Spotting old books and magazines and dummy newspapers in TV, movies and old photos

[dask]

Found this. I think I see the mirror with the two planes, and some curves almost seem to line up, but…..? May, 1956.

 

[Extollager]

Dask, that fits. That issue would have been on sale in March 1956:

Mike's Amazing World of Comics

Mike's Amazing World of Comics. A searchable resource indexing comics from multiple publishers, including DC, Marvel, Archie, Charlton, Dell, Gold Key and Harvey. Contains comic information and cover images for thousands of issues.

www.mikesamazingworld.com

Take a look at those magazines. Gobs of Westerns and plenty of romance mags and war comics, and almost no superheroes. It looks to me like all of the superhero comics have Superman.

 

[dask]

The word balloons seem to match and the dark blotch in the upper right could be the trees sliding behind the Comics Code Stamp:

Didn’t know about Mike’s Amazing World Of Comics. Great site, glad it showed up.

 

[Extollager]

Yes, the Mike's site is a nifty resource. It was someone here at Chrons who informed me about it -- Maeda (who apparently is no longer around here) in mid-April 2016. I was researching Marvel comics -- specifically Thor #140 -- from my first days of collecting and wondered if someone could help me figure out when the comics actually were on sale, as opposed to the cover dates, which were different. Thanks to the Mike's Amazing World site, I was able to pin down almost to the day when it was that I started buying them. (For the next couple of years or so especially they were of enormous importance to my imagination, certainly far more than any movie of the time.)

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

From a skit by the Canadian comedy team The Kids in the Hall:

Looks like a real newspaper with the fake headline pasted on it.

 

[dask]

Just for the heck of it, 1940s comic rack auditioning for background:

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Challenge accepted!

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

From the bottom row Batman #9 Feb/March 1940

 

[Bick]

Just for the heck of it, 1940s comic rack auditioning for background:
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But what TV show or film is it in?

 

[dask]

None. Just posted it to pass the time until someone finds a new one. That’s all. It’s “auditioning.”

 

[JunkMonkey]

That Sparkler Comics (middle column, fourth from the bottom) is from 1942 so this looks like it might be a rack of second hand stuff. But maybe not; there appears to be several copies of each (of the Batman at least and others)

 

[Extollager]

Here’s a closeup from the Outer Limits teleplay “Controlled Experiment.” This is from a point about 21 minutes into the show (opening teaser and so on included in the timing). I stopped the DVD several times to get this image, and had never noticed that headline before.

It says “I let go of the bumper and the bus ran over me!”

 

[Dave]

If we can have comics then I guess we can also have music videos (considering that many have had the budget of a small film)?

This post by @Stephen Palmer in the current Kate Bush thread reminded me of the video of that song again:

Cloudbusting is about Wilhelm Reich's son, or, at least, it is narrated from the son's point of view. KB was inspired by a book he wrote, but alas the book is very hard to find and jolly expensive. I remember KB saying it was rather a sad book...

I haven't read the book, but in the video, as the men in suits arrive to snatch away Donald Sutherland, as the father, Wilhelm Reich, Kate Bush, as the son, Peter Reich, reaches into his dad’s jacket pocket, and pulls out that book, A Book of Dreams:

Later, there are a couple of mock newspaper headlines too, although I could only screen capture this one as the newspapers are taken quickly from some drawers and thrown onto the floor:

 

[Extollager]

Dave, I would think that worthy dummy newspapers etc. from music videos as well as movies and TV programs would be acceptable. Not surprisingly, The Oregon Times was evidently not a real newspaper.

All Titles « Historic Oregon Newspapers

Historic Oregon News

oregonnews.uoregon.edu

 

[dask]

The Naked City, 1948:

The same paper from different angles. Little doubt a dummy but they printed several copies for effect.

 

[Extollager]

Newspapers used to be a big feature of daily life for many people. Perhaps it was once common for sizeable cities to have at least two, reflecting different political persuasions reflected in editorial page content and to some degree in the prominence given certain persons or themes in news reportage. But I remember a time when (at least in college journalism classes) the ideals of balance and objectivity were emphasized. It hadn't always been that way and I don't suppose it's that way now, or not so much.

I was never a reporter myself, though I did try (around 1980) to get a job on the broadsheet Ashland (Oregon) Daily Tidings (Monday-Saturday), which eventually declined into being the tabloid Ashland Tidings; now there is no Ashland newspaper at all, so far as I know. The broadsheets used to feature a lot of text, and I suppose some younger Chronsters have never seen one like that, except (for example) in this thread.

I wish I'd saved a few more specimen Daily Tidings issues. I believe I do have somewhere the front section of the issue reporting the capture of Patty Hearst. I believe I have the front page, but not the whole section, of the issue of The Oregonian with J. R. R. Tolkien's death reported.

 

[hitmouse]

Reading the old broadsheets on a train or bus was a bit of an art. There was a technique of folding and unfolding as you went along. In Britain, the national broadsheets all changed to smaller tabloid format years ago, which is a easier ro manage, even if the whole package is a lump. The Financial Times was the last holdout in the broadsheet format: I am not sure if it still is.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Reading the old broadsheets on a train or bus was a bit of an art. There was a technique of folding and unfolding as you went along. In Britain, the national broadsheets all changed to smaller tabloid format years ago, which is a easier ro manage, even if the whole package is a lump. The Financial Times was the last holdout in the broadsheet format: I am not sure if it still is.

The Herald in Scotland is still broadsheet.

 

[Randy M.]

Reading the old broadsheets on a train or bus was a bit of an art. There was a technique of folding and unfolding as you went along. In Britain, the national broadsheets all changed to smaller tabloid format years ago, which is a easier ro manage, even if the whole package is a lump. The Financial Times was the last holdout in the broadsheet format: I am not sure if it still is.

Many years ago, the comedian David Brenner was being interviewed on a talk show. He mentioned riding a subway one day with his NY Times neatly refolded and that he was sitting on it. A woman nearby asked if was reading the paper. He stood, turned a page, and said yes.

 

[dask]

Not much in the way of varying headlines but an alluring cramped coffee counter swimming in newsprint:

Again, The Naked City.