Free Golden Age comics at the Digital Comic Museum

[Alice Blue]

Got an interesting tip today: an archive of free public-domain Golden Age comics. Read all about it here: http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/...age-comics-from-the-digital-comic-museum.html

The Digital Comic Museum offers free access to hundreds of pre-1959 comic books, uploaded by users who often offer historical research and commentary alongside high-quality scans.

The site’s moderators and administrators are particularly careful to avoid posting non-public-domain comics (a complicated designation, as described in this forum thread). The resulting archive is devoid of many familiar comic-book characters, like those from Marvel, D.C., or Disney.

On the other hand, because of this restriction, the archive offers an interesting window into the themes of lesser-known comics in the Golden Age—romance, Westerns, combat, crime, supernatural and horror. The covers of the romance comics are great examples of popular art.

 

[appy]

Ooh, score! I was looking for something like this a few weeks ago. Thanks a BUNCH!