, lots of action.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70866
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Buck Ryan - War Correspondent today. From end '44 to Jan. '45. Things turn a bit nastier here and there are scenes of torture, so be warned. Thanks again to Wiseman.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70874
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Back to peacetime adventures for our next Buck Ryan story - Case of the Crimson Grass from 1946.
I've skipped the previous story provided by Wiseman 'cos I can't improve the panels enough and I think I need help from some of the talented folk on CB+. If I can't get the help, I'll keep going with the story (The Terrorists) and it will see the light of day at some point, just not perhaps in the best readable condition.
Anyway, the new one, Crimson Grass, is available here. Done the best I can with it. Hope you all enjoy it, incl. a great line from Zola on page 64
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70967
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Thanks to the great work by paulSB8787, we now have the 4th, Buck Ryan story, this one from 1938. And all that had to be done was a wee bit of cropping, straightening (thanks to the prog. Krac sent me) and creating a front page.
All sorts of goings-on in this one. Action? You want action? Here it is:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70981
Because of the power of work being done by Paul and Wiseman, there's now a small backlog of Ryan strips. So they'll turn up as soon as I can turn them around ;D
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Atomic Chase, Buck Ryan's Canadian Adventure is up today. From 1944 and featuring a particularly nasty villain, plus a bit of a documentary about Canada in the latter part of the story.
Many thanks to Wiseman, again, who supplied the original strips culled from old papers.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71018
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Another Buck Ryan story today - The Case of The Blue Star from 1946.
While the story is complete, the quality of some of the strips isn't the best and halfway through the originals, supplied by Wiseman, who took the time to excavate them, the format of some strips changed so they had to be cut and re-joined. I've done what little I could with the worst of the strips and they're a bit easier to read now. Took a while. Hope this doesn't spoil the enjoyment.
Grateful thanks to Wiseman.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71084
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Another Buck Ryan mystery. This time, The Sonata Murder Plot, from late '46 to early '47
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71142
Once again we are grateful to Wiseman for researching and finding the strips for this story.
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The sixth Buck Ryan story from 1938/1940. This was an untitled story so we've called it, "Murder at Meadowside House". Thanks to paulSB8787 who searched out and provided the original strips from old papers. Only 2 strips are missing from this story.
You can find it here https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71240
Hope you enjoy it.
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After a slight hiccup in the production timetable, we now have another Buck Ryan thriller. This time, "Twilight Escapes", from 1947. Wiseman provided the original strips and helped solve the mystery of the missing tier.
You'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71277
Just a note to say that Wiseman noticed that story # 31 was missing, and he's correct. I missed it somehow and jumped to the next one. I'll get on it asap. Apologies to all.
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Back on schedule again - sort of - as we now have that missing story up and available. Untitled in the UK, it was given the title, "Crime With a Collar" in Australian papers. Despite my note that this was story #31, I'm now pretty sure that it's #30. Not that that's of any great interest to readers who just fancy a good read ;)
Thanks again to Wiseman for all his work digging out the strips. I should add that even using the imaging tool that I got from Krac, straightening a strip that's been too tightly cropped, loses some detail at the edges. So, at times I've had to leave some strips not quite as straight as I would like. Hope it doesn't jar too much.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71297
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After some delay, mostly me doing other stuff and losing one of the tiers - all thanks to Wiseman for his
patience - we now have another Buck Ryan thriller. This time from '47/'48. Fine Feathers is a feast of mystery, action, exotic locations. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71673
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Another Buck Ryan today. This time, The Riddle of the Stolen Jewels from 1948. Some of the individual tiers were damaged and some are a bit faded, but the story is complete. As Twilight features again, you are in for a treat. I hope ::)
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71684
Thanks to Wiseman for the originals.
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Something a bit different, today, a compilation of a text strip from the 1st. series of Hotspur, when it was still a storypaper. Sometimes there was a picture story in the centre pages, and this is one of them. Invasion Target - EARTH, ran from end of 1956 to early 1957 and was graced with excellent S.F. art by Ron Smith.
The text boxes aren't as easy to read as they could be but I hope you enjoy the story anyway.
Scans from bede/hoover, to whom many thanks.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71729
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Miracle Man #12, without the Blackhawk reprints:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71808
Jingles, an AP weekly from 1950:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71809
Challenger Comic_02:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71810
Also, O.S.S. #5, according to the Guide - some of Pearson's titles were not numbered:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71811
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Another Miracle Man today, this time #11, with the Blackhawk reprints removed. There is now a new section for the title and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3397
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I've added the original version of the Splash Page story, The Missing Prince, today. This appeared in Comet in 1950 and was adapted in 1956 for the Knockout Fun Book.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=29662
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Broon,
you need to rip open the file and convert all the png files to jpg
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Okey dokey. See my earlier reply.
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With any luck this should be fine this time. The original Splash Page version of The Missing Prince story from Comet 1950
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71857
If it's not, I'm sure I'll hear about it ;)
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A new section in Dutch Comics, Bob Crack. This was a 19 issue run from 1947 - 1949 and, reflecting the paper shortages after WW2, the books are tiny, in this case measuring 11.1/2 cm x 8 cm. We have 4 examples now and you will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3398
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Another new section in Dutch Comics. This time a giveaway by Spar in 1954. Dolf Staal was a 6 issue run and I've found issues 1 - 5. Landscape, 2 illos to a page in textstrip format. But the best thing about these comics is the art by Georges Mazure, brother of Alfred of Dick Bos fame. Georges is considered by many fans and students of comics as the superior artist of the two. Now, if someone can only come up with a few issues of G.M's Spot Morton issues. Please.
Meanwhile, you will find the first 5 of the 6 issue run here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3399
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A last upload today before I go and make the dinner for my wife coming home. This time another Dutch beeldverhaal, Panterserie #10 from 1948. Art on this issue was by Leen en Gerda Spierenburg under the pen name of Bing Reupers.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=71963
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Back to Buck Ryan today and this story is entitled, "Moon Murder". From 1948, it has all sorts of dirty deeds, dark dungeons and nefarious no-gooders. For the time, there is some nasty stuff in this one.
You can find it in the Buck Ryan section in Newspaper comic strips.
Thanks to Wiseman who dug up and gathered together the original strips.
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I've added an Ace Hart compilation today. This has some minor alterations, a few covers and 2 additional stories. You will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72082
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A bit of a rarity this time. Thrill Comics #14 from 1946? is a Gerald G Swan title. The series comprised 35 issues plus 3 Specials and ran from 1940 - 1950 when it joined Girls' Fun. This issue features Darrell King; an S.F story; Ivan the Wolf Boy and, of course, Stoogie.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72357
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A compilation this time. Two Dick Turpin adventures from the pages of Sun, 1953, with art by Hugh McNeill.
The first story was chopped up and reprinted as Thriller Comics Library #117 in 1956.
You can find the compilation here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72380
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After years of searching for it, I finally turned up a copy of aka the fanzine. Somewhat crumpled at the edges - the 'zine, not me - I managed to get it scanned in as decent a state as I could. All comments, and criticisms, gratefully received (I think)
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72453
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A bit different today. A little book with some pop-up pages, illustrated by Ron Turner. Published by Birn Brothers in 1955. And I'd never heard of Ace Brave. I have now! I compiled this from pages I found on a couple of obscure internet sites.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72472
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Don't you love finding obscure neat stuff. Thanks for sharing
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Another Silent Three story. This time from School Friend Annual, 1958:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72537
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Always good to see another Silent Three story.Thanks!
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Finally, another Buck Ryan recreation. This time Buck Ryan and the Terrorists from early 1945. All thanks are due to Wiseman who painstakingly searched out the tiers from various sources, and manipulated the images to bring them up to a decent, readable condition. One tier completely eludes us and there is a bit of damage in one panel. Apart from that, both of us are agreed that, while the story isn't the best, there is still a lot of action and some atmospheric panels, so we hope you enjoy this recreation.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72675
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Just like Corporation buses, you wait ages for one and 2 turn up at once.
Another Buck Ryan "thrills and spills" tale.
Rule of The Road caused me problems because I kept losing concentration and made a mess of the cover and a couple of pages, so had to go back a couple of times to re-assemble them. Even then, I still had 2 duplicate panels and I'm sure you'll quickly see where they were. I just couldn't bear to go back and do the page yet again. :-[
Wiseman should be given a medal for restoring the bad nick tiers, about half the total, to a decent condition for reading.
Hope you enjoy this one:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72683
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I've replaced the incomplete version of "The Terrorists" story with a complete one. The missing D66 tier was kindly supplied by Phillipe Ramet, following a couple of comments from others in another group about Wiseman and I not being able to find the missing tier. All serene now.
You'll find the complete version here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72686
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I've replaced the incomplete version of the Buck Ryan tale, Terror in New Guinea, with a complete version featuring missing tiers excavated and supplied by Leonardo De S
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Another new version of a Buck Ryan tale, this time, Murder at Meadowside House. The previous version had 2 tiers missing but Leonardo dug out and supplied them. Many thanks to Leonardo for his work.
You'll find the complete story here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72699
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From 1949, a recreation of the Buck Ryan story, Avarice. Tiers excavated and supplied by Wiseman.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72718
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Having dug up some Buck Ryan comicbook covers for myself, I thought they might be of interest to some of you. This is a selection only and although Buck Ryan stories were also reprinted in the Portuguese language title, "O Mosquito", I haven't come up with a cover for any of them. A couple of interior pages are on some internet sites, but frustratingly no covers. Perhaps he was never cover featured. If anyone can turn up an example, that would be great.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72726
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And another Buck Ryan re-creation. From 1949, this originally untitled tale now goes by the name, Fake Stamps and Crocodiles. Thanks again to wiseman for digging out the tiers.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72787
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Today, another Buck Ryan re-creation. This time the layout is a bit different as it's 2 tiers high and widescreen, so this is by way of an experiment. Wiseman came up with the goods, yet again, supplying bigger, clearer strips, so I decided to try a widescreen look. We'll wait to see if members screens have any problems. If there are problems, I'll re-jig the file.
Enjoy the story, it's a good one:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72790
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For all you Buck Ryan fans, this might be an early Christmas pressie. Thanks are due to Wiseman for sourcing the story. This is a good thriller and we hope you enjoy it:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72852
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Another little something in the run up to Christmas. And if Wiseman hadn't twigged that I had forgotten a couple of stories, you might not have had this one. The state of my downloads folder?!!!!! It needs a good reddin' oot:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72855
Also thanks to Wiseman, we have the up till now missing first page of one of my earlier uploads, The Laughing Killer. All I have to do now is insert the tier, which will mean creating a new page with one tier only and a text block. With luck it wont look too clunky.
Modifying this post to add that I made a right old mess of uploading The Laughing Killer file, and managed, somehow, to re-upload the old, incomplete one. So apologies to any members who find themselves with the same old file. The new one is now available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72861
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This could be my last upload for the year - it's getting a bit busy pre-Christmas now and I have a lot of comics to read over the festive period. And some good wine and food to help see in the New Year.
So Wiseman and I hope you enjoy this Buck Ryan mystery, I certainly did.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=72865
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2 French titles from the '40's. La Conqu
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I've added 2 new issues of Atome Kid today, #26 & #31. Have a look at the cover of #31, bearing in mind that this series saw the light of day in 1956.
