A photograph used to promote a book of street photography of a newsagent’s in Bethnal Green, London, offers a fascinating ​glimpse of how American comics once rubbed shoulders with their British counterparts on the high street

A photograph used to promote a book of street photography of a newsagent’s in Bethnal Green, London, offers a fascinating glimpse of how American comics once rubbed shoulders with their British counterparts on the high street. Look closely in the top part of the window of “S. Lavner”, and you can see copies of comics such as DC Comics The Flash on display. Older downthetubes readers will well…