Saturday, April 10, 2010
Comic: Bad Kitty
New Orleans law enforcer Catherine Bell was one of a rare breed - a truly honest cop. Eventually the inevitable happened, when what should have been a routine case brought her into conflict with the corruption within her own police force. It also confronted her with voodoo, when her lover was transformed into a zombie and sent to kill her.
Enraged, Catherine gave up the force and, using a lot of high-calibre weapons, expressed her disapproval of those responsible for wrecking her life. They ended up dead, and she ended up on the FBI Most Wanted list. Now using the alias Bad Kitty, and accompanied by her black cat, Lucky, she continues to confront the supernatural, and tries to survive.
Bad Kitty, as well as all other titles published by Chaos Comics, ended when Chaos declared bankruptcy in 2002. All of the Chaos properties, with the exception of Lady Death, were later bought by Tales of Wonder.
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Comic: Death Metal
Death Metal is a character from the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Death³ #1 and was created by Dan Abnett and Dell Barras.
Death Metal was created by Doctor Evelyn Necker as part of the Minion project which also produced Death's Head II and Death Wreck. Necker had sent Death Wreck throughout space and time, and he came back with (among other things) a magical semi-living metal that she called "Promethium" (not to be confused with the real element promethium). Necker used this metal to create a new cyborg, but she was unaware that the Prometheium had been created by the evil being called Charnel (whom Dr. Necker had had previous dealings with) and Death Metal promptly stole a time machine and fled to the parallel universe of Charnel.
There he was found by the alternate versions of several mainstream Marvel Universe supervillains, whom he killed, and several alternate versions of several superheroes, whom he tried to kill. However, Death's Head and Death Wreck also arrived in Charnel's universe, and wound up fighting Death Metal along with the heroes. When that universe's Ghost Rider used his mystical Penance Stare on Death Metal, it caused him to see his own sins and realize the extent of Charnel's evil. The three cyborg "brothers" then teamed up and defeated Charnel.
Death Metal was then thrown through a temporal warp to modern-day Earth. After going on a disoriented violent rampage in Toronto, he encountered a being called Argon, a warrior of pure spirit who had been sent from another dimension to end the threat of Death Metal. Death Metal absorbed Argon's mind and spirit, only to find that his purity counteracted Death Metal's violent rage. Now seeing himself as a monster, he began to seek his own death.
When the superhero team Alpha Flight arrived in response to his rampage, he attempted to escalate the fight so that he might be killed. Unfortunately, this only restored his berserker rage, until Aurora used her light powers to calm him. Realizing he was still a danger to others, he teleported away (Death Metal #2 and Death Metal vs Genetix #1).
In Death Metal vs. Genetix, Death Metal sought to create a being which could destroy him. He took cell samples from Alpha Flight's Madison Jeffries and Genetix's Vesper (both of whom could control technology), and created an embryo which he implanted in empath Krista Marwan. Genetix rescued Krista, who vowed to have the child.
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Comic: Plastron Cafe
This one features a bunch of artists and storylines - including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1993)
#1,2&4 download
anyone have#3?
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Friday, April 9, 2010
Movie : Pick of the Pod (ca. 1939)
A peek inside the pea processing operations that culminate in Del Monte brand canned peas. With glimpses of 1930s kitchens and images of Depression-era California agriculture.
Run time: 20:57
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Pickofth1939.mpegmp4
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Pickofth1939.avi
thanks to the internet archive
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Comic: Blueberry aka Captain Tiger
Alpen Publishers
Donovan is the son of a rich Southern farmer and started as a dedicated racist. He was framed for a murder he did not commit, had to flee and was saved by an African-American. He became an enemy of discrimination of all kinds, fought against the Confederates (although he was a Southerner himself), and tried to protect the rights of Native Americans. The first English translations of Blueberrycomics were published in Europe during the late seventies by Egmont/Methuen. Since then English translations were published by many other companies (EpicComics, Comcat, Mojo Press, Dark Horse Comics ) resulting into all kinds of formats and quality - from b/w, American comic book sized budget collections to full color European style albums with many extras. Since 1993 no Blueberrycomics have been published in English. Moebius painted new covers for the Epic line of Blueberry. Actually this was the first time Blueberry was published under Giraud's pseudonym, Moebius. As R.J.M. Lofficier, the translator of the books wrote: "This is quite ironic because Giraud first coined the "Moebius" pseudonym precisely because he wanted to keep his two bodies of work separate. Yet, the artist recognizes the fact that he has now become better known in this country under his "nom-de-plume," and this is his way of making it official!"
