GA Photo Albums 0

[Half-Gringo]

Dealer friend gave these to me last year.

Items like this wonder the history of the collection and where they are now... First five pages of each shown.

[Inaflash]

Am I seeing what I think? Are those old photos of old comic books which were new when the photos were taken? 

Ken

[Jayman]

If only they kept the comics and not the photos! 

[Half-Gringo]

There's a price sticker on one album from Read's Dept Store. CT based... Not that it indicates anything but any and all info is great now. Next five pages....

 

[Sqeggs]

Interesting.  Don't think I've ever seen an album of vintage photos of GA covers -- if that's what these are.

[adamstrange]

Those are very cool!  It would be even cooler if we were able to locate the exact copy of one of the books pictured.

[Half-Gringo]

Wish I knew more about photography and history of types of photos...may have to research to assist in knowing the approximate time these were taken.

Next 5 have some biggies...

 

[gino2paulus2]

Neat!!!

[BB-Gun]

I have one of those.  I saved this album from the early sixties.  I think it is 53 or 54 years old.

 

[BB-Gun]

Here are a few pics.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 16, 2017 by BB-Gun

[BB-Gun]

My photo album contains pictures from Jerry Bails.  As you probably know, he photographed most of the golden age comics that contained superhero stories.  He sold these black and white copies and prepared microfilm to save the interior stories.  The microfilm library is at Michigan State University.  Additional microfilm that belonged to Jerry was sold on ebay several years ago.  I have the early Detectives in black and white as well as early All Star comics which were photographed in color.   I think your albums belonged to a collector who purchased the photographs from Jerry back in the sixties.

 

Edited June 26, 2017 by BB-Gun

[BB-Gun]

I have posted copies of my pics and yours below.  Note the Flash 7 has the same slant and shadow.  I assume they are from the same source.

[Half-Gringo]

BB-Gun, thank you very much for the info. Did not know that; only vaguely knew about comics at the university. Gotta love the boards for the history that can be learned here. Gracias again!

Remaining photos

 

[BB-Gun]

You have a lot of those covers, more than me.  I don't know how big the original collection was but you must remember those of us that didn't live through the golden age had never seen the covers before.  I was happy to get a black and white copy of the Master Comics and Captain America covers.  Fanzines didn't use a lot of Photo offset reproduction and little was known about the content of many issues because it was constantly changing.  Jerry gave us photos, indexes and stories first and then identified the writers and artists.  The first part still continues but identification of the artist and writers was started early before everyone became too old.  Fortunately Bill Schelly has been keeping track of who did what and when, I think.

 

Edited June 28, 2017 by BB-Gun

[Half-Gringo]

Fantastic info indeed BB. Not knowing a lot about this area (and haven't done any research yet), are there any particular instances where comic artists/writers are unknown or disputed?

[Philflound]

This is why I love the photo journals. They show many of the old covers in nice color, most copies being from pedigree collections and nice shape.

[Half-Gringo]

Back in the mid 90s the Marvel one was given to me as a gift. Years later when I took the plunge down the rabbit hole of GA collecting, the two volume set was top of the list to get. Invaluable books in my small reference library. Speaking of which, maybe a thread where folks show off their resource materials... here's mine.

 

[BB-Gun]

I have two shelves with books in my office.  The rest are in boxes or in the closet.  My files are mostly on the external hard drive.

[Half-Gringo]

Right on! Thanks for sharing the photos. Had someone tell me once that I don't collect comics... I collect white boxes. Ha! 

[adamstrange]

27 minutes ago, Half-Gringo said:

I collect white boxes. Ha!