Auctions: comic books in 'Men's Interest'
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Published 1974 by International Press.$46.00
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Published 1955 (est.) by Pearlite Enterprises.$27.00
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$26.00
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A guide for photographers containing nude female models to further acquaint the professional and the amateur with the female form, which is the basis of all fine art. Softcover, 5" x 8", 32 pages, B&W. -Mature Readers-
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Published 1960 (est.) by Ceasar Publishers Inc..
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Cutie (1944-1946^) May 1944$105.00
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Cutie (1944-1946^) Oct 1944$35.00
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$17.00
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October 1944. Peter Driben cover. Includes pictorial of Movita Castaneda, Marlon Brando's second wife. 8.5" x 11.25". 66 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.
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Cutie (1944-1946^) Mar 1945$77.00
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$50.00
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Spring, 1945. Cheesecake pictorials and humor. 8" x 11", 70 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Cutie (1944-1946^) Jun 1946$23.00
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$40.00
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Summer, 1946. 8.5" x 11.5", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Cutie (1944-1946^) Sep 1946$23.00
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$17.00
View scans- 1" Spine split from top of comic. Corner Damage. Centerfold detached at one staple. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Foxing. Scuffing. Soiling.
Fall 1946. Cheesecake and leg-art pictorials. 8.5" x 11.25", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Cutie (1944-1946^) Oct 1946$23.00
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View scansOctober 1946. This issue includes two-page pictorial of Vera-Ellen, MGM star of "White Christmas", "On the Town", and others. 8.5" x 11.25". 66 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.
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Dapper (1965-1979 Magnum-Royal) Vol. 5 #1Published Jun 1969 by Magnum-Royal.
June 1969. Cover of Edy Williams. Anthony Quinn article. 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 74 pages, B&W and color. Cover price $0.75.
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Dapper (1965-1979 Magnum-Royal) Vol. 8 #5Published Sep 1974 by Magnum-Royal.$27.00
View scans- Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
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Dapper (1965-1979 Magnum-Royal) Specials #1968SUMMERPublished 1968 by Magnum-Royal.
Summer, 1968 Issue. 8" x 11", 82 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $1.00.
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Published Jun 1953 by Fiction Publications.
Canadian Edition - Volume 1, Issue 6 - June 1963. Men's interest magazine focusing on Military, Politics, celebrities and showgirls. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.
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$6.00
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$8.00
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$8.00
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Volume 15, Issue 85 - October, 1941. 8.5" x 11", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.
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Volume 15, Issue 87 - December, 1941. 8.5" x 11", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.
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$16.00
View scans- Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.
Volume 16 Number 95 - August 1942. True crime articles, stories and photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/8-in., 124 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.
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Published Jun 1941 by Elite Publications Inc..$12.00
View scans- Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.
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Published 1958 by Playgirl Publishing.$24.00
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1958. Women in various states of undress, no actual nudity. 8.5" x 11", 47 pages, B&W. Subtitled "Tomboy Edition". Cover price $0.50.
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Published Jul 1965 by Debonair Publications.
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Published Nov 1965 by Debonair Publications.$2.50
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Published Jan 1966 by Debonair Publications.
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Published Mar 1966 by Debonair Publications.
Volume 2, Issue 9 - March, 1966. Fiction stories by G.G. Revelle, John Walters and Mitch Price, Articles by John De Savine, Philip Marschal and Luitpold Gebosch. Also includes "The Adventures of Sam Satan" comic strip. 8" x 10.5", 74 pages, B&W/Color. -MATAURE READERS- Cover price $0.75.
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Published May 1966 by Debonair Publications.
Volume 2, Issue 10 - May, 1966. Carol Hill photo cover. Jayne Mansfield nude pictorial, short fiction stories by Michael Knight, Hugh Smith, Larry Powell, and Frank Tray, Sam Satan comic strip. 8" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.75.
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Published Oct 1966 by Debonair Publications.
This issue includes a story by James Wakefield Burke, "Maid of Moonshine Mountain". Cover price $0.75.
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Published Dec 1969 by Debonair Publications.$24.00
View scans- Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
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Published Feb 1970 by Debonair Publications.
Volume 5, Issue 3 - February, 1970. Fiction stories by Bill Russo and Bill Benter, article by Agris Lapins and Simeon St. John. 8" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.75.
