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

[Extollager]

No identifiable books I guess. These images are from The Spanish Captive, like a good Hitchcock movie complete with a nifty McGuffin. But I like the bookshop.

 

[Pyan]

 

[dask]

Alexander’s Ragtime Band:

 

[JunkMonkey]

From Garth Merenghi ep. 3 - Skipper the Eye Child

 

[Phyrebrat]

Here's one that resonated: From this week's 'Spirou et moi' page in which, each week, a BD artist or writer is interviewed and illustrates the way they got the comic bug. The reason it resonates is because that's the exact same bound volume of Spirou I am reading at the moment.

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This brings back fond memories of childhood holidays en France, on the hypermarches looking at all the French language comic books. They had reams and reams of them. That and cheap fishing tackle got me thru those hols.

 

[Pyan]

That and cheap fishing tackle got me thru those hols

And pommes frites in paper bags sold from the camp-site kiosks - 20 centimes a poke...