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

[dask]

Doc Martin

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

This appears to be an imaginary book (and apparently a reference to a real book called The Assertive Woman.) If so, that's an amazingly convincing fake back and front cover.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

From Satan's Sadists (1969):

A real book:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

A very poorly done fake book from Doctor Dracula (1978):

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

From Gideon's Day (1958)

The fact that a Manchester newspaper is found in London is the key to catching a killer.

 

[Pyan]

The Manchester Guardian was founded in 1821 and went national and changed its name to just The Guardian in 1959.
It only started being printed in London in 1961, so it's entirely possible that a copy being found there in 1943(5?) would be highly suspicious, especially as wartime travel restrictions would be in place.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

The Manchester Guardian was founded in 1821 and went national and changed its name to just The Guardian in 1959.
It only started being printed in London in 1961, so it's entirely possible that a copy being found there in 1943(5?) would be highly suspicious, especially as wartime travel restrictions would be in place.

Nice analysis!

It's very hard to see in this image, but the date is actually Nineteen Fifty-something. Anyway, it's definitely post-war.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

From How to Succeed With Girls (1964):

Pete Boswell is a character in the film, so this is fake. They went to the trouble of embossing the cover.

Fake paperback. They apparently covered up the cover of a real Pocket Book.

Real magazines and comic books.

I think this is the one at the bottom:

Next to that one, judging by the year (1963) and the colors I can see:

And I think this is the one above Mad magazine, based on the year and the white background:

 

[dask]

Nice work.

 

[dask]

Tulsa King

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Interesting to see what are evidently well-used library books instead of pristine volumes.

 

[dask]

Most likely this has already been done but I don’t feel like double checking over 700 posts: Oppenheimer

 

[Extollager]

Great screen shots here.

That'd be Ditko art on the Gorgo.

 

[dask]

Perry Mason, season 1, episode 4:

 

[Dave]

"Building Code Under Fire" - the Building Code crops up quite a bit in these fake Newspapers. More than in real Newspapers I suspect. I wonder why that is? They need to have something more mundane to compliment the splash headline, but why Building Codes?

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Somehow that piece of news doesn't seem worthy of the gigantic typeface.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Something a little different . . .

From Bigfoot (1970):

The movie poster is for Between Fighting Men (1932) with Western star Ken Maynard.

The punchline? The guy on the phone is Ken Maynard.

 

[Extollager]

Brilliant!

 

[JunkMonkey]

From Dark Star

Found two:

'Bride of the Lash in the House of Lust!' They don't write them like that anymore....

 

[JunkMonkey]

I've got nowhere with the middle one. I've rotated and stretched it to make it more legible and been through endless sites of 1970s American porny mag covers (tough work but it has to be done) and got nowhere.