User blog comment:Nausiated/1948 Almost done/@comment-1713281-20120805025132/@comment-61022-20120806193712

Oh not to worry, you aren't losing me, I'm just taking a bit of a hiatus from Marvel stuff for a little bit to do some DC stuff. To be honest, I need a bit of a change. I am first and foremost a Marvel fan, but DC has always been a guilty pleasure in that their old stuff was just plain goofy and the last 40 years they've been rebooting their history once every decade or two and then spend all the years inbetween retelling origins and trying to fix loose ends that don't make sense from said reboot and also trying to go forward.. It seems like such a redundant process, but to each their own.

I'm still working on some of the last months of 1948. I'll be working on 1949 next before I go on to working on the DC stuff. Like the Marvel stuff I'm going to do 1939-1949 then flip back over to Marvel for 1950-1959 (Sticking mostly with the western and super-hero stuff. I'm going to stay away from the sci-fi/horror anthologies until I get into Strange Tales and Journey into Mystery and such)

As for where I find these comics. Well I have my opinions on downloading. I wish I had the disposable income to purchase the reprint volumes but I don't have that kind of coin. I download most of them (although when I start getting into the 60's I pretty well got that covered in Marvel Essential volumes which are much more cost effective than the Marvel Masterworks or Omnibuses) then delete them when I'm done updating whatever on the Wiki, because I am downloading them strictly for research, which I liken to being no more different than going to the library (I wrote a blog post a while back about the ethics of downloading. Interesting stuff although some created a furore about it at the time) As for my sources, well it's fairly easy to find a complete chronology of Marvel (And DC) out there on the internet. There are a few chronology projects that are amassing independent digital archiving processes (and people will argue against these as Marvel and DC now both offer digital comics, but of course they only release what they want to, as opposed to these independent archives tracking down everything they've published over 70+ years some stuff that will probably never see the light of day) Adepts at Google and torrent sites -- heck even Facebook can probably locate these with relative ease.