You'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2918
Followed up by an Australian edition of Black Cat Adventures. This is another one which asserts in the indicia that it was drawn in Australia. Javar Studios had a habit of this.
Anyway, it's here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73304
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With grateful thanks to the good guys at https://bdvintagerares.blogspot.com, I have taken 2 issues of Big bill Le Casseur and uploaded them here. As we now have 3 issues, I've created a new section for them in the French Language section:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3418
I think these are important books and the art Pierre Mouchot (Chott) is dynamic and worth looking at - even if you can't read the text. There is a much higher level of violence in these comics.
As I'm not sure who scanned the last 2 issues, I'm, sure Doc Mars will keep me right. Au Secours.
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This book really reminds me of Chott's other masked avenger, Fantax. Violence was definitely a calling card in both series. In one episode Fantax, leg caught in a trap, fought a bear (with his bear hands) and ended up bleeding like a stuck pig. He also relaxed after the battle by lighting up a cigarette. That scene made me realize how seldom the heroes in Golden Age American comics smoked cigarettes. The health issue wasn't yet on the public radar, and in the movies heroes smoked like chimneys; but in the comics most heroes limited themselves to smoking pipes (though never while in uniform).
Later addition: I see we have the lead-up to this episode (issue #27).
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A number of European titles featured some rather graphic violence, and in Spain and Italy, the censors stepped in. The Spanish strip, El Guererro del Antifaz was one such, and in Italy, early pocket libraries were extremely graphically violent. Kriminal, well drawn by Magnus, while enjoyable, was a bit much for the authorities. Even more violent was Sadik. Other titles were, Demoniak; Spettrus, Fantasm. They were also available translated into French. If you can lay your hands on them, Kriminal is the one to go for.
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Something a bit lighter today, a short compilation of Gerald G Swan superheroes and masked mystery men and women. The stories are taken from our archive of Swan titles.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73343
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A number of European titles featured some rather graphic violence, and in Spain and Italy, the censors stepped in. The Spanish strip, El Guererro del Antifaz was one such, and in Italy, early pocket libraries were extremely graphically violent. Kriminal, well drawn by Magnus, while enjoyable, was a bit much for the authorities. Even more violent was Sadik. Other titles were, Demoniak; Spettrus, Fantasm. They were also available translated into French. If you can lay your hands on them, Kriminal is the one to go for.
I would love to see some of the fumetti-style supercriminals on here, if there are any that fall into public domain. Probably not, since AFAIK Diabolik kickstarted the whole supercrime genre (hailing back to the early pulp and film supercriminals like Fantomas and Dr. Mabuse) again in the mid-1960s. I'm thinking specifically of KILLING (or as he's now known in English translation, SADISTIK): http://morttodd.com/SADVD.pdf (http://morttodd.com/SADVD.pdf), but any French or Italian comics or fumetti along those lines.
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I'm sure we would have problems were we to host the main ones here. Even the lesser known titles might cause trouble, so I don't want to take the chance. However, if you fancy a swatch at the films which go along with the comics, this site has some in Turkish and also some of the other Turkish superhero films they churned out. Music ripped from Bond and other well known films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjoBt4_N7jo
Have a look at some of the other listings for a Turkish Phantom
This link will take you to the team-up film with "Santo" and "Cap.America" battling evil "Spiderman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlUYTqCqc0&list=PLDHlUEJ_U6utldCuKLv7mUTLXpqUHzrok&index=2&t=0s
If you look further, there is a Turkish Zorro and , somewhere, a Turkish Mandrake, I think.
Killing was originally Kilink in his original Turkish series.
Try this link:-
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kilink
As for the comics, I have a small selection. If you'd like a few, pm me.
Diabolik is still going strong with a new issue every month, a reprint and a second reprint, plus collections, hardbacks, specials. Some good stories still appear. A diverting read.
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I've uploaded a new version of the Buck Ryan story, "Twilight's Out!" #39, to replace the previous version which just wouldn't display correctly. A wee tweak here and there was all it took, so download it now. And let me know if there are still problems with it. You'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73484
The compilation is all Wiseman's work.
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After I did a bit of tweaking - the files wouldn't display properly first time round - we now have 2 more Buck Ryan features - the last two stories in fact.
All thanks must go to Wiseman who did all the research and compilations.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73536
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73537
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Another Buck Ryan story this morning. From 1950, and it seems to me that Zola is the one with the brains in this one.
Wiseman did all the work researching and digging up the original tiers and without his efforts, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to compile the story.
You will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73633
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I've been thinking about today's upload off and on for a while and finally got around to putting it together. From the early '50's, this is a collection of Brett Marlowe strips from Lion. The compilation is, I think, incomplete, so if anyone would like to add missing stories, or put together a new compilation, I'd urge you to go ahead.
You'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73648
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Courtesy of Wiseman's efforts, we have another Buck Ryan tale - A Fishy Story - from 1950. At the time, Britain still had rationing and there was a flourishing black market. In fact, petrol rationing had just ended before this story was written and it wasn't until 1954 that meat and all other food rationing ended in Britain.
You'll find the story here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73676
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A "new" Buck Ryan story today. Thanks to Wiseman for getting this one together and making life easy for me.
The Strange Antique Shop is here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73719
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Thanks to Wiseman we have this 1951 Buck Ryan adventure:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73758
As I had to straighten some of the tiers, there is occasionally a slight shortening at each end. Hope this doesn't spoil your enjoyment.
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Buck Ryan 77 today. A spy tale this time. Thanks to wiseman for the collected tiers.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73797
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Wiseman is pushing through these Buck Ryan stories at some rate, and this time we have The Mad Mistress of Montezorro. All sorts of intrigue and thrills:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73798
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As I managed to make a right horlicks of it, I put story 68 together before this one, #67, which directly precedes The Mad Mistress mayhem.
I have footered about with the front and back pages but if the changes are not to readers' tastes, I'm happy to go back to the usual style and change them.
You'll find The Nervous Hero here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73837
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Buck Ryan #42 today, The Scrubber. I'm not quite as happy with my compilation this time. New pc and not quite up to speed with W10 and document creation yet. Hope this doesn't spoil your enjoyment.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73852
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Buck Ryan #44 today and crime at the racetrack. All sorts of goings on.
I'm still not completely happy with my layouts but at least you get the story. I'll keep experimenting.
More stories to follow.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73918
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Something different this time, a second volume of Terry Brent 2 pagers from School Friend. There may be some repeated tales from the 1st. vol. if so, apologies. The vols are still incomplete so if anyone can assemble more, or do a complete compilation, that would be good.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73971
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Our new topic on Schoolgirls' Picture Library made me take a look at what we had and after a couple of failed attempts, because the issues I had contained the macosx page, I've finally managed to upload #2;3;4.
It's a right bugger that mac page and I had to unzip my files to find they were all contaminated - no, it's not too strong a word - and it was easier and quicker to download replacements and re-upload here. Anyway, they're up now and you'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
I'll try to fill in more gaps tomorrow, but I'm too knackered now to concentrate.
As I'm not sure who scanned them - there are different uncredited versions floating about - if any one can confirm the scanner, please let me know
Hope you enjoy them.
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All being well, we should now have SPL# 1 - 10 complete. Took a while as I had to unzip and check every issue and re-zip. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
I'll check in the morning that they all went up ok.
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Copious thanks to paw broon and to movielover for the recent spate of Schoolgirl Picture Libraries. I really enjoy these stories, especially the secret society ones. The artwork is uniformly good. It's interesting that despite differing styles from artist to artist, there is an overall look to the schoolgirl stories. Notably there's a conscious effort to keep the drawings "light," even in adventure stories, using lots of pen hatching and staying away from shadows. Alex Toth's issue must have come as something of a shock. Judging by that sample page he stuck to his bold chiaroscuro style.
I do wish someone had an artist index to these comics. I can spot a few styles but I don't know any names.
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I've added a few more issues of Thriller Picture Library and more issues of Schoolgirls' Picture Library.
You'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3424
And here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
While I was about it I've been adding art info. to a lot of our Super Detective Library issues, where I have the info. that is.
Enjoy the comics and please, keep your eyes peeled for more TPL. I actually might have a clue on another pre-1960 issue but it looks like it might need some work.
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A couple more issues of SPL today #55 and #62. You'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
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A new section in Dutch comics today as I've turned up the complete run of the beeldroman, De Tweede Pimpernel, by Siem Praamsma. These are from 1947/8 and were tiny comics measuring about 5 inches by
3 and 3/4 inches originally. The ones I'm uploading are compilations courtesy of siempraamsma.com and you'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3426
The rest will take me a wee while as I have to convert them from pdf's.
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The rest of the Tweede Pimpernel books today. That gives us the complete run. When originally published they were 1 illo. per page. In the books we have here, each page contains 4 pages from the original - except the first story page of course.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3426
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Thanks to Wiseman (and Franco Giacomini on a couple of compilations) I've uploaded more "new" Buck Ryan stories. Mark helped out with a couple of wee problems on our 1st. attempt but it all looks good now. The last 3 that I've just this minute uploaded are numbers 63; 69; 74.
Earlier today Mark uploaded numbers 55; 58; 60; 62. Ta.
All credit to Wiseman (and Franco) for the great work he's put into these reconstructions. Trebles all round. ;D
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Yet another Buck Ryan. This time #71, Pay Off. All due to the great work done by Wiseman. ;D
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=74903
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Added to the Sexton Blake compilations today, 7 slim vols from Knockout Annuals and Fun Books. As I had a broadband outage during upload and had to try again, they might not all appear, but I'll check later.
If they're all up, you'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3348
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Taken me a while but I finally managed to fix the Buck Ryan 48 file. It's now available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=75144
More Twilight, what's not to like? Thanks to Wiseman for putting together another great tale.
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Finally, after computer problems and a bit of raking through the old desktop files, I found Wiseman's Buck Ryan #72 compilation. After another failed attempt at sorting it out, I eventually managed to fix the file and it now appears in the on site reader and can be downloaded. For your reading enjoyment, it's here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=75253
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A "new" Italian series from 1936, Nella'Impero degli Incas. Took me a while to sort out and re-do the files but the first 2 issues are up now, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3443
I have no idea who scanned these books but they were on archive.org as an archive of a discontinued Italian site. Any further info. gratefully received.
More issues to follow.
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That would have made a great republic pictures serial.
With the dearth of interesting new film ideas these days some studio should look up these older comic stories and adapt them to the screen.
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As an antidote to panicking - I'd lost or misplaced the rest of the Italian series, Nell'Impero degli Incas and have been searching for the folder for 2 days, but I finally found it. Don't ask, I'm stresssed out - I've uploaded the 8 issue run of the Spanish series, El Rey de la Jungla by Quesada y Alferez. Scanned by Romaninof.
Another jungle masked mystery man.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3444
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The next 3 issues of Nell'Impero degli Incas. As #6 is missing from the folder, I'll take some time to sort out # 7 - 12 and get back on uploading tomorrow.
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As always, Paw - your efforts are hugely appreciated!
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The rest of the run that I have - #6 is missing - of Nell'Impero degli Incas are now available:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3443
If anyone has or fancies searching for #6, we could complete the run. I've been raking through a lot of obscure sites with no luck. All help gratefully appreciated.
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Fantastic stuff, Paw. Never head of Nell'Impero etc. I envy you your collection of European striscie comics.
