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1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST
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Primetime

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2 hours ago, Electricmastro said:

A comic book rack as it appeared in Tacoma on August 24, 1946:

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Looks like a Police Comics 59, Modern Comics 54, amongst others.....I guess that store was charging 13 cents per comic instead of 10 cents? Or 2 for 25c. wow, big profit margin. 

 

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=all&type=calendar&month=8&year=1946&sort=alpha

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6 hours ago, Primetime said:

Looks like a Police Comics 59, Modern Comics 54, amongst others.....I guess that store was charging 13 cents per comic instead of 10 cents? Or 2 for 25c. wow, big profit margin. 

 

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=all&type=calendar&month=8&year=1946&sort=alpha

I think those prices applied to the books at the top of the rack above the comics ('Baby Is One', 'How to Sleep', etc.).  I doubt comic books were generically referred to as "Books" in 1946.  Looks like the store just used most of this rack for comics instead of the books it was intended for.  And with good reason!  I like to imagine that Marvel Family, or National Comics or Marvel Mystery Comics were better sellers than "Now We Are Seven"!  :)

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