What is this?
This is not a chronology, but alphabetical. If you want things in chronological order, go to to the DC chronology. It's not a competition. When the chronology 2.0 starts, it will be a great thing for DC fans. But if you just want a Bunch of Batman, Worship Wonder Woman, are Starry Eyed for Starman, want to Team up with the Titans, Just like the Justice League. Love the Legion …. I'll spare you any more … you can do that more easily with an alphabetical version. Plus the Pre-DC and Post-DC are not in the DC chronology. (see below)
This will be every scanned comic that was published/distributed by DC Including all the other names it put on covers instead of DC. Thats's mostly the same list as the chronology, but perhaps not exactly. A partial list of imprints is Vertigo (ugghh!)®, Wildstorm, Helix, Milestone, Minx, Paradox, Piranha, Tangent, America's Best Comics, Cliffhanger, CMX, Homage, Humanoids, and MC.Gaines (Mad Magazine). Some were not actually produced by DC, just distributed. I have seen up to 46 different names listed but many of these are picky distinctions and are regular DC to most people.
I'll include most alternate covers, but not look hard for them. If I have 3 covers but the there are 4, I'm too lazy to even find out what name I should search for it under. Strong I am with the sharing, but not that strong. Many are in with the comics themselves, but not all are so labeled. I also am not going to worry about covers from TPB and HC reprints, though again I have most, at least in small form.
Amended - starting about part 3 I started getting all TPB & HC covers. I might miss some I don't know about.
It will include many related comics such as comics in which characters appeared before they were published by DC, aka "Pre-DC", and occasionally "Post-DC". There's a lot more of this sort of thing than you might think. Major Pre-DC characters include Blackhawk, Plastic Man, Blue Beetle and Captain Marvel (aka Shazam!) Many lessor DC figures and titles also started Pre-DC. Many things that aren't mainstream DC Universe (e.g. Loony Tunes. StarTrek) will have earlier appearances included. Even I don't know the full list yet.
Plus anything else related I think worthy of tossing in. Books about DC, Trading Cards, Parodies, all kinds of miscellaneous stuff.
So it's the complete DC, and yet much more.
I am tracking down as much of the CMX imprint which is Manga as I can. In most cases where I can't find it or it is unscanned, I have been able to find scanlations of the original Japanese editions as a substitute. Scanlation is the term for a comic translated by volunteers rather than the publishers.. It is scanned, then has as much of the original language text is removed as can be without destroying the art. Next another language is put in place of it. Translators may not be the same as the scanner. Sometimes the translators (much thanks to them as this is a lot of unpaid work) are not sufficiently fluent in both languages to do as well as the professionals. In some cases, hopefully most, the translation is checked by a native speaker of the new language for grammar and readability. In other cases you can tell that this did not happen as word choice or word order is a bit off. So same art and story. but translation wording and quality vary from the commercial versions. In a few cases CMX versions had some art redrawn (by the original artist) to conform to US sensibilities so they would be accepted without being shrink-wrap in mainstream bookstores. (Female nipples are of the Devil himself, that sort of thing). If I paid attention to which those were I'd try to offer both versions. But I'm spending so much time finding the CMX or substitutions that I'm not paying attention to that. In some case I have to download hundreds of pages one by one, then put in a cbr file.
Some CMX scans I've found are uncropped. The page is the size of the scanner bed, leaving huge margins. Since these are hundreds of pages, I just don't have time to fix this. If anyone of you does this and gets them to me, I will gladly post revised versions in a fill torrent.
BTW, escalation is being done for comics from europe as well as Manga. The only other thing I can think of off hand that DC published that had to be translated is the Humanoids stuff from France. Some of that is unscanned and it's less likely I can find a scanlation. There is much less demand for translations of comics from countries other than Japan.
What's different than the MTCDC
MTCDC only had such parts of the imprints as contained mainstream DC characters. MTCDC-NMC has all of them. That also pulls in more Pre-DC such as a lot of Image comics that became DC-Wildstorm.
Many comics which had never been scanned last time have been now. Dozens? A couple hundred? I didn't keep track. I have many hundreds - over 2000 for sure, of newly cover to cover or otherwise improved scans. I don't have a list of which are changed. Over a year of new comics have come out (about 1300), and I'll keep up with those during the series in supplements.
I'll put fills, corrections and updates in separate update torrents, not a little bit in each torrent as in the MTCDC.
Above all other things that are new, I will have to do this without my friend, colleague and Master-Comics-Finder the late, great DieSmurfDie. Oh he's not dead, not yet. But he hasn't gone by the name of Die-Smurf-Die for a long time, a long time.
Some Notes:
I crave error or omission reports!
I'll definitely consider suggestions for improvement. But ultimately - for sixteen hundred days, comics have I shared, my own counsel will I keep.
I use the Phantom Stranger's list of scanned DC, over 36,000 items. If I can't find an item, then I will claim he is wrong about it. I use other lists for non-DC. I'll make a good faith effort to find those, but some non-DC may prove elusive.
The title is what the indica says it is. (the fine print at the front or back of the comic). This may not match the cover. This may not be what you are used to calling it. I will make some exceptions where just a few issues differ to keep the title together. I'll include those small deviations twice so if someone looks in the project for an exact title, it will be there.
People disagree on how to figure volume numbers. Publisher's numbers are contradictory and just plain whacked at times. Mine, with few exceptions, are from the DC scanned list.
Torrents will mostly be c.10-13gb but some single titles e.g. Action, Detective, are c. 20gb It should be 68-70 torrents plus the updates. Ic. 750-800gb in all. Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.
You need to go buy a 1 Terabyte drive or 200 DVDs. Actually buy 400 DVDs or two drives. DVDs fail. All drives die. Are you really going to lose all that when the drive inevitably fails? It's when not if. You must back up! I keep two backups of my DC. It would be very hard to get all this again. Many sources have dried up. You, must learn the ways of storage, if you are to come with me to DC land.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
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