FREE Golden Age Comics

Here's a new website devoted to posting complete .cbr/.cbz files of Golden Age comics from the '30's through the '50's.

And it's FREE!

http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/

Due to bandwidth issues, the administrators prefer that users only download a certain amount per day, but if you donate (as all RIGHT THINKING persons of means should) you'll get unlimited downloading...

For those of you not familiar with the open source format of .cbr/.cbz, here's a quick tutorial:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cbr

For me, the Golden Age of comics is the most interesting and creative period in comics history. There is a rough, youthful enthusiasm to the art that is miles away from the mannered, diagrammatic art of the Silver Age. (As for mainstream American comics after 1975, the less said about them the better, IMHO...)

IN the beginning, artists like Lou Fine, Will Eisner, and Jack Kirby poured love into each panel they drew. Thinking less of the few dollars per page they were paid and more about the sheer joy of putting their dreams on paper.

Alas, the realities of economic pressures, anti-comics crusader Frederic Wertham & the Comics Code eventually destroyed the glorius wildcat years of comics in the mid-50's and American pop culture has never been the same.