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Gay and Groovy

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Gay and Groovy sells for $6 and actually writes stories, then illustrates every line of them with flared denim, wood paneling and men who can’t wait.

Condition
CoverLight wear
SpineLight stress
PublicationGay And Groovy
PublisherPublisher unknown

1 in stock

Ships in plain outer packaging. $6 U.S. shipping, free over $100.

Vintage is final sale. Every mark we mention is in the photos.

Condition report

Good. Rich color on the front and a sunny yellow back, with rubbing along the spine edge and some light handling marks. Every mark is in the photos.

Flaws notedCover wear

PagesNot fully verified

Front: rubbing along the left (spine) edge showing as a pale streak, light edge wear along the top and right edges, and softened corners. Back: scattered small spots and light soiling across the yellow, with light rubbing along the edges and corners. Inside: page 3 and page 31 are clean, with a little darkening at the outer edges; the color page and page 17 are clean; page 27 has scattered gray specks and smudges along the right side of the photo.
The story

Gay and Groovy bothers to tell you who these men are. "In the Groove" opens on page 3 with Larry Olson, who went "directly from a rural New Hampshire village to Fort Ord and to Danang" and came back with two faint scars, a few tattoos and a taste for Los Angeles. The photos set the scene in wood paneling and jeans, with shirts coming off over a white desk long before the text gets there.

"Night Ride" on page 31 puts Sonny Scott, two months into his own law practice, behind the wheel on Western Ave. asking a stranger, "Can I give you a lift?" The pictures play it out in slacks in front of a flower painting, the black-and-white pages in between get very close and very hairy, and the yellow back cover closes the door on a bedroom with "Sale to Minors Forbidden."

Catalog facts
FormatMagazine: photo-illustrated fiction plus black-and-white and color photo pages
DateNot printed
IssueNot printed
PublisherNot printed
Cover price$6 (top right of front cover)
Cover linesAdults Only; $6; Gay and Groovy
ModelsNot printed (Larry Olson and Sonny Scott are story characters)
PhotographyART / Not printed
Contents"In the Groove" (p. 3, "continued on page 8"); black-and-white close-up (p. 17); color page against wood paneling; black-and-white bed scene in front of bamboo blinds (p. 27); "Night Ride" (p. 31, "continued on page 32"); back cover: color bedroom scene
Notice"Adults Only" (front cover); "Sale to Minors Forbidden" (back cover)
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Why it matters

It is a $6 skin mag with real fiction in it, a Vietnam vet's homecoming and a lawyer's pickup on Western Ave., each staged in full with denim, tattoos and wood-paneled walls.

The copy in hand

What we checked before listing it.

GradeGood

Good. Rich color on the front and a sunny yellow back, with rubbing along the spine edge and some light handling marks. Every mark is in the photos.

CoverLight wear

Visible in the photos.

SpineLight stress

Noted in the listing.

PagesNot fully verified

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