Comic books in 'Men's Interest'
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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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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.
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Published Jan 1958 by Headline Publications.$18.00
View scansDigest-sized humor book with tons of single-page gags. 5.5" x 7", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Published Jan 1959 by Headline Publications.$18.00
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Digest-sized humor book with tons of single-page gags. 5.5" x 7.25", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Issue #1
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View scansNude photos for artists and art students. Cover price $1.00.
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Dream (1962 Orly Publications Ltd) Vol. 1 #1Published 1962 by Orly Publications Ltd..
Vol. 1, No. 1. 1962. Articles, fiction, humor, and nude pictorials. 8.5" x 11". 70 pages. Black and white with color centerfold. Cover price $1.25.
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Published Aug 1956 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$30.00
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Pictorial of Brigitte Bardot from the set of Mam'zelle Pigalle, released in 1956. Cover price $0.50.
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Published Nov 1956 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$30.00
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Volume 1, Issue 2 - November, 1956. This issue includes the story "Both End of the Candle" by Harlan Ellison and many more. 8.5" x 11", 68 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.
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Published Jan 1957 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$17.00
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Volume 1, Issue 3 - January, 1957. This issue includes the story "The Bohemia of Arthur Archer" by Harlan Ellison and a Diane Webber pictorial photographed by Bunny Yeager. 8.5" x 11", 68 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.
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Published Mar 1957 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$80.00
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Volume 1, Issue 4 - March, 1957. This issue includes the story "God Bless the Ugly Virgin" by Harlan Ellison and much more. 8.5" x 11", 68 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.
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Published May 1957 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$32.00
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Volume 1, Issue 5 - May, 1957. This issue includes "Charlie's Happiest Day" from "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell, and "Traveling in Peace" from "Pluck and Luck" by Robert Benchley. Full-page cartoon by Wally Wood. Diane Webber pictorial (as Marguerite Empey). 8.5" x 11", 68 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.
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Published Jul 1957 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$26.00
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Volume 1, Issue 6 - July, 1957. 8.5" x 11", 68 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.
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Published Sep 1957 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$37.00
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Published Nov 1957 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.
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Published Jan 1958 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$13.00
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View scansVolume 2, Issue 3 - January, 1958. 8.5" x 11", 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.
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Published Mar 1958 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$12.00
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Published May 1958 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$9.00
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Volume 2, Issue 5 - May, 1958. Men's interest magazine with articles, satire, fiction, and pictorials. 8.5" x 11", 76 pages, B&W and color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.
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View scansVolume 3, Issue 1 - September, 1958. 8.5" x 10.5", 76 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.
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Published Nov 1958 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.
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Published Jan 1959 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$27.00
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View scansVolume 3, Issue 3 - January, 1959. Fiction, articles, humor, and pin-up pictorials. This issue includes a great article about Don Knotts, Tom Poston, and Louis Nye on "The Steve Allen Show", with photos of Julie Newmar appearing with them. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.50.
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Published Mar 1959 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$39.00
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March 1959. Men's magazine featuring Arthur C. Clarke's "Out of the Cradle" short story. Articles, fiction and pictorials. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.
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Published May 1959 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$13.00
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Published Nov 1959 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$20.00
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Published Jan 1960 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$50.00
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Published Mar 1960 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$33.00
View scansMarch 1960. Men's magazine featuring Fredric Brown's "Portfolio" and Evan Hunter's "It Was Lovely That Summer." Articles and pictorials. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 74 pages, B&W with partial color. Cover price $0.50.
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Published Jul 1960 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$13.00
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View scanVolume 4, Issue 6 - July, 1960. 8.5" x 10.5", 76 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.
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Published Sep 1960 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$15.00
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Volume 5, Issue 1 - September, 1960. Men's magazine with articles, fiction, and nude pictorials. 8.5" x 11", 74 pages, Color and B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.50.
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Published Jan 1961 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.
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View scansVolume 5, Issue 3 - January, 1961. Men's magazine with articles, fiction, and nude pictorials. 8.5" x 11", 76 pages, color and B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.50.
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Published Mar 1961 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$33.00
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Published May 1961 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$9.00
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Published Jul 1961 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$39.00
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This issue with a story by Neal Barrett Jr., "The Retreat". Cover price $0.50.
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Published Sep 1961 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$9.00
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Published Nov 1961 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$50.00
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Published Jan 1962 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$50.00
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$30.00
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$33.00
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$30.00
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Volume 6, Issue 3 - January, 1962. Men's interest magazine with articles, fiction, humor, and nude pictorials. 8.5" x 11", 76 pages, B&W and color. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.50.
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Published Mar 1962 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$18.00
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Volume 6, Issue 4 - March, 1962. 8.5" x 10.5", 76 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.
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Published May 1962 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.
- Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.
$11.00
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$8.00
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Published Jul 1962 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$33.00
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$30.00
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$33.00
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Volume 6, Issue 6 - July, 1962. Interior rear cover illustration by Frank Frazetta. 8" x 11", 74 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.
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Published Nov 1962 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.
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Published Jan 1963 by Dugent Publishing Corporation.$10.00
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