I came across this site when I was looking into
the legality of something that had been submitted for review at Comic Bastards…
Basically, the submitted book was a collection of old comic strips some Portuguese dude had
compiled (and cleaned up, apparently) and he was now selling the book for two
dollars digitally. I first realised this was going on when I looked at the
first strip and saw the name Alex Toth on it… Which was weird for me,
considering Toth has been dead for ten years.
In the footer of the contents
page (the legal shit) it mentioned that all the compiled strips were in the
public domain... A-ha!
After a little digging, and I come across a site called Comic Book
Plus, which hosts a metric shit ton of public domain comics from the early days
of comics. Anyways, I thought I’d share it with you. Partly because it’s cool
as hell, partly because I think selling stuff that’s in the public domain for
profit is fucking lame.
Check out Comic Book Plus by clicking on the copy of
Catholic Comics right there, or to jump to my favourite section (HORROR) click on
the cover for Beware #13. There's some crackin' stuff on there... Happy viewing!
LOOK: Public Domain Comics!
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