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The More than Complete DC from Z-A

This first installment is: Z-X
Zero Hour
Zatanna
Young Romance
Young Love
Young Justice
Young Heroes in Love
Young All-Stars
Year One Batman:Scarecrow
Year One Batman:Ra's al Ghul
Yeah!
Xer0
Xenobrood

Bonus-The Complete Zero Hour (DCP archive-Zero mini plus the rest of the related issues)

These are all that is scanned except for Young Love #63 but I do I have 99 which isn't listed as scanned in the Phantom's list, so I break even!
Young Love and Young Romance were acquired from Prize Comics and therefore do not start at #1. The prize issues do not represent characters who became DC so I make no extra effort to include them but include what I have, few are scanned at any rate, even of the DC issues. Romance comics are the final frontier of scanning!

What is this about?
You've seen the DC Chronology (massive cheers for everyone from Martyglick (founder) to nharding (current keeper of the flame) for that project, which I downloaded with great joy and contributed to in a small way.
You've seen the Marvel Chronology (sadly aborted) which I downloaded because I'm a completist and confess to liking some of it.:) Kudos to cyager69 for all his work on that, and those who made some supplements. Such a shame that never really got completed.

You've see The Complete Dark Horse (I cross posted parts of that at demonoid but don't me confused with mikpede, I had nothing to do with it other than asking if the mikpede would continue it on h33t when Demonoid was down, and doing the demonoid posts). You've seen The Complete Image (in progress), The Complete Vertigo, etc. This is The Complete DC with additions I feel belong, hence "More Than Complete"

This vs The DC Chronology
(that great and fabulous example of sharing and teamwork, unlike what happened to the Marvel one .. just sayin..)

So you have the DC Chronology - do you need this?
Probably not but I do have some few issues not found in that and many cases of what I believe are better or more complete scans. Also I will be doing some titles they did not, because they are really not DC, but are DC Precursors - Plastic Man, Blackhawk and golden age Captain Marvel are big examples

So you don't have the DC Chronology, which should you go for?
If you want everything published by DC or it's numerous imprints, or if you want any of it in chronological order, or you want just Golden age or Silver age, than the chronology is for you.

BUT If you want
1) complete sets of just certain titles, regardless of when they were published,
2) want the DC Universe without the numerous imprints which are largely unrelated to the DC universe,
3) you want to search for those better scans which I have for some issues, plus a few bonus issue not in the Chron.
4) you are more interested in a set sorted by title than publication date,
5) you realize there is no way the chronology will be all seeded long enough for you to get it all
6) or whatever else you can think of
this series is for you - and I do mean YOU!


Guiding philosophy aka Arbitrary rules:

1) The Phantom Stranger is the bringer of the holy DC list. The Phantom Stranger's list is my Bible.
2) I am not compelled to include the whole Bible, like most people I leave out the parts I don't like or that make me uncomfortable. (The Imprints)
3) I feel free to add to the Bible, this is known historically for the real Bible as the Apocrypha or in modern times whatever ancient document you can dig up and claim is a "lost book" will do for people who have no idea how the Bible was formed and think it was arbitrary. I definitely will do that.
4) I only have so much bandwidth and disk space,
5) I will make up arbitrary rules as I go along.

This translates to the following expanded rules each derived from one above:[
I) The Phantom Stranger's list is what I will use to know if I'm missing scanned issues, and what order to sort in. It does not tell me what to include or not. THEList is rude, crude, and hard to use by comparison and not needed since I'm doing just DC. (no insult intended, it serves a different purpose, and I just love saying "rude, crude and yada yada" ). I will use the title used by the Phantom Stranger list for alphabetizing. If he spells out a number, I will. If he doesn't, I won't etc.

II)
A) I am sharing the TRUE, PURE ABSOLUTE DC, not Vertigo (uggh), !mpact, Wildstorm, etc. (or Lord help us CMX which mostly hasn't been scanned anyway). If it doesn't say DC on the cover it probably won't be here, but if it DOES say DC it will be - unless it is a "mixed" title with two names - like DC/Vertigo but it is truly and clearly Vertigo (or whatever) with DC just tacked on for introductory or sales purposes. I will include crossovers not actually published by DC (even Marvel :-) ) when they are one-shots and minis but I could miss some crossovers not published by DC. These are just a bonus, their absence does not mar the completeness of DC titles. I will not pretend to search out crossovers in the regular series of other publishers or imprints. I'm trying to get out all DC titles. That's the goal - not every place a character appeared.. I am the sole arbitrator of this but you can plead your case, I'm persuadable. I am also not going to go crazy searching for DC peripheral matter like the back of a cereal box with Batman on it someone scanned. There is much of this at the bottom of the Phantom's list. It's the comics I care about. But if I have it, or can easily get it, I will include it. I understand the impulse to have it all, I'm just not going to hold up this project for it. If you have it, please do share it, or send it to me and I will.

B) Contrary to rule A) If a DC Character or title is "perverted" in a Vertigo title, such as was done to the Creeper, House of Secrets, et. al. it WILL appear here as I am much more character than title oriented and title than publisher oriented. Who gives a crap whose name is on the cover anyway? (Unless it's Marvel, with pretend apologies to all you ultimate-616-fantastic-x-spider-hulk lovers out there, and with sincere apologies to fine content creators like a certain correspondent of mine who have penciled/written/inked in DC and Marvel. Mr X, my creator friend - you artists/writers are great, it's not your fault Marvel heroes suck. It's the editors I blame. :P )

C) Self contradictions such as you may see above are par for the course.

