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The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

These aren't as crazy or fascinating as some of the stuff in this great thread, but I still have photos on my phone so...

A while back, while helping out at an old op-shop I was tasked with taking some old books to the back room, either to get stored away for future sale or to get sent off to other op-shops. One of them was Walt Disney's America, from the... 1960s? I don't have any photos of the front (which isn't enormously interesting to be honest), but I flicked it open to a random page before putting it away and landed on these:

Looking the book up, these must have been from a picture book version of Old Yeller. Fun for the whole family!

A couple of other things I took photos of while putting them away:

An apparently very-popular self-help book from the 70s, with a back cover caked in quotes and extremely cheerful men in suits:

And a friendly reminder that Star Wars Is For Children:

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The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Heath posted:

It must have been cool to make a living painting vaguely erotic thriller covers all day

If the covers were anything like the writing in these pulp stories, they were probably dashed out really quickly and en-masse through a bourbon haze, possibly to meet really strict deadlines, to scrape up something resembling a living.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2018 09:42

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Unexpurgated is a good word. I just want to let everybody know while I remember.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2019 18:39

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Sighted while rummaging around a second-hand book shop: A guide on how to become a television forum moderator...

...and a comic book with an oddly-disconcerting ad for its long-defunct Australian publisher on the back cover. (The comic itself was a reprint of Tarzan newspaper strips from the US.)

# ¿ Apr 9, 2019 13:22

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

I went back to the book shop.

The most horrifying of crafts gets a book all its own...

A selection of back issues of a magazine published by the British Army. Quite what they were doing in an Australian suburb is anybody's guess.

Another UK magazine. This one's on Archive.org if you're looking for that absolute banger of a type-in Battle of Trafalgar BASIC game for your ZX81.

GOING TO HELL WITH THE SPEED OF AN ARROW

# ¿ Apr 16, 2019 12:17

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Another book about the 80's "Satanic Panic":

I picked this up a while back. I don't think I read all of it, but the chapters I read were interesting enough. I might poke at it again.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 06:11

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Gutter Phoenix posted:

I saw a big pile of Destroyer books at my usual haunt the other day.

Wikipedia says there's over 150 books in the series, covering from 1976 to 2018. I suspect at least a few of those may have suffered in quality as a result of the sheer quantity of output...

# ¿ Aug 23, 2019 15:24

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Heath posted:

It's funny to look through it and see stuff made decades or hundreds of years ago and see that it's not significantly different from the weird poo poo you see on any given DeviantArt page today. I think that I and most people have been under the assumption that the internet created the market for weird fetishistic art, but it turns out that humans have literally always been like this. It's kind of sobering, not a feeling I expected when I flipped through a book of old art porn.

You should look up the graffiti found in the ruins of Pompeii for further evidence that civilization hasn't truly changed. It's basically 1,940-year-old shitposting.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2019 10:37

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

She looks like she just realised she left the stove on.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2019 16:39

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Pershing posted:

Yeah, what was the deal with those Christian versions of Archie Comics? How did they come about?

The artist and writer on Archie at the time, Al Hartley, became a born-again Christian in the late '60s. When he started doing stuff with Spire Christian Comics (the publisher of these spinoffs) in the early 70s, he was able to convince the president at Archie to let him license their cast.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 03:11

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Gutter Phoenix posted:

It reminds me of an old Feederz record that had a sandpaper cover so it'd wreck any album stored next to it (on purpose).

The Australian band TISM also experimented with different types of hostile album packaging, although not to the same extent. One of their albums, the cover was sealed on all of the sides so you had to destroy it to get the actual record. On another, all of the text on the cover was in Chinese. On a third, the cover was made to look like it was by a completely different, fictional band, a 1950s doo-wop group called Machiavelli And The Four Seasons, complete with fake song list on the back.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2020 16:16

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Foreign Policy wrote a serious article about this.

quote:

It�s perhaps no surprise, then, that Yogi�s tale captures the complexities of U.N. politics in ways that more straightforward children�s heroes cannot; his quest to subvert park ranger rules becomes an affirmation of the existing order of things.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2021 21:23