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    1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    That Titter magazine was tricky to fit in the pic. LOL! There have been a few times where the magazine in the photo was curved or bent, and since I am trying to mimic the original photo with our color findings, I have to warp the image quite a bit at times. It's not always perfect, but it's fairly representative of how it appears in the display.

    A lot of these new additions reach pretty far back, nearly all the way to the edge of the left side of the Readmore photo. It's pretty crazy that you guys are spotting titles that far back in the photo, and very cool! :applause:

    1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    About that issue of Enjoy Yourself... It's so funny, but the lower positioned copy I did not realize was the same publication and had been racking my brain to try and figure out what the title read. Now that you point it out, Scrooge, I am like "Of course!!" Not only that, but it does seem to confirm the issue with Jimmy Durante is the correct one. I knew it wasn't the 1944 issue, but I don't know if there were any other 1945 issues. Seeing that other copy with more of its cover exposed looks like it fits the bill.

    1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

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    8 hours ago, Scrooge said:

    Looking great.

    I did not mention it before b/c I thought you had it but right next to Captain Marvel at bottom right is this from Fawcett. I thought for sure you had it since you have the Billy the Kid one. Here it is -

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    Thanks!! No, I did not have that one already. In fact, I was going crazy trying to find that back last year. LOL! I knew what it was, but at the time could not locate a photo online. Great job!

    1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    1 hour ago, David Buck said:

    I thought the left hand edge of the picture was a horse in the pixelated version!

    Here;s another one courtesy of MCS and they had the only image online so it is watermarked - the overlapping stack to the left of Breezy Tales is Complete Love - July 1945

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    David,

    A watermark like this is fine, and won't even show when the image is shrunken and distorted to fill the space. I remember trying to find this one and several of the other romance and western pulps a year ago, and came up short. Again, thanks to you guys for the awesome assistance!

    I am adding the images as they pop up today. :-)

     

    1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted · Edited by MattHawes

    Thanks, David!

    I went back and looked at the photo in Photoshop to add it, and I couldn't find "Eyefull" for a minute. That's because I did add it earlier, so I was looking for the cover to be in color, but I must have accidentally deleted the layer before saving! Grrr! Thanks to your addition, I was made aware of my error. When I post another update, after hopefully adding more images, it will be there.

    1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    Great finds, guys! Here's the updated photo with the new added additions you all have located so far.

    Here is a link to the LARGE VERSION on Flickr.

    I did not include the "Enjoy Yourself" #1 (1944). It is definitely the right series, but does not appear to be the correct issue. There are slight variations. When matching color to black and white photography, some colors appear pretty dark (like red), but black is still black unless a light is reflected off the surface. There is a part of the cover that is black in the 1944 issue, but appears a lighter color in the Readmore photo. But the thing that convinced me it wasn't the same issue is what appears to be the price and issue number in the Readmore pic is in light, possibly white text, while it is black in the 1944 issue posted here. I saved the photo of the 1944 issue, but I am holding off adding it to the Readmore pic until I can further confirm things. Regardless, I thank Scrooge for locating that picture in any event as it helps us figure out some more details.

    It's really cool that you guys are also helping knock out some of the titles that are partially hidden or more distant in the photo. I was driving myself crazy a year or more ago trying to figure out those comics titles in the back on each shelf, where only a tiny sliver of a cover appears. Thanks to some online sites, like Mike's Amazing World, I was able to make out just enough to ID some of those comics. I wish a similar site for periodicals in general existed. If you guys are using or know of any particular sites to help locate and identify comics and magazines, please share the links.

    The past week I have been working on another project, as well, but I want to see what titles I can locate, too. I stalled out a year ago, but hopefully some of the missing titles have turned up on eBay or some site since then.

     

     

    1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    42 minutes ago, Scrooge said:

    FWIW, the Wink is identified (it is in the folder with individual color covers) but it is not yet in the main photo yet. I IDed it yesterday only to find that you already had it. Not sure if others are IDed and not in the main colorized photo.

    D'Oh! I must have overlooked adding it back when I got the pic. Thanks for alerting me about it! Thank you, as well, for the "Enjoy Yourself" image!

    1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    2 hours ago, David Buck said:

    New Detective Magazine - September 1945 - below the Railroad pulp

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    Thanks, David. This one I already have, but the "Real Detective" and "Popular Songs of Latin America" are new to me!

     

    Here is the picture of what I already have (the color titles on the scan), not counting what you guys have found:

     

    The Readmore book display with titles found in color.

     

    I will add what you guys found here once I have seen how many more pop up in the next few days, so I can add a batch at once.

     

    Thanks again to everyone who has helped, or will be helping with this endeavor.

     

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    1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted · Edited by MattHawes

    A few years ago I found this thread and saw all the awesome vintage photos of comic book newsstands, displays, and readers and fans. Thanks to everyone who has shared the great many photos already.

    Recently, I started "Googling" old vintage photos and such and rediscovered the thread. I happened to notice a very familiar photo, as it is one I shared myself elsewhere, that originated from my city. You see, I participate in a Facebook group made up of local comic book fans in my area, and one of my fellow group members, and a friend I've known for decades, shared the 1945 scan of the photograph of the Evansville, Indiana's Readmore book store's comics and magazine display. This photo comes courtesy of Kevin Loge, whose family owned the bookstore during that period. I shared the photo over on the John Byrne website, Byrnerobotics around three years ago. Here is a link to that thread:

     

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    My pal on Facebook had shared a high res photo, which I uploaded to my Flickr albums, since the Byrne board has size restrictions that would make it difficult to discern most of the books on display in the photo. Several of the site's members and I took on the challenge of trying to identify what books were visible, and I started to add color versions of the covers which I used Photoshop to manipulate the images to fill the spots where that title was placed in the photo. You can see all the comics, pulps, and other magazines we were able to identify. We even got some pegged on the very slimmest of visual clues. It's kind of like trying to figure out a puzzle in some instances. Things stalled when it became too difficult for those of us on the site to discern what title was what in the remaining unidentified comics, etc.

