46 Vintage Photos of People Reading Comic Books, Highlighting the Simpler Times

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  Superman & Batman in French, 1970

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  Doug reads one of his 1,800 comic books, 1981

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  Golden State Comics Convention, San Diego, CA, 1970

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  A&M Comics and Books, Miami, FL, 1978

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  Kid reading Superman 1966

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  Comic book store 1943 (God I miss this feeling)

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  All Hail the Almighty Comics Rack!

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  Mom reading to the kids, 1942

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  Wonder Woman cosplay at Comic Con, 1980

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  Author Ray Bradbury at the San Diego Golden State Comics Convention in the U.S. Grant Hotel, 1970

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  Reading Tom & Jerry

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  Lots of great comics 1975

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  Kids enjoying Howard the Duck 1976

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  1952, Riders of the Purple Sage

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  Boy from Children's Colony, a school for refugee children, NYC, 1942 (photo by Marjory Collins)

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  Siblings from Dickens, IA, 1936 (photo by Russell Lee)

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  Reading Comic Roundup 1960s

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  Dad snatching the newspaper right as she was reading the comics! Rude!

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  The El at 86th, NYC, 1950

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  Queen City Book Store, Buffalo, NY

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  Comic book bonanza 1939

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  1970s comic book collector

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  Stan Lee, 1954

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  San Francisco, 1971

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  Mexico, 1952

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  Wonder Woman, late 1970s

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  Bill shows a Flash Gordon book to Harry Knowles, at San Diego Comic-Con at the El Cortez Hotel, 1975 (Knowles would go on to found the website Ain't It Cool News)

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  Kids in San Francisco, 1938 (photo by John Gutmann)

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  At some age this becomes impossible 1960s

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  Comic-Con, 1975

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  Boy and his dog, NYC, 1944

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  Sunday morning with Mom, 1956 (photo by Ralph Crane)

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  Taking a comics break during music camp, Interlochen, MI, 1942 (photo by Arthur S. Siegel)

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  More interested in the comic books then the speech by Dwight Eisenhower, Montana, 1952 (photo by Ralph Morse)

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  Sunday funnies with family, Michigan, 1947

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  Teenage boys check the drugstore racks, Des Moines, IA, 1945 (photo by Nina Leen)

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  Street reading, NYC, 1947 (photo by Ruth Orkin)

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  San Diego Comic-Con at the El Cortez hotel, 1977

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  Boxer Joe Louis readys Mighty Mouse, 1948

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  1942 comics rack, Yreka, CA (photo by Russell Lee)

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  Councilman Debs is concerned for the children, 1954

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  A Brooklyn Gang member in front of comic rack, NYC, 1959 (photo by Bruce Davidson)

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  Reading Mad Magazine at summer camp, 1980s (photo by Mark Steinmetz)

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  1960s (Is that kid wearing a suit at home?)

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  Comics with bonus Dalmatian!

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  3D Mighty Mouse, Hicksville, NY, 1953

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