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SuperScrounge:
If Elvis was reading the latest issue of B&V it would have been #25. https://www.comics.org/issue/222086/
The fact that the interior of the names are darker than the background would also fit as red shows up darker than blue in b&w. I would have expected the yellow coloring of the Archie's Girls to look a light grey, but they show up as white, which could be possible. It's just a shame we can't see the Archie logo as 25 was the first with the square logo replacing the banner logo.
Sadly the GCD record does not index the back cover of 25.
Edit: On looking at the scanned covers earlier than 25 I noticed that they used to have the issue number between Archie's Girls and the Comics Code, but with 25 they moved the issue number and moved Archie's Girls closer to the Code, so given this photo was taken in early July, 1956, I'm pretty sure it has to be Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #25.
Yoc:
Wow, thanks for the excellent detective work there SS!
-Yoc
Yoc:
Hi Gang,
Here's another bunch of famous faces reading comics, enjoy!
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1936-Ripley_and_Loretta_Young.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1940s-Caniff,_Milton_and_Jack_Benny.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1942-DADDY_DUKE-John_Wayne.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1952-Rock_Hudson.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1953-Joan_Crawford.jpg 1 2 3 4 5
#1 - 1936-Robert Ripley and Loretta Young
Robert Ripley (Ripley's Believe It Or Not!) with actress Loretta Young for a broadcast of the Lux Radio Theater program in 1936 (Likely "Polly of the Circus", broadcast 11/30/36). The drum they are looking at is covered with autographs from performers and celebrities who had previously appeared on the program.
A short bio on Ripley can be read here:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/ripley_robert_l.htm
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Found on Evan Dorkin's Flickr account:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10131956@N00/albums/
#2 - 1940s-Milt Caniff and Jack Benny
Milt's nephew writes of his memories with his famous uncle here. Great stories and a lot of fun pictures of him with several different celbs.
https://animationresources.org/biography-milton-caniff-a-remembrance-2/
A short bio on can be read here:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/caniff.htm
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Found on Evan Dorkin's Flickr account:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10131956@N00/albums/
#3 - 1942-John Wayne and family
(Original caption) DADDY DUKE - John Wayne reads the Sunday comics to his children: Michael, Mary Antonia ‘Toni’, Patrick and Melinda. (December 20, 1942).
He would have three more children after this picture.
You can see more pictures of JW and his kids at this site:
http://wingpicts.pw/John-Wayne-with-the-children-from-his-first-marriage-to-Josephine.html
#4 - 1952-Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson at Home in North Hollywood
Sid Avery/MPTV (1952)
#5 - 1953-Joan Crawford
On the set of 'Torch Song' (1953)
Orignal source unknown.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1954.03-groucho-marx.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1955.02-James_Dean_1.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1955.02-James_Dean_2.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1955.02-James_Dean_5.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1955.02-James_Dean_6.jpg 6 7 8 9 10
#6 - 1954.03-Groucho Marx Reads 'Uncle Wiggly'
(Original caption) Surrounded by several unidentified woman in bathing suits and one young girl (possibly his daughter, Melinda Marx), American comedian and actor Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) reads issue # 543 (Dell, March 1954) of the 'Uncle Wiggly' comic, Palm Springs, California, March 1954. (Photo by Gene Lester/Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/surrounded-by-several-unidentified-woman-in-bathing-suits-news-photo/109344100
#7 - 1955.02-James Dean and young cousin Marcus jr.
This series is from the last time James Dean would visit his family in Fairmount in February 1955. LIFE-photographer Dennis Stock accompanied him and made a series of great photos. Stock's photos of James Dean and Marcus jr. (see also below) were taken just seven months before Dean's tragic death.
http://starsandletters.blogspot.ca/2014/11/james-deans-advice-to-his-cousin_15.html
Reading
Classics Illustrated #86 - Under Two Flags (August_1951)
#8 - 1955.02-James Dean and young cousin Marcus jr. 2
More from the same series.
#9 - 1955.02-James Dean and young cousin Marcus jr. 3
#10 - 1955.02-James Dean and young cousin Marcus jr. 4
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1955-Ernest_Borgnine_with_family.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1955-Jerry_Lewis_with_fake_comic.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1955-kirk_douglas_and_sons.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1955-Roy_Rogers_and_family.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1956-John_Carridine,_Lon_Chaney_Jr,_Bela_Lugosi,_Tor_Johnson.jpg 11 12 13 14 15
#11 - 1955-Ernest Borgnine and family
(Original caption) Ernest Borgnine with his wife Rhoda and daughter Nancee read the comics taken in 1955 for The Saturday Evening Post
More pics by Avery here:
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/140.1992/
#12 - 1955-Jerry Lewis with fake comic
Most likely a promo picture for 'Artists and Models' (1955).
You can read about the Bat Lady book on this SEAN KLEEFELD blog entry:
http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2014/04/on-history-jerry-lewis-bat-lady.html
#13 - 1955-Kirk Douglas and sons
(Original caption) Kirk And Sons
circa 1955: American actor Kirk Douglas kneels beside his sons, Joel (L) and Michael (future actors). All three wear winter coats. Michael is carrying a comic book. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/american-actor-kirk-douglas-kneels-beside-his-sons-joel-and-news-photo/3172607
#14 - 1955-Roy Rogers and family
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and kids all reading Dell comics, one is I Love Lucy #6 (May-July 1955)
Original source unknown.
#15 - 1956-John Carridine, Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, and Tor Johnson
John Carridine, Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson reading
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #v16#10 (190) (July 1956)
Original source unknown.
That's it for this batch, hope you liked them,
-Yoc
SuperScrounge:
I suppose this is as good a place as any for this.
Brian Cronin at CBR has an interesting mystery involving a Captain Marvel comic used on the Donna Reed show. (You'll have to scroll down to see a screen cap.)
He's stumped and so am I. That is the Captain Marvel typeface used for most issues of Captain Marvel Adventures, but it's not a cover of any published issue. I used the GCD and did a search for all covers (US & foreign) with Captain Marvel and couldn't find anything that matched. So either, it's an unknown oddball (like a cereal giveaway or something), or it's a foreign cover the GCD doesn't have a scan of (although most foreign covers with original art used a different typeface), or it was something the prop guy made up to look like a Captain Marvel cover.
I did consider the art could be from an interior splash page, but there are so many issues to check for that...
Anyone know anything about the Donna Reed Captain Marvel comic?
Yoc:
Thanks for sharing this SS but I think all the usual suspects have been looked at.
It's a mystery to me.
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