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About The Comic Books We Have => Comics Uploaded => Topic started by: hoover on February 01, 2013, 12:26:41 PM
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That title should really be attempted uploads.
I added a couple of files some days ago under hoover/Bogof39 which I haven't posted until now. They were Captain Marvel Adventures Weekly - Miller v1n13 1953 for the UK/Australian comics section and Girls' Crystal 0446 for the Pulp Fiction section.
I decided since then to use Bogof39 for the UK uploads as so many are now on site marked as that.
I've been trying out a few more of the Captain Marvel series today and made a few errors.
The first upload I tried was Captain Marvel Adventures Weekly - Miller v1n03 1953 and I uploaded from the wrong folder a non-archived file which needs scrapping.
Further uploads went well until I got to #18 when it seemed to upload and then stalled before the Add to Database page appeared. I aborted that, (I think), and went to #19 which was fine except that I noticed on #20 I had forgotten to change the credit from hoover to Bogof39. #20 also stalled and after several minutes I cancelled that as well.
I hope some kindly Administrator can sort them out. I'll try to upload the rest later.
hoover/Bogof39
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Thanks to whoever sorted out the first batch.
I've added a few more with slightly less errors. I left a .cbr on the title of a Girls' Crystal (Pulp Fiction) and I pointed Captain Marvel 18 to the Girls' Crystal section.
I've added another issue of Boys' Magazine to the mis-named Boy's Magazine section.
The Girls' Crystals that I added are not in numerical order as the previously added issues omitted the apostrophe.
The Captain Marvel Weekly issues finished with #24 and the following week The Marvelman started. I've dated them all from the first issue although later numbers may have been in 1954.
I'm not sure if the remainder of the set will be scanned as the sewing needs to be unpicked. If I do it the issues will probably be in shreds.
Bob
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Bob, that was me and as I was about to post the reply my keyboard started acting up and I couldn't type, sorry. I seem to have fixed it now. The early one you were concerned about looked fine and was all there so I added it also. In the words of the legendary Wilfred Pickles, " Have a go" - again (I added that last bit).
The .cbr will be fine ( I take it you've figured out how to change the extension?) and the Girls' Crystal is a good addition to the collection and although I haven't checked it all, I don't think there is a Noel Raymond story. Pity.
It'll be tomorrow, I think, before I can check the new stuff. In the words of Tilly, "Bear with, bear with"
An apostrophe spotter? You're right, of course and if I remember I'll fix it.
This is all good stuff.
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All the Girls' Crystals that I had containing Noel Raymond stories were sent to Friardale where they were turned into PDFs. If you want them as CBRs I can upload them.
Bob
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Bob and, hopefully, the rest of you, Ranger#38 is now in the pulp section and features Black Whip, a British masked mystery man who, although obscure, is a favourite of mine. At one time in his career he wore a skintight suit and tight hood as opposed to the version in this issue's illos. Thanks, Bob, I love this.
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I've just added a few more to the pulp section.
The copies of the Schoolgirl and Girls' Crystal were sent to Friardale where they made PDFs out of them but I prefer this format.
The next two issues of Boys' Magazine continue the serial(s) and in the following issues which I will edit soon are some western stories supposedly written by Buck Jones. The blurb in issue 21 previewing them reads more like a British editor's comments.
Bob
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Boys' Magazine and Girls' Crystal all now on site. Falcon Swift eh, yet another of the great British detectives.
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I've uploaded a few more issues of Boys' Magazine including the start of the stories written by 'Buck Jones' and also an issue of The Popular which includes an episode of The Rio Kid stories.
Bob
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Thanks Bob. Very glad to have you on the site with all of your wonderful goodies!
Best
Joe
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Another excellent pile of Boys' Magazine and Girls' Crystal issues from Bob. Boys' Magazine features adventures of Falcon Swift and are more than worth a look. We now have Sexton Blake; Dixon Hawke and Falcon Swift of the pantheon of British detectives. And a Terry Brent 6 pager here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=28508
Girls' Crystal is the text version from before it changed to strips. Have a look, it's all enjoyable stuff.
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Thanks Bob! Great additions to our ever growing sections of pulps, dime novels and story papers!
Best
Joe
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I've just added the following papers.
Girls' Crystal 172 179 (tanned/stained) 180 181. These are available on Friardale in PDF format.
Boys' Magazine 31 32 33 288 missing pp 15-22. The missing pages in the latter appear to be the penultimate page of the long complete story and one short story. As the two serials are complete I thought it worth adding.
Bob
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They are on the site now. Thanks, Bob.
That was the problem with Friardale, the pdf's that is. I have a programme to convert them but it doesn't always work and it was relatively slow, so your submissions are saving us a lot of time. Apart from that, Friardale is a wonderful resource and I do notice more .cbr files appearing.
