thanks for those awesome & classic scans of strange tales and the entire original run of x-men! wow, just wow!

Oh my stars and garters...

Thank you very much for all your hard work shipjolly, this week's selection is fantastic. I have a quick question for you. The last list of everything scanned you posted was around a month ago, but unless I read it correctly it was only up to date thru July 2013? Is there a more complete list or a more advanced one listing all the scanners? Also, does the list include everything in the 0-day and hitlist packs that is only digital, or also include analog scans? Thanks for all your help, it is very much appreciated.

^ (Informed guesswork:) The latest version of the WSML is up to September, and you can find it on LGC. It is meant to list everything that has been "officially" pirated, no matter the source or format or specs or whatever.

There does not appear to be a full release directory as such, or else it's not meant for public consumption. If there were, it would have to be a database rather than a simple document to be much use, as we'd be talking about millions of entries and at least a significant fraction of a gigabyte of data, all told.

If you have a specific data-mining project in mind, I may be able to give you some less unhelpful advice, though, as your questions are touching on a lot of points I needed to figure out and work around to lay the groundwork for the Digital Hitlist project.

Thanks for the answer. I don't have anything too specific in mind, but assembling certain packages has gotten problematic due to lapsed seeding and in some cases I'm not sure what has been scanned so I wanted to get a more complete list. For example, right now I'm trying to get the full run of Green Lantern Corps v2 in digital. I know the first 43 issues are available but the remaining 20 I'm not sure about. Also, trying to find them all through various sources has been near impossible, due the original hitlists in which they appeared not seeding!

I've been rather good about finding sources on my own and picking up info from your dialogues (both of you, STF and gesserit, have given me a lot of leads just by comments on other torrents). However now I am resorting to usenet downloading which is SLOW without a pay account. As most of what I want I can find without that, I am loathe to shell out for it just for like 20-25 issues of GLC. Is there a better way or should I just be patient and wait the day it will take to DL?

My other sources that I use frequently are m3k, bolt.cd, LGC, other torrent sites, Pitt Comics, filelocker searches, archive.foolz.us/co, and bookgn. Anything else to use or am I just too damn impatient, lol?

i can only speak for my half-retarded attempts to compile series in HQ (as you are both way better at that stuff), but other than what you listed once in awhile i'll find the odd scan on http://www.generalfiles.pw/ which was formerly at another URL

this rockz bigtime!

Sweet, thanks for the link STF. I can't believe that some of the stuff I want to do hasn't been done by someone already - like there is not a single torrent that collects all of Green Lantern Corps (nor was there one for v4 - even the NMCDC was incomplete, ironically). The strangest thing is that there is an M3K post with the whole damn series!

Sometimes I just get lucky too though - like last night with Shadowman, I found the whole thing on h33t + the digital files were easy to download or track down. You never know - though if someone told me getting complete Shadowman was going to be easier than complete Green Lantern, I never would have believed it lol.

Well, digital re-releases are a relatively small subset of the totality of scans, for now, so listing those more or less exhaustively isn't too much of a problem, and is the principal point of the Hitlists masterlist I'm maintaining (cf http://piratebayproxy.live/search/hitlists/0/3/600 - you already know about that one, surely?)

If it's not listed there, it means one of three things:

- It was re-released during the "digital gap" covered by the Digital Hitlists. Unlikely, as the total volume of digital releases produced during that period was tiny, compared with current rates. The next revision of the list will obviate this point, anyway.

- It was re-released between the cutoff point of the latest revision of the list and the present. Possible. If you keep track of recent Hitlists, that's easy enough to rule out.

- It was re-released, but either shipjolly or I missed it. Very uncommon but not completely impossible.

- By far the most likely, it wasn't re-released yet (so I'm bad at counting, alright? :P)

My own search procedure is pretty basic, really: One, check my masterlist; two, search LGC and filelockers; three, download from either of those if possible, else go directly to google if that yielded a release tag but no download, else give up if it's not even yielded that, unless I'm really really desperate to track something down in which case I may go to greater lengths.

Okay cool - that covers my question pretty thoroughly, thanks - and yes, I check against your masterlist as well. Also my process is the same as yours, so I don't feel bad now for how long the Green Lantern torrents took, lol!

Thanks. I know how much work this is and it's very appreciated.

VikTSlick - the list is continually being updated but the guy is a few months behind at the moment.
I will add a new version when he has one.

VikTSlick, thanks for all your work. gesserit, you too. sincere thanks to all the uploaders!

you have much great patience to compile complete series as you are doing! kudos

Please seed. Thank you.