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[CLOSED] Cool historical stuff for sale 1940's-1950s, but hardly any comics NOW 20% OFF!
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Your Child and Radio, TV, Comics and Movies by Paul Witty.  1952. 

On eBay, it's called rare, and I guess I can understand why because I didn't have one for years.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1952-Anti-Comics-Comic-Book-Booklet-mentions-Batman-Superman-Suspense-etc/321307843850

Now that I have three undercopies, this is absolutely not what I'd call rare, but still a really cool look at how comics were viewed and defended in the 1950's.

Copy A $25  SOLD milhouseb (tape pull back cover)
Copy B $35  SOLD Dinsesh_S 
Copy C $35 SOLD Qua-Brot

Copy A, with tape pull back cover

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Copy B

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Copy C (sorry I neglected to get a BC scan.  It's virtually identical to copy B. You wont' be disappointed.)

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5 minutes ago, SOTIcollector said:

Your Child and Radio, TV, Comics and Movies by Paul Witty.  1952. 

On eBay, it's called rare, and I guess I can understand why because I didn't have one for years.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1952-Anti-Comics-Comic-Book-Booklet-mentions-Batman-Superman-Suspense-etc/321307843850

Now that I have three undercopies, this is absolutely not what I'd call rare, but still really cool look at how comics were viewed and defended in the 1950's.

Copy A $25 (tape pull back cover)
Copy B $35
Copy C $35

Copy A, with tape pull back cover

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Copy B

 

Copy C (sorry I neglected to get a BC scan.  It's virtually identical to copy B. You wont' be disappointed.)

 

Take copy A please!

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Comics, Radio, Movies - And Children by Josette Frank. 1949, Public Affairs Pamphlet #148 in a series. This book went through several editions, eventually including "Television" in the title.  This is the original edition.  $90  SOLD Comics-n-ERB

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Headquarters Detective, v1, #1, June, 1940.  I call this the secret origin of crime and horror comics, because this issue of this magazine profoundly influenced the comic book industry. It's story time...

In the 1940's New York had a law on the books that prohibited the sale of a "magazine.. principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures, or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime." Under this statute, a bookseller was convicted of selling this very magazine, Headquarters Detective #1.

The bookseller's case made its way through the court system over the years, until the United States Supreme Court, on March 29, 1948, struck down New York's law as unconstitutional.  The Supreme Court case involving this magazine paved the way for an explosion of crime comic books and eventually horror comics as well.  Just Google "Winters v. New York" for more about the court case.

Yours for $95.  SOLD Bounty_Coder
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And finally (at least for tonight...)

Writer's Digest, November, 1947.  This features an article by some guy named Stan Lee, "There's Money in Comics".  Stan shares his secrets for writing scripts and gives tips for submitting stories.  I read an online source that indicated it was this article that led Stan to write "The Secrets Behind the Comics", but I have not been able to verify that. In any event, a very cool old Timely/Marvel piece, complete with a sample of Blonde Phantom art and -script.  $395

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1 hour ago, SOTIcollector said:

Headquarters Detective, v1, #1, June, 1940.  I call this the secret origin of crime and horror comics, because this issue of this magazine profoundly influenced the comic book industry. It's story time...

In the 1940's New York had a law on the books that prohibited the sale of a "magazine.. principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures, or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime." Under this statute, a bookseller was convicted of selling this very magazine, Headquarters Detective #1.

The bookseller's case made its way through the court system over the years, until the United States Supreme Court, on March 29, 1948, struck down New York's law as unconstitutional.  The Supreme Court case involving this magazine paved the way for an explosion of crime comic books and eventually horror comics as well.  Just Google "Winters v. New York" for more about the court case.

Yours for $95.
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3 hours ago, SOTIcollector said:

Yank magazine from 1945 featuring a two-page article with photos of some great GA books.  Heavily worn with paper loss at the spine.  Two copies, $25 each.
 

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Copy B

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Copy B

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Take a copy A from here amd copy C from your child and comics and TV (I can't remember the name this late at night)

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Patsy Walker #15, Canadian edition.  Lots of really cool stuff here.  

First off, it's the Canadian printing, and you know those are super tough to come by.  

Next, it's full of GGA, with Patsy and others.  It might be a stretch to say that it pushes the envelope with respect to relationships that are shown in a 1940's book, but you'll see that at the start of the book Patsy is alone in bed and is awakened by her mother... By the end of the book, she is waking up in bed with her friend Nancy, who says, "Did you enjoy the party, Patsy?"  Mmmm hmmm.  

And on top of all that, it appears to have an error on some pages, where the cyan was left off, leaving pages made up of only black, yellow, and magenta.  

So the book has a lot going for it.  

But of course, it has a few major problems as well.  Most significant is that the centerfold is missing.  The next two inner wraps that remain are loose.  There's a big, ugly stain on the FC that bleeds through the entire cover.  The upper right of the FC has a production defect, where the paper extends beyond the edge of the book because that corner was folded under during the production process.  So condition is really problematic.  

If you've bought something from this thread, then it's yours for $1.  Otherwise, it's $15.  SOLD comicparadox

 

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Tops v1#1, March, 1954.  The first issue of this little (about half the size of a comic book) magazine has a great two-page piece on EC comics' horror books, with a publication date one month before the publication of SOTI and the commencement of the US Senate hearings into the dangers of comics.  This spread includes several panels from Wally Wood's "in gratitude..." which appeared in Shock Suspenstories #11.  It also features an article about Robert Irwin, the murderer Dr. Fredric Wertham wrote about in his 1949 book "The Show of Violence."  And of course, you have cheesy and sleazy 1950's pinup photos and articles.  $95
 

 

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