[Astaldo711]

Just joined today. I've always been interested in golden age books. So this site is a Godsend! I'm only 39 but my dad was a generation older than my friends' - he served in WWII so I've always been keen on everything from 30's and 40's. When I had my main collection back in the 80's I had a handful of golden age books. All in pretty bad condition because I couldn't afford much else. Didn't bother me though. I consider myself as a comic book READER/collector. I had friends that would buy books, seal them and never look at them again. Thanks again for all this!

[narfstar]

Well Astaldo you found the right place. Obviously we do not slab our books to keep them perfect. We scan the darn things and reduce their monetary value. But we feel they are more valuable to share and hope you enjoy. If you have any PD books not already here we would be happy to have them added here.

[Astaldo711]

I guess I'm not the only one that feels that way. I have no books left - I sold all 5,000 + about 20 years ago to help my folks pay for different things. I actually have a book "The Encyclopedia of Super Heroes". It has a few covers of golden age books I could scan. I don't know if that's useful to you or not.

[narfstar]

No problem if you have no comics to contribute. You have begun contrbuting to discussions which is cool. You can find covers to most comics at www.comics.org if you have never been there check it out.
I still have a bunch of books yet to scan and with the prolific others we are not running out. So we are happy to provide you with reading pleasure.

[Astaldo711]

Yes, that's a great site! I also like www.coverbrowser.com
Thanks to you and all the uploaders out there for their hard work!

[narfstar]

Thanks for the site Astaldo I bookmarked it

[phabox]

Of course anyone who does want to give the site a helping hand but is not in a position to scan anything might consider making a contribution towards the JVJ Fund.

-Nigel

[John C]

Or the site itself, don't forget.  Serj hasn't talked about operating expenses, but I don't imagine the daily terabytes of downloads (I believe that was the order of magnitude) come cheap.

Sigh..like everywhere else, there are many spots deserving any spare change, I guess.

[Astaldo711]

Believe me, if I was able to in any way I would give something. I have a great admiration for all the folks at their site that give so much of their time for others' enjoyment.

[JVJ]

Believe me, if I was able to in any way I would give something. I have a great admiration for all the folks at their site that give so much of their time for others' enjoyment.

The best part (well, after the FREE aspect of it) is that it seems to attract people who just love comics! I've generally found such folks to be smarter than the average bear and pretty enjoyable to be around. This forum is the ONLY one I have found that maintains its spirit and its pleasantness. Kudus to all. It's fun to be here.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[Astaldo711]

How true! The people here seem much more mature than on many other forums I've visited. The folks here care about reading these comics and sharing them. When I was actively collecting about 20 years ago, I had many GA books that were all beat to hell. I didn't care about the condition, I just wanted to read the stories. It's nice to find people of like mindedness.

[JonTheScanner]

heh heh he said manure --- what? oh never mind?

(Just adding a bit of childishness  )

[BountyHunter]

Wait!?!  A forum without pointless arguing and pettiness?  This is just wrong!!!!!! It goes against the laws of nature!

[JVJ]

Wait!?!  A forum without pointless arguing and pettiness?  This is just wrong!!!!!! It goes against the laws of nature!

Sshhh! If you don't spread it around, perhaps nature won't notice...

(|:{>

[Astaldo711]

Aaaaah....I knew something was missing! No trolls!
I've posted to many a forum in my day and have to say this has got to be the friendliest. Even when the topic is on a controversial subject everyone still respects each other.
Thanks everyone! How about a round of "kumbaya"?

[John C]

We actually outsource all the petty bickering.  There's a small company out of Mumbai where they just sit around a table posting "STFU RTFM" and "First!" to each other all day.

As to maturity, well, I caught this yesterday, from one of my favorite strips:

http://xkcd.com/616/

(And if you want to see a lousy community, check out THOSE forums.  Yikes!)

[Astaldo711]

That's pretty funny!
You need a dictionary translate some of the stuff you see.
Sometimes I'm tempted to just type randomly; gfser gfgrr serrt$$ asd4^!
...and see what happens.
My niece, whose also 39, still writes things like "what ur u doing?" when she texts me. I reply "Ur? Isn't that an ancient city of Babylon?"

[John C]

I've had two bosses over the years, one significantly older than me and one a year or two younger, who would spew out random strings of letters in their e-mails.  And understand that I'm behind the 8-ball to begin with, in an industry that not only uses acronyms for everything, but often RE-uses acronyms for unrelated things.  And some names are capitalized and some aren't, and it's important which are which.

I try really, really hard to keep to exclusively English words, so it's bizarre to come in to a message asking "u no asp api" from my boss.  Uhm...maybe.  Assuming that's a question.  Or am I defending myself from an accusation?  Or did you just sit on the keyboard?  (And no, if other programmers were reading, he wasn't asking the first thing to cross your mind, either.)

I think I've trained most of my friends and family by this point, and they know that the amount of time it'll take me to get back to them is related to the number of abbreviations and smiley-faces they use.  Thankfully, I'm cellphone free, so I don't need to care about text messages.