I Found It at the Movies · Show Hard No. 3 / 1977

Name: I Found It at the Movies · Show Hard No. 3 / 1977
SKU: AD-002191
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Van Nuys, May 1977: Lyndon Distributors’ Show Hard No. 3 buys a ticket, skips the feature and gets busy in the red plush seats.

Condition

GoodHow we grade

CoverModerate wear

SpineLight stress

PublicationShow Hard

PublisherLyndon Distributors, Ltd.

Era1970s

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. Edge-worn and honest, with chipping down the back edge and along the top half of the front spine edge and along the top half of the front spine edge and two spots inside where the paper surface has pulled away, but the 1977 color still glows. Every mark is in the photos.

Flaws notedCover wear, Tears

PagesNot fully verified

Front: small chips and white flecking along the left spine edge, a few small white specks and scratches in the dark wood paneling at upper right, light rubbing on the corners; chipping and loss of surface along the top half of the spine edge; chipping and loss of surface along the top half of the spine edge. Back: chipping and white flaking running the full length of the right edge, fine scratches across the dark background and a few tiny white specks along the top. Inside: the copyright page (SH No. 3, May 1977) and page 5 are clean with light handling; one color page has a white patch of surface paper loss at lower left, and another has a long diagonal strip of surface loss across the shirt at right, where the image has pulled away.

The story

"I Found It at the Movies" sets its scene in the text on page 5, from the box-office sign telling everyone to show ID to a stout blond loitering by the cigarette machine and a bearded biker in tight leather pants rubbing his crotch by the door marked "MEN." The photos open in black and white, three men in wide-collared butterfly and floral print shirts trading looks in a wood-paneled theater, and the politeness does not last.

In color the action climbs over the red plush seats with the print shirts still half on, and by the back cover all three men are fully naked. The indicia, copyright 1977 by Lyndon Distributors, Ltd. of Stagg St., Van Nuys, swears the whole thing is about "illuminating ongoing changes in contemporary patterns of societal behavior."

Catalog facts

FormatPhoto-story magazine

IssueNo. 3 ("show hard no3" on front cover; "SH No. 3" in the indicia)

PublisherLyndon Distributors, Ltd., 15803½ Stagg St., Van Nuys, California ("LDL" logo on front cover)

Cover price$6.

Cover linesI Found It at the Movies; show hard no3; Adults Only

ModelsNot named (indicia: photographs "are posed by professional models")

PhotographyART / Not credited

ContentsInside-cover title page "i found it at the movies" with black-and-white photos and indicia; story text set in an adult movie house (p. 5); full-color scenes in the theater's red plush seats; color back cover with all three men fully nude

Notice"Adults Only" (front cover)

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Why it matters

A dated, publisher-credited 1977 photo story that turns the back row of a porn theater into a three-way, wood paneling and butterfly shirts included, for a $6 cover price.