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I meant to point out in my last post that the Boys' Magazine covers are on dull pinkish/lilac? paper which can be seen on the inner covers but my scanner cuts it out on the outer covers. A rough approximation can be achieved by about minus 45 points Green. I think they look better without it so I've left them as they come out but that is what they really look like.
Bob
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I've just uploaded some Boys' Magazines and Populars for the Pulp Fiction section.
BM #289 has my third and last episode of the Edwy Searles Brooks serial.
Popular #438 has a short Sexton Blake story.
Bob
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All available on site now. Off to download Popular #438 and get my Blake fix. Great stuff.
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A few more Boys' Magazines added.
Bob
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On site now. Ta.
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I've uploaded my remaining Boys' Magazines. Three are incomplete.
Bob
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Excellent, Bob. All available now. "The Space Rover Flashes To Venus" - you have to wonder.
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I don't think the term flashing had the same meaning back then :D
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I've just added three issues of the Rocket story paper. #71 I bought last June and I've only just got around to scanning it. #57 and #67 are not too good as they were scanned several years ago, before stitching programs were easily available and I had to omit top and bottom margins to scan the text. Count them as reading copies until a better scan comes along.
Bob
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All gratefully received, thank you, Bob
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I've started to add some Lion comics to the UK and Australian section. At least one could do with .cbz being removed from the name. I may have made an error adding #66 and possibly #79. I still have over 100 to add when my eyes uncross.
Jimpy has been editing my D C Thomson papers from 1948 but there is nowhere in the pulp section for them to go. The titles are Adventure, Hotspur, Rover and Wizard.
Bob
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Just added a few more Lions but mistakes are increasing. #152 and #153 should be up but I may have done two #152.
Bob
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A few Sexton Blake for the pulp fiction section added.
Bob
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Wow, Bob, that is one heckuva lot of Lions! Over 60 issues if I counted correctly! Thanks much! They should be appearing on the site shortly and then we'll see if there is a duplicate issue among them and get it straightened out. Thanks also for that nice batch of Sexton Blakes!
Best
Joe
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Phew, Bob, what a pile. O.K. they are now up. There was a duplicate of Lion#152, as you thought, which I have deleted, so we need a copy of #153. Also, I've changed the title on the .cbz issue. In the Pulp Fiction section there are now sections for the DCT papers. Although the descriptions require me to enter them under "Pulp", I think I'll go in and add a bit to the description to point out that the papers are so different from what we generally think of as pulps and that they are peculiar to Britain, France, Italy and not, I think to the USA.
Don't know about you but I always prefer Blake from Union Jack, Detective Weekly and the earlier series, rather than the simply crime issues of later years - no Waldo, for instance.
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One Sexton Blake and a few more Lions up before I lost my internet connection. Still plenty of Lions to come.
I prefer the later third series Sexton Blakes probably because that is what was in the newsagents when I started reading them. I find most things written before TVs were normal household equipment to use too many words describing things that everyone has now seen.
I've been scanning some School Friend comics today. Only one has your favourite Silent Three in it but the Terry Brent - Detective strips are in all of them. There is no section for these either.
Bob
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Getting them moved onto the site as fast as we can.
Good stuff!
Thanks for all these new uploads, Bob.
Best
Joe
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You'll no doubt be pleased to know that I've just uploaded the last of the Lions. There are also three Girls' Crystal issues in the pulp fiction section.
Bob
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Thanks Bob!
That's a huge pride of Lions!
;D ;D ;D
Joe
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I've just uploaded some Adventures. It would help if UK or DCT or something was added to the title as it is identical to the US title and there are no covers in the uploadimg section.
Bob
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I added covers when I created the sections so, all good. I'll go back in and have a look at the description. You're right, thanks, I hadn't considered that.
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Gentlemen,
Firstly many many thanks. That was a feat of truly heroic proportions!!
For the last few days I have been damping down the computers as they have been tested to their limits. Despite the creaking and occasional clunking sound we are all here to tell the tale.
The other amazing aspect to this is, with all that you uploaded there were only 4 problems!!
Rover_1201_10_04_1948.cbz
Rover_1207_05_06_1948.cbz
Rover_1209_19_06_1948.cbz
Rover_1210_03_07_1948.cbz
The viewer didn't like them. I downloaded them and they were corrupt zips. I guess it probably happened on upload. Anyway I have deleted them so whenever you have a spare moment, if you could check your files and re upload, I'd be eternally grateful.
And again THANK YOU
Regards,
Mark
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They were corrupt when I downloaded them. It's a good job you checked them.
I've uploaded the four again.
Bob
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OK they are up now .... I didn't spot it as such ... the "beast" as the software that creates the viewer/thumbnails etc notified me that it couldn't read them.
