![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgEwIma7lM5QOWqMV46aU2LEhCVfzSItM3SO9Y-39WVp6q144RXvHBSg-KDY1GHLVeS4HHPjeSUkG3PT9GKXXDXotsJzX0In7zc8vyb9eHvZpQO0NLxIWp2pQjbu9mhsd1aV6oFW2UsnMF/s400/No+1.jpg)
Click image for larger view.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzObq1XY4LJdN2k28V9dq0xQCc5CdwNlXA5VQE-Ewill5E6649bl0uwoFPt3iT7GRPkZaEm0SKAtsJXvL-FaIiHbjsmFb0MkwwNQrqxC5ng-GgXT3yQnqVH0SSbxFGKhlIGm-55l0d-RUT/s400/No+3.jpg)
Click image for larger view.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Fq-WKkxUY42pvN1h7wa-jHeyG5f3OV_68heiQ6z41dYEJINbPZHvGSmi2g46-1ckRyM-jrl62CbSHZiZaNS1J-f5niA5a4gmZZe6J-ePWih_AO3jGPi1ZRu_sNba2pnYnsArT2b4Gjbq/s400/No+4.jpg)
Click image for larger view.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT4T5djBzOu37KYEe-09B1jratM3lVu8BMwUPPdsjdd-o4XfV63OLYCXRa6HoZhQckMhFkvyHxP1EZHCJvfPqpgDiZ9v7vlh4-0Q3WqSlvnD3F1IvLqP8PZoAfezCAgavAyLLSOJ1CKa_4/s400/No+5.jpg)
Click image for larger view.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgse_oJ4QOUzPjA2DmGIEA-Oeqwcvh-BPuVamxCQ597CXN4YmZaWO8p3Cwe8FISdkeGAEzLNRtVoBtESx8oyZ8KlPQhHdtEg_Ntmb53G5ePrRH5v5YFqhPBh2JvhJMziR-4VI8k8xGfOONa/s400/No+6.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcY6oP2UWbTPZtTos45M3v9kMWAqUv9_8NTO_D6gFWxi1m_BznDIuSZCkQY_aVPWWZckuMijjWH-gE_t_7rhk1by1smbVTtHKmQxM-BQY52aAXXfM_eduxp4MdlDvXFgMwXSlE2df2eGOl/s400/BradySpread.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNNEamHMc4vIwjK2zcb0IfEecz-ENTolHZjgP4zhVLGFLUwBT0CYiKpDkkRL70dZza5uLAQUxUjWZUHt_7T1ktuE5-9hk_rBU6gyzpcK56lN7T_G3zGKC3YjgxkNcuShwp20Vk4vYFaf6/s400/No+7.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWHGbK9PhCH7mpbzDXjf7MyNAgnLrl29IRW9qk2WIfoEEO6JQQLs2DUQMAjbSF1lu2Mq178NRLbipnhnuy3u4oMsEmmBqFL60tb2r_7pm7tco9i4GNhjZvX8agcGoJT9NTFWhrQBuD3-x1/s400/No+8.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgprDEkshQvkl8qFj4JJHf8dfQqj6EpozROQEWqhL1sJJu9VGdpndRTxQs6qWcjyEtLLp2YWLA3gPqlKkjwAmYWIMsp-2b9vz1ldDCvqsnG3go9Wi4yIkir-E_ZBNIF07Yt3-m3OGtPRq_a/s400/No+9.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN5lw9Tjb2i5eOXTkz8-MCgFc59gUclVXpTj8hCUl96FgVQQP9TPXoY_nMt_9fShsknv4zX2xxBF3Zcx6VwIz_aDYn5GPFJ3kVKAU3TkHSfhma9SzImJ5K8Y_lGf0Ok2M7RH76ejSIVtym/s400/JimLane.jpg)
Click image for larger view.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBPe6X9TJYNdUx28FK-oV3OQR4HxLH1Lyz7tKtdBDHZVb-nGVWsuYoRDrvo6AN0fWpnE2GXs-WfHKL_03x7O-27DFJZ-ivAhvwtavjOoL4XFdL6jz93FwIQCrD9XXuADTbP93x9tQNwKfl/s400/KidClick.jpg)
Click image for larger view.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEiEjsSxj_dcQk-YjqIDplMdMa-vUfJHH5GHiGDFw6pe2141eX_Mj6dN1J7peGp8i40P1Yz9K68nq5WphY4puphh6CbmH8viTIvlfGIVYxeEvUyI75d60gMVJzK580Wj39qAkHYgKSgfJP/s400/Lind+Lens.jpg)
Click image for larger view.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgYspfax_9eKkgI0nxJB5RP7okQUxW_jJLhyH40OxAvikaEv-eDAWFWyme_KQWdhbp_BMVnsg6lNJ6Afk1PmGY3wm1vn3lsrmcbJAHNXJj7J7lLesoAGq-tmYBsTvnROM4cXhVW7Datt1e/s400/PistolGrip.jpg)
Click image for larger view.
HERE’S A STRANGE COMIC BOOK FOR YOU. Thanks to my friend and snapshot collector Robert Jackson, who sent me these comics from his collection, I can now share them with reader’s of Accidental Mysteries.
These comic books were published between July 1944 and 1946 by the U.S. Camera Publishing Company, apparently as a way to build interest in the growing hobby of photography. With on-going cornball series like Jim Lane, Insurance Investigator and Kid Click, the publishers were making sure that they were strategically hitting all areas for the growth of photography. Yep! I want to be an insurance investigator and follow people with my camera! Also, Linda Lens was a female professional photographer—very progressive for the day.
While these comic books were obviously targeted to kids, there was always some more adult articles, like how to build a pin hole camera, or how to make wooden “pistol grip” for your camera—a way to make rapid fire pics. This pistol grip device is especially odd— a low-tech approach to a high tech (for the time) device.