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Another Spanish title today, La Daga Roja, published by Editorial Grafidea, Barcelona. I can only find 3 issues of the title and as I can't lay my hands on my Spanish comics history books, I'm not sure of the date or whether there were any more issues. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3445
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And something a bit different now, 2 cigarette card booklets featuring wild flowers. from 1936 and 1939, byt Wills cigarettes. Both booklets have a charming illo ifc and the cards are in good nick. I've asked around but no one seems to know who the scanner was.:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=738
they're right at the bottom.
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Likewise Paw - thanks again - I used to love these card collections - they were so varied
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I've created a new section for cigarette, tea and free cards, but not classic American trading cards. There are some "new" albums there now:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3447
I have a few other collections downloaded with no albums so I'll have a think about whether to try to create a cover or just upload them as is. One set is all .tif images and I don't think they'll work on CB+ Trying to convert now
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Managed to convert those tif files to jpg, so we have another album in the cigarette card section:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3447
This one is An Album of Film Stars Series 1 1934 [John Player & Sons]
Hope you enjoy them.
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Been working on this idea for a wee while. Space Family Rollinson - not Robinson, different strip - ran in Knockout from 772 - 1013 but as not all the issues have been scanned, I thought about using the French reprints from Atome Kid, which turned up on bdmagexhumator.
I've added 2 pages and uploaded the file and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=75982
As there were other stand alone stories in the Annuals and Fun books which don't appear to have been reprinted in France, I'll have a go at compiling them at a later date.
Art on this strip by Graham Coton, later Ian Kennedy, I think, and in this reprint perhaps some French artists did some re-touching. Not sure.
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Right, then, I made a bit of a horlicks with La Famille Rollinson. Too busy checking other things to notice there were png images in the original files. I've converted the png files to jpg, re-zipped and uploaded the new version of the compilation. The original downloaded fine, it just wouldn't open in the CB+ reader.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=75984
With any luck it's all ok now.
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As I can't figure out what is wrong with the Famille Rollinson file, I'm going to delete it and leave it for a while before I go back to it. Apologies.
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For all you masked mystery men fans, a Spanish title from 1948, courtesy of the good folk at Aquellos Inolvidables Tebeos, titled Kay y El Lagarto Humano - Kay and the Human Lizard. Art by Miguel Ripoll. This compilation is from the pages of El Coyote and is another EAGZA success:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76006
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Courtesy of Boutje, via Zeg, we now have another McLaughlin Buffalo Bill. This is # 41 - not the 41st Buffalo Bill, but #41 of the series of comics released by TV Boardman/Popular Press, which included Roy Carson; Blackhawk and Swift Morgan.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76365
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Mark reminded me today that I'd done nothing with the Vanguard Library section in Story papers. Truth to tell, I simply forgot about it. Duly chastened ;)I started downloading pdf issues from Friardale and have made a start on converting them to .cbz. I've uploaded 3 issues so far and you'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3429
These papers date from 1907 and, as Friardale notes,
"The paper doesn't age well and is very brittle so perhaps that is why we don't see many issues coming on to the market today."
Also they are not easy to read but as rarities they are due a place on the site.
I do hope no-one asks why we are bothering to upload things like this. ::)
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Also in the Vanguard section is a compilation of a few pages which were reprinted in Picture Fun. What we have now seems to be all that exists, or has been scanned.
I've added a couple of new, to us, that is, issues of Schoolgirls' Own Library:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76379
More to follow , time permitting ;D
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Worth uploading because these are cultural artefacts - like walking through a time tunnel to see them in their original form and to imagine people buying them at newsstands, hurrying home to their coal fires to settle in for a good read with bread and jam and pots of tea.
All of us who are members here owe a great deal to you, Mark, freddyfly and all the others who devote time and effort to growing this - well, I guess you could call it a people's graphic interactive ethnological museum - but I prefer palace of fun!
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On behalf of all of us who thoroughly enjoy chasing the books down, researching, scanning and posting them, ta muchly!
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This time, a wee treat, a complete 11 page Derickson Dene story from Triumph, 1939 or '40, by the excellent Nat Brand (Len Fullerton). I found the pages on an old cd I was sent from the now defunct ADCCC - I've been having a redd oot. At the moment, there aren't sufficient scans of Triumph to complete another story so apart from a 4 page chapter already in the archives, this seems to be the only complete Dene adventure. I put the pages together and added a front page. I recommend a read:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76549
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4 more issues of Thriller Comics today. Thanks to Panther for reminding me they were now available. These take a short while to sort out as the files have to be opened to extract the mac file inside, then the remaining file has to be renamed. These issues have been scanned from facsimiles. I'm sure you'll enjoy them.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3424
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A wee treat this time as we have an issue of Stanley Pitt's Silver Starr comic. All thanks to leegsidd for this scan.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76840
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And that rounds out my day! Of all the comics I've lost, a colour copy of a Silver Starr by Stanley Pitt. is the one I most regret. This one I haven't read and I'm very pleased to see it here. Toward the end of his Career, Stanley did a few pieces for DC and also began a Graphic Novel adaptation of Alfred Bester's novel, 'The Stars my Destination.' Never completed I think.
Thank you Paw and leegsidd.
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Another Schoolgirls' Picture Library. #50. You will find it here.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76862
I should add that I had to unzip the original scan and take out the pages to re-zip as it wouldn't upload completely to our site.
I have a couple more but I'll have to do the same with them, so it'll take a wee while.
Enjoy what looks like a lovely comic.
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The other 2 SPL's are now available. #54 and 102. You'll find them on the page:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
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Terrific news - thanks Paw!
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Don't want to risk Andrew having a coronary problem but I should mention another 2 SPL, #39 and 40.
Lovely cover on #40.
You will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
And 42 and 49. Hope you enjoy them.
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Always a treat to see more SPL's. Some fine artwork in this batch. I've gotten to like the period stories. They have more varied plots and seem to attract the better artists.
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SPL # 11 New Girl at the Ballet School and you will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76908
Plus # 64, Jenny - Girl Reporter which you will find here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76909
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A treat today as we have one of the missing Buck Ryan stories, this time #7. Originally untitled, I've given it the tile of Schultze vows Revenge, which seems appropriate. The original tiers were researched and collected by Chimp Twist and I did the cover and preface and put the pages together with 2 tiers to a page.
You will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76959
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Well Done!
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Something a bit different today as thanks to Mr. Tweedy we have an issue of Pearson's T.V. Picture Stories, a pocket library. This one is Dixon of Dock Green, adapted from the tv show starring Jack Warner. Art is signed by cosmoartis. You will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76961
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Character Created by and this comic written by Ted Willis who became Lord Willis of Chislehurst.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-willis-1565335.html
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Well done, I'd forgotten that. The problem with the tv series was it went on too long, Warner could hardly walk by the end.
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How wonderful to see this - brought back loads of memories.
Was there ever a Z Cars comic book / picture library as far as anyone knows?
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There were at least 2 annuals. I need to look up a guide for dates and refs.
Also No Hiding Place was in TV comic and Pearsons adapted its predecessor, Murder Bag.
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I've added a new section for T.V. Picture Stories, the Pearson pocket library. We had a couple of issues and I've added a few more. You will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3470
I have 2 issues of Emergency-Ward 10 but I need to figure out how to describe/number them.
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What gems these are - I can't thank you enough.
Emergency Ward 10 - I have nothing but fond memories of that.
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T. V. Picture stories, another pocket library I never heard of. Fantastic stuff, Paw. Thanks for resurrecting these lost goodies.
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2 issues of the pocket size Emergency-Ward 10, again adapted from the tv show. These are part of T.V. Pictire Stories but the name doesn't appear on covers or indicia, so I've uploaded them as EW 10. You'll find them on this page:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3470
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Thank you - that's made my day!
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This might even improve Andrew's day slightly. An example of True Life Picture Library from 1959 - Stranger in the Village. This series ran for 769 issues. You will find #206 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=76970
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Another new section today with Love Story Picture Library. The series started in 1952? but I can't find how long the run was or how many issues there were. This is one of the many pocket libraries, this time with girls and women in mind.
I've uploaded 2 of Mr. Tweedy's scans from 1957 and there are a few more to follow, once I've re-done them for our site.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3471
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3 more issues of Love Story Picture Library today. Always Mine, Girl From Down Under and Two on an Island. From 1958.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3471
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From 1955 we have 2 "new" issues of Cowboy Comics, one featuring Buck Jones and the other featuring Kit Carson. Lovely stuff indeed. These are from 1955 and the title of this library will soon change to Cowboy Picture Library, but we'll keep posting them to this section - if we get more that is:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3377
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I'm loving these British Pocket series. I don't remember seeing them in Australia, which puzzles me as our local industry was choked by imports from both the US and the UK. And many UK comics were distributed here.
I am also amazed by the quantity for the series.
We have Cowboys comics #151 here. So there were at least #151 titles? Amazing. CB+ now has only 8. Am I right in deducing many of these are now quite rare if not unobtainable?
Would the British or Scottish libraries keep copies?
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Cowboy Comics/Cowboy Picture Library went to at least #468. Scans do turn up, but slowly. I have another issue to process and I think there might be few more to dig up. They are difficult as this was the title which really started the pocket library releases. More info. to follow when I find it. By the way, I think they were issued in Australia. More research needed.
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Old Ink and Paw, thanks for passing along all these Thriller titles. Entertaining stories and lots of great artwork. Septimus Scott is awesome! Interesting to see how many period adventures there were in British comics. Over here, outside of Classics Illustrated there were few attempts at cape-and-sword stuff. Probably because the USA's history is so brief compared to Europe's, the only period adventures that caught on were the Westerns.
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2 compilations today, both from Swift. Tom Tex and Pinto 1954. Art by Harry Bishop.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77039
And Cliff McCoy & Slicker. Early work by Jim Holdaway.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77038
These strips are from Bear Alley, to whom thanks are due. I added a cover to each. Hope you enjoy them.
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I have a few more Cowboy Comics to share, should I wait for you or just put them up?
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Please, upload them. They are lovely comics. I'll keep checking for them and approve them as they appear.
I don't have dates for the books but sometimes the ads inside for annuals help get a rough date. If you any info on dates, let us know. Great stuff.
I should add that we can only host titles up to about 1960. Hope that's ok.
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For all you superhero fans, we now have the first issue of the French superhero, Fulguros. He appeared in the title Audax. This is from 1952 with art by Rene Brantonne. You will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77073
And, another superhero, actually, a masked mystery man. This time, Le Seigneur de La Nuit from 1942. Originally an Italian strip this is the French reprint. Artist unknown. You will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77074
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An oddity today and I know very little about it. TBO was a Spanish comic for juveniles which started in 1917. The book I've uploaded today seems to be a special, reprinting a story from the main series and could be from WW1 or shortly thereafter. Help needed, please, to date this plus any other info on what appears to be a series.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77189
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Another example of Historias y Cuentos de TBO. This time #50, El Attaque de los Indios, 1922.
I have done some digging and found out a bit about the title and the publisher. If anyone wants to see many of the covers, with dates appended, try this:-
https://www.tebeosfera.com/galerias/colecciones/tbo_1919_buigas_-historias_y_cuentos-/numeros_ordinarios/1/
The stories are all text strips.
