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Dwayne Ferguson
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I was thinking about in the old days how John Byrne used to share an old picture of a bunch of kids reading a large verity of comic books in front of an old black and white newsstand back in the day...
I was wondering if John still had it or if anyone else did? The closest I can find to my memory of it it this, but I don't think this was it. 
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Was this it?
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Dwayne Ferguson
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Thanks maybe. i can't remember. I thought there were lots more kids in the picture but I'm getting old. 
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Posted: 13 August 2020 at 7:21am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

This, by Ruth Orkin, is also a favorite.

Google "Kids Reading Comics". It'll break your hearts!

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Jason Czeskleba
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There's no kids in the 1945 bookstore picture on this thread, but there are a huge pile of comics shown.
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Mike Norris
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I like the kid checking out Glamour. Actually I used to look like the kid checking Glamour. 
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Matt Hawes
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I have collected a great number of photos from online, mostly vintage, of kids and adults, famous and regular folk, and saved most to  this album:



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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 13 August 2020 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Nice collection Matt!

I like this one myself... David Crosby of The Byrds reading a Marvel Pop Art Production...


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James Johnson
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Matt,

That's one hell of a collection!!!

Thanks for sharing
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Matt Hawes
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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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Tim Cousar
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I recently ran across this photo in color:

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Hm. Imagined that kid's overalls were blue denim.
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