Hey hey, I found a set of releases missing from LGC - The Flash 102-108,113-115 (1995-1996) (Digital -) (TheHand-Empire). They were released on the hitlists though, week of 2013.10.23 Part 3. I'm still trying to figure out what the "master source" for LGC is, as I originally thought they used hitlists/direct source/bolt etc. for there uploads but it looks like that isn't the case. Any info or guesses? Just curious on this one...

Nevermind that last comment - I was wrong, they are on there. Hmm, so to date I've only found one file that was missing from LGC for some odd reason - what has been your experience in your various sourcing/data mining?

interesting, don't think i've read this. thanks gesserit!

I've not actually tried it, but from what I understand LGC is "open upload" as well as "open download".

So if you wanted to make the effort, you should be able to add the issues you just listed to some kind of FTP inbox, which should then be indexed by the search in the very near future and sorted into the directory structure in the distant future.

So in that sense, LGC has no more a master source than TPB or Wikipedia do. In reality, it looks to me more like the bulk of the additions are nevertheless made by one (or a few) contributor(s) with privileged access. Whence those in turn get the files will have to remain a mystery.

I've seen mainly two types of incompleteness with LGC. One is the equivalent of a missing Hitlist - all, or almost all, of the releases within a given date range are absent. This is rare, and if the previous paragraph is on target, the obvious explanation is that the principal uploader wasn't, or none of the principal uploaders were, uploading just then. The other are missing alternate versions for a given issue (DCP is there, MM is not, or vice versa), and is almost certainly the result of deliberate discarding which happened as part of a manual clean-up pass some time between upload and the present.

That's about one third informed understanding and two thirds guesswork. Try navigating to the global project homepage (Others -> LG from the comics search page menu bar) and poke around from there, plus there should be a link to the project forum somewhere there as well (*not* the same as the more prominently linked "Comics Forum"), which has both FAQ threads and actual behind-the-scenes people you could try and wheedle information out of. :)

^^ Yeah, I wasn't familiar with it either. I actually found it a bit off-putting at first glance - a bit too grim in terms of both artwork and subject matter for my taste - but since it's Image, I'll probably give it a real chance even so; and of course YMMV.

Thanks for the info - I knew you could upload, I'm just more interested in who is actually uploading and from where. But the analogy to wikipedia makes a lot of sense.

I do plan on contacting them directly now, as you suggest, so as to solve the mystery for my own edification if nothing else. I'll probably try adding that missing X-Men issue as well and see how it goes.

On topic, this does look really interesting, so I'm excited to give it a read. Thanks again my friend.

Excellent; I was too lazy to investigate further once I got what I was specifically after (the metadata listing). Do report back if you find out anything beyond, or deviating from, my ramblings upthread! :)

On topic - my pleasure!