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This turned up today and I've grabbed it and uploaded it. Thanks to leegsidd for digging this one up - another Super Detective library. #23, Kidnapped by Martians with art by Selby Donnison. You will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77206
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Another great find from Leegsidd. This time Thriller Comics Library 46 from 1953. This is a lovely issue with excellent art by Robert Forrest. Cover by Derek Eyles. You will fond it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
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What a treat. Today thanks to the great work by paulSB8787, we now have a complete version of the 2nd. Buck Ryan thriller, The Hooded Terror. This story was missing 6 strips and Paul has managed to trace them and sent them to us. All that was needed was to slot them in, create a new cover, zip it all back up again and there we are. Please enjoy the complete tale and show your appreciation of Paul's dedication.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77290
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Talk about Christmas come early!!!!! paulSB8787 has again come up with the goods and has sent us the missing tiers for Buck Ryan and The Dope Gang. AND the missing tiers for story #4, Meet DR. Malabar.
The Dope Gang is now on site:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77292
This a belter of a tale. Thrills all over the shop.
All thanks to Paul for his work on this.
I can tease you a bit and say there are a couple of other things coming down the line from Paul for Buck Ryan fans. Lots of work for me as soon as we get the files. I need to get my head down and get on with it. ;)
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Buck Ryan # 4, Meet Dr Malabar is now complete thanks to paulSB8787, who provided the missing tiers. New front page and in a 2 tier high format. You will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77294
Thanks to Paul for all his work on this.
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Thank you for the early Christmas Presents with these completed Buck Ryans, Paw!
These early stories are a revelation. There was something in the earlier [20 to 50's] British Heroes that made them quite ruthless/violent in their pursuit of evildoers, even in comparison to the US pulp heroes. Charteris wrote the early Saint as quite ruthless in his treatment of evildoers, as well as Edgar Wallace's Heroes. Just to name two.
Also, interesting to see that Zola's background is not dissimilar to Twilights.
Great Stuff! You must be quite chuffed!
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I've tried to fix #15, Green Flames. Plus I've added 2 of the 3 missing tiers as supplied by paulSB8787. We MIGHT be able to get that elusive last missing tier. Fingers crossed.
The new version is here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77297
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Finally, a complete version of Green Flames, all thanks to paulSB8787:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77300
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Another missing Buck Ryan today, thanks to paulSB8787, who supplied all the panels. This home front tale is a good read. It was untitled when it appeared but, given the subject matter, I thought the title I've given it is appropriate.:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77304
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Yay! Well done again to all those involved!!
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The 17th. Buck Ryan thriller. A short one this time and running on from #16.
The story was untitled on its appearance but I've given it the the title of The Fixers. You'll see why.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77339
I think I'll have a wee break from compiling stuff :)
Oh, and did you notice? That's the complete run ;D
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CHEERS, PAW & CO.! Thanks for getting these into the archive. Huge thanks to all the researchers, scanners, photo editors and compilers who made this complete run possible.
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An alternate copy of Wonder Comics 10, complete? No idea who scanned this version but I think it was compiled from different sources.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77396
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Yeah, looks like main stories are from bhcomics, while the other pages are from the "GM" version
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An alternate copy of Wonder Comics 10, complete? No idea who scanned this version but I think it was compiled from different sources.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77396
That link is not working.
Cheers!
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An alternate copy of Wonder Comics 10, complete? No idea who scanned this version but I think it was compiled from different sources.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77396
That link is not working.
Cheers!
Because this frankenbook version was removed
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Thriller Comics; Thriller Comics Library; Thriller Picture Library are now altogether under one roof, as Thriller Comics Library. I think this makes sense as, to all intents and purposes, despite the title tweaks, they are all in the same run. You will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
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With many thanks to leegsidd, we now have Thriller comics #27, containing 3 Robin Hood stories.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77446
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Thanks to ernesto, we have another Australian reprint by Avon of The Avenger, this time #2. Full of bob Powell goodness. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77447
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Catching up a bit here. I've added 3 "new" books to the library. Yesterday, a copy of an Australian reprint of the Fawcett tile, Six Gun Heroes. From Ernesto. This reprint was also published in the UK by Miller. You can find it in the Australian NZ section here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77457
Today, thanks to leegsidd, we have another 2 issues of Thriller Comics, this time #17 and 22. Can I suggest that you take a look at Brock's work on the first story in #22? Worthwhile, indeed.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
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And another one. Thriller Comics #25, The Loring Mystery. Lovely stuff and you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77486
Once again, have a look at the Brock art.
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Yet another belter from leegsidd. This time The Return of Captain Flame in Thriller Comics # 28. These Captain Flame comics are considered in some quarters as the among the finest pirate comics anywhere, and I agree. With art by Sep E. Scott, these can't be beat.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77497
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Add me to the list of Captain Flame fans. Great to see this book!
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And another great Thriller Comics issue. This time, The Strange Affair of The Lyons Mail with art by Robert Forrest, and very nice too.
Many thanks to leegsidd for his great efforts in getting thes lovely comics together.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77500
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Ernesto has supplied us with a NZ reprint of 2 Quality strips. Black Roger Comic #4 reprints 2 stories from Buccaneers # 26
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77501
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Another one from Ernesto. This time Lone Star vol.2 #12. A British title which ran from 1952 - 1963 for 99 issues. Early issues featured Ace Hart and Steve Larabee among others, and work by Ron Embleton; Terry Patrick; Jim Holdaway.
It would be great to get some of those early issues, being selfish, if only for the Ace Hart strips ;)
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77504
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Leegsidd provides us with yet another Thriller Comics. This time #32 The Border Trumpet, an adaptation of an Ernest Haycox story, illustrated by Reg Bunn:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77506
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From Ernesto today, an issue of the early '50's British series, Broncho Bill Western Comic which reprinted American newspaper strips. I'm not 100% sure of the details I added to the file, so if anyone has any more info we'll gladly take it.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77511
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In the "can't get enough of a good thing" category, today I've uploaded 9 issues of Thriller Comics. You'll find # 26; 34; 43; 63; 64; 65; 71; 72; 73 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
Courtesy of files supplied by Mr Tweedy and leegsidd.
More to follow tomorrow, 'cos I'm cross eyed looking at the screen and starting to get confused looking up the credits. ::)
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Heroic - that's the only way I can think to describe you - many thanks as always for these superb offerings
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Thanks Paw for making my day. And please convey our thanks to Mr Tweedy.
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Will do. Without the incredible amount of work put in by these guys and many more, we wouldn't have all this great stuff.
Phew, that's the rest of the recent scans from Mr Tweedy, and today I've uploaded # 76; 80; 86; 92; 93; 94; 96; 97; 99; 103 and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
Some credits are not available or a bit problematic, so if anyone can help with i/ding the art, that would be great.
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leegsidd has provided another scan, this time Thriller Comics Library #44 containing 3 Robin Hood adventures. Lovely stuff. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77541
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And he's done it again. leegsidd has scanned Thriller comics #7, Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves with a script by Peter O'Donnell and art by Philip Mendoza. We really appreciate your efforts leegsidd. Thank you.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77545
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Today we have another 3 issues of Thriller Comics(Library) thanks to Mr Tweedy.
You can find # 36; 139; 152 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
I don't know if it's just worry about all that's going on in Scotland and the rest of the world but I'm having difficulty concentrating at times and I uploaded another copy of #64 and didn't realise for a while. And I'd checked, or thought I'd checked our listings. Anyway, I think it's fixed.
Enjoy the comics. That #152 is a beauty right from the front cover.
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leegsidd has scanned this lovely Thriller Comics Library # 47, an adaptation of Lorna Doone drawn by H. M. Brock. Hope you all enjoy it:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77554
While I'm at it, I've uploaded a Mr Tweedy scan of a L.Miller book, Battle Action in Pictures #6 from 1959.
The British guide lists this as a 3 issue run featuring American reprints. But there is a Mick Anglo copyright insert in a panel about half way through the comic. If anyone can help or shed more light on this comic we'd love to hear from you.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77555
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Another leegsidd scan this morning, Thriller Comics Library #55. Art by Harry Winslade:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77606
Interesting article on Mr. Winslade on Bear Alley:-
https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2009/05/harry-winslade.html
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A few issues of Schoolgirls' Picture Library today, courtesy of Mr Tweedy.
Numbers 52; 65; 66; 67; 69; 70, now available for your reading pleasure - for those who don't have them yet. I'm a tad behind and forgot I hadn't uploaded them yet. They needed opening and the mac file taken out before they were zipped up again and uploaded. All done now.
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Many thanks to you both - genius!
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Nice to see some more SPL's. I'm starting to recognize certain artists but nobody seems to have named them. Thanks to you and Mr Tweedy for posting these here.
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2 uploads today. First, another Thriller Comics Library, The Talisman. Many thanks to leegsidd for this one:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77653
And an issue of the British Miller reprint series, Tom Mix Western Comics #113. Courtesy of Ernesto. When he scanned the comic there were 4 pages missing but he found 2 of them from Western Hero # 106. Still 2 pages missing but to the rescue, Dave Hayward found and provided the pages from Tom Mix Western #38. So 4 coloured pages in the middle of a b&w British reprint.
Rather rare some of these Miller westerns:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77654
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2 for today. First a rarity indeed. Courtesy of Ernesto, Space, an early'50's New Zealand comic published in Auckland. This is #2 and the story is continued. Will we ever find out what happens?
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77687
The other is Thriller Comics Library #69, Last of The Barons, courtesy of leegsidd:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77688
I think once again this has been scanned from a facsimile. It's still lovely stuff.
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Something a bit different today with a second issue of Crack Western Comics from New Zealand, featuring American reprints. We already had #16 on site, supplied years ago by ernesto and josemas. Well, thanks to Ernesto we now have #14. I've made a new folder for the title.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3507
Also a compilation from Playhour, a British weekly aimed at younger readers. When Knights Were Bold is a textstrip with illos by Reginald Heade, and very nice it is too. Peter Mansfield compiled this one from Barry's scans.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77717
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leegsidd provides us with another Thriller Comics Library today. this time #83.
Once again this has been scanned from a facsimile, a plethora of which were on the market for a few years. And you'll note the price box which says "Price overseas. 1/-" The original was distributed in a commonwealth country, the price in the UK being 9d - 9 old pennies.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77724
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A second issue of Tom Mix (L.Miller). This one #103. Many thanks to Dave Hayward for the scan and the info.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77725
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Yesterday, I uploaded another leeegsidd scan, Thriller Comics Library #98 and forgot to post the link. So here it is:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77730
2 of the 3 stories were illustrated by ?ngel Pardo (?ngel Pardo Ruiz) To quote Lambiek, "?ngel Pardo was one of the most prolific illustrators of 'Capit?n Trueno' stories. He has illustrated dozens of episodes, starting in 1959. He has also illustrated 'El Caballero de las Tres Cruces' and 'El Jabato'. Among his own creations are 'H?ctor el Tit?n', 'Edmundo de Glenford' and 'Octavio de Benalc?zar'."
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Another scan from Ernesto. This time Jungle Comics 03, a British reprint of a Fiction house issue.
As we are aware, there is a connection between Streamline and United Anglo American Book Co. Ltd, but the indicia in this issue makes no mention of Streamline, so until anyone can shed more light on this, I've put it in the British section and you'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77733
The British guide states that this is a Streamline comic but it is often wrong. GCD says there is a connection between the 2 companies, but normally I'd go by the indicia as I'm doing here. Unfortunately, in older British comics, there is often very little detail. This one is clear as day. All help appreciated.
