Sunday, April 22, 2012

Fractured Fairy Tales October 1962

Fractured Fairy Tales (the cartoon), for those that may not know, appeared as a feature on the great Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (Jay Ward, creator - 1959-1964). The following stories, adapted from the wonderful cartoons, appeared in Fractured Fairy Tales No. 1 (of 1). Al Kilgore, who normally drew all the Bullwinkle and Rocky titles for Dell and Gold Key, only did the cover here and the story scripts. The artwork is actually Mel Crawford (Grand Comic Book Database).

Karswell: Absolutely no question. The voice actors for FFT and the Rocky and Bullwinkle show absolutely put this show over the top. In reading this comic, I kept hearing the cartoon voices: Paul Frees, Julie Bennet, etc. I think I will post thethe document feeder and turned over, by a flipping unit mounted on the feeder, before the original is again set on the table for scanning image information on the other side of the original by the optical unit.
A problem with scanning original documents having images on both sides, hereinafter referred to as duplex scanning, with the above apparatus, is that such scanning is time consuming. It is time consuming because it requires one side of the original to be scanned and then flipped over before the other side can be scanned.
Further, the flipping unit used in the above apparatus is a complicated structure and jamming, of the original, in the flipping unit may occur as the original is flipped over.
Another apparatus used for duplex scanning of originals is