BTW it's named the beast as although it is a rather slow eater it has an insatiable appetite ... took it a couple of days to munch through all your uploads, but it always finishes.
And thanks again!
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Just uploaded a small batch of School Friend. Only #273 has an episode of The Silent Three. It also has what sounds like a gripping yarn of the Wild West, Carol of Honeysuckle Ranch.
Bob
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That is good news, Bob. Thanks. Illo for the section now on.
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More Wizards uploaded for pulp fiction section. Any I've missed or messed up I'll fill in later.
Bob
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Now available on site. Thank you.
Wizard contains the balloon strip, Spadger Isle, and nowadays it would be considered extremely non-pc. and beyond the pail. I hope no-one will be offended by the strip but it is of its time and gives an insight into how certain societies saw the rest of the world.
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Two missing Wizards now up.
Bob
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I'm in the middle of uploading to the pulp fiction section and here are a few notes about the papers going up.
There are a number of issues of The Schoolgirl for 1939. I have quite a number of others for that year which need editing but anyone in a hurry for them can find them in PDF format on Friardale.
Jimpy's edits continue into 1949 and I forgot to mention him on the first two Adventures. Two Hotspurs and two Rovers have a P after the name. This was because we found my original scans were almost unreadable and I scanned some photocopies for these.
Some of the Wizards are marked 'filmed'. Several years ago I tried filming my papers as it was much faster than scanning. The results were readable but later on, after I'd sold them, I began to upload the scans to groups I decided they were not good enough. Some I managed to buy again but mostly the B&W pages came from photocopies made by the late Colin Morgan. I still have some completely filmed and many of the colour covers which look a bit squashed are from film.
Two points which may be of interest to some in this run of Wizards. The effect of the war on the availability of paper. Starting with the normal 28 pages you can see the page numbers, and font size, come down as the war progresses. Also the Save Waste Paper cartoons give all sorts of wonderful things that paper can be used for. Why they risked valuable aircraft and even more valuable aircrew to drop leaflets over Germany is a mystery. It also puzzles me that after the war when less munitions were needed paper was in even shorter supply.
I'll be back uploading after tea.
Bob
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Thanks Bob. Enjoyed the additional info about the war time paper shortages and it's affects on the publications. Similar shortages here in the states limited the number of comics being published during those years too.
Best
Joe
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Aw Bob, I'm overwhelmed with all this Big 5 goodness. Another pile of Adventure, Rover, Wizard up now. Thanks to whoever caught the rest of the stuff I ran out of time on today.
"It also puzzles me that after the war when less munitions were needed paper was in even shorter supply." Hoover
Was it not that Britain didn't have the resources to make enough paper and places like Norway were in bits after the occupation? And, I suppose, supplies of wood or pulp from Canada took second place behind much needed materials and food on the boats. That said, there was rationing for years after the end of the war. I'm sure there are academic texts available but, can I be bothered to look them up?
I'm glad you're doing those conversions as some of the ones I attempted either failed completely or were corrupt. So any issues of Schoolgirl are most welcome.
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Thanks to all those who have managed to sort my uploads. I think that is about all of the issues that have been edited so the flood will slow down to a trickle from now on. Most of the other five or six thousand from before 1958 will probably never get done unless you want raw scans.
As there was talk of masked Western heroes in another thread I've uploaded a Skipper containing an episode of Leatherface.
I'm awaiting a batch of School Friend from 1922 which should amuse the ladies.
Bob
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Never mind the ladies, there's some good reading for all in there. I look forward to them.
Masked westerns, that'll please Mr. Goldenage.
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A couple of early Rovers now up for a change.
Bob
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I've just uploaded a few more early Rovers and I'd like some feedback on these.
#0003 is mainly scans from a bound copy with some scans of photocopies where I thought they were better.
#0004 is all scans from photocopies which is why the front cover is B&W. I have several hundred Rovers taken completely from photocopies. Some pages of p/copies are not easy to read.
#0008 is all scans from a bound copy which I found I'd archived previously.
3 and 4 have been edited but 8 has just been straightened and cropped. What I would like a few comments on is whether #0008 is good enough to post or not. If it is it will greatly speed up the number that I can upload.
Bob
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Lovely stuff, Bob and I've had a look. Although the script is faint on many pages, especially #8, I could read them on my tablet, so, for me, they look o.k. As for the b&w covers, if that's the only way we can get them, I'm happy. So if some of the others could have a gander and see what they think, that would be great.
Interesting that the strips on the back pages change, well the bottom one does, from a balloon strip to a text strip. Although, there is a balloon sound effect in #4. Normally, with a few notable exceptions, text strips were replaced by balloon strips.
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! Hello....Love the Rovers. Please continue on Sir I would ask of you. I am very happy to add them to my digital collection with pride and much joy. Again sir, thank you for your time and effort.