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Something different this afternoon. A Buffalo Bill Painting and Colouring Book, courtesy of Ernesto and you will find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77734
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Thriller Comics Library #111 today, courtesy of leegsidd.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77737
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Another from leegsidd. Thriller Picture Library #172 with art by Coelho.
There is info about this Portuguese artist here:-
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/coelho_et.htm
You will find #172 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77749
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I've uploaded 2 "new" comics today. True Pirate Comics #7 is an Australian comic from 1951, published by Frank Johnson and with art by Peter Chapman, Phil Belbin and Ian Alison. Good stuff and all thanks to Ernesto for digging this one out and scanning it.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77828
Also, an issue of A Classic in Pictures. This is #2 of a 12 issue run. Art by F.A. Philpott, and comes to us courtesy of Dave Hayward.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77824
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Something quite delightful today. A biscuit card set of 24 cards, published by Wright's Biscuits of South Shields in 1954. Mischief Goes To Mars. The cards were posted on the excellent Bear Alley site and that's where the information about them came from. So many thanks to Bear Alley:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77837
Slipping in before the deadline - that is, my dinner is about ready - is a real treat from Ernesto who has been looking for this title for years. Finally he got an issue. This is a New Zealand copy of Cisco Kid #8 from 1953. It's in the odd format of a portrait cover and landscape interiors. The art is excellent:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77838
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https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77857
Picture Stories From The Bible - a compilation from Swift. a British weekly. This is a Boutje compilation.
Modifying this to add a L. Miller Robin Hood comic is now available. #20 of a 33 or 34 issue run from 1957 - 1959. GCD says 34 issues, the British guide says 34 issues and notes that during the run there were reprints of Charlton; National Comics, and original British strips. But the indicia is worth a read. All help greatly appreciated. Many thanks to Ernesto.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=77858
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Thanks to you and to Boutje for posting this here.
Cheers!
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I've uploaded some of the missing Skywald books. That gives us now 11 Scream.
I've added The Heap as well. You'll find them on the Skywald section
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3515
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Thanks to Mr Tweedy another 5 issues of Thriller Comics today. #38; 39; 45; 48; 58
You will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
More to follow but my dinner is nearly ready ;D
Many, many thanks to Mr Tweedy.
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Thanks to you and to Mr Tweedy!
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Here we go again. An avalanche of goodies from Mr Tweedy.
I've uploaded another 10 issues (I think, starting to get confused ::))
#5;9;16;42;49;78; 79; 102; 104; 106. Some lovely art in these and for me an extra treat as there is an Eric Parker story in this lot.
Now if I've got all this right, you'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
Mr Tweedy's scans take a wee bit longer to process as I have to unzip each file to extract the mac data, then re-zip and change the extension. But it's so worth it.
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5 more TPL today, courtesy of Mr. Tweedy. #121; 124; 126; 127; 194. You will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
I've just read #121 and it's very good. Action, excitement, all sorts going on and lovely art.
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Another batch of Thriller Picture Library#170; 177; 180; 186; 205; 207; 208; 212.
I think I might have mis-attributed some of these. I think they are a mixture of leegsidd and Mr Tweedy scans.
Apologies.
There are 2 Eric Parker stories in this lot. #180 and #208.
You can find all of them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
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4 more issues of Thriller Picture Library today. #197; 218; 220; 223.
You will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
Even if only to look at, #223 and 197 are compelling stuff.
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Thanks again! You are right! Great stuff!
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Courtesy of Ernesto we have a copy of The Startler, a British weekly storypaper. Relatively short lived and a rarity, it was an AP publication. Ernesto has supplied info on the paper which is copied with the paper here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78402
Another NZ comic from Ernesto. This time Johnny Hazzard 03, a FP publication:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78415
Jungle Jim 02 is a Brtitish WDL reprint of a Dell issue. The comic and info from Ernesto is here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78416
Another NZ comic from Ernesto. This time, Crack Western 13. The comic and ifo from Erneto here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78417
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5 new issues of Love Story Picture Library. #5; 34; 37; 61; 63.
This is a good series, especially the earlier issues.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3471
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Great news - thanks Paw - I enjoyed the first set of uploads very much - like a window in time
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I hope this next lot also pleases Andrew, and the rest of you. I've added a new section for compilations from Swift, the British weekly, mid to late '50's. There are now 3 comps available, Picture Stories From The Bible; Sammy and His Speed Sub (which is a great read) and Dixon of Dock Green, based on the long running tv show. More to follow, once I've opened them up and checked them. You can find these 3 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3528
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Nice to see some of Boutje's compilations surfacing on CB+
Thanks to you both.
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I've looked at the Dixon of Dock Green (just first few pages in between doing other stuff) - I think my life is now complete - wonderful stuff! Thanks to all involved.
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Walter Crane's Picture Books 01. An internet find by Australian Panther, to whom many thanks as this is a lovely book, indeed. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78434
Although whether you'll be able to download it till Mark fixes the problem, I'm not sure. Well worth a look anyway.
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Another 2 compilations from Swift today. The Red Rider and Robin Hood and His Merry Men. Soemnice work in these compilations. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3528
They are big files, so be patient on downloading.
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2 new files today courtesy of Ernesto. Girls' Favourite is a romance story paper from 1924.
Secret Agent X9 is a New Zealand comic, published in Wellington from the early '40's.
You can find them in Story Papers and Australian/New Zealand sections.
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Both terrific contributions - many thanks!
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What a day. For the first time in a while, I seem to have been out and about and done lots.
But I haven't neglected comics and you'll find new uploads for your delectation and delight - I hope.
vollmann has already commented on one of the 2 issues of Love Story Picture Library. And he's right - good stories. Also, a new section in newspaper strips for Ace O'Hara, a British strip which appeared here and in Australia, by Conrad Frost and Basil Blackaller. Found on boutje's site and compiled by 4 guys, Ar, Comix, Ranjan, Udai, the first 3 stories are here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3532
There are 3 tiers missing overall but it shouldn't spoil your enjoyment of a good, wee sf strip.
Just uploaded #4. Now I need to get pasta on for dinner. Venison meatballs in home made sauce, vino, bread and cheese.
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These Ace O'Hara strips are an unexpected delight. The stories go off in unexpected directions and Blackaller's art is quite good. I also appreciate that Ace's girl friend is an expert mathematician and holds her own alongside the men. It was funny, though, to see that the Zarnians made her a custom transparent spacesuit so she could wear her skirt.
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Venison meatballs in home made sauce, vino, bread and cheese.
You said that deliberately with malice aforethought, didn't you? Fortunately I've just finished breakfast, so you haven't made me too hungry.
I'm looking forward to field mushrooms for tea, followed by Figs [From my own tree] and yoghurt. possibly with a pot of real Earl Grey to finish. I'm out of Port and Cigars!
Since I always like to tie my posts in to comics, here's a list of Food graphic novels.
The Best Food Comics and Graphic Novels to Help You Escape
https://www.eater.com/2020/7/14/21322684/best-food-comics-and-graphic-novels
I haven't read Hungry Ghosts by Anthony Bourdain, but I have read most of his food/biographical books. I put him alongside Hunter S Thompson as a writer. I have read his Graphic novel, the incredibly violent Get Jiro!
This one is more likely to put you off your food, not give you an appetite.
Paw, I'm really pleased you have managed to escape Lockdown for a day or so at least. Hope the sun was shining.
Ir's the end of Autumn here, the best time of the year in this locality. We have a four-day holiday for Easter, the sun is shining, and all the imported European trees - and there are many, in gardens and parks, are wonderful shades of red, orange and brown. A real feast for the eyes!
Winter hits next week!
Cheers!
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Oh I do love figs. Sun is shining here as well although there was a frost overnight. Been in the garden doing wee bits and pieces.
I've uploaded Ace O'Hara #5 - 10, all we have. Were there more? Only time will tell.
You can find the new ones here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3532
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I'm not so fond of figs - but I do like pasta - your venison meatball pasta sounds great.
My own speciality is smoked salmon in a sauce that includes thickened cream, mushrooms, mixed peppers and garlic. A bit pricey perhaps but as an occasional treat......
Another homemade pasta sauce I like is Tomato & Chorizo soup (available from Lidl - but probably elsewhere too) thickened either with cornflour or by using the Roux method - with added cooked chicken and mushrooms. Worth a shot.
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Both sound dead tasty but I have to avoid milk fats, so cheese - apart from a wee bit of goats, ewes is out. Also cream, but I never liked cream. We only use skimmed milk.
We're lucky as there's a fish merchant close by with a great selection of fish and seafood and he bakes Scottish salmon on the premises. There is a good selection of different flavours as well as smoked.
Something we've been having recently is free range chicken breast cut into smallish pieces and sauteed for a minute or two. Then add mushrooms, chestnuts, shallots, a good sploosh of Marsala and chicken stock and let the lot simmer. It can be thickened up by whatever method you prefer.
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Following on from a chat on another forum about The Grey Ghosts in Girls' Crystal story paper, we learned of some issues of Schoolgirls' Picture Library and I've downloaded 3 of them to host on CB+.
#21; 46; 101 are now available. 2 of these feature The Grey Ghosts and the other looks like a good one, The Girl in The Crimson Cloak. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
Apologies, something wrong with # 46 & 101. I'll need to unzip them and have a look.
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Right, that's those 2 SPL issues fixed and uploading. I sometimes forget that there can be mac stuff in the files. That's no good for CB+ But with not a lot of effort, it's fixed. You can find #46 & 101 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
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Brilliant - thanks Paw - I'll be burying myself in these today
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Another 2 rarities from Ernesto. Ranger #52, story paper from 1932 which contains a chapter of the masked mystery man serial, Black Whip:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78473
And Redskin Comic #9 which reprints American stories:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78474
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Many, many thanks to Ar; Comix; Ranjan; Udai, the fab 4 who have researched, collected and collated the Ace O'Hara strip. Another 5 from them today. Following Basil Blackaller's death in 1958, art chores fell to Tony Speer. Story 13 has one tier in Portuguese and in story 15 there are 6 tiers in Portuguese. English versions of these tiers remain elusive. It also means that this strip appeared in either a Portuguese or Brazilian paper. More research needed as it could have been in other countries' papers.You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3532
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More on Ace O'Hara. A bit naughty but I found a Portuguese comic with Ace O'Hara. It's from a shade later than I would like but it's very obscure and interesting. Tony Speer is signing his work by now.
If you fancy a look, it's here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78502
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2 new sections. Ernesto provided another issue Supreme Feature-Comic, a New Zealand anthology title from around 1944. This time #2. As we already had #5, I've opened a new section here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3541
And Robin des Bois, the first 7 issues of this French title from 1947/8. All thanks to the good folk at
bdmagexhumator and DM.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3542
Robin des Bois is from the same stable as Fantax and Big Bill Le Casseur. Good looking comics.
Amending this to say that there might be a problem with #2. I'll take a look tomorrow. Had my 2nd jag yesterday and as well as a sore arm, I'm knackered.
