Registration is free, and-for now-there’s no limit on the number of titles you can download. The DCM asks users to register and log in before downloading comic files. What subjects did “Eh” cover that Mad might have avoided? The museum holds some unexpected and forgotten titles, like the Mad Magazine knock-off “ Eh.” Here you can see how looking at a comic that wasn’t successful enough to have a lasting legacy (and, therefore, a renewed copyright) can be enlightening in and of itself. (“See how the war of 1972 will be fought! The war that YOU, yourself, might have to take part in…”) Many, like these “Atomic Attack” books from the early 1950s, have a distinctive Cold War flavor, with science-fictional imaginings of futuristic combat. Interested in understanding how homefront American culture reflected fighting in World War II and Korea, and the anxieties of the Cold War? The archive is full of titles like “ Fighting Yank” (or “Wartime”) that trade on true stories of past combat and present-day engagements.
The covers of the romance comics are great examples of popular art. On the other hand, because of this restriction, the archive offers an interesting window into the themes of lesser-known comics in the Golden Age-romance, Westerns, combat, crime, supernatural and horror.
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