Mr Goldenage
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I've added a few more School Friend and Schoolgirl to the pulp fiction section. Tomorrow I hope to have more time for editing.
Bob
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Thanks again, Bob.
You've got the Pulp Fiction section growing in leaps and bounds!
Best
Joe
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The rest of my batch of School Friend for the pulp fiction section are now uploaded.
During my editing of these I decided that the length of time I was taking plus the wear on my ancient eyes was too great and on #166 I started doing less. I prefer pages upright and it is fairly quick to do this but where I was cleaning up the pages I shall now only 'cut around selection' if it clears virtually all excess mess or do a straight crop including all the mess. If I see any text that looks too pale I'll darken it but that is all. If anyone wishes to edit any of my uploads and re-post as Improved they are welcome to do so.
My next batch of School Friend will be the comic version and if they just about fit the scanner I may only straighten them.
Before editing some more issues of The Schoolgirl from 1938 I'm going to take a break and do a few issues of Girls' Crystal. They are only 12 pages and I will get through a lot more of them.
Note to administrators:- The Girls' Crystal annual for 1959 has a copyright sign on page 6.
Bob
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Thanks Bob, all on site now.
I've been delving in my boxes and turning up some old obscurities but some of the European ones are too big for the scanner. I assume the Girls' Crystal issues are the text issues.
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The Girls' Crystal more or less carry on from what is in the Pulp section.
If you use Microsoft on your computer there is a FREE program to solve the overlarge pages.
Bob
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The Wizards which are now being entered into the pulp fiction section are some I found that I'd edited earlier. I had the year 1935 in two bound volumes and they were badly trimmed and stained. I've combined the coloured pages with scans from photocopies. I haven't checked many of the cbz s so I hope Comic Converter worked properly. Some day I'll edit the last four months of the year.
ob
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Wow and still they come :) Many thanks, I have dealt with the copyrighted Annual
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Great stuff! Keep 'em coming.
Nice catch on the annual.
Thanks
Joe
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See those Girls' Crystal? See great? Noel Raymond detective stories AND The Grey Ghosts. Terrific.
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More copies of The Schoolgirl and The Wizard now up. I've more to edit in this area when time permits. Some of the Wizards will be B&W as I never got hold of the originals.
Bob
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I've now finished uploading 1934 Wizards. I meant to note on #625 that the quality was not as good as I would like.
Bob
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A few more Rovers and some Skippers. Many of the latter are from photocopies.
Bob
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All available now. Thanks, Bob.
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I've added a few more copies of Boys' Magazine to the Pulp fiction section. These include two more episodes of the Edwy Searles Brooks SF serial although the final part is only one and a half pages long. The air new war serial starting in #291 looks good judging by the artwork.
Bob
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All approved and should be up on the site soon for all to enjoy.
Thanks Bob
Joe
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What a discovery - SCOOPS, considered the first British S.F. paper. Thanks to Bob, we have the majority of the 20 issues from 1934. Poor quality but the illustrations are excellent and issue 13 sees the start of a serialisation of "The Poison Belt" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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I am curious as to the story involved in THE STRIDING TERROR. Have you read it Paw? If so can you summarize?
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Not read it yet - too much stuff, so little time. I'll go and have a look now.
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Definately owes more than a bit to King Kong - and he's misunderstood. no Empire State Building, so he climbs Big Ben. That's as far as I've got.
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I've uploaded a varied lot today. One coverless US Adventure magazine, a few UK Adventures and Rovers and a Wizard. I'm still waiting for a slot to put an issue of The Captain in.
I think I left several ending with .cbz.
Bob
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Another mixed bag of uploads today.
Single items are Boys' Magazine, Skipper, Sexton Blake and an issue of The Captain, a boys' magazine. The P.G.Wodehouse serial in the latter was later retitled in book form as 'Mike', part of, 1909 and then 'Enter Psmith' 1935 and 'Mike and Psmith' 1953.
There is a run of Wizards and a few Rovers, two of which went in the Wizard section before I noticed.
Bob
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If I remember right the "P" was silent, and he put it on his name to make it a bit more exotic than Smith ... my favorite Wodehouse character is Lord Emsworth, but I digress
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I liked Lord Emsworth also and the first Psmith book I read was 'Leave it to Psmith' which was a Blandings novel.
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Yes indeed, a silent P.
And my favourite stories are Blandings. I always feel so sorry for Lord Emsworth especially when Lady Constance has plans for him.
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I've just uploaded an issue of The Captain, again. Hopefully someone will be able to find it this time.
Also there is a run of Hotspurs from #1. Uploading was not smooth today and some may not be up. I'll fill gaps later if there are any.
One of my copies of Union Jack is also up.
I've been converting copies of Union Jack which are on Friardale as PDFs. I'll upload those later. There are a few very early issues with Charles Hamilton material but no Sexton Blake which I haven't done but will convert if requested.