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Davy Crockett #5 today. Many thanks to Ernesto. This gives us 3 Miller Davy Crockett issues. Contents are b&w reprints of Charlton material. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78650
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More Ace O'Hara today, plus replacements for #2 and #15 which were either incomplete or had Portuguese tiers. We now have stories 1 to 19 on site. You will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3532
More to follow after I've tweaked the description and changed extensions. I know that shouldn't take long but there's a pile of other stuff that I need to do. :-[ ;)
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3 new comics for us today. Thanks to leegsidd we now have Super Detective Library #13. And it's a good one. Bulldog Drummond, The Final Count, an adaptation of the book by Sapper. Art by Reg Bunn.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78730
Another Miller Davy Crockett, courtesy of Ernesto:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78731
Also from Ernesto another issue of Lone Star:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78732
Many thanks to both of them.
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As we've been discussing Steve Larrabee and Lone Star recently, I discovered that there was a comic strip adventure of the character in Rover in 1957, so I found the appropriate issues and extracted the pages and compiled them. All from scans by our late friend bede. It is odd that this character published by DCMT/Atlas should appear in a DCT title. Still trying to find out who drew this strip. You can find the story here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78735
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Thanks for this Paw - beautiful work - We really need to find out who the artist was.
Cheers!
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Once again leegsidd has come up with the goods as today we have Super Detective Library #30. Based on The Three Just Men, this issues features 2 stories with art by Selby Donnison and Reg Bunn. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78755
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And some more. Now available, 12 "new" issues of Super Detective Library - #5; 6; 8; 15; 16; 96; 120; 130; 149; 150; 156; 170. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3364
If anyone can i/d the art on those issues where I don't have the info., that would be great. Also and just as important, some of the issues don't have scanner attribution. If any of these are yours, let me know and I'll add your name to the file. Thanks.
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Great to get a new crop of Super Detective! I had no idea the Four Just Men had become a trio.
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The Four Just Men (1905)
The Council of Justice (1908)
The Just Men of Cordova (1917)
The Law of the Four Just Men aka Again the Three Just Men (1921)
The Three Just Men (1929)
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com
Fascinating site!
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The three just men, Edgar Wallace, the Saint, Lesley Shane, Armchair Detective, Rip Kirby, Vic Terry, (Vic-tory?) and Buck Ryan.
Happy Days are here again!
Thanks Paw.
And out of curiosity,
What's the story behind 'Digital Nostalgia Comic Creations' ?
Cheers1
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The Four Just Men date from 1905? And here I'd thought they were 1920s characters. Actually the brief series ended in the twenties. I first encountered the characters in the 1959 British TV series, which aired on a Seattle indy station in the 1960s. The TV series kept only the title and the number of Men from the novels. Everything else was new.
What's really fun is the story behind the original novel. I found it in Wikipedia. Edgar Wallace ran a promotional contest tied to the book through the Daily Mail newspaper. Being "enthusiastic, but without any substantial managerial skill," Wallace failed to think the project through and wound up owing a fortune to a slew of prize winners. When impatient winners began to suspect a fraud, the Daily Mail loaned Wallace ?5000 to pay them off and protect the paper's reputation. Wallace went bankrupt and sold the rights to The Four Just Men for ?75. Details here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Just_Men_(novel)
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Me again--that "Book Series in Order" site is a great idea, but I couldn't believe it doesn't follow the standard--and sensible--practice of alphabetizing authors by last name and book titles without the initial "The." So you don't find Edgar Wallace under "Wallace" but under "Edgar," and a whole mountain of books are crammed together simply because their titles began with "The." This really slows down research. Taking a random example, Tarzan and the Ant Men and Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar would appear together under TA as you'd expect but The Tarzan Twins would be listed under TH. Similarly books by Doc Smith credited to E. E. Smith would in one place while those credited to Edward E. Smith would be in another.
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Oh Paw! You have risen to no.1 on my christmas card list!
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As Bowers mentions, these comics originated on another site where I'm a member, and we have arrangements to share files. We take care not to publicise the other site, just in case.
As for the watermarked issues, I'm a bit concerned about them and I'm waiting for advice/opinions.
I still need art i/d and scanner attributions so thinking caps on, please.
Also, I still don't have a scanner, so I have to keep digging and making compilations to compensate.
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Also, I still don't have a scanner, so I have to keep digging and making compilations to compensate.
You are doing very well then. I'm impressed.
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https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78783
Thanks are due to Buddy Lortie who sourced the pages and cover for Chris Welkin #1, Australian reprint of the American newspaper strip. You can find it at the page above. More to follow as Buddy has also supplied the original newspaper strips that make up the story. I just need to get them organised for us.
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Courtesy of leegsidd another Thriller Comics Library. This time # 101, Dick Turpin and The Secrets of Wolf Castle. Another good one. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78798
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Once again Mr Tweedy has come up with the goods. He alerted me to a new batch of scans he has done of Thriller Comics Library. Up to now I have uploaded #29; 85; 95; 100; 113; 128; 129; 131; 141; 142.
Another batch to follow. I just have to extract the mac stuff from each file, zip and change the extension. Then look up and add in the credits where I have them.
You will find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
I'm sure we're all grateful to Mr Tweedy for sharing this bounty with us.
Happy reading.
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Wowie! Loads of great reading. Thanks, Mr T and Paw B!
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Acknowledged and appreciated!
Cheers!
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More TPL goodness this afternoon. #143; 144; 146; 156; 157; 161; 165; 168; 171; 182; 184; 185. A couple more to come. Need to start on the dinner now.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=0
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Dinner ready and waiting. My wife's out visiting friends and probably sipping a glass or two. I'm getting peckish, so a few more TPL till she gets back.
#189; 195; 211.
#211 courtesy of leegsidd.
You will find them here.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=100
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From leegsidd, Dick Turpin and Creepy Crawley, drawn by Hugh McNeill. This is great fun:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78871
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5 more issues of TPL today. #201; 202; 203; 214; 215. All courtesy of Mr Tweedy.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=100
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Thanks to cicisaur and Mr Tweedy for art i/d on Thriller Picture Library, previously listed as unknown.
Good work.
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4 more issues of Thriller Picture Library today. leegsidd supplied us with #248 and Mr Tweedy offered #217; 225; 228.
Many thanks to both.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=100
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OK forget that. I forgot to extract the mac files from #217; 225; 228. I'll sort them out but it might be tomorrow. Apologies.
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I think the 3 TPL files are ok now, so you can find #217; 225; 228 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=100
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I've been meaning to upload more Ace O'Hara stories for a wee while. But today i got back to it and you'll now find stories 20 - 24, plus a complete version of #13, available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3532
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TPL 262 today, courtesy of leegsidd. Nice work by Jesus Blasco. You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78925
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Courtesy of leegsidd, Knockout Fun Book 1953. you can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78968
Bunter in good form in this one. Sexton Blake text, some Eric Parker illos and a nice full colour by Derek C. Eyles.
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Right, some uploads today. All British. 3 x weeklies aimed at girls/young women. They are, Glamour; Marty; Romeo. You'll find comic strips, tips, problem pages, ads aimed at young ladies, stars of tv, stage and screen and in the case of Marty, photo strips. Also an issue of Mirabelle Pop TV and Film Star Library with a comic strip in back. This issue features Russ Conway. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=270
There are few more issues of Schoolgirls Picture Library, courtesy of Mr. Tweedy but I'll need a bit of time to check them out. Enjoy these relatively rare comics.
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I've been intrigued for a while with the Spanish masked mystery men - and women - from Spanish comics. We have a run of the comic books of El Encapuchado on site, but he was also the hero of a series of very popular pulps. In those pulps he co-starred sometimes with the masked mystery woman, Mascara Negra. I discovered she had a short run of comic stories in the weekly, Coyote, so I've made a short compilation and uploaded it:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=79073
Thing is, I haven't a clue if there were other comics featuring this character. If any of our Spanish comic fans can shed any light, that would be great.
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Essential Catman by LTC. There was something wrong with the way this file was put together, it wasn't showing properly on the comps page. I've fixed it and it's here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=79152
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Courtesy of leegsidd, we have another TV Picture Stories issue and this one is an adaptation of one of my favourite tv shows of the late '50's, Sword of Freedom. Marco del Monte was played by Edmund Purdom. Nowadays I suppose it seems a dated and tame but back then, I thought it was really exciting.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=79286
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Today we have one of the pamphlets which appeared in the early '50's in the UK which were part of an organised attack on comics. A sort of British Wertham. As American comics were relatively rare in the UK in the '50's, the emphasis was on the British reprints. The government of the time were involved and a secret document for the cabinet has come to light. You can find it here:-
https://downthetubes.net/?p=23475
The pamphlet is here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=79287
If you follow all the links on Down The Tubes, you'll find some interesting material and discussions.
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New additions to our pocket library sections. Courtesy of leegsidd we have "new" issues of True Life Library:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3560
Love Story Picture Library:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3471
Famous Romance Library:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3562
And an issue of a new title to CB+, Confessions Library:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=79840
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New publisher and titles. Gredown were an Australin house, reprinting horror and sf stories, among other genres. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3563
And I'll tell you, this lot took some time. Hope it was worth it.
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3 issues of Schoolgirls' Picture Library today. Actually, I misplaced these a while ago and only just uncovered them. They are # 14; 45; 71 and you can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3117
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A "new" superhero for you today, Rock Robot. In Spanish. There was a series of 32 issues in 1957 and we have the first 10 on site. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3565
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Rock Robot is a great find. Nice 50s craziness. Is it true that Rock Robot is the father of the Rock'em Sock'em Robots who hit the big time in the mid 1960s?
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Of course it's true!!!!
At least you and I find them good fun. Another 10 issues today and I now have the rest of the run. Just have to check them over. #10 - 20 here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3565
I also have uncovered Boro Kay and it looks like the complete run. Need to check them before I start uploading.
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We now have Rock Robot #1 - 32, complete run. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3565
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9 "new" issues of the British Love Story Picture Library today. Here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3471
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Egg on face as I don't have Boro-Kay. I was too quick and all they were were jpgs of the covers. Apologies to all as I know you were waiting with baited breath ;)
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We now have a nice wee Spanish SF mini-series, Guerra a La Tierra, 1945. Art by Liquois.
I think this might originally have been a French title. not sure so ant info greatly appreciated.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3568
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Yes, this was originally Guerre a la Terre, and first appeared as a serial in Coq Hardi. Your 1945 date is off; the French serial ran from 1946-1947. Script by Marijac. Art by Auguste Liquois and later Pierre "Dut" Deuteurtre.
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Yes, I got the date here:-
https://www.tebeosfera.com/colecciones/guerra_a_la_tierra_1945_marco.html
and there is a question mark. Couldn't find it on the French sites :-[
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I was pleased to find that while I don't know diddly about the Spanish language I was able to follow this story very nicely.
Many years ago I studied Esperanto a bit and found I could muddle through most of the printed reading materials I found in that language.
A friend later told me that spoken Esperanto was nearly identical to Portugese.
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Well Cap, and the rest of you, I dug out a comp of another sf strip, Alerte a Le Terre, (Alerta a La Tierra) by Marijac and Mathelot. This is a Spanish reprint and in the back are some original art pages I found on the Fantasmak site.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=79956
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Another superhero today. This is really obscure - well to me anyway - I'd never heard of this character.