rapid share links (note there are a few issues not uploaded to RS - see explanation below)
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(Im including Brians info here) foosaa himself says above,
I have thus taken the liberty of posting the following Hotfile mirrors, classified according to the Wikipedia article on the
subject ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_(comics) ) which itself follows the sequence of the comics' release in
France (I added Blueberry #07 "The Iron Horse", still part of the Lieutenant Blueberry Fort Navajo series and Volumes 4 &
5 of the Blueberry Epic prints which are missing in foosaa's post):
Lieutenant Blueberry Ft. Navajo Series (pub. by Egmont/Methuen or Dargaud):
http://hotfile.com/dl/10358934/1805aec/02_Lt_Blueberry_02__Thunder_In_The_West.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10359982/c04d08d/03_Lt_Blueberry_03__Lone_Eagle.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10360966/a87921b/04_Lt_Blueberry_04__The_Lost_Rider.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10361643/47ecb39/05_Lt_Blueberry_05__The_Trail_Of_The_Navajos.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10363889/59bf999/06_Lt_Blueberry_06__The_Man_With_The_Silver_Star.cbr.html
Lieutenant Blueberry Fort Navajo (Epic Graphic Novels):
http://hotfile.com/dl/10364694/a4639bd/07_Lt_Blueberry_07__The_Iron_Horse.cbz.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10366008/4ca0dad/08_Lt_Blueberry_08__Steel_Fingers_Uploaded.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10366774/30e72ce/09_Lt_Blueberry_09__The_Trail_Of_The_Sioux.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10367477/f81de75/10_Lt_Blueberry_10__General_Golden_Mane.cbr.html
Marshall Blueberry (Epic Graphic Novels):
http://hotfile.com/dl/10368878/b87f65b/11_Marshall_Blueberry_01__The_Lost_Dutchmans_Mine.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10370595/bbea5fa/12_Marshall_Blueberry_02__The_Ghost_With_The_Golden_Bullets.cbr.html
Blueberry (Epic Graphic Novels):
http://hotfile.com/dl/10373296/4ce2a86/13_Blueberry_01__Chihuahua_Pearl.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10376159/1d5d9ef/14_Blueberry_02__Ballad_For_A_Coffin.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10377724/ba92c9d/15_Blueberry_03__Angel_Face.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10382228/f90a4fe/16_Blueberry_04__The_Ghost_Tribe.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10384529/d18944a/17_Blueberry_05__The_End_of_the_Trail.cbr.html
The Young Blueberry (La Jeunesse de Blueberry) is a prequel dealing with Blueberry's early years, during the American
Civil War; so far only the first three stories, still the work of the original CharlierGiraud (Moebius) tandem, were published
in English by ComCat:
http://hotfile.com/dl/10386737/7353d4a/18_Young_Blueberry_01__Blueberrys_Secret.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10388315/400c41f/19_Young_Blueberry_02__A_Yankee_Named_Blueberrya.cbr.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/10407984/710b87d/20_Young_Blueberry_03__Blue_Coats.cbz.html
And finally "Three Black Birds", written and illustrated by Jean "Mœbius" Giraud, that appears in "The Blueberry Saga #1:
The Confederate Gold", published by Mojo Press in 1996, a black and white collection that also contains reprints of
Blueberry stories from Epic:
http://hotfile.com/dl/10408998/d90d8b3/21_Blueberry__Three_Black_Birds.cbr.html
Thanks to Brian for this collection
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Movie : The Case of the Tremendous Trifle (1944)
Run time: 20 min.
