1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST 18 18

[comicdonna]

[BOOT]

Found this photo on this cool blog post. Wonder what's in the stack behind her?

[jpepx78]

Cool photo BOOT! As a kid, I used to store my books stacked like that in a corner.

 

This is a little early for Thanksgiving but I hope this post will be a calming respite from all the contentious debates.

I think I will start a tradition by having an annual Thanksgiving comic puzzle as long as I keep finding some interesting comic-related pictures and work is light around this time.

 

Identify these people from the comics industry:

 

1.

 

2.

 

3.

 

4.

 

5.

 

Identify these celebrities:

6.

 

7. Let this be a warning to those of you who smoke too close to your comics!

This guy is not an American. Who is he?

 

video games:

8. In New York City, identify the comic

 

 

9. I posted this pic of a newsstand (April 1941) in Camp Murray in Tacoma Washington a couple of years ago.

The soldiers seem more interested in the magazines and pulps instead of the comics.

 

 

This picture of the same newsstand above appears to be taken before soldiers got there since a few magazine piles appear larger.

See if you can identify all the comics & pulps. I'll post my list of comics later.

 

 

[goldust40]

Great pics, especially the newstand one (one of the best I've seen).

 

Is number 7 Serge Gainsbourg?

[jpepx78]

Answers to Thanksgiving quiz.

 

1. John Severin

2. Cullen Murphy & John Cullen Murphy, Prince Valiant artists, Feb 1997

3. George Evans

4. Bob Montana 1973

5. Jack Burnley

6. Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author) & Nick Landau (co-founder of Forbidden Planet store & co-owner of Titan Entertainment Group) London Oct 1979

7. Serge Gainsbourg (French singer, actor, director & artist)

8. Popular #145

9. newsstand comics at Camp Murray

 

prize 11, popular 63, mystery men 23, green hornet 3, weird 15, fight 13, super 36, four color 9 (terry & the pirates), true 2, fantastic 19, blue bolt 13, ace 50, hit 12, magic 22, bill barnes 3, more fun 68, shadow 11, crackajack funnies 35, startling 7, big shot 13

 

 

[goldust40]

Nick Landau may be a key figure in the development of British fandom (and without question the man who has done the best out of it) but he is not a celebrity.

 

Great picture though, and I should've spotted Douglas Adams sitting next to him.

[Hepcat]

See if you can identify all the comics & pulps

 

 

That's a fabulous picture!

 

(thumbs u

Edited November 23, 2012 by Hepcat

[jpepx78]

here's an interesting postcard photo of a newsstand in Firenze Italy from around 1940.

Anybody from Italy recognize the Italian comics?

 

[rodan57]

See if you can identify all the comics & pulps

 

 

That's a fabulous picture!

 

(thumbs u

 

Hmmm. Weird Tales and the Sci-Fi seem to be placed out of the reach of children.

[Comicdey]

That photo is a wealth of cools books history and nostalgia. I see one comic on that rack that I have and it's a Gerber 8 from what I recall.

[JazzMan]

See if you can identify all the comics & pulps

 

 

That's a fabulous picture!

 

(thumbs u

 

Hmmm. Weird Tales and the Sci-Fi seem to be placed out of the reach of children.

 

I know the photo is white washed, but those pulps look so fresh... and I'm not even a pulp fan!

[ajaxfarrell]

Edited January 11, 2013 by ajaxfarrell

[The_Captain]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I love this pic.

 

I wonder if the kid in the awesome costume was reading the book when it was fresh out of print or some time later. Considering Cap America #2 came out only a month after Cap America's first appearance, the kid discovered and liked the character pretty fast and had a very fast sewing mom

 

[Primetime]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I love this pic.

 

I wonder if the kid in the awesome costume was reading the book when it was fresh out of print or some time later. Considering Cap America #2 came out only a month after Cap America's first appearance, the kid discovered and liked the character pretty fast and had a very fast sewing mom

 

yah posted before but quite a picture with a Cap 2!

[Arkadin]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I love this pic.

 

I wonder if the kid in the awesome costume was reading the book when it was fresh out of print or some time later. Considering Cap America #2 came out only a month after Cap America's first appearance, the kid discovered and liked the character pretty fast and had a very fast sewing mom

 

 

I seem to remember seeing this photo in an article about comic conventions in an old monster magazine (Monsters and Heroes? Castle of Frankenstein?). So it might be from the late 1960's, and the kid's in costume for the convention.

 

[The_Captain]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I love this pic.

 

I wonder if the kid in the awesome costume was reading the book when it was fresh out of print or some time later. Considering Cap America #2 came out only a month after Cap America's first appearance, the kid discovered and liked the character pretty fast and had a very fast sewing mom

 

yah posted before but quite a picture with a Cap 2!

 

 

 

[Duffman_Comics]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I love this pic.

 

I wonder if the kid in the awesome costume was reading the book when it was fresh out of print or some time later. Considering Cap America #2 came out only a month after Cap America's first appearance, the kid discovered and liked the character pretty fast and had a very fast sewing mom

 

 

I seem to remember seeing this photo in an article about comic conventions in an old monster magazine (Monsters and Heroes? Castle of Frankenstein?). So it might be from the late 1960's, and the kid's in costume for the convention.

 

 

No clue where the picture is from, but what is the "plastic" thing on the kid's left hand?

 

Something associated with the shield? Some sort of comic protection?

 

 

[vaillant]

This one is from Italy, should be around mid-1930s as there are some early Disney editions from publisher Nerbini:

 

[ciorac]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I love this pic.

 

I wonder if the kid in the awesome costume was reading the book when it was fresh out of print or some time later. Considering Cap America #2 came out only a month after Cap America's first appearance, the kid discovered and liked the character pretty fast and had a very fast sewing mom

 

 

I seem to remember seeing this photo in an article about comic conventions in an old monster magazine (Monsters and Heroes? Castle of Frankenstein?). So it might be from the late 1960's, and the kid's in costume for the convention.

 

 

No clue where the picture is from, but what is the "plastic" thing on the kid's left hand?

 

Something associated with the shield? Some sort of comic protection?

 

 

It is a water mark "CT"

[Duffman_Comics]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I love this pic.

 

I wonder if the kid in the awesome costume was reading the book when it was fresh out of print or some time later. Considering Cap America #2 came out only a month after Cap America's first appearance, the kid discovered and liked the character pretty fast and had a very fast sewing mom

 

 

I seem to remember seeing this photo in an article about comic conventions in an old monster magazine (Monsters and Heroes? Castle of Frankenstein?). So it might be from the late 1960's, and the kid's in costume for the convention.

 

 

No clue where the picture is from, but what is the "plastic" thing on the kid's left hand?

 

Something associated with the shield? Some sort of comic protection?

 

 

 

It is a water mark "CT"

 

 

 

Thank you William.