Found an old VHS copy of the movie Mister Roberts in my stash and recently watched it.
Saw an interesting thing in the last scene at the end of the show where the Captain, James Cagney, is shown sitting in his room and what is he doing?
Reading a comicbook.
Now this film was produced in 1955 detailing a time at the end of the war in '45.
Would they have put a Cap or Torch in there? Would they have been so percision minded in a comedy/drama to make sure it was a time related comic from '45 or just grabbed one off the stands?
It was a short view of maybe 10-15 seconds with the book's cover bent back around in true at ease comic reading fashion from then while he was sitting behind the desk with the top half of one of the interior pages revealed, 5 or 6 panels.
What stood out was the brilliant whites of the margin and what little could be seen of the back cover over the top at one point when he is readying to lay the book down which makes me think it a '55 new mag. The panels seemed to contain no people images but blue skys and industrial imagery like perhaps a silo, train or plane as what might be found in a war book.
Hard to distiguish much detail in the panels.
Just thought it an interesting tidbit to comment on seeing it was from 1955. Can't recall ever seeing a comic shown in any other movies 1955 and before.
