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Post by Draco »

Drift wrote:
Heath wrote:
Knightt wrote:Well, I think Comico is a 'DU'... but man, there are SO many books. Same as Innovation. How about we use Comico and Innovation as Dead Universes but start with the titles that we collect i.e. Elementals, Justice Machine, Hero Alliance, Grendel and etc. How does that sound ?
I have the full run of Innovation's Beauty & The Beast. I LOVED that book!
Knightt wrote:To be honest, I am not willing to take on Comico and Innovation as there are MANY titles that I would NEVER read. I just cannot see me curling up with a cup of tea, a box of tissues, soft music and a few issues of Innovation's Beauty & The Beast. :wink:
I mean, uhm, my wife thought the art was pretty? Yeah, that's what I meant. :oops: :oops:
Have you got the stuff that First put out after Innovation were done with it?
Was it not the other way round with First & innovation?

who knows.

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Draco wrote:
Drift wrote:
Heath wrote:
Knightt wrote:Well, I think Comico is a 'DU'... but man, there are SO many books. Same as Innovation. How about we use Comico and Innovation as Dead Universes but start with the titles that we collect i.e. Elementals, Justice Machine, Hero Alliance, Grendel and etc. How does that sound ?
I have the full run of Innovation's Beauty & The Beast. I LOVED that book!
Knightt wrote:To be honest, I am not willing to take on Comico and Innovation as there are MANY titles that I would NEVER read. I just cannot see me curling up with a cup of tea, a box of tissues, soft music and a few issues of Innovation's Beauty & The Beast. :wink:
I mean, uhm, my wife thought the art was pretty? Yeah, that's what I meant. :oops: :oops:
Have you got the stuff that First put out after Innovation were done with it?
Was it not the other way round with First & innovation?

who knows.

:thumb:
I don't know.

I just know that there were some done by first and some by Innovation.

I assumed because people always refer to the Innovation series, that it was them first and First second (go on, work that one out :P )

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There is a good chance they published at similat times but im sure First closed up shop before innovation did, although that may not have bearig on the answer.

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Post by Phantom »

brought a scanner printer combo thing today.
Don't have many DU but willing to help.

If I scan them, who do I send the scans to?
Via email or disc?

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Phantom wrote:brought a scanner printer combo thing today.
Don't have many DU but willing to help.

If I scan them, who do I send the scans to?
Via email or disc?
The idea is to try and get complete scans for each Du dude, so whatever you have complete tick the box by pm Knightt with your DU.

top man

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Post by Phantom »

hey Draco ~ thoughtt you'd be off on holiday with the kids. I have to go to frogville on the 28th AGAIN.

I don't have a complete set of any DU!
Maybe start with defiant ? and you guys can fill in the rest?

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Phantom wrote:hey Draco ~ thoughtt you'd be off on holiday with the kids. I have to go to frogville on the 28th AGAIN.

I don't have a complete set of any DU!
Maybe start with defiant ? and you guys can fill in the rest?
The boys both have chicken pox ( or pops as they know them) so no hilidays till thats done.
You are goping on my birthday dude.

Im going to nail the DU thread big time in september with all my shiney excel sheets and give it a push again.

At this point any help on the scans would be cool.

Draco

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Are we ready to kick the a** out of this then Knightt?

Im a ready to go.

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Recorded the DU edition of Only the Valiant last night.

I actually prove Z wrong and he semi-concedes the point at one point. May get edited out because it was a way off-topic discussion.

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Will be re-looking this after the New Year. :thumb:

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Post by Lightning Strike »

Knightt wrote:Will be re-looking this after the New Year. :thumb:
Yeah, let me know if I can help out with any scans

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:thumb:
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Post by Phantom.. »

I was in, but now am out.
My new scanner, doesn't scan ~ which is a bummer as I need it for something ASAP.
Will make do, but untill I get another. This year was going to be year of the comics ~ for me.
Still is, but cannot contribute to data base.

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Post by Dev Em »

Whatever happened with this? I have a lot of the regular Ultraverse (A long box full), and I'd be willing to scan them. Several of them are autographed, so they would be unique in that regard.

Where were you all going to post/store the scans?

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Post by Knightt »

It is still 'in the works'... might pick it up sometime but there is WAAAAY too much on my plate at this time to think about this. Not saying an 'effort' could not go forward but my input or coordination in this is not possible.

I intend to have folks sign up for a DU, they keep them on their system until complete, then send them to me via snail mail on a disc and then I work out the details on the what, where and when.

I still need to work out the details with Greg, this sites fearless leader.

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I've been scanning the covers from all my comics to help me with keeping track of them. I would be willing to resize the images to any sizes 453x700@250dpi. My raw scans are coming out at 2016x3021@300dpi they are just over 1mb each.

and on a side note. To anyone that has the Rune poster pieces (back covers of some issues) I only have 3 of them (D, E, I) and could use the missing ones in similar resolution to my raws if possible

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Yep, re reading rune at the moment ~ so I will check latter, just taking kids to the pool :thumb: .Short box upstairs.
After all these years I still have the same printer/ scanner.
Photos any good?
I have learnt to select pixal size of photos ( and check the correct size from download) however cannot adjust as run old software.
I wish their was a Spinal Tap comic, and I had a copy CGC graded at 11.

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I was looking to looking to either print each page and then put into a large frame, or photoshop them all into a single image and then take to like staples to have printed as a poster. So as long as they come out looking similar to the scans would I would be fine with that.

here is one of the scans I did from the back posters of Firarm or Freex can't remember exactly which

http://s16.postimg.org/87srbfikl/Rune_Poster_Part_D.jpg

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OK ~ replied to the PM before reading this.

I will use a scanner.
Will take to a friends house to do.
I wish their was a Spinal Tap comic, and I had a copy CGC graded at 11.

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also, do you know the poster is the cover of rune 0 :?
just pointing it out, incase you where expecting something different
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i have c f g h j k .

don't know how k fits in? doesn't look like part of the poster at all.

you could just ask barry for the original. :P
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Phantom wrote:i have c f g h j k .

don't know how k fits in? doesn't look like part of the poster at all.

you could just ask barry for the original. :P
I did not know that it was rune 0, only difference I bet then would be the rune logo and letters on each versus a single solid issue.

I will also try to get a copy of the original at some point.

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Just sent an email to him using both the one on comicbookdb (email is dead, returns unknown user) and also his official page. So now to play the waiting game :)

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I am sure he will just give you the page.
well we can always hope.

Was thinking about this. You could get a high quality cover scan of issue 0, then only use the individual issues on the top three issues to get rid of the malibu title and comic bar.

That way you get a cleaner image, and rune is written quite small three times across the top.
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not counting the variants I am now only 1 issue away from having the complete Firearm run, only missing issue 12


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