Has anyone ever seen one of these before? 3 3

[BlowUpTheMoon]

Edited January 9 by BlowUpTheMoon
greggy is a dork..

[Semicentennial]

Looks pretty cool.   I'm interested in seeing how that works.  

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

Cool find.

[Galen130]

I'm guessing it's old??  Don't recall ever seeing one, but I was a kid a long time ago.

[s-man]

Not so sure I like a machine where you "receive comic at bottom"  

[Jayman]

Would love to see the condition that this machine would spit out the comic books! No 9.8’s for your 12 cents I’d bet! 

[BlowUpTheMoon]

How old are those type of key/lock combos?  Any ideas? 

[rakehell]

Looks foreign to me... 

Possibly from the Philippines? Certainly not from the time when US comics sold for 12c.

[Get Marwood & I]

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/254826-comic-book-vending-machine--1967

 

"Once upon a time, you could get your favorite comic books from a machine!

It worked like a snack machine, putting a row of comics on a corkscrew instead of Twinkies.

There was one book in view at the top/front of each of the ten stacks and if you didn't see one you liked, you'd just come back later and there would be other ones showing.

You'd put a dime in one side and two pennies in the other side of a thing like the coin slots on washers and dryers.

Then you'd push it in and pull it back out, turning the corkscrew so that a single comic book would drop off and slide down to a little slot at the base of the unit.

In July of 1966, I saw one for the first time and bought Daredevil #32 and Avengers #44. I still have them!

Sorry to say the machines aren't around any more.

They were re-tooled in 1969 when comics raised their prices from 12¢ to 15¢ and again in 1971 when the price went up to 20¢.

After that, comic prices continued to skyrocket and changed faster than the machines could be retooled, so they were retired instead."

[JollyComics]

It's like a newspaper box out on the street.  I would not buy it because it drops and damages the book.

[Number 6]

I remember a contributor to Comic Book Marketplace recalling having to buy several comics to get the one he wanted from a vending machine but I had no idea what one looked like. 
 

Thanks for posting the picture. 

[BigLeagueCHEW]

On 1/8/2024 at 7:47 PM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

One prays for a 9.8 when it is displayed, comic drops, blunted corner, comes out an 8.5 

[jsilverjanet]

On 1/8/2024 at 9:47 PM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

not this particular model but i remember some years ago someone else posted a comic vending machine that someone was selling on craiglist

[Chip Cataldo]

Saw this on Facebook the other day when it was posted. Pretty awesome, and the condition it's in is amazing.

I'd love to have it in the house but there's nowhere to put it!

[rjpb]

I have a few fading childhood memories of buying comics in the 12¢ era, but don't recall ever seeing a machine like this. It was mostly spinner racks and magazine racks, though there was one store that used to just put them out in stacks on shelving. They'd overlap the stacks so you could see a couple inches of each title.

[namisgr]

I also never saw a machine like that.  But the look and materials fit for a mid-60s contraption, at a time when plastic parts were just beginning to be incorporated routinely into devices, machines, and appliances.

[BuscemasAvengers]

New notation needed on CGC label: Vending Machine Edition

[littledoom]

Where was this found? It's glorious

[MattTheDuck]

So if everyone would quit posting incredibly cool stuff that I just have to buy if I can find them, that would be great.

[shadroch]

Very nice. I've heard of them but never seen any.