Should/can we post context in the posts? It's hard with copyrighted comics, because you can only really link directly to pirate websites. The best you can do otherwise is say like "Superman (1939) #7, page 25".
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!
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Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.
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Single panels are preferred.
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Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.
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Don't be a dick.
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I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.
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As requested, here are some places to look. Golden age comics are the best for this sort of silly stuff and many are public domain, so there are multiple places to look for them. Be warned, it is overwhelming. They churned out comics back then like they were gum wrappers.
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
https://www.pulpmagazines.org/old-comics/
https://www.comicweb.com/golden-age-comics.html
Feel like wading through the mess of the Internet Archive if you like: https://archive.org/details/comics
If you wish to brave the evil that is Reddit, there is: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldenAgeComics/
If anyone has other resources, feel free to add them. Please no pirate sites, there's a lot of "read today's comics online for free" sites which would violate lemmy.world ToS.
I would avoid links to pirated content since it violates lemmy.world ToS, but feel free to link to any PD comics. I think otherwise, yeah, you'll just have to say the comic and issue number.
Here are some other great resources:
Dollar bins at your Local Comic Shop
Flea Markets
Garage Sales
True, but those aren't free.
Another good idea is to get an image compression app. I tried a couple online sites, Sqoosh and Image Resizer, but those were having trouble on mobile for me.
So I ended up just DLing an image compression app from the play store, and it works great. The one I got was "Photo Compressor". It has ads, but you can do multiple pictures at once to limit the ads.
I usually just take screenshots. It's quick and easy and not massive in terms of images.
My screenshots are always too large, even after cropping.
Is this sub also for posting things found in comics that aren't panels, like this?
I guess it would be ok as long as there’s not a ton of it.
Tried looking at Secrets of Love and Marriage and some other similar ones on digitalcomicmuseum.com. Mostly a bust, the genre tends to be really wordy and also just bad. I did find this, but context actually makes it worse. It looks normal, but the context is that they're pretty much step siblings:
Yeah, the romance comics can be a real slog. You'll find you're likely to have more fun with the horror, mystery and superhero comics.