75 Years Of DC Comics - The Art of Modern Mythmaking
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- Other > Comics
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- 630.79 MB
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- Taschen Comic Book History Modern Myth Mythmaking Paul Levitz
- Uploaded:
- Oct 12, 2012
- By:
- LeonardTSpock
'75 Years Of DC Comics - The Art of Modern Mythmaking' Taschen, 2010, 724 pages Written by Paul Levitz In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with all-new, original material, at a time when comic books were mere repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper strips. What was initially considered to be disposable media for children was well on its way to becoming the mythology of our time ΓÇö the 20th centuryΓÇÖs answer to Atlas or Zorro. More than 40,000 comic books later, in honor of the publisherΓÇÖs 75th anniversary, TASCHEN has produced the single most comprehensive book on DC Comics, in an XL edition even Superman might have trouble lifting (the actual book weighs 16 lbs, the file is much lighter). More than 2,000 images, covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles, are reproduced using the latest technology to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life as theyΓÇÖve never been seen before. Telling the tales behind the tomes is 38-year DC veteran Paul Levitz, whose in-depth essays trace the companyΓÇÖs history, from its pulp origins through to the future of digital publishing. Year-by-year timelines that fold out to nearly four feet and biographies of the legends who built DC make this an invaluable reference for any comic book fan. Paul Levitz is a comic-book fan who has worked as editor/publisher of The Comic Reader, editor of the Batman titles and others, writer of over 300 stories ΓÇö including an acclaimed run on Legion of Super-Heroes ΓÇö and a DC Comics executive, finishing his 38-year stint with the company as President and Publisher. He returned to writing in 2010 with a new series of Legion stories and other projects.
LeonardTSpock at 2012-10-12 21:46 CET:
^ Holy crap that's a huge book.
That is an astounding image. Paul Levitz looks like he's going to have a hernia if he lifts the book overhead. Thanks as always for posting!
I can only appreciate the effort that goes into an upload like this. Thanks very much. How in the world did u fit that thing on a scanner?
LeonardTSpock at 2012-10-14 05:40 CET:
mrudgiantgodofhellfire, full disclosure; I did not scan this book. In fact, unless I mention that I scanned something in the description, I haven't scanned most of the things I upload (a few - 40 or so - and more in the future, but not many at the moment). Just passing books along that are in my digital collection, or 'out there', that haven't hit TPB yet.
Also, truth be told, most of the time, I don't really care about scanner tag pages. I don't always remove them, but I definitely will if I'm making any changes to the file. I've done literally hundreds of restorations at this point and other than putting (Restored) in the name of the file (so people can compare and know which version is which) I make no note of the fact that "I" did anything to the book. I don't do it when I compile loose files into a Compendium, either. Nor do I include a scanner tag on the books that I do scan myself.
I won't get into my reasoning, as I believe it's been discussed to death at this point. There are literally THOUSANDS of scanners around the globe at this point and they all do good work. ALL of their work is greatly appreciated and for as long as we read and share these files we'll always marvel at how cool it is that they took the time to make them available. And I'm just going to leave that right there.
In regards to THIS book, the original scan was actually four parts that totaled out right around 2 GB! They were BEAUTIFUL high resolution scans and the page dimensions were massive. Awesome for a private, personal collection, not so good for sharing. I pulled the images out of those original files (which were numbered in order, thankfully), changed the page dimensions to a size that is smaller, but not so small that you can't enlarge the images to read the any of the smaller text, and put them all back together as one volume.
However! In this particular case, I too wondered how the hell somebody got these beautiful scans?! I know some large (professional office type) printers have scanning functions (that's essentially what they are), and I'm guessing that's how it was done. There are also large (sometimes even upright) scanners that are used to scan artwork and other large pieces. Could have been done that way, as well. However it was done, a heartfelt thank you to the scanner who went to the effort to make this one available. I had intended to leave their tag at the end of the book and I simply forgot to do so.
Also, truth be told, most of the time, I don't really care about scanner tag pages. I don't always remove them, but I definitely will if I'm making any changes to the file. I've done literally hundreds of restorations at this point and other than putting (Restored) in the name of the file (so people can compare and know which version is which) I make no note of the fact that "I" did anything to the book. I don't do it when I compile loose files into a Compendium, either. Nor do I include a scanner tag on the books that I do scan myself.
I won't get into my reasoning, as I believe it's been discussed to death at this point. There are literally THOUSANDS of scanners around the globe at this point and they all do good work. ALL of their work is greatly appreciated and for as long as we read and share these files we'll always marvel at how cool it is that they took the time to make them available. And I'm just going to leave that right there.
In regards to THIS book, the original scan was actually four parts that totaled out right around 2 GB! They were BEAUTIFUL high resolution scans and the page dimensions were massive. Awesome for a private, personal collection, not so good for sharing. I pulled the images out of those original files (which were numbered in order, thankfully), changed the page dimensions to a size that is smaller, but not so small that you can't enlarge the images to read the any of the smaller text, and put them all back together as one volume.
However! In this particular case, I too wondered how the hell somebody got these beautiful scans?! I know some large (professional office type) printers have scanning functions (that's essentially what they are), and I'm guessing that's how it was done. There are also large (sometimes even upright) scanners that are used to scan artwork and other large pieces. Could have been done that way, as well. However it was done, a heartfelt thank you to the scanner who went to the effort to make this one available. I had intended to leave their tag at the end of the book and I simply forgot to do so.
Wow, this is incredible. This is the sort of thing I never would've imagined anyone scanning - not just the size of it but the cost. It gives me hope for other things now.
Thanks a lot for all your uploads too, Mr Spock. I just bought my first large tablet a week ago and if it weren't for your uploads I don't think I would've gotten as much out of it as I have.
Thanks a lot for all your uploads too, Mr Spock. I just bought my first large tablet a week ago and if it weren't for your uploads I don't think I would've gotten as much out of it as I have.
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