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[hoover]

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

[paw broon]

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.

[hoover]

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

[MarkWarner]

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!!!

[hoover]

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

[MarkWarner]

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!

[hoover]

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

[hoover]

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

[MarkWarner]

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"??.

[paw broon]

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?

[hoover]

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

[MarkWarner]

So let it be written, so let it be done

[hoover]

Thanks Mark.

[hoover]

For those interested in crime. mystery and suspense text stories I've just uploaded a batch of The Thriller from 1929

hoover

[hoover]

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

[MarkWarner]

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!

[hoover]

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

[hoover]

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

[hoover]

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

[hoover]

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

[hoover]

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

[MarkWarner]

I am afraid she is scarey and we keep well away

[hoover]

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

[hoover]

My latest uploads provide a variety for Sexton Blake fans.  Six issues of Sexton Blake Library and four of Union Jack.
hoover

[hoover]

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