Marsifan appeared in 1952 and ran into 1953. I've uploaded the only 8 issues I could find. The box at the end of #8 says there is another issue to come. If anyone can come up with more, or any info on publisher etc. please let us know.
Art on #1 - 6 by Brea. Art on 7 & 8 by F. Javier. Weird, confusing page layouts but some good superheroics
You can find the issues here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3569
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With enormous thanks to Mr. Tweedy - again - I've sorted out and uploaded a pile of his scans of Thriller Picture Library. I'd like to draw your attention to # 148, The Picture of Dorian Gray adapted from the book by Oscar Wilde. This is superbly drawn by Robert Forrest. Enjoy them all. The TPL pages are here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476
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A few more issues of Thriller Comics Library - but about to change to Thriller Picture Library. Includes a great Claude Duval story. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3476&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=100
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Something a bit different today as we have a French pocket library issue, Mes Histoires Illustrees, 1958, which is a reprint of Schoolgirls Picture Library #4. There was a short series of Vera's adventures in SPL. This is the first of them.
You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=82192
Also a French photo comic from the Olivia de Haviland film A Chacun Son Destin/To Each His Own of 1946.
Photo comics were very popular in Europe and South and Central America. I think this is in its turn a reprint of an Italian photo comic. All info gratefully received. A few were tried in the UK but to no great success.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=82193
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Crash and I are adding to the Spanish section and today, I've uploaded 3 new titles. Boro-Kay is a title I mentioned a while ago and I thought I had the short run, but they were only cover illos. After a lot of digging I found the comics. An interesting and enjoyable take on the young lad who adopts an alter ego, wears a mask and totes a gun. Enjoy his adventures here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3620
Huracan El piloto Fantasma had a run of 12 issues in 1942. Art by Jesus Blasco.:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3621
Ray London, El Rey De Los Comandos, (King of the Commandos) was a 6 issue series from 1947:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3622
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Lots of Spanish goodness from crash, and here are some more. The 9 issue run of Cesar Meteor, which was part of the series Hombres Intrepidos, Ediciones Toray, Barcelona, 1956. Art by Rafael Cortiella.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3627
Hope you enjoy them.
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Lots of Spanish goodness from crash, and here are some more. The 9 issue run of Cesar Meteor, which was part of the series Hombres Intrepidos, Ediciones Toray, Barcelona, 1956. Art by Rafael Cortiella.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3627
Hope you enjoy them.
Glad to see these. I've been trying to pick up some Spanish by reading Spanish language comics and these fit the bill perfectly.
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Re: Cesar Meteor. Thanks, Paw! I've been looking for these.
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Captain, reading non English language comics can really help with becoming familiar with another language. That's how I started my love affair with Italian, a lot ofthe impetus to read Italian comics coming from Mick McMahon, way back when we ran comic marts in Glasgow and he came up often with Kevin O'Neill. McMahon could read Italian, and I fancied trying to understand the stories in fumetti.
Keep it up, look for classes. Not a lot of work and you'll be proficient enough to understand what's going on in the tebeos.
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This contains a few good principles re language learning.
How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ted+talk+how+to+learn+a+language+in+6+months
and this critique of the above video is pretty good too.
Polyglot Reacts: Learn Any Language in 6 Months? (TEDx)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAymGPEsS1o
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A bit of a rarity today. I've found the first Rikki Visser book by Jan Dirk van Exter. The strips originally appeared in a Dutch newspaper in the '40's. This album was released in 1947 and is a balloon strip. There were 4? other Rikki Visser adventures, a couple? in textstrip form. As far as I can see, this story has not been reprinted.
I'm a fan and managed to pick up reprints of later albums in The Netherlands.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=82405
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From 1947, a French comic drawn by Robert Dansler who signed as Bob Dan. Good SF, nicely done.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=82646
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5 issues of Super Detective Library today. Actually, I should have uploaded these a while ago, but I simply forgot about them. Apologies.
The issues are #17, 56, 62, 84, 151. Incl. 2x Lesley Shane and 1 x Blackshirt.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3364
I think these were scanned by Mr Tweedy.
But if I've erred, please let me know and I will correct the attribution. ::)
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Always a great day when new Super Detective's appear. Thanks to Mr Tweedy and Paw Broon.
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Mr Tweedy and paw broon, thank you both for these wonderful books. 2 Lesley Shane, victor canning, Blackshirt!
great art, great characters, great writing.
Go well, gentlemen!
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Today a compilation of all the pages I can find of Strata Rocketeers by Max Judd. Compiled from scans of original art. 1 complete story and part 1 of another. Australia c.1950
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=82817
Don't know who scanned them but thanks are due to ausreprints.net and lambiek.
Any further info appreciated. I'll change the attribution if any info arrives.
Hope you enjoy it.
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Thanks to our good friends at bdmagexhumator who have kindly allowed us to share their finds of claasic, old French comics, I've started to upload some. If you look in the French langage section here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1733
The new issues are marked "new". There is some lovely stuff and I encourage you to take a look.
Since I saw a copy of Big Bill many years ago, I've been a fan. Art by Chott, same artist as on Fantax.
Also, the French continuation of Kurt Caeser's character Will Sparrow by van Straeten.
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I've uploaded 2 new pocket library issues today thanks to leegsidd and Mr. Tweedy. True Life Library #11 is, as usual, rather good. Romance and a mystery.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=82870
Robin Hood in Thriller Picture Library # 166
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=82871
As I'm very occupied with a bit of writing, I'll get round to uploading more of those tasty French offerings when I clear the decks a bit. Bear with please.
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Borne. With.!
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More old French landscape comics this afternoon. Well worth a look. A French version of Blue Beetle and a 2 page episode from a Zorro serial. Well, one of, it would appear, many versions of Zorro.
They are marked "New" in the French section:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1733
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Paw, thanks for posting these rarities. Quite an assortment, with art ranging from good to unfortunate. The Collection Pic Aventures books, notably Le Mur Invisible, look like amateur productions. I'd like to know more about this publisher. Is it just me, or does the fellow in the circle on the cover of "Puits en Peril" look like he wandered in from a Supermarionation comic?
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In an attempt to help Mark complete some of the Spanish series, I've managed to find the rest of the run of Terciopelo Negro (which translates as Black Velvet, referring to the velvet mask sported by our hero)
The files had expired on the original site but were re-uploaded and are again available. A good series from 1954, published by MAGA. Jose Ortiz Mayo art.
You can find the complete run here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2641
Also, the previously unknown #7 of El Temible Pirata. The series was thought to have only 6 issues but recently #7 was unearthed. Despite an ad for a next issue, it never appeared. You can find the 7 issue run here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2479
Art by Bellalta.
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Another Spanish series completed. This time Rayo Kit by G. Iranzo (Juan Garcia Iranzo) also responsible for El Cachorro, Captan Coraje, Dick Relampago, Kosman and other great titles.
All 24 issues plus the Almanaque now on site:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1584
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We've had #2 of the 3 issues Spanish series, Armando El Intrepido, courtesy of Integro for a while. but now we have #1 & 3 to complete the run. Released in 1943.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2914
Written by Jose Maria Canellas Casals who was also artist on the Spanish rip off of Batman and Robin - Robin Y El Murcielago, as well as many other Spanish and French comics.
Oddly laid out with no word balloons, only descriptive text, with each illustration numbered.
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Odd little series. The first two stories seem to have been just a dream, though the third seems really to have happened. Armando seems to have a thing for never showing his face to the camera.
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The title of #10, "La Pradera en Llamas" ("The Prairie in Flames") reminded me of this funny meme playing off the fact that in Spanish llama can mean the animal, "he [she/it] calls" and "flame."
(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/0b/ea/eb/0beaebb9cf3e771d3291d40f91333abd.jpg)
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Aw!!! That's good.
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A 4 part Spanish series from 1956'7. Heroes y Maravillas del Mundo
Script J. B. Artes.
Art Juan Alejandro Martinez Osete (signing here as Martinez)
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3640
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The complete 18 issue run of Hombres de Acero is up now:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3641
This was published by Toray, Barcelona in 1951/2 in the lilliput format - small landscape with 1 tier per page.
Script by Artes.
Art by Ferrando. Nice looking comic, well a hit with me - it's got pirates!!!!
Thanks to Solymos y Rokocan for the scans
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Thanks once again to Mr Tweedy who has scanned another 3 issues of Super Detective Library. This time 3 Buck Ryan tales - # 159, 164 and 176. You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3364&sortvalue=name&order=ASC&limit=100
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Wow! Thanks to Mr Tweedy! Makes my week!
I was under the illusion that there were no more Buck Jones tales left.
I found 2 only - Thieves Highway and Tunnel of Gold.
They are not yet on the latest comics list.
I guess i will have to wait.
How many more might there still to come Paw?
It occurs to me, (and it would be a big job, I know.)
Could we divide the SuperDetective Library books up into character sections?
So one section each for Buck Jones, Blackshirt, Rip Kirby, Rick Random, John Steel, The Saint, Bulldog Drummond, Sherlock Holmes, and the others I have missed, a section for the SF books and then a general one for the others.
That's essentially what CB+ does with the American publishers. Would make it easier to use.
Just a thought.
Thanks again!
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Reading through one of these Buck Ryan books, I see that there was a Sexton Blake comic library.
We don't seem to have any issues of that here.
Are they not PD?
But we do have some Sexton Blake's in the Super Detective library?
Or were the Sexton Blake Library advertised, the text novels which CB+ has in another section?
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They were the text stories. Many lovely covers.
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An updated compilation of Ace Hart and Val Venture today. This one adds two illustrated prose stories which feature Wayne Boring look-a-like versions of Ace and Val. At first glance, I thought they were "real" Boring pieces with the head and chest emblem changed. They might be.
There is an additional Ace Hart Strip as well. "The Atom Man" is really good fun superhero comics.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=84965
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I've made a right a**e of the remaining Dutch Mirakel Man comics. They turned up on a link and, without checking, I uploaded them. When I checked the files, as they weren't appearing properly, I found the pages weren't jpg but webp. Can anyone bulk convert them as I'm struggling for time?
There are 12 books weighing from around 11 mb to 26 mb.
This is the link if anyone can help.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/fkw3hfh7i1w77/Mirakel_Man
I shouldn't have started this right now but I was keen as there seem to be a couple of stories not present in the Spanish originals. I need some time to figure out where they came from and what they are.
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Today, thanks to amazing work from Dave Hayward and Yoc, I've uploaded Liberty comics 012:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=85148
This comic was a in terrible nick when I bought it, for the Black Hood story, ages ago. Turns out it had never been scanned. Dave managed to scan it and Yoc did an amazing job editing it to get it to a readable condition.
I'm just happy I was able to at least offer it to folk who knew what they were doing ;) ;D ;D ;D
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Thanks for letting us work on it Paw. It was a challenge but worth it. They all deserve to be preserved.
:D
-Yoc
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For fans of those school based masked groups, I've uploaded a compilation of three different groups, plus some covers from Schoolgirls' Own Library featuring more masked, robed, hooded bands and individuals. The Schoolgirls' Own Library was along running pocket library of prose adventures designed for girls and young women.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=85245
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A real treat! I can't believe how many hooded schoolgirls were running around England. Do you suppose they all got their robes from the same supplier, like that guy in the old Flash series who specialized in supervillain costumes?
