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

[Pyan]

No prizes for the three Action Comics in the middle!

Bottom middle:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

The Action Comics issue, in perfect condition, is worth ten million bucks; first appearance of Superman.

Some of the pulp magazines:

 

[Extollager]

From the Foyle’s War teleplay “The Hide.” Foyle brings a couple of books to a prisoner whose trust he needs to gain.

 

[Bick]

Terrific book, by the way. Does anyone read Waugh much these days?

 

[JunkMonkey]

Terrific book, by the way. Does anyone read Waugh much these days?

To my surprise I found recently my 18 year old daughter has read some. Apparently she enjoyed Brideshead Revisited but didn't get on with Scoop at all - couldn't get past the dated racial stereotyping apparently. I think it says something about my parenting skills that I spend my time reading comic books, and pulp SF with lurid covers - and my kids read proper literature

 

[hitmouse]

To my surprise I found recently my 18 year old daughter has read some. Apparently she enjoyed Brideshead Revisited but didn't get on with Scoop at all - couldn't get past the dated racial stereotyping apparently. I think it says something about my parenting skills that I spend my time reading comic books, and pulp SF with lurid covers - and my kids read proper literature

I think Scoop is one of the funniest books I have ever read. There is some dated racial characterisation (not nearly as striking as many of Waugh’s contemporaries) but this is mainly a satire on the stupidity and obliviousness of the British establishment.
I like Brideshead and Decline and Fall. Not sure if I have read any of his others.

 

[Pyan]

Scoop, Vile Bodies, Put Out More Flags.

"Ee, she were a grand writer, that Evelyn Waff..."

 

[Extollager]

Terrific book, by the way. Does anyone read Waugh much these days?

A Waugh forum

Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall, Sword of Honour, A Handful of Dust, and that famous one....

Herewith a place to discuss this complex author and his works, but please not the movies and television adaptations. There are subfora for movies and TV. His A Handful of Dust seems to me an ironic masterpiece of control: funny, poignant, severe, audacious, alive. I also particularly like...

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got a little attention eight years ago. It doesn't seem to be the case that he's much read here, at least.

 

[dask]

 

[Pyan]

Illuminated shelf:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Note the column of rip-offs of Mad comics to the right of the reader. Nuts, Eh, Madhouse, Unsane, and Whack. There were a lot more, too.

I think this is the one to the left of the reader's head.

 

[Pyan]

Woody Woodpecker by his feet..

 

[Pyan]

And he's holding:

 

[Pyan]

Next to Woody Woodpecker:

 

[Pyan]

Screen-grab from Jonathan Creek - "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb"

 

[dask]

Killing Season (2013)

 

[CasualDebris]

Killing Season (2013)

Nothing like Hemingway to make you want to wander into the woods with a loaded gun.

 

[dask]

The Prestige (2006)

 

[dask]

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

A 1975 edition, and therefore an anachronism for a series set in the 1950's.