Bob
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Hi ... all approved ... and thanks yet again!
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The missing Hotspur is now up.
Thanks to Friardale for allowing their Union Jack issues to be posted here. They give credit to Michael Bailey for all or some of these. As they are not my scans I did as little as possible to them during conversion from PDF. The exception was #0771 which was done in colour and was so grey it was difficult to read. I converted to Grayscale and used a lot of Contrast and although it is now easier to read the margins are messy.
All the Sexton Blake stories in these issues were written by Edwy Searles Brooks and some also feature Nelson Lee and Nipper along with Sexton Blake and Tinker. Waldo is the villain in many of them.
Bob
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Bob, it's up and available here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=33489
and what a great addition to the site. The adverts alone are worth the download. Thanks.
Modifying this as your reply went up while I was composing mine. There were a couple of crossovers with Blake and Lee, or am I havering? Anyway, great to have more Union Jacks.
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I've just uploaded two Sexton Blake Library series 2 issues which lack covers but have the main story complete. They were given to me along with the three latest Union Jack issues which are now listed.
If nobody can find Hotspur #0006 which I uploaded on the 30th I'll try to upload it again.
Bob
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I've just uploaded items for the Pulp Fiction section.
They are mostly Adventure (UK) but there are also Hotspur, Rover and Union Jack.
With other work that I'm doing editing these is becoming too time-consuming and I shall have to just straighten and crop issues in future rather than spending time cleaning them up. If anyone else feels like doing anything to them and reposting then they are welcome to do so.
Bob
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I put a 'P' after the names of the two Hotspurs I uploaded yesterday to denote that scans were taken from photocopies but they have been omitted from the names on the Hotspur section.
Bob
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Hands up, that'll be me!
And I have altered a couple more before ... let me know the numbers and I'll put them in the description. No rush. I am on a mission to make everything look nice so big apologies for collateral damage.
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As there seems to be some interest in the Wonder Stories I uploaded I'm adding more by FTP. Apologies for the first few as I forgot to change from .cbr to .cbz. I've put a note in my upload folder to prevent that happening again.
At least one of the Science Wonder Quarterly may not work properly as I had a minor problem with my computer.
Credits for these are just Hoover. I'll add some later which have been scanned by others.
Bob
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I assume no one is interested in the files I uploaded by FTP earlier in the month. If so you can delete them.
I am a member of a scanning group, which is the source of most, if not all, of the SF magazines on your site. One of the members, George Benton Grempczynski, (aka Pulpschmoo), has been trawling 19th century US magazines and other literature for some time and it struck me as I saw the Frank Reade item in the Pulp Fiction section that several of his latest offerings have been Frank Reade issues. He said in a recent post 'All my files are free for any one to do anything they want to with them. I believe in a Free Web.' I think I can direct Mark, Paw or any other administrator to a collection of his works if they would like to see if anything is wanted for CB+.
Bob
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Ah! BLIMEY!!! Hang on I didn't realize they were there!!!
I guess you told me, but I have a head like a sieve and maybe starting to have "senior moments" ..
Will report back!
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Ok I have released them and also seen my "clever" date stuff doesn't work well in that series. Fret not I will sort it all out tomorrow!
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While you are sorting out the dates please delete cape1736 from these latest uploads, (28th August). These were all my own work.
Bob
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O ok ..damn just read that ...lol ... I have put the vol and issue on them and the date is there, but not showing yet. I will figure out what is going on ... but we are basically sound. In other words all data is there but some is not showing.
I'll slowly go through altering the name :(
A HUGE thanks for the books! A real jewel of a section ... great covers!
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Name all changed ... phew ... as for the other books SURE we want them!!!!!
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I've just uploaded some copies of The Argosy from when it was called The Golden Argosy.
Although my name appears it is just as uploader. Ufikus did the scanning and editing in his usual superb style.
hoover
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no copyright worries on books that old thanks Hoover
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These are great, thanks.
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Just uploaded some random items by FTP to see whether any are of interest. If so one or two may need the size reducing.
It is possible that some are already on the site in a section I haven't looked at.
hoover
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Bob, probably me but what did you upload? Any chance of a link, please? As always, curious ;)
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Can't you look in the FTP folder> I don't know how to give you a link to it. Here is a list of titles.
