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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 11:08:33 GMT -5
Between Netflix (for the first four episodes on disc) & Hulu (for the final four ... I hadn't realized they were there for streaming), last week I finished watching the highly recommended (at least by me) miniseries adaptation from earlier this year of Stephen King's 11.22.63. All well & good, but of course as a comics fan I immediately seized on this scene from early in Episode No. 2, set on Oct. 29, 1960 --     Someone did a pretty good of stocking those racks, presumably by resorting to an LCS or two. I'm pretty sure I've got all the discernible comics ID'd -- Wonder Woman 118 (cover date 10/60) Batman 131 (4/60) Superman 137 (5/60) Adventure 273 (6/60) Brave & the Bold (first JLA appearance) 28 (3/60) Detective 277 (3/60) Flash 111 (Feb-March 1960), 112 (April-May 1960), 114 (8/60) It's not likely, of course, that all of those issues would still be available at the end of October (when the new arrivals would've borne cover dates of December or so), but still ... decent job by some (I guess) property manager, albeit one whose awareness of that halcyon era didn't extend beyond DC. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Sept 14, 2016 11:40:01 GMT -5
That's cool. With all the comic fanatics making movies and TV series these days, we'll never have to suffer through something like the infamous M*A*S*H episode where Radar reads an Avengers comic from 1963 in a show set in the 1950's.
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Post by Randle-El on Sept 14, 2016 12:19:07 GMT -5
Between Netflix (for the first four episodes on disc) & Hulu (for the final four ... I hadn't realized they were there for streaming), last week I finished watching the highly recommended (at least by me) miniseries adaptation from earlier this year of Stephen King's 11.22.63. All well & good, but of course as a comics fan I immediately seized on this scene from early in Episode No. 2, set on Oct. 29, 1960 -- Someone did a pretty good of stocking those racks, presumably by resorting to an LCS or two. I'm pretty sure I've got all the discernible comics ID'd -- Wonder Woman 118 (cover date 10/60) Batman 131 (4/60) Superman 137 (5/60) Adventure 273 (6/60) Brave & the Bold (first JLA appearance) 28 (3/60) Detective 277 (3/60) Flash 111 (Feb-March 1960), 112 (April-May 1960), 114 (8/60) It's not likely, of course, that all of those issues would still be available at the end of October (when the new arrivals would've borne cover dates of December or so), but still ... decent job by some (I guess) property manager, albeit one whose awareness of that halcyon era didn't extend beyond DC. It's a Warner Bros show, so that explains the DC connection. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 12:23:49 GMT -5
Ah ... cool. I stopped following the corporate connections a long, long time ago.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 14, 2016 12:34:00 GMT -5
I believe that Warner produces Big Bang Theory and you can see only DC products when they visit comic shops.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 14, 2016 12:50:50 GMT -5
The conditions of those comics look fairly new too and add to the authenticity. Signs of a big budget production for this mini-series. And I'm sure a bunch of books got freed from their slabbed captivity as well
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 13:33:00 GMT -5
The conditions of those comics look fairly new too and add to the authenticity. Signs of a big budget production for this mini-series. And I'm sure a bunch of books got freed from their slabbed captivity as well unless of course a prop department with a high quality printer and access to internet pictures didn't just make reproductions of them to use for the scenes rather than spending gobs of money on the originals. Not saying it did, but prop departments usually do things as quickly and cheaply as they can. -M |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 14, 2016 13:39:16 GMT -5
The conditions of those comics look fairly new too and add to the authenticity. Signs of a big budget production for this mini-series. And I'm sure a bunch of books got freed from their slabbed captivity as well unless of course a prop department with a high quality printer and access to internet pictures didn't just make reproductions of them to use for the scenes rather than spending gobs of money on the originals. Not saying it did, but prop departments usually do things as quickly and cheaply as they can. -M And then sold on ebay for ridiculous prices as part of a pedigree collection from the set of a Stephen King film production only to disappoint the purchasers when discovering the inside pages are blank |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 13:40:41 GMT -5
The conditions of those comics look fairly new too and add to the authenticity. Signs of a big budget production for this mini-series. And I'm sure a bunch of books got freed from their slabbed captivity as well unless of course a prop department with a high quality printer and access to internet pictures didn't just make reproductions of them to use for the scenes rather than spending gobs of money on the originals. Not saying it did, but prop departments usually do things as quickly and cheaply as they can. -M Good point. Though why they'd print the covers of 3 different issues of The Flash ... though I guess that's an ongoing TV series, at least according to Wikipedia. (I don't think I've watched a live-action superhero series since ... lord ... the Adam West Batman some 50 years ago. Well, & a couple of the early episodes of Smallville.) |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 14, 2016 13:46:42 GMT -5
I read this Stephen King novel and really enjoyed it. Dan, as a Phil Dick connoisseur, did you ever check out the TV mini-series for Man In The High Castle from last year? It got great reviews
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 14:09:13 GMT -5
I did, Ish. Enjoyed it immensely, & need to see when Season 2 might be kicking off, assuming it hasn't already.
Edit: Dec. 16, Google tells me.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Sept 14, 2016 15:50:15 GMT -5
Just looking at the screen captures, IMO, these covers are fake. They all have a dull look to them. Either they were printed on matte paper or the colors were toned down. They just don't have the glossy look of real comics. Even really old real comics.
P.S. The kid is reading a copy of Dell's Rifleman comic.
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 14, 2016 17:25:32 GMT -5
Or you can just use present day stand ins for really old issues (UGH!)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 14, 2016 17:38:44 GMT -5
This is proof how well comics sold in the good old days. Notice on all the spinners, each holder only has one comic book in it, unlike the dozen or so they were supposed to contain. The store owner obviously was struggling to keep up with the demand
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 15, 2016 7:31:55 GMT -5
I believe that Warner produces Big Bang Theory and you can see only DC products when they visit comic shops. That's hasn't always been the case.. early in the series, they'd show all different publishers comics, and talk about Marvel stuff as much as DC... it was only when it became a runaway hit that all other comics vanished. I mean, they had Stan Lee on a couple episodes! |
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