Originally Posted by Frozen in Time
I am in full agreement with both of you regarding magazines. The true availability of vintage publications with prominent players on the cover in top condition is extremely under appreciated. Before I started my obsession with vintage Mantle photos (and in particular Type 1 Rookie images), I had concentrated on early newspapers, Sunday magazines, Roto inserts, and magazines with covers of the Mick.
Finding mint, file copies with no mailing labels of '51 Baseball, '56 Life, '56 Newsweek, '56 SI and '53 Time as well as other notable and rare publications (Guideposts, Men, Quick, Suppressed, Timeout, Rawlings Catalogs, and many others) took a very long time. The Sunday magazines (e.g. Parade, NY Magazine, etc.) and interior Rotos are particularly difficult to find in NRMT-MT condition because of the fragile nature of the paper and how they were stored. However, these often provide some of the most striking and largest, vintage, published color images of Mickey in existence.
In addition, with a little perseverance, I was surprised to located a number of foreign publications (Mexico, France, Cuba, Canada, Japan, etc,) with terrific images of Mickey on the cover.
Overall I found this facet of my collecting to be very rewarding (not to mention informative with the accompanying stories inside).
Craig
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