III) If a Non-DC Character, such as the original Golden Age Captain Marvel (now know as DC's Shazam for copyright reasons), Blue Beetle, or Plastic Man has been slurped up by the gigantic steamroller-amoeba-blob that is the DC of today I'm planning on including those titles. If DC can retcon the universe so Superman who was never Superboy in 1938 can later have been Superboy, and still later never have been Superboy, If Supergirl can well and truly die in 1985, then be ret-conned into oblivion, yet have a second coming later on, I can "ret-publish" and say that Police Comics, starring Plastic Man, is a DC title. Don't agree? Sue me.

IV) No reseed by me. My collection is constantly evolving so there is a good chance one or more issues may have been replaced by me with a better version ( I will share any choice additions in supplemental torrents). In that case I can't seed, and in any event I need to keep on with the project, no turning back. I beg you all to seed if you believe in this project. But when these torrents die, they die. Get 'em while they're hot.

V)
A) I'm going Z-A, then numbers descending, just to be arbitrarily different or maybe because I think Zatana is hot.

B) There will be no descriptions of individual titles (unless I feel like it) though I may throw in a cover or ten from time to time. Sorry, google. This will be enough work as it is.

C) At my sole discretion very large titles like Detective, etc which have well-seeded and reasonably complete torrents will be skipped but I will post a link to them and include the torrent file in my torrent. I will also post any supplements to said torrents (new issues, new scans, alternate covers, whatever) in their stead. But If for any reason I feel my torrent needs to be out there despite this, I'm gonna do it. Nobody can or should tell me what to share or when.

Naming Conventions
absence of these marks means nothing it may be still be ctc, (i) etc. I mark what I know or was passed that way to me. Corrections welcome.

ctc= cover to cover ()
(i) = incomplete story content. Missing ads or editorial content does not get an (i)
m xxxx issue is missing xxxx. usually page numbers
(NC) no cover
(BW) black and white.
(fiche) was scanned form microfiche. some of these are very clear, some are very poor to almost unreadable.
(R) a scan of a reprint of the issue or single story if a partial issue.
(remix) a reconstructed issue from various reprints of stories, not a reprint of whole issue.
xx corrupt. A page (xx) is corrupt in the cbr or cbz but partially readable and I could not get a better copy. Hopefully there won't be any, but there are known bad comics out there that haven't been fixed.
damaged or torn - part of original page was missing or damaged at scan time.
(missing).jpg or (missing.placeholder) a cover image or marker file for comics not scanned.
(I'm missing) comic is scanned but I couldn't find it. I can't stop the series for a couple missing issues, but will keep looking.

Volume numbers are what the Stranger says they are even if I do not agree. Do NOT GET ME STARTED on volume numbers. :-)

Things I beg and plead for you to tell me about:
1) Incorrect or damaged or incomplete comics. I will post corrections w/o fail if I can obtain them, and notices in all cases, All comics have been subjected to an integrity check, but I don't have time to check them all for page order, missing pages, or even that every one is what it says it is. I found numerous corrupt comics in the DC Chronology and reported them, but I got tired of reporting ones to one poster who wouldn't post fixes or learn to check future torrents (kept posting corrupt issues in the same title, torrent after torrent) . Perhaps there was a language barrier. He still did a great work and I thank him, but I hope to maintain higher standards

2) Tell me that you have and will give me, or a public source has, an issue I'm missing or a better copy. I will get the daily hitllist from the hubs so you need not report that unless I post a supplement that misses one. I am on komics-live but that's hard to keep up with so if you see something there I may well not have done so.

Things I do NOT want to hear from you:
1) Requests to do this in a different order. See rule I and V.

2) Statements about the demonoid "no dupe" rule. This series is not just on demonoid, is a different and never before done project so far as I know, and you really shouldn't bug me with stupid complaints. If you really think I'm destroying demonoid by putting up a torrent that has the the exact same scans (very unlikely) as another torrent, complain to the mods. They live for that sort of thing. If they agree with you and take down my torrent or "warn" me I may take my football and go home, so be sure you really wanna do that.

3) Reseed requests. I can't., I'm sorry. See rule 4 and IV.

4) Complaints about the speed of my postings. I may do this too fast for you at times or too slow, I may have have long gaps (life interferes) but I pledge to finish.

5) Complaints about the quality of the scans. I post what I have. Some of the fiche are unreadable or not worth having in some people's opinions. Others treasure them. Not all fiche are marked, Feel free to point this out in comments as some may wish to know. Please supply better scans if you have them! But no whining.

6) Other stupid criticisms of the way I choose to do this, see rules 5 and V. By definitions pretty much any criticism will be defined as stupid because this project is a go. we have lift off. It's too late to abort, and most of all, I DONT CARE!

[size=5][color=red]Oh btw - get a bigger hard drive now. [/color][/size]This will be hundreds of gigabytes. My DC folder contains 522GB. That does contain many dups I won't be including as I finally am forced to sort through them for this project but still, this will be huge. For comparison my "imprints" folder (not counting MAD) total a mere 55GB (with a much higher percentage of dups to be eliminated in those folders. I'm told the DC Chronology is about 420gb. Subtract the Imprints but add stuff in, this is likely about the same.


Enjoy people, enjoy!
This is my legacy. This is my gift to you. This is what joshua13 was born to do. :-)

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You can see my other torrents Demonoid HERE or h33t here. The lists should be (but aren't) the same.

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