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outofcontextcomics·Out of Context ComicsbyFlying Squid

Resources to Look for Good Content

As requested, here are some places to look. Golden age comics are the best for this sort of silly stuff and many are public domain, so there are multiple places to look for them. Be warned, it is overwhelming. They churned out comics back then like they were gum wrappers.

https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/

https://comicbookplus.com/

https://www.pulpmagazines.org/old-comics/

https://www.comicweb.com/golden-age-comics.html

Feel like wading through the mess of the Internet Archive if you like: https://archive.org/details/comics

If you wish to brave the evil that is Reddit, there is: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldenAgeComics/

If anyone has other resources, feel free to add them. Please no pirate sites, there's a lot of "read today's comics online for free" sites which would violate lemmy.world ToS.

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outofcontextcomics·Out of Context ComicsbyRegularJoe

You wanna be a high-caliber detective? Low on leads?

Pictured is the head of a wide-eyed blond man with his tongue out. The panel starts with "HERBIE WILCOX." A middle panel states "HE'S THE LOCAL IDIOT. A TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD WHO LEFT HIS BRAIN IN KINDERGARTEN." A speech bubble indicates that Herbie says, "HIYA, DICK!!" HOWYA DOIN'? HUH? HOWYA DOIN'?" Another Speech bubble says, "CATCH ANY BAD GUYS? YOU'RE MY FAVORITE YOU KNOW. YESSIREE BOBBY. My FAVORITE!!" A narration at the bottom of the panel says "YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE THIS, BUT IF YOU WANT TO BE A HIGH CALIBER DETECTIVE AND YOU'RE RUNNING LOW ON LEADS... YOU GO SEE HERBIE."

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outofcontextcomics·Out of Context ComicsbyRegularJoe

I can feel Gale's pain.

A panel from Planet comics. The scene is titled "GALE CAN STAND NO MORE...". The character is depicted wearing a futuristic crown inside a clear helmet. The panel features a speech bubble with the text "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!"

Info not related to the panel:

Planet Comics # 12 | Published May 1941. With this issue, brunette Gale Allen got a dye job and spent the rest of her career as a blonde.

Gale Allen and her Girl Squadron! were from Planet Comics, from the publisher Fiction House. As a Venusian princess, she grew up to become the captain of the Universal Space Patrol. A skilled space pilot sporting a ray gun at her hip, Gale leads her Girl Squadron in the fight for galactic justice around the year 1990 (when her adventures first begin).

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