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Robbie Moubert
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Robbie Moubert
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Matt Hawes
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Awesome work, guys!!
That "Crown Comics" #1 is surprising to see even in the pre-Comics Code era, as the lady certainly looks like she isn't wearing anything.
"The Spirit" #2 by Vital.... Sigh. I used to own that comics, even before I became a shop owner. I traded it to a friend for some of his comics, but he got the better end of that deal, honestly.
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Doug Centers
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That Ribtickler comic seems out of place. Almost looks like an underground comic from the late sixties or early seventies.
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Neil Lindholm
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It would make sense that it would look similar. The guys in the late sixties and early 70s had read these comics when they were kids in the 40's and 50's.
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Adam Schulman
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Most of what I see are indeed wartime related, with the Japanese soldiers being made to look monstrous. 1945 was the final days of World War II, and though it doesn't make it right, most Americans weren't feeling too kindly toward Japan, with whom we were engaged it a bitter conflict
*** Yes, that's what I was talking about. Nothing even vaguely similar happened to depictions of Germans, of course. The covers of superhero comics where the heroes are fighting Nazis don't do anything to make the Nazi soldiers look particularly grotesque. That was only saved for the "Japs."
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Matt Hawes
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Adam, unquestionably there was racism involved. After all, people with German heritage living in America weren't shipped off to live in camps, either. Sadly, while we have progressed some degree, even today we still deal with racism and xenophobia. Most of the racists in our society just tries to hide it more nowadays, or disguise it as something else
Anyway, while definitely a worthy topic, I am hoping to keep this thread about the comic book displays at newsstands and shops. One interesting facet of that is when looking at those past displays we do get to see how times have changed, for good and bad.
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Tim Cousar
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During my senior year of high school, I worked in a drug store with a spinner rack. The magazine and comics distributor would come into the store with a couple of tubs and set out some of the new issues and pull the old issues of the same titles and then continue until all the new stuff was set out. He would put a sticker of some kind on the top of the tub of old stuff and take it away with him.
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Rick Senger
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I seem to recall hearing that for every copy sold, typically one was returned back in the day? Sounds like a ton of copies of Action #1, Detective #27, etc. were just vaporized or recycled with returns and the wartime paper drives.
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