Have I Mentioned My YouTube Channel?

That's right!

As part of my new project at PublicDomainSuperHeroes.com, I went ahead and created a YouTube channel to bring some of the super heroes and adventurers I will be writing stories about to you in the form many people were first exposed to them.

Back before streaming, there was cable. Before cable there was free to air television. Before ANY of that, there were movies. In the early days of movies, theatres used to draw their patrons in by offering more than just whatever feature film was being show. From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, it was fairly normal to expect that along with the price of admission to the movie you wanted to see, you'd get newsreel footage (no tv news, remember?), a cartoon and maybe an episode of a serialized movie.

Coming from a serialized medium like comic books or pulp magazines, super heroes and adventurers were prime fodder for these serialized adventures. Republic and Columbia made dozens of serials and thank to the rules of copyright, even though the characters may or may not still be protected by copyright, these serialized versions are usually not.

I have plans to upload every single super hero or adventurer based serial I can get my hands on and I'm already well into that part of the project.

Thanks to how YouTube's algorithms work, I can't just upload everything at once. They limit uploads to a certain number a day. More than that, to keep the channel active, I can't just upload and leave it static. To satisfy their arcane rules, I'm splitting the difference. I upload a serial a week. In most cases, I set it up so the first episode goes live right away and then every week or two, the next episode gets added.

If you are a serial fan like me, there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with that. These things were released exactly that way and were meant to be consumed once a week or so. They are the direct ancestors of today's network television.

But I realize that we live in a binge conditioned society, so I've made concessions to that as well. Every few serials, rather than trickling the feed, I will give you the whole thing in one shot. 12 or 15 episodes, ready to binge.

As part of my efforts to turn PublicDomainSuperHeroes.com into something that will pay a few bills around here, I'll be updating this blog every once in a while to let you know what I've added recently.

Below are links to what's already live. Each thumbnail will link you to the playlist:

First up, the serials that are being set to live every couple of weeks. Feel free to click and then bookmark the playlist to check back for the next episodes:

 

 

 

 

And here are the serials I have uploaded in their entirety. Watch them from start to finish or bookmark the playlist and spread the experience out over a few days or weeks, your choice.

 

I hope you enjoy these little time capsules. My project is taking these heroes and adventurers and placing them in my newly created, integrated universe, but here you'll see them as many fans first saw them back when the only colour you'd see was in comics or your own imagination. Some of these are terrific, some less so, but the heroes they feature are ALL wonderful characters that I'm truly enjoying bringing to life in my new books.

I hope you'll like and subscribe to the videos and my channel. I know that EVERY YouTuber asks you to do that, but it turns out, they're not just saying it to inflate their numbers and their payout. YouTube takes all that 'like/subsrcribe/watch/rewatch' data, puts it in their algorithm and THAT is how you get all those videos down the right side that relate to or complement whatever you're watching.

Like and subscribe actually helps get these videos out there to more people. So if you enjoy them, that little click actually helps someone else enjoy them too!

Please support the project by visiting PublicDomainSuperHeroes.com as well. I have a page set up there for watching all these serials, totally off YouTube, should you prefer a little privacy from their 'suggestions.'

If you enjoy my blog, I'd be grateful if you would buy a book, either a PDF direct from the site or from my Amazon pages. I've done everything I can to keep the prices low for you. The PDFs are only $3.99 at the site and you get a full novella for that low price.

My shiny new author page at Amazon will give you access to all my books and you can choose from Kindle or Paperback copies of anything I've published. https://amazon.com/author/james.richardson

There is also a free to read story on the site, updated every month. That will never change, so if you're not sure if you'd enjoy a longer book, feel free to taste test my writing there that way! 

MOST importantly, your comments and reviews are the BEST way you can help keep my venture alive. Both YouTube and Amazon are DIRECTLY influenced by reviews and comments. Their algorithms place my books and videos in a sliding scale with everything else in their database. Every time you comment, every time you add an honest review, that influences the algorithm and moves my stuff up or down in the pecking order.

I absolutely NEED you, my readers and blog visitors to engage with those sites if I am to make a success out of this project. I don't need you to write an essay, just a sentence or two to say you enjoyed something I wrote or posted is worth more to me than the tiny profit I make on a book or piece of merchandise.

You, dear reader, can keep the site, and my dream, alive. 

Please and thank you.