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Pictures of old Comic stands
narfstar:
--- Quote from: Yoc on July 13, 2010, 11:54:10 AM ---Thanks DL.
I actually posted a LOT of such photos back on GAC before the split.
You can see them all at this link -
http://tinyurl.com/36km8ta
-Yoc
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Remember it well and fondly
Drusilla lives!:
Thanks for the link Yoc, for whatever reason I hadn't ever stumbled across that thread on the other site... great stuff. :)
And I see you identified most of those covers in the photo already... I'm glad to have someone else confirm them independently, I wasn't really sure of some of them.
Yoc:
Glad you saw the topic DL.
I spent a few hours on some of those photos trying to pic out what covers where what.
And I got a fair number of photos up too.
I've always meant to try and mirror the topic over here on DCM but never figured out how to do it.
-Yoc
Drusilla lives!:
They say ever picture tells a story, well these certainly speak to the interchanged fortunes of the pulp and comic book formats...
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4091/193811omahanebraskaot6.jpghttp://img23.imageshack.us/img23/7500/1948comicracklr8.jpg... where in the first there were only a handful of comic books, in the second there were dozens (by 1948).
And in this one...
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9374/195104oldnewsstand.jpg... we see there are only a handful of pulps left by the 50s!
Yoc:
Hi DL,
I believe all but the first pic were in that GAC topic.
You're right about the decline in pulps.
The fifties were a huge time of change in popular media. From everything I've been reading not only did the birth of free TV nearly kill comics and movies it brought baseball attendance to it's knees as well. There was also the boon in pocket novels that took a big bite out of pulps and comics and around that time there was a jump in the cost of newsprint.
Altogether, people suddenly had a lot more ways to choose how to spend their extra dimes so suddenly once profitable companies were going out of business.
And for comics we can't forget Wertham and the Seduction of the Innocent made being a comics publisher even more unattractive. Today we've got even more choices for our entertainment dollars. I'm sure Marvel and DC would KILL for the kind of sales numbers that got you cancelled back in the 70s and 80s.
-Yoc
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