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[Astaldo711]

I'd like to see Green Giant Conics #1 by Pelican.

[Yoc]

This one is so rare and expensive I wouldn't hold my breath A.

-Yoc

[Astaldo711]

Didn't think so but I thought I'd give it a try. I found it online somewhere for $8,000. It had poor quality paper and low circulation. 
C'est la Vie!

[dhfh]

This one is so rare and expensive I wouldn't hold my breath A.

-Yoc

Well, it's not necessarily as unlikely to get some kind of copy of it as you would think, Yoc.  The comic art dept. of Michigan State University lists having a microfiche copy of Green Giant as well as some oher very rare books (like Colossus, for example), so if someone had enough in pocket or had another reason to be in the MSU vicinity, we could at least get digital camera shots of the pages.

One can also order paper copies (B&W, I believe, and of unknown quality) directly from the MSU, but at a cost of $20 per story (not per issue, mind, but per story from a given issue), so it would still require a larger outlay than I would care to expend just to give it a try.

Still, it means that options other than finding a paper copy for getting shots of the contents, do exist.  (Also, if there's one fiche copy out there, there could always be more floating around.)


Later,

DHFH

[narfstar]

I have the fiche of both and Murray Ward sells them for $4 each

[dhfh]

How does one get in touch with Murray Ward?  I've seen old (2006) message posts on other sites.  Is the contact info still valid?  Are you sure he still has copies of Green Giant and the other titles you've recently mentioned you have (Wham #2 and Collossus)?  I'd love to try my hand at scanning these for the site and wouldn't mind owning copies myself (since I have access to viewing equipment.)

DHFH

[Yoc]

I believe DarkMark or Ontology might have current contact info for Murray.

-Yoc

[boox909]

This one is so rare and expensive I wouldn't hold my breath A.

-Yoc

Well, it's not necessarily as unlikely to get some kind of copy of it as you would think, Yoc.  The comic art dept. of Michigan State University lists having a microfiche copy of Green Giant as well as some oher very rare books (like Colossus, for example), so if someone had enough in pocket or had another reason to be in the MSU vicinity, we could at least get digital camera shots of the pages.

One can also order paper copies (B&W, I believe, and of unknown quality) directly from the MSU, but at a cost of $20 per story (not per issue, mind, but per story from a given issue), so it would still require a larger outlay than I would care to expend just to give it a try.

Still, it means that options other than finding a paper copy for getting shots of the contents, do exist.  (Also, if there's one fiche copy out there, there could always be more floating around.)


Later,

DHFH

One more reason for me to relocated near the East Lansing region when I finish my academic work. I wish this site had been active back in 2001-2002 because I lived across the street from MSU and only a half mile walking distance from the MSU library. There were times when walked by the MSU Library nearly EVERY DAY while out enjoying the gardens behind it. If GA-UK had been around I might have never left Michigan. Ah well... 

B.

[dhfh]

I have the fiche of both and Murray Ward sells them for $4 each

I believe DarkMark or Ontology might have current contact info for Murray.

-Yoc

Well, I've been in contact with Mr. Ward now, only to find out that after 3 years of trying to sell them, he has donated all of his remaining fiche copies to--you guessed it--the MSU library.  His reason?  Get this: the obvious LACK OF INTEREST on the part of the buying public.  (It think if more of us here had heard about their existence he would have had more orders; I used to search the net for this kind of stuff all the time--found Microcolour, but that was about it.)

Those fiche that haven't actually made it to the library yet are still absent because a friend of his is scanning select issues before they go.

No, don't know yet whether or not said individual plans to share them on-line or not, but the point is that Mr. Ward is no longer a source for obtaining fiche copies of GA comics, especially the oft-mentioned Green Giant, Wham #2, or Colossus.

So...Narf, if you'd be willing to venture to send me your fiche copies of those issues, I could try scanning them with the microfiche scanner that I discovered is available for public use in a near-by library (it's made to scan fiche cards, so they don't have to be cut into strips, either). 

Or...Narf, you can also always send them to someone else in our group (Yoc mentioned LoftyPilot?) who has the ability to scan fiches.

But whatever you choose to do, I really, truly, hope you can find some way of getting these extreme rarities up for the rest us of who are dying to see them!  Soon?

Cheers guys!

DHFH