First TV on a Comic Book Cover

[Red Oak Kid]

Ok, I've got way too much time on my hands, I admit.

Anyway, I found this cover of House of Mystery #17 from August 1953 with a drawing of a television camera on it.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=10692&zoom=4

I was just wondering if there are any EARLIER comic book covers that feature a television camera, or receiver on it.

It has to be a tv camera, not a film camera.

Like I said, I'll accept a drawing of a tv receiver as well as a tv camera.

[Mike Kuypers]

The first thing that came to mind was Della Vision (http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/enlarge.cgi?date=2000-05-02), but that was early 1955.

[Red Oak Kid]

I'm sure the concept of sending pictures thru the air was probably shown in Buck Rogers. But I'm not counting that.

I'm thinking of television as we know it.

RCA actually introduced a working model at the 1939 World's Fair so I think it would have to be a comic published after that. RCA was all set to introduce consumer models then, but WW II intervened and they had to postpone things till after the war. I think the first working commercial stations went on the air in 1948.

[Lone Ranger]

The first one that came to mind was the cover to Patsy Walker #22, from May 1949.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/patsywaler22.jpg

[Brian Cronin]

I shall award two cool points for anyone who can beat the Patsy Walker cover!

-Brian

[Lone Ranger]

Here's another one from 1949. It hit the stands a couple of months after Patsy Walker.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/Felix10.jpg

[Red Oak Kid]

How about March of 1946.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=4959&zoom=4

[Lone Ranger]

How about March of 1946.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=4959&zoom=4

You know what the funny thing is... I actually have that book as part of my Infinity Cover collection, I've used it in the Classic Cover game and I completely forgot about it.

Good work, Mac.

[Red Oak Kid]

You know what the funny thing is... I actually have that book as part of my Infinity Cover collection, I've used it in the Classic Cover game and I completely forgot about it.

Good work, Mac.

I knew it looked familiar and it crossed my mind that it had been used in the game before.

But I never paid any attention to the date. In fact, I had to triple check the date just to be sure it wasn't from 48 or 49.

It's a pretty amazing cover because I think tv cabinets like that only existed on the drawing board of manufacturers in 1946. The first sets available to consumers had tiny 7 inch screens mounted in huge wooden cabinets.

[Lone Ranger]

Here's one from 1947.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/LTMM82.jpg