Magazines - Comments by davie gordon

Magazines - Comments by davie gordon

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
davie gordon 3rd Oct 2016		Magazine Blues & Soul (1970)	Blues and Soul issue no. 1 was dated Oct. 1967 if I remember rightly. B&S was the successor to Home of the Blues which started in '66. There were 11 issues of Home of the Blues, the first eight were mimeographed with glossy paper stapled covers. The last three issues were professionally printed on glossy paper. My original copies of Home of the Blues have long since disappeared but I think I have scans of the covers of most of them .. I'll see if I can find them. ... I've just had a look at the Wikipedia page .. they're wrong. The first issue of Blues and Soul was John Abbey's twelfth publication but it didn't continue its numbering from Home of the Blues, the first issue of B&S was no. 1. I remember buying it at the news stall in Central Station in Glasgow. It's indelibly imprinted in my memory as I had never expected to see such a specialist magazine there .. previously it had been a case of scanning the small ads in Record Mirror then sending off a postal order by snail mail.
davie gordon 1st Feb 2014		Magazine Panic (1965)	It works for me .. I've no idea why it doesn't work for you. Maybe it's something to do with the browser you're using .. I'm using Mozilla Firefox. The first box has the drop down menu where you get things like writer, penciller etc. Try it withuot touching the drop down box. Just enter the comic's title in the blank box then hit "search"
davie gordon 1st Feb 2014		Magazine Panic (1965)	"You can search the site by the letterer or inker, but not by the title of the comic?" Of course you can search the database by title .. that's the default http://www.comics.org/ 1. Enter "Panic", or whatever the title is, in the blank box 2. click on the "search" button That brings up http://www.comics.org/series/name/PANIC/sort/alpha/ You then pick the exact title you're after. You do have to have some knowledge of comics to get the most out of the GCD but that applies to all databases.
davie gordon 31st Jan 2014		Magazine Panic (1965)	RadoxTheGreen : "Perhaps (he says reluctantly as he knows what lurks in the loft) we should look at introducing a Comics World in the near future" While I wouldn't say no to a Comics World being set up I really wonder if there's any point when the incredible Grand Comics Database exists - http://www.comics.org/ Panic was both a comic and a magazine EC issued 12 issues of the comic (1954-1956) then relaunched the title in the larger format in 1958. Panic (the comic) http://www.comics.org/series/1063/covers/ Panic (the magazine) http://www.comics.org/series/23478/covers/