Hi Gang,
Here's another batch of newsstands in the comics era.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.01-newsstand,_Saint_Louis,_Missouri_2.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.05.06-union-news-madison-wi.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.07-harlem-newsstand-Sid_Grossman.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.08-Medford_Oregon_drugstore_Dorothea_Lange.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.08-new-york-Rudy_Burckhardt.jpg
1 2 3 4 5#1 - 1939.01-Magazines at newsstand, Saint Louis, MissouriRothstein, Arthur, photographer. Magazines at newsstand, Saint Louis, Missouri. Missouri Saint Louis Saint Louis. United States, 1939. Jan. Photograph.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017724668/.
COMICS rack, far left (t - b)
Star Comics unknown,
Funny Picture Stories (Centaur) v3#2 (March 1939)
Detective Comics (DC) #24 (February 1939)
Single Series (United) #2 (1) (1939) -Broncho Bill
Action Comics (DC) #9 (February 1939)
Adventure Comics (DC) #35 (February 1939)
King Comics (David McKay) #35 (February, 1939)#2 - 1939.05.06-Union News-Madison, WISource unknown.
#3 - 1939.07-Harlem newspaper standSid Grossman (1915-1955) Federal Art Project
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG03-F26
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15580587
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e687af30-c6e8-012f-2a82-3c075448cc4b
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1939). Harlem newspaper stand, 1939 Retrieved from
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/75ece515-a2ae-388d-e040-e00a180601f1A newsstand in Harlem includes several pulps from July 1939 deep within its display, including
Horror Tales, Ace G-Man Stories, The Spider, Doc Savage, The Shadow, Operator #5, and Love Tales.www.thepulp.netCOMICS hiding under the awning (top to bottom, l-r):
several unknown
Famous Funnies (Eastern) #59 (June 1939)
Tip Top Comics (United) #39 (July 1939)
Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur) v2#7 (July 1939)
unknown
Action Comics (DC) #14 (July 1939)#4 - 1939.08-Medford, Oregon taken by Dorothea Lange.Lange, Dorothea, photographer. Oregon. Medford. Half-grown farm boy on main drugstore corner in town. Jackson County Medford Medford. Oregon United States, 1939. Aug. Photograph.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017773100/A larger version can be found here:
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017773100/COMICS (some are educated guesses)-
Detective Comics (DC) #31 (September 1939)
and Superman (DC) #2 (Fall 1939)
Single Series (United) #9 (1939) -Strange As It Seems
Feature Comics (Quality) #24 (September 1939)
The Funnies (Dell) #35 (September 1939)
Super Comics (Western) #16 (September 1939)
Tip Top Comics (United) #41 (September 1939)
Famous Funnies (Eastern) #62 (September 1939)
Crackajack Funnies (Western) #15 (September 1939)
Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur) v2 #9 (September 1939)
Popular Comics (Dell) #43 (September 1939)
Mickey Mouse Magazine (Western) v4 #12 [48] (September 1939)
King Comics (David McKay) #42 (October 1939)
Comics on Parade (United) v2 #6 (18) (September 1939)
Star Ranger Funnies (Centaur) v2 #4 (August 1939)#5 - 1939.08-Shoe and Hat Cleaning, New York-Rudy BurckhardtRudy Burckhardt (American, born Switzerland, 1914–1999)
[Newsstand, New York City], 1939
Credit: Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1972
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/682708A number of pulps — including
The Spider, Amazing Stories, Adventure, G-Men and other detective titles — are on sale at this New York newsstand in August 1939.
Possible comics showing bellow LIFE magazine:
Tip-Top (United) v4 #6 (42) (October 1939)http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.12.18-cleveland-ohio.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1940.07-Blue_Beetle_newsstand.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1940.08-Action_Mystery_Thrills.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1941.Fall-Action_Mystery_Thrills.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1941-Rolands_Newsstand,_Cannon_Beach_Oregon_coast.jpg
6 7 8 9 10#6 - 1939.12.18-Cleveland, OhioSource unknown
This photo was taken in late 1939 or early 1940 at the Great Lakes Newsstand at the corner of E 105th Street and Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. There are a number of pulps dated early 1940 along the lower portion of the stand.
A
Time magazine has a cover date of Dec. 18, 1939. The quality is poor because it was published as a halftone image in the fanzine Xenophile in the 1970s and originally pulled from a news agent publication from 1940.
Just out:
Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #2 (February 1940) - First appearance of Capt. Marvel!
Middle section, bottom two rows (l-r):
unknown
Ace Comics (David McKay) #34 (January 1940) guess
Champion Comics (Harvey) #3 (January 1940)
unknown Action Comics
Superman (DC) #3 (Winter 1940)
A something unknown
Feature Comics (Quality) #28 (January 1940)Can't read the bottom row.
