Comic Book rack circa 1948

[toz1960]

I found this pic in Reminisce Magazine and thought I would share it.Man,cool stuff.You can only make out a few titles but just look at the sheer amount! Not to mention the pulps & other cool mage.Enjoy!

http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt33/comicsbytoz/circa1948001.jpg

[eobcards]

Cool! I love stuff like this. It's what drove me into collecting golden age, especially WWII era comics. It's a joy to hold a comic in my hand and think about what part of history it survived, and what was going on in the world while it sat on a comic rack.

[disneyteddies]

If Toz doesn't mind, I've got a bunch of these kind of pics...I love em' too.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/7-1-42newsstandB.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/53newsstand.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/1939kids.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/1946.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/1808139-BoyComicsinManzanarRelocati.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/70163.jpg

[toz1960]

DT,that's cool.Let's see more!!!!!!!

[disneyteddies]

I don't have time right now..gotta get to work but I'll post a bunch more over the next day or two.

[kenmacny]

Looks like a MAMBLA orientation pamphlet.

[malaprop]

Those are probably the exact guys who spinerolled about half of my GA comics. Little creeps.

[Capitalrecoveryman]

Hell mal, I thought the guy in the last pic WAS you...just kidding, just kidding.

[nocutename]

Those are amazing pictures. Thanks for sharing them.

[malaprop]

Well I did look pretty cool in those days.

[disneyteddies]

Here's some more for now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/alyn.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/anewstand1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/boriskarloff.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/boyscomics.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/budcollyer2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/changingtimes.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/crime.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/comicburning.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/COMIC-BOOK-RACK-1948.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/ComicBookStandBrooklyn.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/comicrack.jpg

[disneyteddies]

Here's some more as promised. Hope you don't mind me hogging your thread Toz. I was going to start one for this myself but you opened the door first.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/comicskids.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/comicsonsteps.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/crimekids.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/detective27.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/disneykids.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/girlcomics.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/girlsreadingcomics.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/kid.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/kidflash.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/ladiescomics.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/manhandle1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/marinepx.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/menace.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/threedimensioncomics.jpg

I actually have some of these 3d ones. Here they are.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/scan0005.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/scan0006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/scan0003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/scan0004.jpg

[dannyboi1]

I know too well the look on that little boy's face as he puts his comics into the recycling bin/trash/what-have-you.

[toz1960]

Go for it Hank.I posted the only one I had & I'm glad someone else had some nostalgia to share.

[Capitalrecoveryman]

3rd picture in post #11, is that Boris Karloff? And if it is, is that from a movie, or perhaps some magazine article/interview since the comics are horror books?

[disneyteddies]

The truck pic is...."SHUDDER"....a book burning...

That is Boris himself showing "I assume" a grand daughter.

More in awhile fellas.

Did you find the Marvel Comics #1 in there somewhere folks??

[disneyteddies]

I found more info on the Boris Karloff picture.

If it is to be believed this is from the little girl in the picture with him.

"Hi! I just came across this blog... I am the little girl in the photo. I am Lynne White from Seattle. I lived in the Malibu Colony when I was little. The photo is taken when I was 5. My good friends father was a photographer and they needed a little girl to pose. It was taken at the Malibu Colony Drug store which is no longer around and has been replaced by a high end mall. I was looking for this photo because my 40th year High School reunion is coming up and someone asked me about it."

Pretty cool to have a follow up explanation decades later.

[disneyteddies]

Here's the rest of the old comic pictures I have at the moment. Hope everyone's enjoyed them like I have.

From the movie "The Naked City"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/NakedCity02.jpg

And ironically, the Penguin before he was the Penguin...but what's that in the background??? Is it a bird?? Or a plane??.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/NakedCity04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/newsstand-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/newsstand2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/newsstand3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/newsstandA1939.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/newsstandboys.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/Newstandphoto1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/oldnewsstand.jpg

Comic books...half off!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/stand.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/untitled.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/wonder20comics.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/wtof8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/yvonnecraig.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Hank27/newsstand-1975.jpg

[disneyteddies]

LoL! I just noticed 8 pictures up there's a World's Best #1 CLOTHESPINNED to the string hanging above the shopkeepers head. GASP!

