The drawing shows a smaller cabinet than Franklin's specimen; I'd be curious as to whether it was offered in multiple sizes for different venues. My investigation found only one other US patent for a vending machine that specified comics as opposed to just magazines in general, that being one issued in 1964 to a Ronald William Searle (no, not that Ronald William Searle, though I have no idea if there's any relation) of Christchurch, New Zealand. Here, for the record, are all the magazine vending machine patents.
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Thanks for finding the patent for this.
I can imagine a small town drug store owner getting sick of kids "not buying anything" and then buying one of these contraptions. I wonder if there's more comic book vending machines or orgone generators?
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