RBCC (Rocket’s Blast & Comicollector) Now Searchable

The kwakk.info comics re/search web site has, I think, most of the major magazines about comics now. One of the remaining “bigger” classic comics fanzines I had been totally unable to find any scans of was RBCC, Rocket’s Blast & Comicollector. It ran from 1964 to 1983, and had more than 150 issues.

But then yesterday, I ran across Anna’s Archive. And it’s one of those “gather everything for research” kinda-sorta pirate sites…

And it has an almost complete #50-#150 run of the fanzine!

I signed up for an account, and after paying $30 (via an Amazon Gift Card; seems legit), I downloaded the entire run. And after massaging the data for a couple hours, it’s now OCR’d and indexed, and you can search it here.

I also searched for “comics fanzine” on the site, and whaddayou know — it had other fun things, too.

So you can search through some issues of Comics World, Near Mint and Fantastic Fanzine.

I’m looking through Anna’s database for other stuff to add, but the interface isn’t really conducive to browsing — you really have to know what to look for. If I find anything of interest, I guess I’ll be adding them over the next few days, but if you have a suggestion for a missing magazine about comics (or a fanzine about comics) that Anna might have, please drop me a note, and I’ll see what I can do…

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