1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST 18 18

[FlyingDonut]

did a quick google search & came up with this article from (GAtor territory?) the Daytona Beach Morning Journal from 10/29/66 titled:

There's gold in those comic books. anyone heard of this guy?

 

j

 

 

Probably the same guy. RIP.

[jpepx78]

another article from the milwaukee journal 7/8/66.

oh the horror of burning a thousand comics! but how many people

would want books possibly contaminated with polio virus? however infection can

only occur if the virus is ingested.

oh oh amateur restoration though...

notice that these older articles include the home addresses of people in the article.

 

 

Edited February 3, 2010 by jpepx78

[capt_comics]

did a quick google search & came up with this article from (GAtor territory?) the Daytona Beach Morning Journal from 10/29/66 titled:

There's gold in those comic books. anyone heard of this guy?

 

j

 

 

 

Is it just me, or does this guy have a HUGE head in proportion to his body?

 

 

 

[action1kid]

Looks like someone elses head was pasted on to the photo

[capt_comics]

It does .....doesn't it !?

 

old school photoshop

 

 

[action1kid]

I have begun my quest to find a picture of Action Comics # 1 on a Newstand from may/june 1938. This thread has awoken a sleeping Geek and filled him with a powerful resolve .

[kaylab]

 

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

 

 

[HOTFLIPS]

So how rare is a picture of Action Comics #1 on a newstand? Does one even exist? Is it even rarer than a high grade copy itself?

 

Please dont count Micheal carbonaros ad.

I have an original 1938 COLOR Kodachrome newsstand picture with a prominently displayed ACTION # 1 and all the other comics !!!!!!

 

It looks like it was taken on a warm and sunny day, sometime in late MAY 1938.

 

It's truly breathtaking.

It just takes your breath away.

 

Please I [and we] would love to see it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I mean, "I wish I had....."

(sorry, bye the way, couldn't help myself)

 

 

 

I honestly spend a couple hours a week looking for old newsstand pics. I still keep finding them, so MAYBE (hopefully) a REAL GEM exists out there.

 

I've seen the INFAMOUS NYC newsstand with the bogus ACTION 1's photoshopped in, is the the Michael C. ad you speak of ?

 

 

 

Is there a link to it??

[action1kid]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3094/2542396006_6f060eef84.jpg

 

looks good but fake....those where hollywood magazines that were covered up with action 1s

[kaylab]

 

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.

[HOTFLIPS]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3094/2542396006_6f060eef84.jpg

 

looks good but fake....those where hollywood magazines that were covered up with action 1s

 

Thanks for the link.

[conditionfreak]

9th pic down on this web site. It is listed as showing three copies of Action #1 on an old newsstand photo.

 

Is this photo shopped?

 

http://doclehman.wordpress.com/category/wanted-time-machine/

[conditionfreak]

Ha Ha. Just noticed that my link and the one above it, are the same photo.

[thedude]

man, this thread gets better everyday!!

[Point Five]

more pictures from my archive...

 

Fawcett comic printing at CT Dearing, 1950 Louisville, Ky.... From the AP archives

 

 

 

 

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'm a graphic designer, and well familiar with printing. I love 'em too. (thumbs u

 

Metropolis Comics has a framed press sheet with multiples of one of the early Mystic Comics covers (#9, I believe?) on their office wall. It is eye-popping to see!

[kaylab]

Another set pics that can be filed under "Kids reading comics"...

 

 

 

does anything say "1950's America" better than kids in 3D glasses...

 

rare, color photo from 1953. dang it kid, put down the paper, we wanna see whats behind you!

 

 

 

[kaylab]

 

and last update for me today... Ending on a more solemn image. From Dec 8th, 1941, one day after Pearl Harbor. You can just make out the top edge of some comics, to the right of the lantern base (World's Finest is easiest to see)...

 

[1962]

Another set pics that can be filed under "Kids reading comics"...

 

 

 

does anything say "1950's America" better than kids in 3D glasses...

 

rare, color photo from 1953. dang it kid, put down the paper, we wanna see whats behind you!

 

 

 

I like that the kid in the second picture down is holding a copy of the first issue of EC's Crypt of Terror #17 (#1). I bet Mom and Dad were really pleased when he brought that home. I can just hear the kid saying "look Mom and Dad at this swell new type of comic that has just come out."

[Scrooge]

rare, color photo from 1953. dang it kid, put down the paper, we wanna see whats behind you!

 

Fantastic pic. Thanks for the recent posts.

 

Hey kid, grab that Ka'a'nga. I still need that issue!!

 

Btw, no NM copies of Joe Palooka will come out of that newsstand

[markseifert]

great stuff Kaylab!