    It must be serendipity of a sort that when I checked back in this thread, someone here had posted about the Readmore photo! I say that because before I was even aware of that, I was thinking of creating a thread here about that photo to see if any of you could help complete the "puzzle." How cool that it was already being discussed. So... if any of you are game, I would appreciate it if you could help finish this task with me, as much as we can complete it.

     

    If you're game, try and see if you can figure out any unidentified comic, pulp, magazine, or any periodical pictured in the photo. If you don't mind, after doing that, could you post a color scan of the cover(s) in question? I will then take the scan and add it to the photo to "colorize" it, so to speak, as I have done with what has been found so far.

    To help, here is a link to the last update of the "colorized" photo, at the full resolution I have available:

    Readmore Book Store Display with color scans added.

    Below is that same photo:

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    As you can see, me and the other guys on the Byrne boards were even able to get some of the mostly hidden from view books.

    I don't know if it's possible to find out every single publication pictured, but it would be cool to get at least all the comics and pulps finished.

    The titles appear to have cover dates between June and August, 1945, though it's possible some may be earlier, or up to the very beginning of September. When searching, you don't need to look any further than September cover dates for 1945.

    Here is an album that has the scans of the covers that have already been identified:

    Cover scans for identified titles!

    Edited to note: The album linked above includes a cover to the 1948 and 1949 "Astrology Forecast" magazines. Of course, neither of these would be the publication pictured in the actual photo. That would be for the year 1945. I had included those pics in my save scans since the cover design appears to be very much the same except for the year (and possibly 1945's edition is colored differently). I was not able to locate 1945's edition when I last searched. Anyway, I thought I'd point that out for anyone who looked at the album and saw that and wondered why it was included.

    Thanks to anyone who feels like playing along!

     

    X-MEN Children of The Atom Individual Volumes

    in Comics Market - Sales Advertising (Ebay, Dealers, etc)

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    I listed 8 out of the 9 volumes individually from the X-MEN: Children of The Atom Slipcase Boxed Set, as well as the Alex Ross poster that was included in the set.
     
    Why 8 out of 9, and individually? Well, I actually bought a set for myself some time back, and it was missing the first volume, but had an extra of the fourth volume, instead. I have since received a replacement set, so I don't need the duplicate volumes.
     
    The boxed set is already out of print, and going for some high prices online. I based my price for the individual volumes by dividing the original retail price by the number of books included. All of these volumes listed are still in the original shrink wrap.
     
    I figure somebody out there either got a set like I did originally, missing a volume, or maybe a damaged set, or maybe someone is only interested in a particular era that a volume covers, like the Neal Adams run, or the John Byrne issues, or "The Lost Years," which were collected in one of the volumes. Anyway, you can check out the listings at my eBay page:
     

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    Cool and Quirky Comics Items on eBay

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    I've been listing a number of cool comic books and some pretty nifty and quirky comic book related items, and I will be listing even more soon! There are Silver-Age "March of Comics" mini-comics and other promotional mini-comics: video game supplemental mini-comics, comic book ashcans; comic book role-playing game supplements, old comic book product catalogs (many with Joe Kubert school art), retailer only promotional videos for DC Comics from 1996, Spawn promo video from 1997, and all sorts of great comic books from the Golden-Age to present!

     

     

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    1st Morbius, Gambit, Carnage, Eternals, and MORE!

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    I put up some new listings as "Buy It Now" items to my eBay shop. These new listings include: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1st series) #51, 53, 92 (Ice Man), 101 (1st Morbius), 361 (1st Carnage); BABYTEETH 1 (Frankie's Comics Mike Rooth Lenticular Variant cover); THE ETERNALS (1976) #1; FALLEN SON: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA #3 sketch cover variant: Hawkeye by David Finch; THE INCREDIBLE HULK #234 (1st use of QUASAR name); THE INHUMANS (1975) #1; MARVEL SUPER-HEROES SECRET WARS #8 (Origin of Spider-Man's black costume); THE SUB-MARINER (1968) #1, 5 (1st Tiger Shark), 14 (Death of Toro), THE UNCANNY X-MEN (1st series) #256 (1st new Psylocke), #266 (1st full appearance of Gambit)!

    Check them all out at the COMICS UNLIMITED eBay Store (Click Here)!

     

     

     

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    INCREDIBLE HULK #234 1st QUASAR 10 copy lot!

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    Posted · Edited by MattHawes
    Misspelling in title.

     
    With QUASAR reportedly going to appear in the upcoming third installment of the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY movies from Marvel Studios, this issue has become a HOT commodity, sometimes fetching as much as $100 on eBay. I am selling a lot of ten copies of the comic in varying condition. All are raw, unrestored, and not pressed. Most are pretty sharp, and even the lesser copies look nice overall. Some copies have edge wear, or light foxing, soiling, of light creases. A couple have small nicks. The grades range from VG to VF. All will come with a bag and board.
     
     

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