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

[Extollager]

"Earth Forces Laid to Cosmic Impulse" might have been seen before... anyway a great couple of newspapers, Dask!

 

[dask]

Anyone got tickets to the flogging trial they want to part with?

 

[dask]

1946 newsstand. Not a movie but worthy of its own documentary.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I have been amusing myself by seeing how many of the pulp magazines on the far right I can identify. Given the fact that most of the covers are only partially visible, I have only found three.

 

[Pyan]

Main rack, second shelf down, far right:

 

[Pyan]

And the one on the shelf above it:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Nice job!

To the left of Collier's:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

The top left of the two column pulp magazine area on the right is this one, I think, given the top of the guy's head.

Knowing these are all from the fall of 1946 helps.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Up and to the left of Liberty, another girlie magazine.

Go down from Liberty and then go left four spaces and you'll see a magazine with a very odd title. I have not been able to find an image of this specific issue, but I have been able to confirm that there was a magazine called Human Detective.

As opposed to what, I wonder?

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Three spaces to the left of Laff:

Three spaces to the left of Liberty:

 

[Pyan]

Further along the crime shelf, next to Human Detective:

And next to that:

 

[Pyan]

...there was a magazine called Human Detective.

As opposed to what, I wonder?

Well: Startling, G-Men, Dime, Mammoth, Super, Real, Expose, Uncensored, Thrilling, Newsflash, Vital, Inside, New, Smash, Private, Phantom, Revealing, Big, Popular, Front Page, Master and Official. All ...Detective, and all from one image search.

And there's always:

Or, on Netflix:

 

[hitmouse]

The bookshop scene from When Harry Met Sally. Apologies if we have done this one before.

 

[hitmouse]

Bananas (1971)

 

[dask]

Another overlooked location:

 

[Extollager]

I wonder if spinner racks hadn't been invented yet. Maybe just for "pocket books" -- ?

 

[Extollager]

Here’s a newspaper with one or two familiar headlines. This paper is from “Mutiny,” a teleplay in the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

 

[Randy M.]

I wonder if spinner racks hadn't been invented yet. Maybe just for "pocket books" -- ?

I'd bet that stores, maybe especially drug stores, used magazine displays to draw in casual customers or to get some extra cash from shoppers there for other reasons, and so big displays with covers face out. As a kid in the late '60s, early '70s I recall that kind of display at a Carl's Drug Store for paperbacks.

As a '40s movie fan, while everyone else was tagging which pulp mag was which in post 323, what popped out at me were the movie magazines. Top row, third from right, features Van Johnson; 2nd row, about mid-way, looks like a very young Dane Clark. The women featured on those covers seem a bit more generic or maybe just less in focus, although three or four in from the 4th row from top looks like Betty Grable.

With no Internet at the time, this was how folks got their celebrity gossip. Those were the days.

 

[Extollager]

I'm not terribly well informed about popular culture, but haven't Western comics, paperbacks, magazines, movies, TV shows become much less common now than they were as recently as the early 1970s?

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I'm not terribly well informed about popular culture, but haven't Western comics, paperbacks, magazines, movies, TV shows become much less common now than they were as recently as the early 1970s?

Definitely. In 1959, the top year, no less than 30 Western TV series were running on American prime time; and there were just three networks! As far as movies go, maybe the 1930's and 1940's, when there were zillions of low budget Westerns made, along with many higher budget ones, although the genre was still strong up to the 1970's maybe. Western comics, probably post-World War Two to the boom in superhero comics in the early 1960's. Paperback Westerns, 1940's to 1970's, I think. The Western fiction magazines rose and fell with the rest of the pulps; 1930's and 1940's the peak years.

Just off the top of my head, with some quick research on Wikipedia and such.