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

[dask]

Until the next movie discovery:

 

[alexvss]

In Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the mise-en-scene features a Sociology book, thus stating that the movie is a study on human behavior right at your face.

Not that old a movie though. And pretty boring, if you'd ask me.

 

[Randy M.]

Until the next movie discovery:
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A mystery reader. The Tragedy of X is an Ellery Queen (under a pseudonym, Barnaby Ross). The Rubber Band by Rex Stout. Think Fast, Mr. Moto by John P. Marquand -- about a Japanese detective/spy, they stopped abruptly around 1941. A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler; an example of dumbing down titles for Americans well before Harry Potter.

 

[Pyan]

A nice clear one, from 1939. Unfortunately there's not enough visible of the Amazing cover (top, centre) to identify the issue.
Edit - it's actually November 1938.

 

[dask]

Maybe this one, January 1939:

 

[dask]

That Life Magazine on the bottom left, what in the world is that mess next to it, on the right?

 

[Pyan]

That Life Magazine on the bottom left, what in the world is that mess next to it, on the right?

If it was about forty years later, I'd have said the Emperor Palpatine, but...

 

[Pyan]

Maybe this one, January 1939:
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Given the revised date, it'll be this one:

 

[Pyan]

Here's the Look cover: the 1938 equivalent of 'clickbait'. Sexy costume (for the era), celebrity scandal, Hitler, drugs and sport scandals...

And the Life issue: "Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, the Kim Kardashian of her era..."
The sensational debut and fall of the world’s first ‘celebutante’

 

[Extollager]

This Nov. 1938 issue must be the Astounding on the far right in the photo. And what a nifty cover that is!

 

[dask]

Still think it’s the January issue. Sometimes periodicals, mostly notably comics, are dated in advance two or three months like Marvel and DC did in the 60s.

 

[Extollager]

I'm sure you're right about the publishers' practices regarding cover dates of some monthly (also bimonthly?) magazines. Also, we can see here that more than one issue might be left on a newsstand.

Funny to see that Poultry magazine. Maybe lots of people kept their own hens at the time, even in urban settings, for the sake of fresh eggs.

I think this is the Time cover:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Lots of copies of this one visible:

 

[Pyan]

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Still think it’s the January issue. Sometimes periodicals, mostly notably comics, are dated in advance two or three months like Marvel and DC did in the 60s.

Yes, you’re right about the one on the left, so the one In the middle (where you can only see the logo) is probably the same.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Here's the one two spaces to the left of Amazing.

Can anybody read the title of the one between them? Given its location with the other, it should be a pulp fiction magazine of some kind, but it might be something like a glamour/fashion magazine.

 

[Extollager]

That Life Magazine on the bottom left, what in the world is that mess next to it, on the right?

It's an issue of Ken magazine. I haven't found that particular issue yet. It seems to have been called "The Insider's Magazine" and to have been a short-lived oversize mag. Here's a Ken cover you'll see again and again if you go looking for the mag.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

It's an issue of Ken magazine. I haven't found that particular issue yet. It seems to have been called "The Insider's Magazine" and to have been a short-lived oversize mag. Here's a Ken cover you'll see again and again if you go looking for the mag.

I can't seem to grab the image directly, but the issue in the photo appears to be this issue.

Ken | November 17, 1938 at Wolfgang's

Vintage Magazine | Ken

www.wolfgangs.com

Quite striking cover art that magazine had!

 

[Extollager]

Right in the middle of the photo, there's an issue of The Spider -- I think it's this one, dated Dec. 1938 I believe:

 

[Extollager]

Below that Spider mag is this issue of The Shadow:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Two spaces to the right of Amazing:

I can't quite make out the title of the sports fiction pulp between it and Amazing.