Unscanned and Missing Underground Comix Part 2

PX <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:08:26 GMT
Newsgroups alt.comics.classic
Organization Usenetbucket
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I've managed to complete the Yellow Dog collection with a mix of scans 
I've found on the web and a few of my own. I've also found a couple of 
indexes of underground comix to cross reference with the Sir Real 
Collection and everything I've already found that isn't in it. I've been 
lucky in finding inexpensive copies of the unscanned Yellow Dogs. The 
missing issues of Wimmen's Comix aren't quite as abundant in the used 
comics market but I will buy any inexpensive copies of issues 1 and 3-7 
that come up for sale to scan them. Issue 7 was published in 1976 and 
then publication stopped until issue 8 in 1982 which is titled "The 
Return of Wimmen's Comix". So only the first seven issues were published 
in the golden era of undergound comix and Yellow Dog by far had the 
longest print run in the late 60s, early 70s comix scene. I'm happy to 
have completed the collection and made it available in one place. The 
copy of issue 20 I've uploaded is watermarked and it is also on the list 
of underground comix I'm looking for to scan.

The biggest gap so far that I've found in scanned comix is the British 
Undergrounds. Now that I've gone over the Nasty Tales index of British 
undergrounds published between 1966 and 1982, I see just how many of 
these comix are unscanned. There is only one scan of Nasty Tales that 
I've found, issue #2. I've done a scan of Cosmic Comics #6 but I've found 
no scans of the other 5 issues. I've scanned two other British 
Undergrounds published by Cozmic Comics but that's all of the unscanned 
ones I have at the moment and a scan did turn up for one of them. I found 
a scan of Half Assed Comics in the Sir Real collection after I posted my 
scan but it's much lower DPI. I haven't found any missing issues floating 
around the web. All I've found so far are some very low resolution images 
of the covers on a couple of websites that cover the history of the 
British undergrounds. Usenet has only given me the few scans from the UK 
in the Sir Real collection. I've done better with the undergrounds from 
Spain and found a complete Archive of El Vibora in a cyberlocker. The 
Internet Archive has been another good source, in particular, their 
Yellow Dog Archive and the Daniel Teoli Jr. collection which have filled 
some gaps and provided some better scans. 



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