Dublin penny journal 172.cbz
Esquire v01n01 (1933-Autumn.Esquire)(D&M).cbz
Liberty 1929 03-02.cbz
Newspaper - Galt Daily Reporter 1919-03-11 (Gorgon776).cbz
Newspaper - Niagara Falls Evening Review 1936-10-28 (Gorgon776)(c2c).cbz
Northern Messenger (1940-11-01.John Dougall & Son)(Gorgon776).cbz
Photoplay v24n02 (1944-02.McFadden)(Gorgon776)(c2c).cbz
RAF Aces v03n02 (1943-Spring.Better)(Gorgon776)(c2c).cbz
True Romances v25n03 (1937-05.McFadden)(Gorgon776)(-bc,-ibc).cbz
Bob
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Wouldn't that be too easy? Actually, I didn't know how to. :-[
Found them now - great stuff. How did you find Dublin penny journal?
To post a link, I highlight the page in the address bar, save it, then paste it into the comics uploaded section.
Didn't mean to hassle you.
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They are all from a huge list I have. Only part of it is PD and I have only part of them downloaded.
You'll have noticed that many are tagged Gorgon776. As she disappeared a year or so back it is not possible to get items from her. She scanned a great number of items and was one of the scanners whose accounts were terminated by Mediafire etc. Therefore many items on the list are not obtainable from the links given apart from those that someone has replaced. I'm using this exercise to see which are still available. All the newspapers seem to be gone. Those uploaded are from the few I'd downloaded.
The Dublin Penny Journal may have been done by Ernesto. It seems to be the sort of unusual item he finds.
There are many copies of Liberty.
Bob
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A few more items in the FTP folder.
Most of the credits are in the file titles. I think Pulpshmoo edited or scanned or found Petts Annual.
Some files may be on the large size but I haven't time to minimise them myself.
Bob
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Cool I'll get them on site!
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I've just added a couple of items in the British Story Papers section. The first is another issue of The Triumph is a taster in the Boy's Own Paper section, the Index for 1891-92. I have all the items on the Index apart from the Christmas and Summer numbers. As I get time to edit one I'll upload it.
hoover
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wow more cool stuff you have
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A few of the Boy's Own Paper have been uploaded along with another Triumph. The B.O.P.
are a bit stained or marked occasionally but still readable.
hoover
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I've now finished uploading the year of Boy's Own Papers. Nos. 705 and 706 seem to have disappeared and if so I'll try again later. The last issue of the year had only half the normal number of pages and I don't know whether anything else went with it. Hardly a good buy at one penny as it was.
For the time being I shall have to stop editing Triumphs. To finish I've uploaded one of the later issues from not long before the paper ceased due to the war. This is the only issue I have which contains part of a picture serial.
Bob
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Looking at the issues as displayed it is obvious that the reason for only eight pages in the last issue is because the index of eight pages came with it.
Bob
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As usual, excellent stuff, Bob. This is really odd as the picture serial in the Triumph you mention is already on site, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=23945
Where I originally found it is now a mystery.
Found it. It was in 4 Shared Can't find any more.
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I did upload that picture story episode to Britcomics. It may have come from there.
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I've just uploaded Adventure #2 to the British Story Paper section. It isn't perfect but as I was scanning photocopies made from a bound volume it has turned out better than I thought.
Bob
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Thanks to Minotaur who sent two missing pages I've now been able to complete a full year of Boy's Own Paper.
Look out for some more Amazing Stories that will fill a gap if they are found to be PD. None are my scans. They are too well done.
Bob
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I've just uploaded several items by FTP.
One is an ancient French text item which I think was for children. I don't know which section it would go in if you want it.
The rest are the remainder of the L.Miller UK reprints of Fawcett comics in the Captain Marvel Adventures Weekly series. There is a major problem with these. A previous owner obviously didn't like discoloured Sellotape residue so the comics were stitched with a sewing machine. While this was quite effective when a quarter of an inch from the margin it was not so good when further in as the pages do not open fully. I've left them as two page spreads and if anyone feels like editing them into better shape please do so. I have the original tifs that were scanned if that would help. Although not very readable they will do to show which US comics provided the stories.
Bob
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Bob, I'd like to have a look at your ancient French item so if you can shove it into the French section , that would do fine.
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It is now in the French Section. If you find a place for it please delete it from my ftp folder.
Bob
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Thanks Bob. I've downloaded it for a read later. Did this Mon Journal morph into the 20th century comic of the same name?
http://bdmonjournal.free.fr/index.htm
because the new one started in 1946 and the info. site above makes no mention of a previous 19th. century paper. Can anyone help?
Further searches suggest that it's not the same -no mentions that I can find. Just curious.
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I asked a Frenchman for some info on the title and this was his reply.
"Hi,
first of all, I was thinkg: 1893 ? A mistake, this have to be 1993.
Second, I realized that there was no comic book name (since Mon Journal, in comics is just like Fleetway: it is a company name).
Third, I downloaded the archive to discover it is not a zip, but a rar file.
AND, I never saw it on sale
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O.K. good try. I'll have alook at the link. Thanks Bob.
