Camera Comics of the 1940s

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Camera Comics was published in the 1940s by the US Camera Publishing Company to spur excitement among youngsters around amateur photography. Along with the exciting tales of Kid Click, Linda Lens, and Jim Lane, Insurance Investigator, the comics also included HOWTO projects, like the above "Make A Pistol Grip For Your Camera." Camera Comics (accidental mysteries)

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”Jim Lane, Insurance Investigator”

How could that NOT be exciting?
- Boundegar
  
  Superman is lame. I want Jim Lane, Insurance Investigator!
Mitchell Glaser

A pistol grip for your camera may have seemed like a good idea back then, but today it would probably get you shot. And in Florida it would be legal to shoot you.
Susan Carley Oliver

I want a pistol grip for my iPhone.
- jackbird
  
  Here you go: http://www.zacuto.com/zgrip-iphone-pro
  
  or: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonatherton/apptag-laser-blaster?ref=search if you want something completely silly.
http://www.facebook.com/mvogts Mike Vogts

Polly….lens cap!
SomeGuyNamedMark

I prefer “Biclops”, the glasses wearing superhero by Lenscrafters
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jasper-Huxley/100001713326211 Jasper Huxley

I filmed a bellydance show last night using a Panasonic HDC-SD90 fitted with a grey painted metal pistol grip from a 1960s movie camera. It really makes it far easier to hold it steady. It may have vaguely looked threatening, but I didn’t hold it out in front of me like a pistol, and I was in Canada, so it was OK.
- http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
  
  ”… and I was in Canada, so it was OK.”
  
  There a SO MANY situations that can apply to.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

My first digital camera was an Argus Phazer, which looked like a little ray gun.
http://www.topdigitalcamerasreview.com/pictures/cameras/argus-dc-2300-photo-phazer-med.jpg
I’d be very nervous to use it these days.
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I like the idea of Camera Comics.
oldtaku

This reminds me of Radar Secret Service:
http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Radar_Secret_Service
http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

I used to be a newspaper photographer. It’s uncanny- it was exactly like this!
- malindrome
  
  I used to be a newspaper photographer like you … Then I took an arrow in the knee.
timquinn

and Eadward Muybridge as “The Beav.”
sean

Sexy girl being carried: “So just what is this modeling job going to entail, Mr. Lane?”