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I came across this cool old picture in a copy of REMINISCE magazine. The article was about the kid's first job as a soda jerk in Chicago during the 1950s...he said this was taken in 1951, but I think it's late 1952 or early 53 judging from the comics on the rack.
Using a magnifying glass, I could make out some of the titles, then using the Grand Comicbook Database and a price guide, I figured out the numbers...if you bought only one copy of each facing I could name (then put them away keeping them in mint), it would have cost you $2.00 in 1952- current value approx $4500 in mint! And if you grabbed mutiple copies...
Walt Disney Silly Symphonies #1 (2 copies in different placings- 1st AThree Little Pigs $575 each!)
Bugs Bunny Vacation Funnies #3
Crime & Punishment #60
Ozark Ike #25
Actual Confessions #13
Black Cat Mystery #36
True War #2
Web Of Evil #1 (Quality Comics, the big prize at $750!)
G.I.Joe #15
Fighting Fronts! #2
Eerie #9
Chamber of Chills #22
Flyboy #2
True War #3
Hot Rod Comics #4
Henry #27
Paul Terry's Comics 394
Cisco Kid #11
Strange Suspense Stories #3
The rack itself appears to be in a pretty haphazard stocking, there are magazines mixed in with comics etc. And it doesn't seem like they pulled off issues, so maybe the comics were second hand or the kid was just really bad at his job? Interestingly, no DC books, and only the one Marvel Atlas romance (Actual Confessions). Still a cool Golden Age scene. Somebody fire up the way-back, huh?
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