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I see Braddock is uploading some issues of The Rover story paper. I don't think he has put up any that contain The Pony Express which was one of their star stories. I've just started to upload the original version which was in The Wizard. I hope to get the whole story up when I get time to edit them. The later version used the same text but in different order at times and all the illustrations were redrawn using the same scene from a slightly different angle.
Bob
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Nice, clean scans and some great impact covers Bob. Thanks.
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All issues of The Wizard which contain The Pony Express story are now uploaded. I'll finish off the rest of 1937 eventually.
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I've just uploaded a few copies of Boy's Cinema. I can't say I've heard of the films mentioned in them but they were from the Thirties which was before even I was born.
Bob
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The final issue of The Skipper has been added to the British story paper section.
Bob
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I've added some more 1937 Wizards. I think I left the note in the description of #741 in when I uploaded #742. If so please remove it from the latter.
Bob
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MANY THANKS! All done now!
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I've finally finished editing the complete 1937 Wizards which are now uploaded.
Bob
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I've uploaded some more early Rover to the British Story Paper section. They are scans from bound copies and really need more editing than I have time for. The centre spreads are from photocopies from another source and although they are sometimes easier to read at other times they are over-inked and spotty. They also tend to make the illustrations harsher so I've kept to scans where possible. If they are thought to be good enough I can upload more. Alternatively if someone would like to edit them they are welcome to have a go.
Bob
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I've uploaded some Rovers to fill the gaps in Braddock's 1941 uploads. Mine were scanned from bound copies so the edges are not always easily readable. I have photocopies which may be better to read in parts but they are sometimes over-inked and also the artwork looks better in Grayscale.
If Braddock has other D C Thomson Big 5 story papers up to 1943 I'll be happy to try and fill any gaps.
Bob
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I've just uploaded some early issues of The Sexton Blake Library. These are usually too expensive for me but these were all seconds. Two are coverless and the end pages were very grubby and needed a lot of cleaning. One had a piece missing from the last page but fortunately at the top so the last few paragraphs are there. The other had the top right-hand corner burnt off but apart from the cover this was cut out during editing.
I think the dates are correct but a magazine that says it come out on the first Friday of the month and is dated the 31st is not ideal.
hoover
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Excellent additions to the site. Those early stories are hard to come by, and expensive, as you say. I always enjoy some Sexton blake. One of them features Splash Page and for anyone who is interested, we have Splash Page picture story in the British comics section.
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I would like to point out that although I've been credited as the uploader of the Black Mask detective pulps they were not my scans. Credit and thanks go to the Unknown Scanner yet again.
Bob
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I would also like to point out that Bob TOLD ME this and made it very clear. But I am afraid it went in one ear and out the other.
I have now made them "unknown/hoover". Which later at some in the middle future will be used for our enhanced scanner and uploader information.
Anyways .. Bob .. you brought them, here!!!
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I've uploaded a mixture of British story papers. I think I forgot to change the title and the issue of The Triumph is in the Skipper section.
Bob
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Hi Bob,
OK I see them! Among 32 other books that have arrived. Will sort them all out tomorrow and report back. Dinner and very early night here!
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It should be noted that of the Girls' Crystal story papers added yesterday numbers 26 and 27 were edited and scanned by Ufikus. All the rest from #97 upwards were supplied by Mark Warner and scanned by me.
Bob
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I don't know who has been uploading my L Miller Captain Marvel Jr reprints in the last few days but Bogof39 and Bede are identities I use elsewhere and these should be marked as hoover instead.
Bob
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I believe and don't quote me on this that it the "elves what done it"!
I have made the bede's hoover. Do you want me to change all the "bogoffs" we have on the site to "hoover"??.
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This might not be important to others but the conversation about attribution touches on something that has always concerned me. When uploading files I prefer, like hoover, to attribute the source as correctly as possible. So, if it's all my own work, the attribution will read, paw broon. If it is a file I have excavated from somewhere and if I know the scanner's name/nickname, I will type that name plus paw broon as I have uploaded it ( which work might from time to time mean also that I have had to do some work with page order or changing the file extension, whatever). If I don't know the scanner's name, or none is listed with the file, I write, unknown/paw broon.
Now, I prefer that method and I have noted some of my scans on other sites with no attribution. It doesn't bother me that much, but it would be preferble if all files had a similar sort of attribution style.
Any thoughts on this, anyone?
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You might as well change them all Mark. As long as it is no trouble. I was hoover on GAC long before I had these other IDs.
Bob
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So let it be written, so let it be done
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Thanks Mark.
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For those interested in crime. mystery and suspense text stories I've just uploaded a batch of The Thriller from 1929
hoover
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I've just uploaded some early copies of the UK story paper "The Adventure". They are not edited as fully as I would like but I've so many scans of early papers that I'll never live long enough to edit them all. If anyone would like to have a go at editing some please let me know and we can get more added to the website.
hoover
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I've just flipped through a few and personal opinion is they are 100% fine as they are. All I can see is a minor bit of cropping and a minute rotation needed on a few pages. I'd just up them and have done with it if I were you!
