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more pictures from my archive... Fawcett comic printing at CT Dearing, 1950 Louisville, Ky.... From the AP archives the covers in the photo... I love these photos, I worked for two summers on 4-Color Heidelberg presses while in college, and while we mainly did magazines, a number of comics came through (Graphic Novels). So I've always related to this photo on a personal level.

I've found a few of the other images I have collected over the years... This is the earliest image I've found to date.... This must be Feb/Mar '39, so just about 8 months after Action 1 was released, and about 3 months before 'Tec 27. The image is small and grainy, but the comics are easy to make out on the left side of the photo from top to bottom, I can make out the following books... Action Comics #9, Feb '39 Adventure Comics #35, Feb '39 Detective Comics #24, Feb '39 Funny Picture Stories vol 3, #2 Mar '39

I have more photos somewhere on a storage drive, I'll see what I can dig up...

And finally, I think a version of this was posted previous in a different thread, but this is certainly a neat photo, and I also have posted the reverse of the photo with the wire service notes. Not a newsstand photo, but it does show a lot of great GA books. This is of the Bill Placzek collection, circa 1965...

Here are several vintage non-newsstand photos, but still showing some neat old books featuring Crimes Must Lose (Atlas) #4, 1950 , can't make out the second book featuring Flash Comics #102, 1948 featuring what I think is a copy of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #83, 1947

comics running along the top of the photo, based on the lead story on the newspaper ("Dionnes fight to bar autopsy of Emilie") this is from late '54

Early back issue dealer? Books are all over, date-wise ('46, '47, etc..)

nice copy, white pages!... I just had a copy of that come back from CGC, but somehow I never noticed it was missing a non-story page... 9.0 Q (GLOD)..

here's what Fedex brought out here to SF (the first two arrived a few weeks back, the rest arrived yesterday)... Scanner is dead, so these are the best I could do with Camera... Overall, not bad, Avengers 71 case delivered with large crack , so that is heading back for reholder. Batman 227 came back Cream to OW, but its pages were much better than the Sub Mariner which came back OW, so I think that is going back as resub, crossing fingers for PQ bump. And SubMariner 8 looks great but really got dinged for browning to inside covers. Otherwise, good submission. The late silver/early bronze books all came from same OO collection, now to send on runs of FF, ASM, Avengers from this collection, hoping for similar results!

tbh, I dont know. The auction was in Florida, I am in San Francisco, I placed an absentee bid allowing the auctioneer to place bids on my behalf up to my max. As is typical with absentee bidding, I an email following the auction indicating the bidding on this lot exceed my max amount, so I wasn't the winning bidder. Thats all, no other details... I can follow up with the auction house if you want. I do wonder if anyone on the boards did win this lot, if so maybe the can chime in, I'm curious about the books conditions. Those that are fully visible in the photos look to be fairly nice for early Silver DCs.

does it count if I found it but didnt end up winning it? I love auction houses (not online, but old school, in-person auctions), I've been attending them since I was tiny, its just something us folks from the rural midwest do. Recently, I found an auction house listing the following books in one of their auctions... A more detailed photo of the middle stack in top row looked like this... With some squinting, you can make out the following books in that stack.. * Brave and the Bold #30 - obvious * Brave and the Bold #29 - just under #30, the purple cover sticking out of the top of the stack, the "May" release month is clearly seen * Brave and the Bold #28 - very tough, but this book sits under #29, and shows up at the bottom of the image sticking out from under the top books (look directly below Amazo's hand on the cover of #30). Look carefully and on the cover you can make out the shadow under Starro's arm, the squiggly shadow under J'onn J'onzz leg and the also the bottom of J'onn's foot. * JLA #7 - under #28, you can see the yellow cover at the bottom of the image, and can barely make out the words "Cosmic Fun-House". I put down a bid for that middle stack of books, but unfortunately the auction house sold all the books as one lot and my bid was not enough. Oh well, that's the way things go... But technically I did "find" these, so I figured I could post these here...