The Importance of Being Ernest

[scottedelman]

Over at The Beat, Heidi MacDonald recently shared a photo taken in a comics shop in 1967. She found the photo at the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, which has digitized 5,746 images from its photographic archives which originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily News from the

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[scottedelman]

I can see that he's holding the September 1948 issue of My Life: True Stories in Pictures:



But as for the one other comic on the left, there isn't enough of it to tell what it is.

And why there are nudie magazines there, I have no idea! Those aren't comics at all—right?

[jcoville]

IIRC, LA was trying to restrict romance comics as well as horror/crime. Their way of selling it to the media was to display nude girl magazines along side romance comics in hopes people would assume they were one and the same.