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Pictures of old Comic stands
crashryan:
The more I looks at that "Read 'em for fun!" image the more I smell a rat. What first bothered me was the inclusion of non-comics in the mix. I don't know if there was a pulp magazine titled "Violent [something or other]"--the word is much too common to Google successfully. I'm pretty sure there was no comic by that name. Ditto "Guns," which could easily have been a mainstream hunting mag along the lines of "Gun Digest." But not a comic. Then there's the "Read 'em for fun!" slogan. I'm in no position to swear there was never a comic rack with a "Read 'em for fun" badge. It doesn't look manufactured. But the combination of all the titles stressing crime and violence, plus the slogan, plus the date--1948--leads me to suspect this is a fake photo set up as anti-comics propaganda.
SuperScrounge:
Thanks Yoc!
Maybe Crash, while most of the comics have cover dates from June to October 1948, True Crime #2 comes from 1947.
BTW Seven Dead Men was actually Complete Mystery #1 (August 1948)
Also looking closer I noticed there was a comic behind All-True Crimes. The typeface for the E resembles that of True Comics, possibly #73 as that issue had the word Comics centered and there was a box below the E which is what appears to be below it in the picture.
Was unable to find anything resembling those Violent/Violent Crimes magazines.
darkmark (RIP):
The Guns title is Guns Against Gangsters. Violent Crimes seems to be a non-comic mag. Never heard of it before.
bchat:
--- Quote from: darkmark on May 20, 2014, 10:41:04 PM ---The Guns title is Guns Against Gangsters. Violent Crimes seems to be a non-comic mag. Never heard of it before.
--- End quote ---
"Violent Crimes" is a fake title, from the site The Artist Den.net, about the fake publisher Zig Zoosman and his "Zeus Comics" line. Geo's picture appears to be from that site.
Yoc:
Thanks B.
This Zeus is pretty good with his fakes!
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