At 0300hrs this morning I made a decision that the 60pp book would now shift to 80pp so chose the art pages, scanned nad they are ready to go...as is a 32pp secret book which reprints some 1951 stories featuring a character that made a cameo in Return of the Gods.
Who? What? Well, he introduces horror/ghost stories, is a rather immaculate dresser rather like our own Phantom Detective but is American. His title ran from 1951-1954 and he also appeared in some of yje 1970s Thorpe & Porter b&w reprints such Ghoul Tales.....those are the only clues you are getting!
Probably one of the teeth gritting jobs when it came to scanning was a Geral Swan album. Scanning a page I found "tiny bits" on the platten. Turned out is was all part of the page. Quite literally touching the top, bottom or side of a page had a small piece coming away in your fingers. The paper (remember there was still paper rationing until the early 1960s) is card like and almost like chipboard (particle board in the U.S.?). It could have been pulped and recycled paper but after over 60 years and kept under whatever conditions...it had me panicky.
This is why I try to reprint as much as the UK Diamond, Golden Ages stuff as I can -scanning and cleaning and offering them in a better condition than you'll find them in the originals. I've learnt a lot of tricks since I started using the computer to preserve the books since 2010!
Anyway, time to....I have a list here of what to do next....oh! a text feature (for publishing as I dont get paid or supported to do all of this for CBO,
This is 2022?
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