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1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST
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On 10/8/2022 at 8:03 AM, Robot Man said:

Lordy! Crisp, fat spine copies of some classic books! 10 cents was probably a LOT of money to kids in 1938. If I had only one dime that day, I would probably have to go home with that Adventure shark cover…

By comparison, it only cost a nickel to get into a movie theater back then.

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What I find curious is that both Tec 16 and New Adventure 27, which are cover dated June 1938, have ads for Action #1, but the photo has a copy of Action #2, which has a July 1938 cover date.  I would have expected to see Tec 17 and NA 28 in the photo because they have the same cover date as Action #2.  I haven't checked the cover dates of the other books.

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On 10/8/2022 at 11:28 AM, RareHighGrade said:

What I find curious is that both Tec 16 and New Adventure 27, which are cover dated June 1938, have ads for Action #1, but the photo has a copy of Action #2, which has a July 1938 cover date.  I would have expected to see Tec 17 and NA 28 in the photo because they have the same cover date as Action #2.  I haven't checked the cover dates of the other books.

The more fun is #32 and that has an ad for Action 1. I guess they sold out of number 1 so they put 2 in there(shrug) I can tell its 32 cause the cir

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On 12/15/2022 at 9:15 AM, woowoo said:

Bump identify what you can

 

I think that is a newsstand.

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On 12/16/2022 at 4:46 PM, RareHighGrade said:

This one intrigues me.  Was Captain America so popular by only the second issue of the title that children were already buying and dressing up in his costume, complete with shield?

David Armstrong wears a homemade Captain America costume as he reads a Golden Age issue of Captain America Comics 2 during a 1960s convention. This photo saw print at least as early as Monsters and Heroes #5 (July 1969).
In 2013 board member MrBedrock, who knows Mr Armstrong, said "He is still very involved in comics and collecting. He was the final president of the old American Assoc. of Comic Collectors. He has avidly interviewed and filmed as many of the living early creators as possible with the hopes of eventually doing a documentary. He has 100s of hours of film compiled. He is still a huge fan. And while he is in great shape, sadly the Cap suit doesn't fit any longer."

 

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