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TheCaseoftheTremendousTrifle_512kb.mp4
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Movie : Making of a Menthol Cigarette
find it here
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Comic: Mai the Psychic Girl
Mai, the Psychic Girl, known simply as Mai in Japan, is a manga written by Kazuya Kudō and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami.
The main character is Mai Kuju, a 14-year-old Japanese girl with powerful psychic abilities. She is being pursued by the Wisdom Alliance, an organization which secretly strives to control the world. The alliance already controls four other powerful psychic children, and it has hired the Kaieda Intelligence Agency to capture Mai.
Mai, the Psychic Girl is one of, if not the, first manga series to be fully published in English. It, along with The Legend of Kamui and Area 88, were published in North America by Eclipse Comics and Viz Comics in a bi-weekly comic book format starting on May 26, 1987. As it was one of the forerunners of manga popularity in the West, Mai was chosen for localization due its middle-ground artwork: neither "too Japanese or too American". It was present in the "flipped" format that was the norm with early localized manga. Mai proved popular enough that second printings were needed of the first two issues.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Celebrating Thors Bday
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Comic: Legend of Kamui
English version available below
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#18-22 download
#23-28,30,31 download
#32-37 download
I highly recommend this series.
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Comic: Captain Marvel (V3)
1999-02
#0-8 download
#9-17 download
#18-26 download
#27 -35 download
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Comic: Crossroads
#1-5 download
This features crossovers with many First Comics stars. Badger,Sable,Grim Jack, Whisper,nexus and more!
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Magazine: From the Tomb
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thanks to Richard
Does anyone have more?
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Book: Seduction of the Innocent - the influence of comics on youth
Seduction of the Innocent is a book by American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency. The book was a minor bestseller that created alarm in parents and galvanized them to campaign for censorship. At the same time, a U.S. Congressional inquiry was launched into the comic book industry. Subsequent to the publication of Seduction of the Innocent, the Comics Code Authority was voluntarily established by publishers to self-censor their titles.
Seduction of the Innocent cited overt or covert depictions of violence, sex, drug use, and other adult fare within "crime comics" — a term Wertham used to describe not only the popular gangster/murder-oriented titles of the time, but superhero and horror comics as well. The book asserted, largely based on undocumented anecdotes, that reading this material encouraged similar behavior in children.
Comics, especially the crime/horror titles pioneered by EC, were not lacking in gruesome images; Wertham reproduced these extensively, pointing out what he saw as recurring morbid themes such as "injury to the eye". Many of his other conjectures, particularly about hidden sexual themes (e.g. images of female nudity concealed in drawings of muscles and tree bark, or Batman and Robin as gay partners), met with derision within the comics industry. (Wertham's claim that Wonder Woman had a bondage subtext was somewhat better documented, as her creator William Moulton Marston had admitted as much; however, Wertham also claimed Wonder Woman's strength and independence made her a lesbian. However, she is traditionally portrayed as a heterosexual and a virgin). Wertham also claimed that Superman was un-American and was a fascist.
Wertham critiqued the commercial environment of comic book publishing and retailing, objecting to air rifles and knives advertised alongside violent stories. Wertham sympathized with retailers who didn't want to sell horror comics, yet were compelled to by their distributors' table d'hôte product line policies.
The fame of Seduction of the Innocent added to Wertham's previous celebrity as an expert witness and made him an obvious choice to appear before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency led by anti-crime crusader Estes Kefauver. In extensive testimony before the committee, Wertham restated arguments from his book and pointed to comics as a major cause of juvenile crime. The committee's questioning of their next witness, EC publisher William Gaines, focused on violent scenes of the type Wertham had decried. Though the committee's final report did not blame comics for crime, it recommended that the comics industry tone down its content voluntarily. Possibly taking this as a veiled threat of potential censorship, publishers developed the Comics Code Authority to censor their own content. The new code not only banned violent images, but entire words and concepts (e.g. "terror" and "zombies"), and dictated that criminals must always be punished. This destroyed most EC-style titles, leaving a sanitized subset of superhero comics as the chief remaining genre. Wertham nevertheless considered the Comics Code inadequate to protect youth.