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For those interested in text detective stories I've just uploaded batches of Sexton Blake Library (Pulp Fictin/Crime and Detective) and The Thriller (British Story Papers).
hoover
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I've just uploaded some more scans of early Rover story papers.
I have a near complete run from #400 to #720 but many of them are scans of photocopies made by the late Colin Morgan and then given to me. The artwork doesn't come out so well in the photocopies but the text is sometimes better than the scans, although rather inky in places. As I had so many I never had time to edit them all and I've uploaded a raw scan to show what they look like. I can upload them, Mark permitting, if members want them. Anyone else is welcome to edit them if they wish.
hoover
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I've just uploaded the last batch of The Thriller that I have. If bambos wants something to complain about I suggest he looks at Boys' Magazines which mainly have joined centrefolds.
When I get the time I'll be editing more Boys' Magazines and possibly a few issues of Sexton Blake Library.
hoover
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Comic Cuts was an early UK comic which ran for 3006 issues between 1890 and 1953. Typical of UK comics at that time it was about half-and-half comic strips and text stories.
Thanks to Harmsworth who provided scans of issue 0001 I've now uploaded it and issue 3003 which I got recently. This gives a chance to see how it changed through the years.
hoover
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I have several copies of Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories which was a comic for younger children. I don't know if the Blyton name will cause any copyright problems so I've uploaded one to the UK comics section for you to evaluate.
hoover
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I am afraid she is scarey and we keep well away :(
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According to Wikipedia Enid Blyton ceased to be editor/writer for Sunny Stories in 1952. I have a couple of issues from just after that if you are interested.
hoover
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My latest uploads provide a variety for Sexton Blake fans. Six issues of Sexton Blake Library and four of Union Jack.
hoover
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I've just uploaded a couple of early UK comics titled 'The Favorite Comic'. Why they used the US spelling I don't know. The scans are not brilliant partly because the large page size means that each page has to be stitched and partly because they are part of a bound volume which is awkward to handle. I've edited to black and white to make them easier to read. Like most pre-war UK comics they are half text and half comic and I put the in the UK Comics section because that is the way they are listed at this site:-
http://www.dandare.info/history/fleet-story-index.htm
I've also uploaded a few more issues of Sexton Blake Library. The series 2 issue is from 1940 but the month is unknown according to the Blakiana website. The staple in issue 261 had badly rusted and affected the pages and they may not be easy to read online. If that is the case download and use a comic reader and they are just about readable.
hoover
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I mentioned elsewhere on this site that I was collecting some Dixon Hawke stories from The Adventure. The series of short stories ran from 10th August 1929 to 12th July 1930. Out of the 49 issues I've only got 43 of the stories. Many were from scans of photocopies and although they are often easier to read than my fairly old scans they sometimes have excess ink on them. A few of these are reprinted in Dixon Hawke's Casebook numbers 4 and 7 which are on site. The last story in DH Casebook #7 is one of the stories missing from this compilation with a different title.
When I got to the last story I noticed that it advertised a new series/serial starting next week so as I had them all I compiled Dixon Hawke's Rival.
When I got to the end of that I saw that another serial started the following week but I have several missing including the final episode so I can't do that one.
hoover
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I've been working on a bound volume of the UK boys' paper The Captain, which won't interest many here, and decided the issue number as given on the papers is of less use than the year/month to identify them. They were bound in half-year batches so I expected volume 21 to start with issue 121. It started with 120 followed by 122, 123, 123, 124, 125. At least they had 126 to start volume 22 which would also be incorrect. In the end I numbered them as I expected them to be and stand ready to be corrected if anyone ever fills in the gaps in this paper.
hoover
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Please remove description from Boys' Magazine 446 which I've just uploaded. I forgot to delete it after the previous item.
hoover
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I'm pleased to see another Sexton Blake fan adding scans to the site.
I've just uploaded all I had from series 1. They are not pristine copies but as they were cheap paper novels/comics and the oldest of my uploads has just started its 99th year they are not too bad. As I'm no good at editing colour scans I had to convert one issue to grayscale to make a couple of pages more readable.
hoover
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Thanks Hover for the uploads, all good stuff.
I've got 5 series 1 left to scan. (167,225,283,323,336)
Paul.
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I just tried to upload two compilations of Dixon Hawke strips from the Adventure but by error sent up the same file twice. I have re-uploaded the missing file so please sort it out.
hoover
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I've uploaded some copies of the Union Jack featuring Sexton Blake but managed to put them in the wrong section of Union Jack.
The reason many are in grayscale is that they were so badly stained it spoilt the colour versions.
hoover