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Published Aug 1972 by Debonair Publications.
Volume 1, Issue 9 - August, 1972. 8" x 10.5", 82 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $1.00.
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Published 1967 by Debonair Publications.$22.00
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1967 Spectacular, Issue 2. Special issue of men's interest magazine Debonair. Fiction, articles, humor, and nude pictorials. 8" x 11", 84 pages, B&W and color. Cover price $1.00.
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$35.00
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German language nudist magazine. Title translates: The Sun Man - Magazine for progressive and modern nudist culture. 8.25" x 11.5", 20 pages, B&W. NOTE: All text in German. MATURE Cover price $1.50.
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Vol. 12, No. 2. May 1968. True Crime Magazine. 8.25" x 10.75". 66 pages. B&W. Cover price $0.35.
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Published May 1946 by Detective World Inc..$12.00
View scans"Stolen Gems!" Cover price $0.25.
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Published Oct 1947 by Detective World Inc..$17.00
View scans- Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.
True crime stories. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4", 100 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.
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Published Mar 1948 by Detective World Inc..$32.00
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Published Dec 1948 by Detective World Inc..$62.00
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Vol. 6, No. 11. December 1948. Sensationalistic tales of true crime. 8.5" x 11", 84 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.
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Published Jan 1950 by Detective World Inc..$21.00
View scansVol. 8, No. 1 - January 1950. Sensationalistic tales of true crime. 8.5" x 11", 98 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.
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Published Mar 1950 by Detective World Inc..$69.00
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Published May 1953 by Detective World Inc..$24.00
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Vol. 11, No. 3. May 1953. Sensationalistic tales of true crime. 8.5" x 11". 82 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.
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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "From 1900 to Post-WWII!"
The first commercial camera was introduced in 1839. By 1865 technology enabled ordinary men to create photographic negatives, and they immediately began taking and distributing photos of naked women.
The French led the way, and it was the French who produced the first nude magazines in 1880. Newsstand magazines followed, and the elegant La Vie Parisienne (Paris Life), full of sexy fiction and illustrations, debuted in 1914. It might all have stayed in Paris if not for WWI, when German and American troops carried the magazines home.
American Wilford Fawcett launched Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang (named after a WWI bomb) in 1919, helping launch the first sexual revolution of the 1920s, leading to SEX magazine from birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger. The 1930s economic depression boosted demand for cheap escape, and men's magazines delivered. There were film magazines of sexy starlets; "model study" art magazines; hardcore comics called Tijuana Bibles; "spicy" fiction digests with sexy painted covers; and detective titles of bad dames. When another world war erupted it required pinup magazines for fighting men, and after the war new men's magazines rose from the ashes.
Volume 1 of this series features over 700 covers and photos from France, Germany, the U.S., England, Turkey, Austria, Spain, Argentina and more, plus informative text.
Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 460 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Volume 2 - 1st printing. "From Post-Ware to 1959!"
Playboy, launched in December 1953, made a huge impact on publishing, but it was not the only American men's magazine in the 1950s. The quirky burlesque titles Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter and Eyeful, featuring Bettie Page and covers by artist Peter Driben, inspired a spate of competing titles. Much loved WWII pin-ups, often of aspiring starlets, led to "news and nudes" titles with cover girls Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, and to more lurid titles like Shock, blending burlesque and celebrity scandal.
Argentina, with a strong European influence, produced sophisticated Vea (Watch), while England, suffering paper shortages, produced little magazines with big buxom models, charting a path it would maintain through the 1960s.
Volume 2 in this series contains over 650 magazine covers and photos from the U.S., Mexico, Argentina and England, plus informative essays.
Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 460 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Volume 3 - 1st printing. "1960s at the Newsstand!"
Sexual revolution, civil rights, Flower Power, miniskirt, women's liberation, The Pill, Black Panthers, hippies; all these words and phrases entered our language in the turbulent 1960s. While Playboy's world dominance grew, with France, Germany, England, and Italy producing "men's lifestyle" titles, diversification spread in the U.S.