Seduction of the Innocent was illustrated with comic-book panels offered as evidence, each accompanied by a line of Wertham's sardonic commentary. The first printing contained a bibliography listing the comic book publishers cited, but fears of lawsuits compelled the publisher to tear the bibliography page from any copies available, so copies with an intact bibliography are rare. Early complete editions of Seduction of the Innocent often sell for high figures among book and comic book collectors.
Among comic-book collectors any comic book with a story or panel referred to in Seduction of the Innocent is known as a "Seduction issue", and is usually more valued than other issues in the same run of a title. Seduction of the Innocent is one of the few non-illustrative works to be listed in the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide as a collectible in its own right.
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thanks to Richard
note: Having a problem with Blank pages? Mark left this tasty info tidbit - at first it looked blank to me also. I extracted the jpegs and re-zipped it as a cbz and that worked. Then when I re-checked the original cbr it was fine. Dunno why.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Newstrip: Buz Sawyer
Compiled newstrips of classic fighter pilot Buz Sawyer. These are packaged into storyline 'books'.
Buz Sawyer was a popular comic strip created by Roy Crane and highly regarded by comic strip historians. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it had a long run from November 1, 1943 to 1989. The last strip signed by Crane was dated 21 April 1979.
During World War II, the adventurous John "Buz" Sawyer flew as an ace Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater. As a civilian in the post-WWII years, he became an oil company troubleshooter. He rejoined the Navy in the 1950s and flew carrier-based reconnaissance attack jets over Vietnam during the 1960s.
Roy Crane was one of the innovators of the adventure comic strip. Wash Tubbs began in 1924 as a humorous story about the romantic adventures of Washington Tubbs, but increasingly Tubbs became involved in exciting adventures in exotic places. With the creation of the popular soldier of fortune Captain Easy in 1929, the strip became, along with Tarzan of the Apes and Buck Rogers, one of the first adventure strips. However, Crane was an employee of the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicate, which owned the rights to the Tubbs and Easy characters. Crane approached King Features with an idea for a new strip, and when they offered him ownership, he abandoned Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy in 1943, giving full concentration to launching Buz Sawyer.
Edwin Granberry began writing Buz Sawyer during the 1940s, continuing as the strip's scripter until 1983. Henry Schlensker, who had created Biff Baker with Ernest Lynn (1941-45), became Crane's art assistant in 1946. An ulcer resulted in Crane's retirement from the strip in the 1960s, but he continued to work closely with Granberry and Schlensker. After Crane's death in 1977, Schlensker began signing the strip. The duo continued as a team until 1983. When they retired, John Celardo drew the daily until it was discontinued in 1989.
*1943 Sunday color strips
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1 - war in the pacific 1943-44
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2-island raids 1944
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3-sultry 1944
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4-civilian life 1944-45
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5-mr flint 1945
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6-sultrys tiger 1945-46
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7-mad baron 1946
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8-salvaduros 1946-47
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9-Africa 1947
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*new stuff below
10 vacation with Christy-1947
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11 Collins of the Caribbean 1947
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#12 harry sparrow 1947/8
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13 Miss Freeze 1948
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14 search for Buz 1948
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15 women in his life 1948
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16 wedding present 1948/9
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17 African honeymoon 1949
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18 Monkey 1949
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19 revolution 1949
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20 Buz alone1950
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21 Diana 1950
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22 william 1950/51
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23 wish jones 1951
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24 little icky 1951
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Comic: The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine
I love Dave Stevens good girl art and this is no exception. Scifi based storyline with cute dames. Great Stuff
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Comic: War Is Hell
War Is Hell was a horror/war comic book series from Marvel Comics in 1973-1975. For its first six issues, it featured reprints of old war comics, followed by two issues of reprints of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. Beginning in issue #9, the series featured new material; the star of the series became Death, who forced a dishonorable Polish man named John Kowalski, killed in the Invasion of Poland (1939), to die countless deaths from other lives.
