DCP stands for Digital Comics Preservation. There are actually several different scanners in the group, but as DCP they have established a consistent and reliable distribution channel for their scans. Sometimes within a DCP release you’ll see the same comic (more on that below)…DCP releases generally come out every Monday and Thursday. They are first posted and tracked on the Z-Cult FM tracker B site. If tracker B is down for some reason (not common, but it does happen), they will generally post the DCP release to tracker N. Of course, some nice person will eventually post the torrent on Torrentspy, so you can always find it here too.What’s up with these scans that only have covers but not the rest of the comic?OK, cover scans fall into about three categories. Let’s call them Preview, Variant, and Tease. Just so we’re clear, these are not official terms — I just made ‘em up for the sake of this explanatory discussion.Preview cover scans are fairly common. Basically these occur when a comic is released and a scanner wants to get ‘the word out’ but doesn’t have time to get the whole comic scanned and cleaned up for the pending DCP release. Generally you’ll find the whole scanned comic in the next DCP release or possibly the one after that (these scans take time, after all).Variant cover scans are the most common, particularly with Marvel and DC releases that are expected to be or already are popular. The publisher will release multiple covers for certain issues — the popular theory is that this is a way to drive people crazy and suck more money out of the truly obsessed collectors.Also, if a comic goes into second (or third, or fourth) printing, the publisher will often use a different cover for the subsequent printings. The theory here is that this gives the original purchasers ‘proof’ of their owning a first edition which will theoretically help the value of those comics for the die-hard collectors (Marvel uses all new art, DC is lazy and uses “sketch” covers for non-first edition printings).Regardless of the publisher’s motivations for doing it, the DCP scanners often only scan the Variant cover since the rest of the comic is the same and has already been released. In other words, the ‘whole’ comic that belongs to a Variant cover was generally released in the previous DCP scan or possibly even before that. It’s also possible that you’ll see the ‘whole’ comic in the same DCP release – but from a different scanner – as the Variant cover scan.Tease cover scans are actually pretty rare, but they do occur. They are generally for obscure independent titles. My guess is that the scanner wants to make people aware that the title is out there and hope that it might draw truly interested folks into the comic stores to check it out, but they figure that it’s not going to be popular enough to be worth the time and effort to scan the whole thing. Honestly, I have only run across a handful of these out of thousands of titles in my collection (200 GB and counting, thank you very much).Keep in mind that DCP is a release group of otherwise independent scanners. They do not necessarily have a common motivation for their scans nor do they necessarily communicate with one another regularly. They just use DCP as a common distribution point for their scans. That is why there are often multiple scans of the same comic in some DCP releases.It’s also pretty easy to identify the cover scans, even before you download them. Some of them say things like “variant cover” right in the title. But even if it doesn’t say “cover” in the file name, you can tell because they are generally 800K or less (most full comic scans will be approx 10 Meg or more). So if you see a cover scan for a comic in which you’re interested, just be patient — check out previous and subsequent DCP releases, or even search some of the other comic torrent sites listed above. I guarantee you that if a comic is worth reading, somebody somewhere will scan it (and, hey, if you’ve got an actual printed comic, why not scan it and share it with the rest of the community,
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Most of the volumes and books are made of several comics and are put together as
1 book or volume, so most files contains from almost 100 until several 100 pages of comics.
Thor is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by editor-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and penciller Jack Kirby, the character first appears in Journey into Mystery #83 (Aug. 1962) and is based on the god of the same name from Norse mythology.
Following Thor’s debut in the science fiction/fantasy anthology title Journey into Mystery, the 13-page feature “The Mighty Thor” continued to be plotted by Lee but scripted by Lee’s brother Larry Lieber or Robert Bernstein (working under the pseudonym “R. Berns”). Penciling was by either Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Don Heck, or, for a single issue, Al Hartley. Then with Journey into Mystery #101 (Feb. 1964), the series began a long and definitive run by Lee and Kirby that lasted until the by-then-retitled The Mighty Thor #179 (Aug. 1970).
The five-page featurette “Tales of Asgard” was added in Journey into Mystery # 97 (Oct. 1963) followed by “The Mighty Thor” becoming the dominant cover logo with issue #104 (May 1964). The feature itself expanded to 18 pages in #105, which eliminated the remaining anthological story from each issue; it was reduced to 16 pages five issues later.
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