[modanim]

First time uploading - so I hope this works!  Thanks, Narfstar for the info!

Uploaded paper scan of Silver Streak #8 - No ads, just Front cover & the Jack Cole, Briefer & Guardineer art

Also Bomber #2 coverless

If these work for youse I'll upload some more!

[narfstar]

Great stuff Mod I will get them onsite after I see if we can ad a cover from Heritage if not I will pull one from the GCD. FTP is working please use it and fill it up as much as you like. Right now I just got off the eliptical and have to take a shower before I do any more. thanks narfstar

[modanim]

OK, more stuff going up:

Coverless, unknown issue of Fantastic Comics.  I'm not certain, but it sure looks like the "Stardust" story by Fletcher Hanks is inked by Jack Kirby!!!???!!!

Silver Streak 10 - Just the Cole/Briefer/Guardineer art

Frankenstein 7 by Briefer

Hi Ho #1 - drawn by oddball/druggie artist Harley Chambers (cover inked by LB Cole)

I'll take a break from uploading for now

[narfstar]

You deserve the break Great Great Great

[narfstar]

WOW super great scans and some super great books. I will hold off on putting them onsite until I can add the cover to Bomber and I will add in the fiche pages to Silver streak to make them complete. Bomber made my night. thanks narfstar

[narfstar]

Your Fantastic is #9 I will fill in the missing pages and get it onsite tomorrow also

[narfstar]

Frankenstien 7 is your first book onsite. Congratulations it looks great.

[Yoc]

Well, welcome to the uploading fold modanim!
Many thanks for the uploads!

One question - are these your own personal scans?  We like to give the original scanner credit when we can.  If they are not yours and you happen to know who did them could you let us know here or at the end of the file name?  ie Frankenstien 7 - 'whomever'

A really great start.  We would love to see more if you had any.

Take care,
-Yoc

[narfstar]

The scanner sure deserves credits these look really good. Hi-Ho is now onsite ready to be enjoyed with Chambers wild art.

[modanim]

Yes, I scanned all these books.  Started scanning my comics a few years ago as I saw them crumbling gradually into dust every time I read them!

Most of my scans are @ 300 dpi, tga or psd -  then scaled down & jpeg'd for easy reading as .cbr

[boox909]

Thanks much!

B.

[Yoc]

Excellent work Modanim!
Scanning these ticking pulp time bombs is the ONLY real way to preserve them for the future.  And you're generously giving a LOT of GoldenAge fans a chance to see them too! 

I hope you don't mind but I've merged your paper scans with our existing fiche scans of Fantastic 09 and Silver Streaks 8 + 10 to produce cover to cover scans.

While we would never turn down an incomplete scan for any needed book we try to share cover to cover scans to allow everyone the closest thing possible to the original books as they were sold all those years ago.

Take care,
-Yoc

[Aussie500]

Thanks for the scans Modanim, and congratulations on becoming a VIP.

[John C]

All this, and there's a Bomber Comics coming?  Very nice.

[JonTheScanner]

Frankenstien 7 is your first book onsite. Congratulations it looks great.

I have an older smaller scan of Frankie #7 which includes a Simon & Kirby story (reprinted I think from some issue of Headline) I've merged those 6 pages into this scan and reuploaded it to FTP.  It's now 45 of 52 pages. (The previous scan actually had 39 pages despite its name)

[Yoc]

Thanks Jon!


Feel free to upload it to the site or FTP.

[darwination]

Welcome to the site, I love the Hi-Ho comics!

[modanim]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Generally I scanned only the REALLY GOOD stuff from a lot of my comics, so most of my scans are not "complete books".  Thanks for filling in the gaps.

One of my favorite "oddball" characters was the Black Dwarf from Chesler's "Red Seal" comic.  I've got # 15, 16, 18 & 21 if anyone else has the others, this would be a cool set!

Today I'm uploading Dell 4color# 244 - "The Brownies" by Walt Kelly

[JonTheScanner]

Check on the Four Color issues for PD status.  There has been a long ongoing project on ABPC to scan all the Four Color issues.  Most are scanned.  The remaining unscanned issues (from series two) are:

  5 Raggedy Ann
  6 Smitty
  7 Smokey Stover
27 Mickey Mouse (Scanned from fiche)
38 Roy Rogers
63 Roy Rogers
94 Winnie Winkle
98 Lone Ranger (Scanned from fiche)

If you have any of those, many people would greatly appreciate scans.  Please PM me

[John C]

Check on the Four Color issues for PD status.

I don't see many (any, actually, for the years that I've checked) renewals for Four Color, but because of the "icons" nature of the book, the usual caveats apply that the Brownies stories may be protected under a different copyright.

I'm by no means a Kelly IP expert, so hopefully someone else knows more than I would.  But assuming that the Brownies material hasn't been published previously, then the book is clear.  The publishing history described at Toonopedia suggests that it was only at Dell, though, so the outlook is pretty good.

[OtherEric]

The rule of thumb on Dell is not to upload until the renewal experts have cleared it; Dell is far and away the biggest renewal nightmare of any publisher.  (Most others are either everything or nothing, with a few exceptions.)

Which is not to say we don't appreciate the effort to get more Kelly material; there are a lot of hard-core Kelly fans here.

[Yoc]

Hi Modanim,
I like your taste sir! 

We'll have to hold off adding your Brownies scans until Aussie + JCOLAG can confirm they are Public Domain or not.

I too enjoy Chesler's oddball comics.  In fact he's got his own section on the site here:
http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/index.php?cid=81

As you can see some of the Red Seal books are already up but only #15 and #21 are on your offer list so please feel free to upload #16 and 18.

You can use the SEARCH link above the GAC banner to find out what books we have and don't have already.

Thanks again for the lovely work so far,
-Yoc

Thanks for the warm welcome!

One of my favorite "oddball" characters was the Black Dwarf from Chesler's "Red Seal" comic. 
I've got # 15, 16, 18 & 21 if anyone else has the others, this would be a cool set!

Today I'm uploading Dell 4color# 244 - "The Brownies" by Walt Kelly

[John C]

As I mentioned, it's past me.  The issue itself doesn't have any renewal (I have yet to find a Four Color renewal, though I haven't searched intensively for one).

Provided that the stories aren't reprinted (which would mean checking the copyright on the source issues), it's definitely public domain.  The GCD hasn't indexed it and I'm not a Kelly guy, though, so I wouldn't know if the contents are original.

[JonTheScanner]

The first Brownies Four Color (192) is copyright by Oskar Lebeck.  The rest are all copyright by Western Printing and Lithography.  Previously, The Brownies had appeared in most issues of New Funnies 69-85.  The early stories, at least, show copyright by K. K. Publications in the splash panel.  K. K. is also who published Walt Disney Comics and Stories as I recall.  I think it's simply Western by a different name.

I have scans of all issues of Four Color featuring the Brownies and can upload them if you wish. 

I believe that the only Brownies Kelly drew were in FC 192 244 293.  The early New Funnies stories are definitely not him.  He might have had a hand in some of the later FC issues, but he didn't draw them by himself certainly.

[John C]

That solves that, then.  If Kelly's involvement was limited AND late in the run, then it's definitely public domain.