Bronze Age Newstand Photo

[MisterX]

That Our Fighting Forces is actually 154.

 

Kirby!

[MisterX]

That Doctor Strange is killing me.

 

 

Hey, Ghost Town. Good job!

[MisterX]

Marvel Premiere 21

Defenders 22

 

There's a Defenders 22 covering up the Werewolf by Night.

[fastballspecial]

Dont forget Wulf the Barbarian and Iron Jaw. Some Atlas love.

 

[MisterX]

Wulf 2 and Iron Jaw 2, I think.

[Ghost Town]

Gil Kane was very busy with covers that month. Some of the titles were b-monthly, but still...

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's probably more as well.

[Ghost Town]

 

 

[joeypost]

Supernatural Thrillers 10

 

12

[joeypost]

Where Monsters Dwell 35

[joeypost]

Strange Tales 179

[namisgr]

I bought all those Marvels and Atlas/Seaboard books, either off a 7-11 spinner rack or a shelf setup at the news agency on campus. Also the Eisner Spirit mag.

[joeypost]

Dead of night 9

[Comicopolis]

 

Great picture

[the blob]

Surprising how deeply stocked the Atlas books were, or were comics all delivered in the same quantities?

 

I find it hard to believe that this colorfull display would not attract the youth of today...particularly at 1976 cover prices

[FlyingDonut]

 

From that photo, we can date it to somewhere around February 12, 1975, based on a few eBay sourcings: Comics then came out to newsstands at different times, so I'm going to bet Valentine's Day weekend.

 

Giant Size Marvel Triple Action 1 - February 12

 

Marvel Team Up 32, January 28

 

Dr. Strange 6, January 11 (so one would assume the 7 would be a month later, roughly)

[theVisitor]

Forum member bronze_rules colored the black and white photo over two years ago. The photo did a transition from black and white to color. See this thread - 1975 Newstand Photo

 

--Phil

[Jaded Savage]

I was wondering who did the coloring. Major Kudos bronze_rules!

 

[supapimp]

I was wondering who did the coloring. Major Kudos bronze_rules!

 

yep yep.

[Ken Aldred]

 

From that photo, we can date it to somewhere around February 12, 1975, based on a few eBay sourcings: Comics then came out to newsstands at different times, so I'm going to bet Valentine's Day weekend.

 

I just went to GCD to get the date for one of the more obvious books, such as the Astonishing Tales on the front row, and then entered the cover month and year  into the Newsstand section on  Mike's Amazing World of Comics.   Like you said, there are many on sale from January 75, fewer from February. Always interesting to go back and look at a virtual newsstand on his website.    

[Ken Aldred]

Just had another look at Mike's website, on sale dates range from mid December 74 (GS Dracula,  some Atlas), January 75 (most Marvel and DC) through to February 11th (Warren Spirit).

 

I recall  buying a lot of these from the bus station comic book racks.

 

Most of the books shown were distributed to England, but as  Marvel All-Colour Comics pence variants (no Giant Size titles) or were otherwise ink-stamped or stickered with a pence price on the cover.