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[paw broon]

Hi willb1414 and welcome to CB+ Glad you found your way here. What did you make of the Phantom Lady discussion?

[paw broon]

Peruse away ChildhoodHeart, I'm sure you'll find a lot to discover and enjoy.
Please join in the discussions.

[Pritam_13]

Just wondering how everyone came to find Golden Age Comic download website or support forum?

Well I was searching for apps like Google books and comic world and all.

The I suddenly searched like best site and community to read comics, Believe me there was list and a bunch of names, suddenly I stepped in this site and found the heaven that I was actually searching for...

Thanks, Serj

[The Australian Panther]

Pritam_13, welcome and enjoy!
Jump right in.
From my experience, if you use '13' in am Avatar, you are either extremely lucky or a habitual risk-taker.
Cheers!

[paw broon]

Hello Pritam_13 and welcome to CB+.  Glad you found your way here. Lots to discover and read.
Please join in the conversations and if you have information on your local comics industry please tell us about it.

[1Kirbyguy]

I was on this site years ago and for some reason forgot about it.  I just registered again so I could enjoy some oddball old comics and identify creator credits.

[The Australian Panther]

Hey, from my perspective, anybody with the 'Handle' Kirbyguy1 is welcome here anytime. jump in, join in and start 'identifying' !

Cheers!   

[vbandjay]

Hello! A quick google search and a lust for The Golden Age brought me here! Thanks for processing my application so quickly, folks!!

[The Australian Panther]

Welcome! 'Lust for the Golden Age!' well said.

Cheers!

[Aarona1c]

I went down a rabbit hole. I've been a pretty big Popeye fan for a long time, like before I could talk. I also have been getting into independent games. Recently, there was a brand new Popeye game, officially licensed by King Features, released for the Nintendo Switch. And, in short, it's a terrible, awful, lazy, putrid game that nobody with any taste should go near. It's trash.

My unrealized goal, that I will probably never complete thanks to some powerful ADHD, is to create a better game more worthy of a classic comic of such age. But since official licensing costs, you know, money... I want to at least test the waters with a freebie, ie a comic in the public domain.

My ideal would be to latch onto something in sort of the same vein - a comic that existed for over a decade, had a large number of obscure characters, and create some sort of adventure wrapped around that idea.

I hope to complete something by the end of summer, as long as my attention holds out. But that's how I found this site.

[The Australian Panther]

Welcome.

My ideal would be to latch onto something in sort of the same vein - a comic that existed for over a decade, had a large number of obscure characters, and create some sort of adventure wrapped around that idea.

You likely wouldn't be looking at Superhero stuff. I put on the old thinking helmet.
Have a look at what's in our COMPILATIONS Section.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1990
In particular
RangerHouse Archives

The Lost City archives.

Go right to the bottom -

The Loony World Of Alan Fraser

Jim Tyer Collection
John Stanley's The Hair-Raising Adventures of Peterkin Pottle

I'm sure other regulars will have other suggestions.
A word of warning tho. just because the comics are public domain, doesn't always mean the characters are out of copyright.

Lots of luck.
That King features would license a rubbish game doesn't altogether surprise me. Their history with their creators and properties is not particularly good. 

[crashryan]

Funny you mention Popeye games...back in the arcade days I was a big fan of the Popeye arcade game. I wasn't good at arcade games and Popeye had the right mix of easy and challenging to keep me shovelling in the quarters. It was also the only game my girlfriend (now my wife) would play.

As for universes to turn into games, Fox had a huge stable of characters, realistic, funny, and in between. The comics were seldom any good--poor stories, indifferent art--but quite a few interesting concepts that could be moulded into a game.

[Tyler Blake Art]

Howdy!  I was looking for public domain horror comics that I  could adapt for  my webcomic, this is  the  best PD site I found.

[The Australian Panther]

Howdy!  I was looking for public domain horror comics that I  could adapt for  my webcomic, this is  the  best PD site I found.   

Yep, you are unlikely to find a better. Particularly for Horror.
And, oh, yeah, Welcome!

[Tyler Blake Art]

Yep, you are unlikely to find a better. Particularly for Horror.
And, oh, yeah, Welcome!

Thanks!

[83ocro83]

 Hi everyone i was watching Crafty Stax vids on Youtube when he dropped this blessing of a site in my lap!! My people love older pulp publications as well as EC,Dell,Gold Key etc so to come across a site where we are clueless to 90% of the content is both humbling and very much appreciated right now!

[The Australian Panther]

Welcome 83ocro83
You just lost hours of your formally free time.
Enjoy yourself and please jump in and contribute.
I'm Curious,

My people [?]

   

[Raymond Towers]

I was a big comics fan in the 80s (mostly DC and Marvel) and had the nostalgia to delve into that era first, before I moved on to modern comics. Alas, I was very disappointed with today's 'culture' and instead of moving forward from my favorite era, I went back in time, a far back as the beginnings of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips and radio shows. Originally, I was digging into Archive.org, moving on to Old Time Radio, and eventually I bumped into CB+.

I am so grateful that digital scans and the internet have helped me to discover this entire new world of Golden Age Comics that I hadn't known about before! One of your other threads is titled 'lots of comics but no time' and they weren't kidding!

P.S. - Currently reading the Rex Dexter Compilation, and I love it!

[The Australian Panther]

Welcome Raymond Towers!
The path you describe is one many of us have taken.
You clearly like to learn.

I moved on to modern comics. Alas, I was very disappointed with today's 'culture'

You are not the only one who has come to that conclusion.
Jump in and enjoy! Click on FORUM HOME and surf the links. Lots of goodies and great threads there.
Again, Welcome aboard.   

[FraBig]

Welcome on the site, Raymond!

It's true, there are a lot of awesome comics on this site, and the Golden Age was such a creative and inspiring period in comic book history: lots of great stories and great artists.

Currently reading the Rex Dexter Compilation, and I love it!

Glad you're enjoying the Rex Dexter compilation I made, he's a great sci-fi character and I think Dick Briefer's art is just wonderful.

[Raymond Towers]

To Australian Panther and FraBig, thank you for the welcome. I just finished the Rex Dexter Collection and left a comment. I'm a big straight to the action guy, so I'd like to ask both of you, what is an under-appreciated title with a lot of heroic action I can take a look at next? Hero or heroine, any genre as long as the sparks are flying fast and furious.

[The Australian Panther]

Raymond Towers posted,

what is an under-appreciated title with a lot of heroic action I can take a look at next? Hero or heroine, any genre as long as the sparks are flying fast and furious? 

I suggest you look at the compilations section.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1990

I don't know what Genre you favor but take a look at Frabigs Superhero archives.
Further down there are the Blackhawk archives, The Senorita Rio archives.
I strongly recommend the books in the misnamed, 'Super Detective Library' section, where you will find all manner of adventures.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3364&limit=100

But really, Just dive in, take yourself by pleasant surprise, as you surely will. 
   

[Raymond Towers]

Thank you, AS, for your suggestions. The Blackhawk and Rio series are huge and look a little slower paced. I will put them on a back shelf for now, but I will come back to them when I want to read a longer run. I am perusing through the Superhero and Super Detective sections. I would like to read a few more space-themed compilations (just finished Doc Strong), but definitely I want to explore all the different genres out there.

[The Australian Panther]

I would like to read a few more space-themed compilations   

Have a look at the current 'Reading Group' selections.

[Raymond Towers]

Thanks again for the suggestions, AP. I just finished Doc Strong and I'm heading over to the Reading Group!