The element in the <h1> tag I want to keep is the link to the comic strip:
That is why I only removed the <span> and not the entire <h1>. Is my thinking correct on this issue?
As far as GoComics is concerned, it is now fairly stable and getting better by the day. I am now able to down load all my comics from both the former Comics.com and Gocomics just from the Gocomics recipe with the new feed list. There are still some problems with editorial comics not downloading. I do not know if they have been removed or simply not put online yet. As to the general comics, all 25 of the ones I follow are coming through without a hitch.
As to the size of the image, I have never been able to get the recipe "comic_size=" to work. This may be because I am converting to .mobi. It did not work for me even before the merger. I adjust the size via CSS using pixels instead of percentages. One other manner of messing around with the image size is to get the "zoom" image from Gocomics. Since my present method of dealing with the image size is working, I have not messed around with the coding to obtain the zoomed image.
I use a different recipe from the one you have written, Since I have a Kindle 3 with a screen of only 600X800, it is important to ME that I maximize the space for the image and remove as much extraneous data as possible. Therefore, I strip the "Banner"; comic strip "Alink" and the "Author's Name". This leaves me with only the jpeg image and nothing more.
Thanks for your input and continuing help.