Friday, May 22, 2009

This month's update

Welcome our newest member who joined in mid-April. Dave (NotAlbert), who you might recognize from ABPC, has contributed to our project. Many thanks!

Good news! Almost everything on hand has been scanned and uploaded; some books have been sold. New information in bold:

01) 3-D Action 001 - scanned, still not edited*
02) All-Western Winners 002 - scanned, uploaded & sold
03) All-Western Winners 003 - pages scanned to complete existing scan & uploaded
04) All-Western Winners 004 - scanned & uploaded
05) Arizona Kid 005 - scanned, uploaded & sold
06) Arizona Kid 006 - scanned, uploaded & sold
07) Best Western 059 - scanned, uploaded & sold
08) Crime Exposed 001 (1948) - scanned & uploaded
09) Gunsmoke Western 037 - scanned, uploaded & returned
10) Men In Action 009 - scanned & uploaded
11) Men's Adventures 028 - scanned, uploaded & sold
12) Official True Crime Cases 024 (001) - scanned & uploaded
13) Texas Kid 004 - scanned, uploaded & sold
14) True Western 001 - pages scanned to complete existing scan, uploaded & sold
15) Wild Western 003 - scanned & uploaded
16) Wild Western 007 - pages scanned to complete existing scan & uploaded
17) Wild Western 025 - scanned & uploaded
18) Witness 001 - scanned & uploaded

And finally, I bought a few more books:

19) Gunsmoke Western 034 - last book we need for series!
20) Apache Kid 018
21) Ideal 004 - with a Witness story
22) Sports Stars 001 - tough issue to find

Project excel file has been updated.

*Lord, this book is such a headache. The pages are browning at the edges, so when I make auto color corrections that make the middle of the page good, the page borders turn an ugly dark purple. Manual correction still leaves the borders a dark color. Still working on ways to minimize this effect and still have a nice looking book. In addition, the printing of the pages were bad, so on some pages there is a 2" strip through the middle of the page where the red ink was running out. Ugh. I dropped a sample page in the 4shared directory, if anyone has any suggestions.

19 comments:

Gambit said...

Excellent! Keep up the good work!

Angelo said...

First I say hello to the new member!!! Ciao Dave/NotAlbert!!!
Then I agree with Gambit of course. We are all happy because of you, thank you very much.
About the editing doubts, my friend Aquila is very good in the editing, may I give him the raw to try it, please?
ciao,
mal32 from Italy

Pmack Scans said...

Angelo: Yes, of course, let Aquila have a shot at it. Does he have a pair of red/green glasses to check the 3-D effects once it's edited? I can make those nasty borders disappear-- that's not the problem. The trouble is that the underlying colors of the browning are red and yellow, but the red on the page needs to be strong for the 3-D effect to work properly.

Tom said...

Many thanks Pmack, for keeping up the momentum and continuing to make this such an amazing project!

I took a stab at editing the sample page (but I can't find my 3D glasses!)

If this is acceptable, let me know and I'd be pleased to finalize the scan.

Or: here's the approach I used, which should be easy to add to a batch command: 3 passes

1.marquee at margins, select inverse, replace color (and was most ruthless)
2.marquee in about an inch, select inverse, replace color (and was relatively gentle)
3.marquee in about another inch, select inverse, replace color (and was very gentle).

I suspect there are much more elegant solutions, and better editors are going to suggest them!

Angelo said...

I thank Tomander to do the work, so I think it is not necessary I ask to Aquila anymore.

May I ask an important thing here and now to everybody, please?
I am sure we need to have also a copy of "Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1"
I know you know what it is but here they say everything:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Funnies_Weekly

it seeems here it is possible to bid on a copy of it:
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6167872
but is seems very very expensive.

The problem is that even if we have all the Sub-Mariner pages reprinted (with more pages) in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), there are other pages about other Timely characters never reprinted anywhere (American Ace, Spy Ring and who know what else)...

Do you have ideas?
Do somebody know if there are reprints of it?
Heeeelppppppppppppppppppp

thank you very much,
mal32

Pmack Scans said...

We're never going to get a copy of MPFW. There are only 9 known copies. It has never changed hands for less than US$11,000.

Most of the pages have been identified:

Sub-Mariner (8 pages)
American Ace (7 pages)
Spy Ring (6 pages)
Jolly the Newsie (6 pages)
Kartoon story (4 pages)

Some of the content has been reprinted:

- 8 pgs of Sub-Mariner story, reprinted everywhere
- American Ace, reprinted in Marvel Mystery 2 & 3 (story expanded by 5 pgs)
- Spy Ring is the title of the story, the character is "The Wasp", and the story was reprinted in Silver Streak Comics #1 (not a Timely book, but Gleason & Timely both used content from Funnies, Inc.)

Angelo said...

You are right Pmack but may I tell you something, please?
1) we have many things to find to have everything and I think we never have to lose the hope to find everything, never say never, please
2) I agree it is very expensive but I don't need to have the original, I hope to be able to find a digital copy or that one day an University or library will scan it for us
3) I have read that there is also a coverless cover, maybe we can try for it
4) if we are crazy and one day in the future we buy an expensive copy of it, we can sell it back after we do what you know
5) are you sure that the story of American Ace was reprinted in Marvel Mystery 2 & 3? I thinked that the "American Ace" story in Marvel Mystery 2 continued from MPFW, was I wrong?
6) if we find a reprint of the missing "Jolly the Newsie" and "Kar Toon" stories we can be ok.
Thank you and sorry for all my words,
mal32
P.S. I can't accept the idea that there is something we can't find...

Tom said...

Quote: P.S. I can't accept the idea that there is something we can't find...

Thank you mal32!

As much as I accept Pmack's words of wisdom...your philosophy is very inspiring.

Tom

Angelo said...

Thank you Tom, I appreciate your words and be sure I will always try to do my best to help to search and to find everything...

and I see I made a mistake when I wrote:

3) I have read that there is also a coverless cover, maybe we can try for it

I wanted to write "a coverless copy" of course, it would be good to find the copy without the cover

Unknown said...

Welcome aboard, Dave. I have been away for a while but hoping you will have fun.

And it always warms my heart to see a lot of westerns in the activity list :-)

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