valiant comics scanning project?

skot · Post by **skot** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:49 pm

for thos ethat remember in the last board there was a person scanning all of the valiant universe. i wanted to know the status.
heres what i have in jpg format.
archer 0-2
eternal 1-3
harbinger 1-10
magnus 0-16
rai 1-7
shadowman 1-5
solar 0-15
unity 0-lost chap.
x-o 1-8
who was heading this up before.

skot

R Daneel · Post by **R Daneel** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 12:25 am

Someone was scanning every page, everything? Cool.

skot · Post by **skot** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:31 am

yup. i have all of the ones listed above. the full books scanned. if anyone wants to trade some "e-issues" let me know.
skot

graybola · Post by **graybola** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:13 am

I dont have any e issues to trade, but would be interested in getting a copy of thoses files!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

skot · Post by **skot** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:06 am

well heres harbinger 1. a classsic; about 7.5 Mb
http://members.cox.net/skot12/Harbinger001.cbr
you'll need to open with something that open compressed files like. this file is a .rar
enjoy
skot

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:46 am

skot wrote:well heres harbinger 1.

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

/Magnus

sydcomebak · Post by **sydcomebak** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:48 am

Why not put them in pdfs? It's such a better format!

I'm planning on making a few pdfs I think my first will be Harbinger #0

-Dave in IL

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:06 am

Comic Book Display

Use this program to open the file, it's great.

Just make sure you don't have too many things running at once.

Upon opening the program you won't see any buttons or anything, just an empty screen.

You need to right click and a menu will appear.

Just select Load files (or something like that) and go to the folder where you saved the file and select it.

That should open the images.

To go from one page to the other just scroll up and down.

myron · Post by **myron** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:19 am

MoTA...is that thing platform dependant? Having problems using it with a mac...

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:20 am

myron wrote:MoTA...is that thing platform dependant? Having problems using it with a mac...

I use a PC and have no problem, so it might be

sydcomebak · Post by **sydcomebak** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:41 am

I scanned all of Harbinger #0

Questions for the people who would be downloading it:

1) How big should this file be, REALLY? It's at 10 MB now. The pictures and text look good @ 75 DPI and I'm afraid to go any lower because I think there will be a loss of quality.

2) Is someone hosting these things anywhere??

3) Is this copyright violation?

-Dave in IL

myron · Post by **myron** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:46 am

skot...that's awesome!...I had forgotten what a great read harb 1 is....

syd...

you'll either have to host it yourself or maybe send it to greg and he can host it here (I would think)

not sure about copywrite infringement if you aren't going to charge for it? Any lawyers out there up on copywrite law??? (being a teacher I copy about anything...as long as you tell people where it came from I think it's ok...)

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 12:21 pm

myron wrote:Any lawyers out there up on copywrite law???

Not a lawyer, but I've checked the subject. Here's a link to a great text: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/law/copyright/myths/part1/

being a teacher I copy about anything

I do not know the exact limits of "fair use", but one can copy more for education than otherwise.

Basically the copyright holder decides. When I set up a site in 1995, I did ask Valiant and they said then that they always approved of fan efforts as long as they and the creators were named.

/Magnus

R Daneel · Post by **R Daneel** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 12:59 pm

ManofTheAtom wrote:Comic Book Display

Use this program to open the file, it's great.

Just make sure you don't have too many things running at once.

Upon opening the program you won't see any buttons or anything, just an empty screen.

You need to right click and a menu will appear.

Just select Load files (or something like that) and go to the folder where you saved the file and select it.

That should open the images.

To go from one page to the other just scroll up and down.

"This file is hosted by Tripod, a Lycos®Network Site, and is not available for download. Please check out Tripod's Help system for more information about Remote Loading and our Remote Loading policy."

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:01 pm

R Daneel wrote:"This file is hosted by Tripod, a Lycos®Network Site, and is not available for download. Please check out Tripod's Help system for more information about Remote Loading and our Remote Loading policy."

Give me your email and I'll send it to you

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:33 pm

why doesnt this scanning thing become part of the site. i always thought it would be cool to be able to read the comics on the forums, much like what was done with the rai #0 here. like, rereading the valiant universe could actually be a place to read the issues.

sydcomebak · Post by **sydcomebak** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:21 pm

Jaknife wrote:why doesnt this scanning thing become part of the site. i always thought it would be cool to be able to read the comics on the forums, much like what was done with the rai #0 here. like, rereading the valiant universe could actually be a place to read the issues.

I agree, I'll gladly scan my issues and donate them if we standardize the format.

-Dave in IL

jusdb · Post by **jusdb** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:22 pm

i would think that space/bandwidth limitations play a part in why scanned copies aren't available for download here...

i also think the legality is kinda fuzzy...

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:40 pm

the company is dead isnt it? so why should it matter if all we do is read them on the site?

jusdb · Post by **jusdb** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:57 pm

well somebody owns the copyright....

comicguy · Post by **comicguy** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:32 am

Copying items for one's self is never a problem.

Copying items to give away to other people is not a problem.

Copying items for the purpose of making money is a major problem.

Copying items and getting reimbursed for the material(ie cost of copies) in not a problem.

graybola · Post by **graybola** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:37 pm

Thanks Skot!!!! That was great!! I cant believe how great the scans look!!!

I was thinking that if someone were to post all of the files on kazaa then noone would have to host it. I keep my computer hooked up to it 24/7 as I am am sure anyone else with cable does. I will put the copy of harbinger 1 into my shared files to see if anyone can get it. The file name is harbinger001. Hopefully that helps

If nothing else they could be sold in a manner similar to Dan's Valiant Files cd that has a ton of stuff on it. I would think that the law regarding the materials would be similar.

Chris

sydcomebak · Post by **sydcomebak** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:36 pm

I just got crappy copies of:

Harbinger 25, 26, 27, 28, 31

over E-bay. Definitely binding breakers, I'm going to scan them soon!

-Dave in IL

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:04 pm

if scanning for free isnt a problem, then it shouldnt be a prob right? if all we are gonna do is just read em.

sydcomebak · Post by **sydcomebak** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:31 am

OK, just to kinda get a feel for people's views on quality of scans, I posted 2 comics on one of my websites. They won't last long, as I need the space for other things, but here goes:

Harbinger#0 blue - 4.19 MB
Harbinger#25 - 4.46 MB

I highly recommend using the Rt. Click “save target as” method on the links above.

If you download these, you will notice that I scanned everything from the back cover to the advertisements in the middle of the book. I think it gives the true comic experience. I also combined the left and right pages into one image so that the double page spreads (and wraparound covers) can be fully appreciated the way the artists had intended.

Scanning like this prettymuch sacrifices the comic so I've only been using my doubles that are Condition:Good at best.

I can scan probably 2 comics a day. the next few on the list are:

-Harbinger#26
-Harbinger#27
-Harbinger#28
-Harbinger#31
-Harbinger#03 - no coupon

Which makes me wonder if anyone has a few bent up, well read copies that they'd like to toss my way to scan. I guess if you want them back, we could do that too. But I'm really looking for comics people have held on to for whatever reason, that are taking up space.

-Dave in IL

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