The first big breast magazines debuted, with Fling, Gem and The Swinger; men's adventure titles-with nudes-provided nostalgia for mid-life veterans; humor magazines hung on-barely-while hippie nudist titles exploited a legal loophole allowing them to show pubic hair. Italy finally joined the party with sexy fumetto photo comics and a hero named Supersex. Latin America clung to the old burlesque format, mired in religious restriction and political unrest. France retained post-war favorite Folies de Paris et de Hollywood for an older audience and launched elegant Playboy clone LUI for its sons. But no one topped Germany, where Ulrike Meinhof edited Konkret in 1969, a magazine of sexual and political revolution, before forming Red Army Fraction with Andreas Baader to bomb, kidnap, and assassinate her way into domestic terror history.
Volume 3 contains over 650 groovy covers and photos from Argentina, England, France, Germany, Italy, and The U.S., plus text.
Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 460 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Volume 4 - 1st printing. "1960s Under the Counter!"
In 1958 Milton Luros left his New York job designing and illustrating detective pulp magazines for North Hollywood, California. A year later, with a loan from an underworld figure, he founded a publishing empire that revolutionized men's magazines in the 1960s.
His so-called "California slicks" borrowed bad-girl themes from pre-Playboy burlesque titles, featuring big hair, heavy make-up, cigarettes, and cocktails, but in west coast mid-century settings with better photography, paper, and printing. With no redeeming articles, they were too strong for newsstands, but outsold Playboy in tobacco shops and specialty bookstores. Californian Elmer Batters invented leg art photography the same year, with titles Black Silk Stockings, Leg-O-Rama, Tip Top, Elmer's Naked Jungle and more. Back in New York, Irving Klaw introduced fetish digests in the same specialty bookstores, leading to a '60s fetish boom, with Lenny Burtman's High Heels, Satana, Striparama, and Leg Show. Sixties freedom spread to England too, where George Harrison Marks launched Kamera and Solo magazines with totally naked models posed to barely hide the banned bits, inventing "top shelf" titles: those not on public display.
Volume 4 in this series contains over 650 ground-breaking covers and photos from the U.S., England, and Sweden with descriptive text.
Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 460 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Volume 5 - 1st printing. "1970s at the Newsstand!"
Pubic hair appeared on the American newsstand in 1970 compliments of Penthouse magazine. Within a year it was everywhere, and in 1975 Midwest redneck Larry Flynt parted the hair and made the pink beyond the centerpiece of Hustler. In Northern Europe censorship laws fell like dominos after Berth Milton confronted Swedish parliament with hardcore photos in 1967, asking what it would do if he published them in Private magazine.
The answer was nothing. Denmark followed, producing magazines for France as well. England, always lagging, finally got the knickers off, but kept its censorship laws. Japan, long suppressed, found release in bondage magazines like New Roman Porno and SM Select, though pubic hair stayed forbidden. The Pill removed pregnancy fear and couples embraced swinging, the suburban sexual revolution, with swing magazines in the U.S. and Europe helping to hook them up. Al Goldstein challenged American censorship with Screw, while a Texas ad exec tried to keep tasteless hillbilly humor alive with Sex to Sexty.
History of Men's Magazines Volume 5 includes over 600 hair-raising covers and photos from Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, the U.S. and more, with the usual inspired text.
Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 460 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Popular adult story from the 1920's with numerous bootleg editions published for customers interested in items typically kept under the sales counter. Originally published as "The Diary of a French Stenographer", this edition appears to be variation and may contain textual differences to the original. Small format, measuring 2.75" x 5". Contains 16 pages of text held in publisher's stiff red wrappers. Cover price $1.00.
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- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
1st printing. Collects material from Penthouse Comix #1-6.
It's a dangerous world, full of sadistic Nazis, spies, cannibals, dinosaurs and sex-crazed lost Romans. Erotic super-heroine Doc Dare certainly has her hands full, but don't worry - every time she has sex, she gains the superhuman strength necessary to get the job done! This lewd and stylish romp through the World War Two-era pulp adventure genre is illustrated in full color by the legendary Gray Morrow, and will delight fans of sexy adventure and good drawing!
Softcover, 11-in. x 8-in., 52 pages, full color. Mature Readers
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Published Nov 1954 by Headline Publications.$15.00
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Digest sized humor book with tons of single-page gags. 5" x 7", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Published Jan 1957 by Headline Publications.$3.00
Digest sized humor book with tons of single-page gags. 5" x 7", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.