Disclosed is a direct positive photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one photographic emulsion layer containing previously non-fogged internal latent image-type silver halide grains, wherein the photographic emulsion layer contains at least one compound of formulae (I), (II) and (III) preferably along with at least one compound of formulae (IV), (V) and (VI), and that the internal latent image-type silver halide grains are silver bromide, silver chloride, silver iodobromide, silver chlorobromide or silver chloroiodobromide grains and contain at least one metal of manganese, copper, zinc, cadmium, rhenium, lead, bismuth, indium, thallium, zirconium, lanthanum, chromium, mercury and metals of Group VIII of the Periodic Table.M.sub.2 SO.sub.3 (I)MHSO.sub.3 (II)M.sub.2 S.sub.2 O.sub.5 (III)wherein M represents a hydrogen atom or a cation.R--SO.sub.2 S--M.sup.1 (IV)R--SO.sub.2 S--R.sup.1 (V)R--SO.sub.2 S--L.sub.m --S.O.sub.2 S--R.sup.2 (VI)wherein R, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 which may be the same or different, each represents an aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group, M.sup.1 represents a cation, L represents a divalent linking group, and m is 0 or 1. The material provides a hard direct positive image having a lowered minimum image density without lowering the maximum image density and it has a high time-dependent storage stability.