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Pictures of old Comic stands
Yoc:
On the subject of the mid-50s and Wertham here's a short article from The New Yorker (March 31, 2008) which reviews the era while talking about David Hajdu's “The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America”
http://tinyurl.com/2b6c7az
jcalamil:
DOES ANYBODY HAVE SOME MORE "Fawcett' FUNNY ANIMAL" COMICS TO UPLOAD?
Yoc:
JC,
Everything that has been scanned is on the site already. Until someone scans something new you'll have to be patient.
Drusilla lives!:
--- Quote from: Yoc on July 16, 2010, 12:02:59 PM ---On the subject of the mid-50s and Wertham here's a short article from The New Yorker (March 31, 2008) which reviews the era while talking about David Hajdu's “The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America”
http://tinyurl.com/2b6c7az
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Yuck... more Wertham nonsense. >:(
Just kidding Yoc... thanks for the link. I'll check it out... eventually. :)
Drusilla lives!:
Getting back to those pictures.
You know, that second one with the kid standing in front of all those racks of comics brings back many a memory. It reminded me of my own experiences back in the mid-70s at the local corner candy/smoke/convenience stores back in NY... in fact, just looking at that picture I kinda got dizzy. Which oddly was what happened to me on many an occasion when I confronted those types of displays back then... funny how I had completely forgot about that... now that I think about it, I never liked them much, for some reason they gave me a headache.
That's why I find it rather amusing that anyone would find "alpha-sorting" the titles in a rack like that helpful in some way... I actually think it makes matters worse. I would think that grouping the titles by publisher would be more effective, a least you could turn to one area in search of a particular comic, and if it's not there, it's not there... end of story.
You know, in the old EC comics there were a lot of comments by the editors (Gaines, Feldstein, et al.) in the letters pages in response to fans complaining that they couldn't find their titles on the stands... now that I think about it, if they were using such a setup, I could understand why. Not only is it confusing (and perhaps even dizzying), but it grouped similarly named titles together (for example, all the "Weird" titles would presumably be in the same rack column) IMO adding to the confusion. And remember, by the early 50s there were at least 200 titles being published monthly (at least that's what I remember hearing somewhere).
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