Another stack of photographs from bygone eras showcasing either comic books on sale in their native eras or the readers of those days enjoying them.


























Another stack of photographs from bygone eras showcasing either comic books on sale in their native eras or the readers of those days enjoying them.
LOVE these comics in the wild pictures…..thanks for these…this batch arrived on my birthday!
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Somehow I suspect that 1949 photo of five Canadian boys eagerly reading COWBOY LOVE 1 to be staged.
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Yes. The context of it seems to be a moral panic about comics. Interestingly, that image got used for the cover of a book “Pulp Demons: International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-comics Campaign” edited by John A. Lent.
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