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One over, that is. It’s another extremely important and major milestone for Mrs. Kwakk Wakk’s Comics Research Site: The number of digits in the page count has increased! One more digit! Whoho! Look at how puny the number was just a day ago: Yeah, yeah. What finally pushed the count over the limit was that I’ve continued to top up the “text pages from comics” category. (It has non-comics pages from comic books — i.e., letters pages, editorials, “hype pages” and the like.) I think we’re now up to 50K issues? But the vast, vast majority of the comics are super-hero comics, so there’s not that many letters pages featuring “T. M. Maple”, for instance. So, it’s a very skewed collection. At least so far — I guess I’ll continue to run the scripts, and perhaps some indie comics collections will show up eventually. I wouldn’t hold my breath, though. (To put this into context — the “queue” is 3K items long, and we’re up to… item 283 now. *gulp* That’s 3TBs worth of comics so far, so if the queue…

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