[define999]

Some of these arnt from the golden age but they are old, and they are comic racks...... Found these recently.....
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/define999/JI4400-001.jpg
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/define999/HJ8696-001.jpg
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/define999/comics2.jpg
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/define999/comics1.jpg
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/define999/comicrak.jpg
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/define999/80745390.jpg
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/define999/3361291.jpg
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/define999/getimagedll.jpg

[toz1960]

More cool pics define,#woohoo#

The 3rd & 4th pics are,I assume,from and early comic book store?More pics like these would be great to see too.

[yarmak]

great photos guys but for the life of me I cannot see any weird tales - to have a time machine to go back and be able to collect and read them :)
Bugger the future value of these I reckon it would just be cool to own and read them :)
DAve

[yarmak]

here is alink for those that do not know weird tales

http://www.vintagelibrary.com/pulpfiction/magazines/WeirdTales.php

Dave

[yarmak]

anybody have any more pics of these old photos?
I was enjoying these
Dave

[toz1960]

Found a couple more in the same vain.Not comic racks but early collections.WOW.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t216/madrigal2112/collector2.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t216/madrigal2112/collector1.jpg

[yarmak]

very very cool Toz thanks for sharing mate.
I constantly dream of finding a horde of all these gems :)
It is great to dream
Dave

[Hepcat]

The pics in this thread are fabulous!

Does anyone own either a comic rack like the ones in some of the pics posted, or even better a gum card vending machine?

:confused:

[illuminated]

Does anyone own either a comic rack like the ones in some of the pics posted, or even better a gum card vending machine?

Though I have never had any particular fondness for spinner racks, for to own, they do bring back memories.

However, the main memory I have of late is the one that got away. eBay had a local collection a few years back, and I asked a couple questions before making an offer. IIRC, was $2000/BO. The guy just took a $1500 offer without answering my questions. Had a lot of swell books, straight runs of bronze goodness, full run of Teen Titans, straight run of Green Lantern v1 from like 40 to 200 plus about fifty of the DC Archives hardcovers plus hundreds of TPBs. Oh, and two spinner racks. A guy from out of state put in the bid and grabbed it out from under me. Dang!

/hijack

I have seen folks asking hundreds of dollars for spinner racks, even from just the 70s. I don't know if they sell for those prices, but I do know I see folks drooling over the darned things at shows. While they look okay and can evoke memories, one of the memories they bring back for me is raw comics getting mangled by 7-11 staff (or other comic buyers) jamming the comics down in there wrong. It makes me sad.

[toz1960]

The pics in this thread are fabulous!

Does anyone own either a comic rack like the ones in some of the pics posted, or even better a gum card vending machine?

:confused:
For some reason I got to thinking about spinner racks the other day.Back in the early 1980's my Mom worked in a drug store and when they were cleaning out the stock room a spinner rack was found.She brought it home to me and it still had the metal header on it.I had given up comics by then and it laid in the barn for around 20 years.Last I saw of it was in the back of a junk truck going to the scrap yard.It was horribly bent up and rusted.

I know.Shame on me.

I did have a stamp vending machine though.50's or 60's vintage.Sold it on ebay right after I started selling.

[custodes]

This has been a great thread. Thanks.

They used to (as late as the early 2000s) sell new racks just like the old ones. Maybe they still do. I had one until 3 years ago when I gave it to Conrad Eschenberg 'cause, he bought my stuff and it was just collecting dust. Maybe that is just for dealers though.

[Hepcat]

Show those pics to some kids as proof positive that there was a time when kids their age actually read instead of playing video games.

#professor#

[custodes]

Disneyteddies, if you don't mind I will appropriate a few of the rack pics for my Military Discussion board. A few comic fans there who will appreciate them.They certainly make one dream.