Smash Comics (Quality) #6 (January 1940)#7 - 1940.07-Blue Beetle newsstandSource unknown. Found on:
http://comicpixmad.blogspot.ca/2011/08/comics-window-1940.html?m=0COMICS in back, bottom of window:
Mystery Men Comics (Fox) #13 (August 1940)
Pep Comics (Archie) #7 (August 1940)
Super-Mystery Comics (Ace) #v1#2 (August 1940)
Amazing Adventure Funnies (Centaur,) #2 (September 1940)
Future Comics (David McKay) #3
Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #7 (August 1940)
Exciting Comics (Pines) v2 #1 (4) (July 1940)#8 - 1940.08-Action_Mystery_ThrillsFrom
Action! Mystery! Thrills! - Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933-1945 (Fantagraphics-2011) credited to Kookie Enterprises.COMICS - Second row back:
Super-Mystery Comics (Ace) v1 #2 (August 1940)
Amazing Adventure Funnies (Centaur) #2 (September 1940)
Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #7 (August 1940)
Thrilling Comics (Pines) v3 #1 (#7)(August 1940)Front row (l to r)
Exciting Comics (Pines) v2 #1 (4) (July 1940)
Mystery Men Comics (Fox) #13 (August 1940)
Pep Comics (MLJ) #7 (August 1940)
Action Comics (DC) #27 (August 1940)#9 - 1941.Fall-Action_Mystery_ThrillsFrom
Action! Mystery! Thrills! - Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933-1945 (Fantagraphics-2011) credited to Kookie Enterprises.Lower right:
Movie Life Magazine (January 1942)-Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
COMICS - that can positively be seen (top to bottom, l to r)
Our Flag Comics (Ace) #4 (February 1942)
The Eagle (Fox) #4 (January 1942)
Superman (DC) #14 (January-February 1942)
Amazing Man Comics (Centaur) #26 (January 1942)
Jackpot Comics (MLJ) #4 (Winter 1941)
Doc Savage Comics (S&S) v1#7 [7] (March 1942)
Daring Mystery Comics (Marvel) #8 (January 1942)
Punch Comics (Chesler/Dynamic) #2 (February 1942)
Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #6 (January 9, 1942)Bottom row:
King Comics (David McKay) #70 (February 1942)
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell) v2 #4 [16] (January 1942)
All-American Comics (DC) #35 (February 1942)
Batman (DC) #9 (February-March 1942)#10 - 1941-Rolands Newsstand, Cannon Beach Oregon coastFound on
http://historicphotoarchive.photoshelter.com/Source unknown.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1943.11.13-Charles_Phelps_Cushing.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1946-SanFran_newsstand.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1946-SanFran_newsstand-detail.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1947-USA_Mississipi_Vicksburg.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1948.04.10-Huberland,_Morris.jpg
11 12 13 14 15#11 - 1943.11.13-Charles Phelps Cushing1940s MAGAZINE NEWSSTAND AT NIGHT CORNER 42ND STREET & MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK CITY USA
(Photo by Charles Phelps Cushing/ClassicStock/Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/photo/1940s-magazine-newsstand-high-res-stock-photography/940279264Top row:
Collier's Weekly (Nov. 13, 1943)http://www.unz.com/print/Colliers-1943nov13/To the right by the man:
Time Magazine (Nov. 15, 1943) - Gen. Pershing
https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19431115,00.htmlThere's a
Pep Comics on the bottom right near the man.
And some other comics hidden in the same bottom row.
#12 - 1946-SanFran_newsstandAfrican-American photographer David S. Johnson
A bio and more pictures by Johnson can be read here:
http://newfillmore.com/2013/03/03/photographer-made-his-mark-on-fillmore/#13 -1946-SanFran newsstand-detailCOMICS -
Our Gang (Dell) #29 (Dec'46)
Punch and Judy Comics (Hillman) v2#5 (Dec'46)
Frisky Fables (Novelty) v2#9
Unknown Bugs Bunny
Polly Pigtails (Parents') #10 (Nov'46)
Cookie (ACG) #4 Dec-Jan'47)#14 - 1947-Vicksburg, MississipiLandlady holding an unknown comic.
PAR35118
(HCB1946006W00003/25)
© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos
https://pro.magnumphotos.com/Asset/-2S5RYDJ1FKM.htmlYou can see more works by the photographer at this link:
http://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2K1HZO4VUWP3M8#15 - 1948.04.10-Morris Huberland Collection, NYPLThe Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "New York, NY" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2018.
A much larger version can be found on this link:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f6eeb640-12ab-0133-8440-58d385a7b928Front left -
The New Yorker is from APRIL 10, 1948.
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1948-04-10#folio=CV1COMICS - Far left:
New Heroic unknown.
4Most Comics (Novelty) v7#3 [28] (May-June 1948)
Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #85 (June 1948)Right side rack (top left)
A Date With Judy unknown
Crime Does Not Pay (Lev Gleason) #63 (May 1948) x 2
Boy Comics #40 (Lev Gleason) (June 1948) ?
Wonder Comics unknown
Juke Box Comics (Eastern) #2 (May 1948)More pictures to come!
-Yoc