During the series, Kowalski inhabited different bodies of those about to die, not necessarily of the same side or gender, sometimes not even the same time period (although set primarily during World War II, including both the European and Pacific theatres), and needed to change things for the better before he was killed. Death would summon him from the nether regions each story, and Kowalski wondered how many times he would have to do so as penance. The series was created by writers Tony Isabella, Roy Thomas, and Chris Claremont with an uncredited assist from Steve Gerber on issue #9 (acknowledged in the letter column of issue #12), and artists Dick Ayers and Frank Springer.
The series was canceled with issue #15, and we learned Claremont's intentions for Kowalski when he wrote volume 2 of Man-Thing and incorporated the character into its final two issues (#s 10 & 11). By this point (the early 1980s), Kowalski had become an aspect of Death. He made Bobbie Bannister (a recently-orphaned by murder rich girl introduced by Claremont in Man-Thing vol. 2 #5) another aspect of Death as they battled Sheriff John Daltry, who was possessed by the sword of Captain Fate. He caused the deaths of Doctor Strange, Man-Thing, Jennifer Kale, and Chris Claremont himself, although these deaths were undone by the end of the story, in order to battle Thog the Nether-Spawn, who was using Fate and Daltry as his pawns in another gambit to take over Earth-616.
Kowalski later appeared with Scarlet Witch in a story by Dennis Mallonee (writer) and John Ridgway (artist) in Solo Avengers #5.
more info...The series began as a reprint book, mostly from Atlas Comics-era war comics, adding Sgt. Fury for its last two issues before printing new material. The first six issues contained four stories an issue, each around five pages.
- Reprinting stories from Battle #30 (1 story) and #55 (3 stories)
- Reprinting stories from Battle Action #30, (1 story) Battlefront #30 (2 stories), and Battle #55 (1 story)
- Reprinting stories from Battle Action #15 (1 story) and G.I. Tales #5 (3 stories)
- Reprinting stories from Battleground #15 (3 stories), and War Comics #17 (1 story)
- Reprinting stories from Battlefront #34 (1 story), and Battleground #20 (1 story) and # 18 (2 stories)
- Reprinting stories from War Comics #30, "Court Martial" by Werner Roth, Battleground #15, and War Comics #17
- Reprinting Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #17
- Reprinting Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #18
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previously posted...
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bundle 2,5,7,9-11,14 (Dave -RS)DOWNLOAD
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Comicstrip: Ella Cinders
these are all collections of strips (in order) from 1926
1926 prt1 download
prt2 download
prt 3 download
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Comic: Mouse Guard- fall / winter
Wonderful stuff - think of Watership Down meets lord of the rings.
(Note Fall only contains new material from the hard cover -looking for the regular series)
Fall hc download
winter #1-6 download
(missing the fall mini series and Black Axe - anybody have them?)
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Comic: Gorgo
#13-16,18- 23 download
Dave posted these :Gorgo 17-20,23 rar
Gorgo 1-5,11-16 rar
(Note there are some better scans of some issues in Daves packs above - some of my packs have better quality than Daves - i suggest grabbing all if your a fan and then deciding which you want to keep)
More Gorgo (Previously posted)
Fantastic Giants Vol.2 1966 #24.
DOWNLOAD at rapidshare (Dave)or
download at megauplaod
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Music: Delta Blues and more
Public Domain 2 Ten
find it here
thanks to Chuck M for pointing the way to this place
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Comic: Raiders of the Lost Ark /Temple of Doom
both issues bundled
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thanks to Yahwehfrek
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Comicstrip: Nick Haliday
1955 download
a special note of thanks goes to Digital Comics Museum for these recent newstrip comics.
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Comic/newstrip Little Women
Another newstrip collection this time based on the movie Starring Katharine Hepburn which was based on the novel.
1933 download
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Old piles of good sh... stuff
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