Posted: 14 August 2020 at 1:43am | IP Logged | 10
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Thanks Rebecca and James! I have spent years searching out such photos. I especially love the vintage stuff, from the earliest days of comics up to the 1980s. Later pictures still are cool, but there's something particularly awesome about old pictures (and nostalgic for me from the 1970s-1980s era).
Typically, fake photos aren't a real issue with most photos of people reading comics, but there's one that annoys me because it is passed along as legitimate. It's a Boris Karloff photo where he is holding a girl while they peruse a comic book spinner rack. Karloff and the child were actually looking at comics, but the display was a random mix of titles. Somebody thought it would be cute to Photoshop horror comics over the real titles. Sure, it is kinda funny, but I think most people think it's the real picture.
I mentioned this simply because it nags me when I see the fake, which I don't include in my collection. Newsstand comics photos are sometimes manipulated so that it appears there are some really classic comics on display. One particular photo has a row of "Action Comics" #1 that was not really on display (in fact, it's entertainment magazines that was really on display in the photo, not even comics). These fakes I avoid. I only want to keep the real deals. Thankfully, there's a great number of those on the 'Net.
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