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A simple request from a simple comic book scanner: I don't care if you remove the text files from the comic books files I scan, and I don't care if you redistribute the comic book files I scan, but please, do not do both. If you think that there is a chance that you might  share this files with others sometime then please don't remove the text file that ackowledges me as the original scanner. I put a lot of time into scanning these comics and I don't think it's too much to ask that I get credit for it.

Previous Scans:
Breed I 1-6
Breed II 1-6
Body Bags 1-4
Body Bags from Dark Horse Annual 97
Age of Reptiles: Tribal Warfare 1-4
Age of Reptiles: The Hunt 1-5
James O'barr's The Crow 1-5
James O'barr excerpts from The Crow # 0
James O'barr excerpts from Death Rattle # 8
James O'barr's Pink Dust
Major Bummer 1-6
Give Me Liberty 1-4
Martha Washington "Logistics"
Happy Birthday, Martha Washington
Martha Washington Goes to war 1-5
Martha Washington Stranded In Space
Martha Washington Saves The World 1-3
The Complete Concrete tpb (original series 1-10)
Rascals In Paradise 1-3
Bettie Page Comics: Spicy Adventure
Savage Sword of Conan 180, 186, 190, 191, 218, 220
The Big Book of Death
Team 7 vol1 1-4
Team 7 vol2 1-3 (objective hell)
Team 7 vol3 1-4 (dead reckoning)
The Big Book of Thugs
Pitt 7-15
Pitt preview from Youngblood # 4
Pitt: In The Blood one-shot
The Rocketeer vol01 tpb
Deathblow vol1 00-12
Wildcats vol1 15-19
Penthouse Comix vol2 11, 12, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24
The Crow Wild Justice 1-3
The Big Book of Little Criminals
Wildcats vol1 43-45
Bad Blood: The Vampire Collection tpb
Vampirella-Dracula: The Centennial
Batman-Madness A Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special
Batman-Ghosts A Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special
Heavy Metal 1986 summer
Heavy Metal 1990 july
Heavy Metal 1990 november
Heavy Metal 1991 march
Heavy Metal 1991 september
Lost Girls 1 & 2
Captain Sternn: Running Out of Time 1-5
The Big Book of Grimm
The Big Book of the Unexplained
heavy_metal_1992_july
heavy_metal_1992_september
heavy_metal_1993_march
heavy_metal_1993_may
heavy_metal_1993_november
frank_frazetta_fantasy_illustrated_01
Ghost Stories tpb
The Mask
The Mask Returns
akiko vol1 tpb
Akiko vol2 tpb
cadillacs and dinosaurs tpb
December: roadkill preview
Kabuki compilation 01 tpb
roadkill: a chronicle of the deadworld
shock suspense stories 01
steve bissettes Tyrant 1 & 2
heavy_metal_1994_january
heavy_metal_1994_july
heavy_metal_1994_march
heavy_metal_1994_may
heavy_metal_1994_september
hustler_vol_01_#02
omni_comix_vol1_03
2000_ad_prog_878
2000_ad_prog_879
2000_ad_prog_880
2000_ad_prog_881
heavy_metal_1994_november
heavy_metal_1995_january
heavy_metal_1995_july
heavy_metal_1995_march
heavy_metal_1995_may
bride_of_heavy_metal_1985
heavy_metal_1995_november
heavy_metal_1995_september
heavy_metal_1996_july
heavy_metal_1996_march
heavy_metal_1996_may
Astornauts In Trouble: One shot, one beer
heavy_metal_1996_november
heavy_metal_1996_september
heavy_metal_1997_march
heavy_metal_1997_may
heavy_metal_1997_january



For those interested in this kind of thing, here's how I scan:

I scan at 300 dpi rgb colors with a newspaper descreen on (85 lpi)
Once scanned, I clean up the picture, first with curves. I use curves to make the blacks black, the whites white and the inbetween tones bolder. Then I use the blur filter, reduce the image size to 150 dpi and then finally, I use unsharp mask at it's default setting to sharpen text and edges.

I learned from this site: http://comiclist.dnsalias.com/scanguide/guide.html which is really good, but you do have to learn what works for you and your scanner. Hope it's helpful.