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...

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

From The Ripper (1985):

Looks like a real book, but I cannot find anything with that exact title. The guy holding the book claims it's by "Leo Matlin," which may be a sideways allusion to real film critic Leonard Maltin.

 

[dask]

D.O.A.

I suspect this is the issue of Life Magazine on display.

 

[dask]

Silent Witness:

 

[dask]

Would be really surprised if this hasn’t been used before, but just in case:

Perhaps this issue?

 

[Dave]

In The Holiday (2006), Kate Winslet's character is a Daily Telegraph book reviewer, and her fake cottage in Shere, Surrey, where Cameron Diaz's character stays, has a bookcase of books shown in the background. Her London office also has a row of books to the left of her computer screen. Diaz also falls asleep from jet-lag in front of a pile of books popular at the time the film was made such as Atonement and The Kite Runner. (Cameron Diaz's character makes film trailers, so her home in LA also has wall-to-wall DVD shelves.) Unfortunately, I don't have many screencaps showing the books but found these online. The first is of the DVDs, the second is the office.

The film is only 18 years old but it manages to feature "brick" mobile phones, CD players and a DVD rental shop!!!

 

[Dave]

Okay I found what I was looking for now... The bookcases and pile of books...

 

[Dave]

Bob Dylan - Chronicles: Volume One
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Eckhart Toller - The Power of Now
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

 

[dask]

Bob Dylan - Chronicles: Volume One
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Eckhart Toller - The Power of Now
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Could that be Corrections by Jonathan Franzen on top of the Dylan?

 

[dask]

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Perhaps this issue?

This could be the Superboy:

 

[dask]

Possibly the Hunting magazine below the Superman comic:

 

[dask]

Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery: