CBR Files and scans circulating...

[pajarator]

Do you guys are aware the are full page cover to cover scans on the 'Net? I guess this is copyrighted stuff, but it's there nevertheless... There's almost a complete run on Act, Adv and WF, and complete on SGLL and SPJO and others...

[MatterEaterLad]

I didn't know there was that much volume of stuff...as for me, I try to edit small images I find, crop them, change the sharpness etc. so I think that cutting a panel is fine, as long as we don't overdo it.

[Michel Weisnor]

What do you mean, scanned comics?

[Super Monkey]

I am not sure what you mean.

[MatterEaterLad]

I'm a little confused as well...they don't seem to come up on search engines.

Do you mean practically all issues of Action, Adventure, etc. are scanned and available in their entirety?

[pajarator]

Yep... almost all... Except some rare golden & silver age ones... try searching on eMule (i like dazzle: http://dazzle.selwerd.nl/emule/ ) or on DC++ ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcplusplus/ ) ... in fact, on comicshack.no-ip.info on DC++ there's not only superman comics but other comics as well...

They're with .cbr or .cbz extension (which is just a .zip or .rar renamed) to be used with the 'comic display reader'. ( http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay )  They're full page .jpg scans with high resolution, cover to cover...

[MatterEaterLad]

Wow, that looks like a lot more involved than I tend to get...

But anyways, I don't think there's anything wrong with cropping a panel to illustrate a character or something else for an entry.