I remember reading somewhere--an interview with Evelyn Flinders, maybe?--that the Silent Three were originally conceived as the Silent Six until someone realized what a chore it would be to keep six main characters straight.
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A 2nd issue of the Italian series, Za-La-Mort has turned up so I've added a new section for it and the #1 we had on site uploaded by mr golden age a few years back.
The title was issued in 3 series from 1947 - 1947, 12 issues, 4 issues and 12 issues, featuring a comic strip version of a character from Italian cinema. Both our issues are from series 3.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3660
Another old Italian comic, Albi Grandi Avventure with the story of Il Gaucho Nero, from 1935. This is a text strip. with art by Corrado Sarri.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=85526
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There appears to be something amiss with the Il Gaucho Nero file. I will check it this afternoon.
File re-done. Should be ok now:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=85527
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We now have 6 issues of the 1953 Dutch S.F. series, Fulgor - the stratosphere pilot. This is a Piccolo or Lilliput - landscape and 1 tier high which was at one time a very popular, and cheap, format in a number of countries.
No idea who scanned them, so if anyone knows, I'll change the attribution.
You can find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3661
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2 new additions today. A British company called Pepys published card games in the '50's.
First is a selection of cards from Crime Club, 1953 by Peter Cheyney.
Second, a selection of cards from Riders of The Range, also 1953, based on the comic strip of the same name written by Charles Chilton of Journey into Space fame.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=85542
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=85543
I can't find any information about who drew the cards.
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I'm trying to complete the AMOK folder - the Spanish edition. As Bambos explained, "Amok is a strip by Antonio Canale (also known as Tony Chan)"
This is a lovely series and well worth a look, even if you can't read Spanish.
I'm about half way through uploading - downloading the files from a slowish Spanish site held me up.
You'll find the books here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=30086
The series ran to 45 issues. Nearly there.
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Forget that. The files were composed of bmp images, not jpgs, so a bit of a no-no for cb+. It will take some time to convert the issues. Unless I lose the will to live ;)
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We certainly can't have that happening!!! I don't hold up much hope BUT I'll have a bit of a dig around and see if we can process these somehow.
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i am afraid it's a no.
After a while i realized I'd investigated this before (but plodded on).
The problem is that the files have bmps with just 2 palette entries b/w. Some do resize ok using our software, others just return a black blank image, with no complaints. So all appears OK but isn't. Which is why I twigged (after a bit of time) I have commented out the bmp code.
Interestingly and as a decider my venerable Paint Shop Pro 5 shows exactly the same files fine and the same ones black.
I am sure it could be possible to fix, but a BIG job. I've come to that same conclusion twice now :(
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Thanks Mark and sorry for the hassle. I'll leave it for now. For anyone interested, we have some of the French versions of Amok here
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2790
Same stories but translated into French.
There was a 2nd French run of reprints in a different format, some with Lone Ranger reprints in the back. We can't host them but they are available online. Digging required.
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An adition to our Italian section. Collezione Uomo Mascherato #56 from 1947. This features a masked man called L'Ombra - The Shadow. It's a reprint of a French comic from the series Fantome Collection.
Art by Bordoni. Is this Giorgio Bordoni who later drew for Disney Europe?
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=85777
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More in the Italian section with 9 "new" issues of Za-La-Mort. Found on the internet. You'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3660
The new issues are all from 1954.
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We now have 5 more issues of Plutos in the Italian section. Plutos is one of the first masked Mystery Men in Italian comics. Created by Gian Luigi Bonelli and drawn by Leone Cimpellin. Between yesterday and today, I've added #11 - 15. 1949
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2592
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How many issues did Plutos run before the censors shut him down?
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32. Final issue dated July 1950. Seems the title went on trial, lost and was cancelled.
I think I've found all of them but it's slow going as the images are png, so I have to convert to jpg.
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We now have 22 issues of the run of Plutos, as I've added a few today:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2592
Perhaps it's the moustache but doesn't Plutos in costume remind you of Mr. Scarlet?
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Just a heads-up, Paw: the page for Plutos 19 - L'Isola del Diavolo displays another copy of #18, Intrighi nell' Ombra.
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Thanks crash. I've taken it down and will try to get the real 19 up ASAP.
That'll teach me not to try shortcuts.
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Plutos #23; 24; 25 up today.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2592
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With thanks to Australian Panther who reminded me of this title, I've sorted and uploaded the first 5 issues of the Spanish western, Dan Barry el Terremoto. The first 67 issues (apart from #47) drawn by Jose Ortiz.
The series started in 1954, published by Editorial Maga, and ran for 76 issues plus 3 Almanaques and a special.
Well worth a look:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3700
Still a bit of work to do to get the rest ready.
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Great stuff, Paw. It's surprising to see how different Jose Ortiz' style was in those days compared to his mature work. Seeing his art reminded me of a funny thing. Have you noticed how many artists' styles change over the years but their signature is already settled in their earliest work? A pro artist once joked to me that the very first thing an amateur artist works on is his signature. That seems to be the case with many pros as well!
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Crash posted:-
A pro artist once joked to me that the very first thing an amateur artist works on is his signature. That seems to be the case with many pros as well!
No offense intended Crash but I am wondering how much significance did you give yours?
I'm no artist but I have a signature, from back in the days when you had to have a verifiable signature for documents, particularly for banks. Now it features on my Drivers License. Read too many Detective and Noir books in which featured baddies faking signatures, I think.
Cheers!
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Dan Barry #6 - 10:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3700
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A pro artist once joked to me that the very first thing an amateur artist works on is his signature. That seems to be the case with many pros as well!
No offense intended Crash but I am wondering how much significance did you give yours?
I was firmly in the fan-artist tradition. I worked diligently on my signature beginning in junior high school (aka middle school, roughly age 12). I was inspired by Russ Heath's signature. He had the same initials and I dug the way he made the last stroke of the "R" work as the cross for the "H." I signed my name a helluva lot better than I drew!
I modified the original signature somewhat when I fell in love with Milton Caniff's Terry and reorganized the pieces to fit into a box like the classic newspaper strip artists did. This was the signature I used forever after, except that it became sloppier over the years. Nowadays my unsteady hand makes it hard to draw it with the same flair, which is okay because I seldom need it anymore!
Your mention of bank signatures reminded me how the entire notion of handwritten signature as identification is all but dead. My bank signature looked nothing like my comics sig. I remember my bank periodically had me sign a little 3x5 card which they filed for comparison purposes in case a suspicious check crossed their desk. Not that it would actually have been used. During my wife's grad student days somebody swiped her checkbook and cashed a hundred-dollar check with the lousiest, most completely made-up signature imaginable--at my wife's home bank! I think in the "old days" my present signature would give me trouble, as the initial "R" has a big loop, but now 95% of the time my shaky hand makes the top of the loop come out flat. Very frustrating.
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5 more issues of Dan Barry:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3700
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# 16 - 20 of Dan Barry el Terremoto today:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3700
Apologies for such slow going with this series. Apart from anything else, my pc has been having trouble with windows updates and my email was playing silly buggers.
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Dan Barry #21 - 25 today. The next complication showed up. The pages on these and some following issues were numbered incorrectly with the cover appearing as the last page. Fortunately this is a really nice series.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3700
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I've uploaded another issue of Emergency-Ward 10, a pocket library series based on scripts of the tv show of the same name.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=87678
We now have 3 issues from the run. Published by Pearson. As we now have some scattered different titles by Pearson, I think it would be a good idea to create a C. Arthur Pearson section and amalgamate the series.
Now if I/we can only figure out the best way to list the series. Tricky, as some titles appeared in TV Picture Stories numbering, a pocket library, while also appearing in their own numbering. Fortunately, there aren't a lot of comics in any run.
Can anyone lay their sticky paws on the obscure, comic book size photo comics that Pearson published?
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Thanks to DownunderDan, we have information and now a scan of a Kirby comic that, despite a lot of research by Kirby experts, Atlas experts and my staying up late attempts, is seriously obscure and does not appear to have been published in N. America. It could be an English language translation of an Italian comic for the Australian market. Or perhaps the other way round, but Italian first is favourite right now. I need our members to start trying to check all this, pretty please!
DownunderDan found and passed on the information on the book, for which many thanks. I looked at all his work and checked on "certain" sites, finally finding a scan.
Hope you enjoy it:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88060
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Having remembered how to use mass upload, and with many thanks to Mr Tweedy, we now have a number of issues of the Pearson pocket library, Picture Romance Library from1956
Nice wee comics.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3711
Also, again many thanks to Mr Tweedy, there are new issues of Emergency Ward 10, Highway Patrol, Dixon of Dock Green and 1 issue of the rarer Film Picture Stories, all Pearson pocket libraries.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3472
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3470
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88218
As the numbering on Pearson pocket libraries is weird and wonderful - some titles are a part of TV Picture Stories and also under their own listing - I've kept Emergency Ward 10 together, for instance. At some point there will need to be a Pearson's section with all the titles under one roof, but right now for me it's a lot of work which I don't fancy. If anyone fancies a go, please do ;)
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Ok I will :)
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Thanks Mark. Order now reigns.
Just to mess with your work, thanks to Mr Tweedy reminding me that there were 2 other issues of Film Picture Library, I created a new section, uploaded the 2 I'd missed and moved the 3rd to the new section. You'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3713
This short run is also known as Film Picture series. The info in the indicia changes from FPL to FPS. Another wrinkle in Pearson's i/ds
Also, #1 of Super Detective Library, The Saint:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88225
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On our Buck Ryan page, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3358
and courtesy of Chimp Twist, I'm uploading alternative compilations of the early stories. First 5 up now. These are all single tier per page files and very nice too.
The original, upright files I scanned a few years ago were from photocopied multi-tier pages which I bought from ADCCC, and that's not the best way to present newspaper strips, imo. So these Chimp Twist files are just the ticket.
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Thanks to Mr Tweedy, we now have Super Detective Library # 43 and 162 - Meet Captain Dack with art by James Holdaway and Buck Ryan with art by Jack Monk.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88237
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88240
Plus more of Chimp Twist's alternative Buck Ryan comps.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3358
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The first two links are the same.
EDIT: Sorry, hit send before finishing the message. The proper link for Captain Dack is
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88237
Thanks for posting this. Interesting to see early Holdaway. For those (like me) who wonder just who Captain Dack is, I found a "bio" at the link below. It seems Dack was created in 1933 by Peter Meriton, writing as John Hunter, for the Thriller story papers. Later he was a repeating guest star in Sexton Blake stories. Holdaway has given Dack extensive corrective surgery. He's described in the papers as "a huge man, tall and broad, with 'a heavy square face lit up by eyes in which saturnine laughter and considerable cunning shared the honours.' He has giant hands attached to monstrous wrists, and a voice that has shouted down hurricanes."
(http://www.mark-hodder.com/blakiana/images/dack.jpg)
http://www.mark-hodder.com/blakiana/dack.html
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Thanks crash. Should be ok now.
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Seems to me there is some resemblance to Tug Transom. But a couple of other adventurers could fit versions of that description - Bulldog Drummond and Patrick Dawlish (John Creasey writing as Gordon Ashe)
Dawlish is described as:-
"Dawlish was shown as a huge man with a group of hearty, hard-hitting friends, based on the 'Bulldog Drummond' tradition. Drawn by chance into a vicious series of crimes, he decided to solve them himself"