So amazing, I could cry: Golden Age Comics free cbr. public domain archives

Thanks for the link/info forks, I signed up (v. interesting that it's a uk site address...different copyright rules/restrictions? was especially pleased to see all the fawcett/captain marvel stuff, which dc shoulda released in showcase-like cheapo editions years ago...)

am particularly 'into' pre-code horror shit at the moment so def. gonna binge on some of that sweet stuff...there's just something eerie/otherworldly/ultra-compelling abt a lot those strips and their necrophiliac obsession w/ skeletons and the defilement/reanimation of corpses...gasp...choke...

Oh, DAMMMMMMMN, gonna dig me some Lev Gleason ultraviolence, me droogies.

Yeah, the Fawcett collections (WHIZ!) are absolutely killer; they also have some nice newspaper strip compilations... especially Buster Brown, which is strangely still mostly out of print. I'd snap up an Outcault archive in a heartbeat; considering how well the McCay books seem to be doing, I don't see why there's not a market for it.

Also Ward: can I assume you already got your copy of 'I Will Destroy All Civilized Planets'? Because that shit is the pinnacle of your eerie/otherworldly/compelling zeitgeist.

either this doesn't work in America or else they've been shut down in the last 47 minutes

Try a U.K. proxy server...

okay - had to add a www at the front.

anyway - thanks for the head's up.

yeah, i have that terrific CIVILIZED PLANETS volume...first saw stuff by Hanks in the fifth issue of RAW - RAW also reprinted great strips by Basil Wolverton and Boody Rogers that shared a somewhat similar bizarro sensibility - tho' I do think the Hanks strips are slightly different from the Jay Disbrow/L.B. Cole etc 50s horror strips which generally have more gothicy, less sci-fiy, signifiers/tropes

Yeah, Hanks' art and story are somehow... creepier. Always gonna be colored by that biocomic piece from the end of the same book, but his work is so thoroughly twisted and nightmarish.

Registered. Now I need some recommendations, plz!

Is there anything good for "YOU BROKE MY BRANE"-style sci-fi twistyness?

Are registrations shut, or am I doing something RONG?

http://www.htmlcomics.com/

okay i have some questions:
1) why is the page flip at the top not working? Just for me?
2) can i get a two page spread as opposed to single pages?
because if i can get those two things addressed i may disappear forever.

hm, page flip click works in chrome and ie. still can't figure out how to get the two page spread.

Page flip works for me in firefox - no spread though.

This is great if completely illegal. Will now disappear up Roy Thomas' ass via All-Star Squadron.

ew

I love the "this is a library, don't u see" argument btw.

"FREE SCREEN CLEANER"

OMG Thriller!

holy shit

This is amazing but there are so many! Which issues of anything would you guys recommend? (There are about 50 Lois Lane for example)

I'm mostly just looking up (generally really terrible) crap I had as a kid that has long since been purged from my collection

I have no idea what even to look for, just viewed some random early 90s Zatanna mini. Any specific recs?

no American Flagg :(

reading GL: Mosaic for the first time! Gerard Jones is really good.

Flex Mentallo! But sadly no Rogan Gosh.

For some reason, I just read the Moench/Jones Batman run from the 90s (for sake of completion, I suppose). Not awful, but I'm happy I didn't spend money on it.

I've heard a lot of good things about Ostrander's Suicide Squad, so I might get started on that.

The bits of Suicide Squad I've read as well as heard about are pretty awesome, though the concept reading a 65+ issue run plus crossover arcs - all through a web browser interface - is a little daunting. Give it a try though, it's quality stuff.

Helfer & Sienkiewicz (& later Baker) Shadow!

You guys are thinking too recent! Kubert Tor, Lou Fine Dollman and other stuff in Hit Comics, Mac Raboy Captain Marvel Jr, S&K Challengers of the Unknown...

Right, I'm gonna have a run through Grant/Wager on Detective before it disappears...

Dissapeared!

Reappeared!

this seems to have gone again

i can't imagine why.

back up!

DCU: Decisions!

Oh fuck me, the Dell Comics version of Krazy Kat is on there! It's unbelievably terrible.

http://www.htmlcomics.com/Book/html.asp?Series_Name=Krazy%20Kat&Book_No=001&Page_Number=1&Alpha=|&Lookup=krazy

somewhat related (and very ilx-y):
http://www.nycharities.org/events/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=1227

is that dell comic based on the animated version of krazy?

not sure that herriman really needs "reconceptualising" (ugh) and besides this nov (which i've never read) kinda got there first:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0375713824/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

sorry, was trying to post this:

http://www.njn.net/artsculture/starts/pressroom/2502/comicskrazykata.jpg

I read the Kantor as a kid, it was kinda... um...
Anyway, Monic@ is a friend of my girl and Drew from matmos is an ilx regular though mostly awol as of late.

Looks like this is dead, then? It's been down two days now.

Ah well, fun while it lasted I guess.

It's been gone for two weeks now, almost. The guy has apparently been proclaiming that it'll be back "soon" after some legal stuff is sorted out. It'll never be back.

there's no legal defense for its existence whatsoever, no matter the caveats he put up on the page. still, was nice to have it around for a while.

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/05/publishers-get-together-to-beat-down-pirates/

If Colleen Doran is to be believed, that guy is some piece of work!

Come on, I called mental health issues as soon as I saw the "design" of that site.

Jesus, now the FBI are involved? Incredible.

"Come on, I called mental health issues as soon as I saw the "design" of that site."

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/6115/logo570x193.jpg

Has this guy made comics of his own? I bet they would be awesome, but I didn't see any linked on his site. Just some weird new age physics koans at the bottom.

So, uh, what about Comics Should Be Good? Over the last year and a half or so they (or one poster in particular) has been posting a rather high volume of full page scans in sequence on their blog. IE: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/category/year-of-cool-comic-moments/ and the Legends Revealed feature. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'. Seems a little infringe-y to me.

Definitely skirting the line for fair use, but considering it took years before Scans Daily was shut down...

its an appallingly written website, that's for sure

Scans Daily is still around, but I believe it switched homes a couple of times already.

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/

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