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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 15, 2016 7:35:27 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 Either that, or they took a bunch of quarter bin comics and printed the covers for them..that'd make a lot more sense from a production cost standpoint, unless they had a contact that just happened to have a big pile of NM Silver Age DC comics lying around. Edit: I see someone already beat me to this.. if someone here know what the first page of the Superman comic looks like that's flopped open a bit, we could probably confirm  |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 15, 2016 8:11:37 GMT -5
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.) I can understand you not having seen the show (though it's well worth watching) but surely you must have come across a trailer or one of the many internet reviews/previews/discussions about it? It's a very popular, quite high profile show! |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 15, 2016 8:13:47 GMT -5
Or you can just use present day stand ins for really old issues (UGH!) That scene has irritated the hell out of me for nearly thirty years. How stupid did they think the audience were? |
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Post by Farrar on Sept 15, 2016 10:17:07 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. Yeah, they look fake to me too. For one thing look at the spines of the Wonder Woman #117 and the Flash #111 in the lower right rack--there's too much white (from the spine) showing on the cover. And that same Flash comic and the Detective cover near the kid's head don't seem to contain any pages. For those two it's like someone took a sheet of paper and reproduced the cover art on the right side and then folded the sheet over ( folio/ "book") but didn't add interior pages.  Regarding the lack of Marvels here (apart from the corporate considerations that others have noted), my neighborhood/mom and pop stores didn't all carry the same comics. One store had just carried DCs (mostly Superman books, and then some Batman); another store had Charltons, and Tower (stuff I wasn't interested in back then); yet another had mostly Marvels and Archies. It was up to the retailers. So that aspect seemed realistic to me. It is intriguing though to think what Marvels the show could have displayed in those late Oct. 1960 racks -- this was pre-FF remember--and Marvel's rather small output back then included Millie the Model, Two-Gun Kid, Astonish, Suspense, Strange Tales and a few other books. Millie may have the most name recognition (to the TV watching public) of that bunch   ! Anyway @dan , many thanks for posting these images. It's a lot of fun to see them. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 15, 2016 10:57:42 GMT -5
Look at that Superman in the foreground. You can see what purports to be the first page, but it's like no first page ever in a Superman Silver Age comic. Looks more like another cover or an ad.
Plus you see copies of the various comics on both racks... not that this couldn't have happened with kids reading them and putting them back wherever.
But it looks more like they made X-number of copies of several comics and then just popped them into the spaces in the racks.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 15, 2016 11:21:02 GMT -5
I'm gonna get me a genuine rack sometime.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2016 14:52:13 GMT -5
Not FROM a spinner rack, but I espied another vintage comic this a.m. in a 2012 flick called Not Fade Away. If memory serves, the girl reading the Archie is the younger sister of a guy who's forming a band around the beginning of the British invasion; what I presume was the Beatles' first Ed Sullivan appearance is referenced shortly before or after, though that occurred in 2/64 & I think the narration refers to the partially shown (or at least heard) broadcast as occurring just a couple of weeks after JFK's assassination ... I can't check because the disc started having problems a few minutes after that, & I've returned it to Netflix for a replacement. Anyway, it's entirely possible that the kid is intended to be reading a comic 5+-years-old rather than something new(ish) off the 'stands, I guess. (It does look rather well-worn.) This was Archie #95, cover-dated 9/58.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 13:36:35 GMT -5
More movie prop comics in this scene from Affleck's new flick the Accountant...
look in drawer, what he takes out and what he leaves behind...
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 6, 2016 14:13:41 GMT -5
Have been watching Netflix's Stranger Things and am surprised not to have seen any comics. Dungeons and Dragons plays a big part in the show and the two seemed to go hand in hand in the early 80s.
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Post by Randle-El on Oct 6, 2016 15:14:05 GMT -5
Have been watching Netflix's Stranger Things and am surprised not to have seen any comics. Dungeons and Dragons plays a big part in the show and the two seemed to go hand in hand in the early 80s. Pretty sure there were a couple of shots of the kids holding some X-Men comics from that era. |
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