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Comic And Book Related => Comic Talk => Topic started by: MattHawes on October 19, 2021, 05:11:56 AM

Title: 1945 Book Store Photo with Comics, Pulps, and Mags Display
Post by: MattHawes on October 19, 2021, 05:11:56 AM

(http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/uploads/MattHawes/2017-11-29_084708_comics-1945-readmore-evansville-web.jpg)

This photo comes courtesy of Kevin Loge, whose family owned a bookstore in my city of Evansville, Indiana named Readmore. The photo was taken circa 1945. Pretty nifty display!

A few years back, starting in 2017, I asked others over at John Byrne's website, and at the CGC comics boards to help me locate scans or pictures of the comics and magazines shown in that photo to create a sort of "colorized" version of it. I didn't actually color the photo, but took the found images that corresponded to a particular comic or magazine and "Photoshopped" it into place over the cover in the original photo.

Here's a link to the discussion at Byrne Robotics:

http://m.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52755&PN=1&TPN=1 (http://m.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52755&PN=1&TPN=1)

And here's the one from the CGC boards:

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/118924-1939-newsstand-pic-time-machine-journey-into-the-past/page/96/#comments (https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/118924-1939-newsstand-pic-time-machine-journey-into-the-past/page/96/#comments)

With the help of everyone who participated in helping me find covers that corresponded with those in the 1945 photo, we got pretty far. Things stalled again last year, but most all of the comics and many of the pulps and magazines were identified and added to the "color" version shown here:


(https://d3nvbf5pqk2vjh.cloudfront.net/cgccomics/monthly_2020_09/comics-1945-readmore-evansville-09-01-2020.thumb.jpg.4cac7016573966623a62a63bae5efe3a.jpg)

I have the full resolution of the photo posted at my Flickr page:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/138904553@N03/50293177257/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138904553@N03/50293177257/)


I am posting this mostly to share the cool images with fellow fans, but if you want to take a look at the full-size photo linked above and can make out any of the covers that haven't already been identified, and then share a scan or pic of that cover here so I can add it to the photo, feel free to do so. It'd be appreciated.

Also, for added fun, here are full-faced scans of all the comics and magazines that have been ID'ed so far:


https://www.flickr.com/photos/138904553@N03/albums/72157715503164723 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138904553@N03/albums/72157715503164723)


Thanks and enjoy!

Title: Re: 1945 Book Store Photo with Comics, Pulps, and Mags Display
Post by: paw broon on October 19, 2021, 04:29:02 PM

Great fun and a good piece of research.  I am thoroughly enjoying walking my eyes over the shelves.  Phantom Detective pulps!!! Excellent.
One of the pics posted on the CGC pages - kids reading comics - is a British one and the wee boy is reading an issue of Roy Carson, drawn by Dennis McLaughlin.  We have some examples on CB+ but not the one shown :-[
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3073
DCM has a section on newsstand pics incl. some British ones although they tend to be of shops.