Pictures of old Comic stands

[JonTheScanner]

Assuming I do this right, you should see two stills from, I'm guessing, an episode of Naked City.  But look what's in the background.

[CBpop]

Great catch Jon!! I do the same thing while watching old movies and TV shows.... looking at the background for interesting items from the past    Thanks for the posting, really neat pictures.
Ed

[WiscPackRat]

Interesting series of postings. Pictures of this sort are so intriguing. Don't know if any of you have already seen this one.

[SuperScrounge]

Hard to make some of those out but it looks like:

Upper Left of picture

Top row (reading left to right)

(2nd book) Detective Comics #32 (October 1939) - (4th book) Mutt & Jeff (Summer 1939)

Second Row

(2nd book) All-American Comics #8 (November 1939) - (3rd book) More Fun Comics #48 (October 1939)

Eerie must have been a magazine since I couldn't find any comics of that time period with that name.

[Yoc]

Hi gang,
I believe this photo was part of an old topic from back in the GAC days.
You can still read it at this link -

http://comicbookplus.com/forum/index.php/topic,1170.0.html

I've always wanted to resurrect that topic here but it would take a LOT of work!

[SuperScrounge]

Eerie must have been a magazine since I couldn't find any comics of that time period with that name.

Eerie Mysteries

The fourth book in the second row is Marvel Science Stories.

Oddly enough, internet searches list those both as being August 1938, which is a year earlier than the comics. Did newsstands keep magazines on the racks for over a year?

[Geo (RIP)]

Assuming I do this right, you should see two stills from, I'm guessing, an episode of Naked City.  But look what's in the background.

I believe those maybe from the old Twilight Zone series if I remember right. The mind is the first thing to go when you start getting old, and mine is.

Geo

[Yoc]

I posted those pics Geo.  It was Naked City.

[jrvandore]

Just 50 seconds in:  http://strangerintown.podcastpeople.com/posts/30445

[Yoc]

Yep.  I picked that episode to watch completely at random and was blown away when the newstand scene happens.  Not a bad episode either.

-Yoc

[Drusilla lives!]

They've been rerunning that old 50s Superman TV show lately and I happened to just catch the last half of "The Birthday Letter" episode last weekend.  There's a scene at the end where the little girl is reading a Superman comic in front of Superman.  Didn't get a chance to snap a photo though.

Those first B&W episodes are pretty good by the way.

[Yoc]

Hey gang,
I always enjoyed this topic.  Here's a new one I've never seen and the incredible colouring job done by Avi A. Katz

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c-nQJpRbbEQ/VEw2feSKbLI/AAAAAAAAB8I/7KuA2xdwLqc/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2014-10-25%2Bat%2B7.43.33%2BPM.png

Painted Black Blog

[Geo (RIP)]

I got the same email Yoc, very nice work done on that picture from 1942 and being B&W.

Geo

[erwin-k]

I received a link to that picture, as well.

Take a look on the lower left hand side. There is a floor rack with eight comics facing the camera. I recognized two of the partially visible covers. That included a Simon & Kirby Sandman cover on an issue of Adventure Comics.

I am fairly certain that at least six of those covers can be identified using the Grand Comics Database. One or more of them could already be available here at DCM. (Sorry, not the Sub-Mariner issue…      )

[Yoc]

Hi Bob,
That link I shared shows how hard Ari worked at tracking down the books in the picture.  It's truly a herculean job he's done on it.