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A NIGHT AT THE BATHS (SHOW HARD NO. 6)
1970s · BACKROOMAD / 002052Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSA night at the baths, with cage bars and handcuffs, from London Enterprises and the explicit mail-order press of the late '70s. Towel not included.
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ACTION PAC! (TARGET)
1980s · Action Pac!AD / 002133GoodWHY IT MATTERSTarget Studios was started by Lou Thomas after he left Colt, and it built its name on mustached, macho men. Action Pac! bills itself as "The First All-Hard All-Color," Target…
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BASKET PRACTICE
1970s · Annuals, Specials & One-ShotsAD / 002011Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSNova's late-'70s basketball fantasy, in saturated color. The coach would not approve of these drills.
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BEEFCAKE
AL MINETTI · ALL STAR STUDIOAD / 002012GoodWHY IT MATTERSBob Anthony's own photography next to Anvil, Dave Martin, Jean Paul David of England and All Star, with Al Minetti and Glenn Johnson among the men. The whole mail-order physique…
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BLACK BALLING
BACKROOM · BLACK BALLINGAD / 002116WHY IT MATTERSNova Publications put an interracial scene on the cover and the back, at a time when gay magazines almost always put white men up front. It's a piece of who…
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BRENTWOOD: A FILM REVUE MAGAZINE
1970s · Annuals, Specials & One-ShotsAD / 002136GoodWHY IT MATTERSBrentwood's Film Revue magazines were a San Francisco studio selling its movies in print: all color, almost no words, one film per issue. This one opens in a steamed-up shower…
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CHAMPION’S ALL (NO. 5)
1980s · BACKROOMAD / 002114WHY IT MATTERSChampion Studio was one of the physique pioneers whose mail-order work helped push American censorship law open. This issue puts Rick, Dave, Knut and Bobby next to Champion's '50s and…
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COCK SUCKERS (VOL. 1 NO. 2)
BACKROOM · BIG "D"AD / 002073Near FineWHY IT MATTERSA Big "D" photo-story issue ordered through Star Distributors in New York, with phone-line ads and Manfinder personals in the back. Before the apps, this is how you found a…
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CUMMIN’ UP (VOL. 1 NO. 3)
1980s · BACKROOMAD / 002064Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSJeff Stryker on the cover of this Hardball-branded review mag, and French director Jean-Daniel Cadinot interviewed inside. Two heavyweights of '80s gay video, one magazine.
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DOUBLE DONOVAN
BACKROOM · DOUBLE DONOVANAD / 002107GoodWHY IT MATTERSRick "Humongous" Donovan, twice: the same two-man scene on the front and the back, split-frame, because once wasn't enough. Graficolor Productions never did subtle, and thank god.
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ENCOUNTER (VOLUME THREE, NUMBER THREE)
BACKROOM · Denim / WorkwearAD / 002053Near FineWHY IT MATTERS"John Holmes: The Early Years," in a Marquis pictorial storybook for the gay market. The most famous straight porn star of his day, crossing over, and collectors of both love…
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GO GUYS (SUMMER QUARTERLY)
1960s · ACMEAD / 002096Very GoodWHY IT MATTERS"Fotoantics, Fashion, Humor, Physical Culture," says ACME's cover. Sure it is. In the early '60s beefcake had to wear a disguise, and this one is barely wearing anything else.
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IN TOUCH (ISSUE 23)
1970s · BACKROOMAD / 002097GoodWHY IT MATTERSA cover-billed "last interview" with Sal Mineo, who was killed in February 1976, inside In Touch. The Rebel Without a Cause star turns up in a nude magazine, and it's…
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IN TOUCH FOR MEN (NO. 93)
1980s · BACKROOMAD / 002131GoodWHY IT MATTERSLos Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1984, and In Touch, the L.A. magazine known for its blond surfer boys, answered with its own Sports Spectacular: "not the official magazine…
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MALE NUDE (NO. 5)
BACKROOM · MALE NUDEAD / 002075GoodWHY IT MATTERS"NPC Spectracolor" pages and pop-graphic collage layouts. The small-press nude magazines wanted to be art school too, and honestly, they pulled it off.
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MANDATE (AUGUST 1976)
1970s · BACKROOMAD / 002132GoodWHY IT MATTERSMandate printed its first color cover in August 1976, and this is it. George Mavety's magazine was barely a year old: Loren, Nureyev and Taylor in the photo pages, a…
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MANDATE (MAY 1979)
1970s · BACKROOMAD / 002098Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSAudrey Hepburn, Alan Bates and Ray Caviano, in the same issue as the nudes. That was George Mavety's Mandate in 1979: celebrity gossip up front, eros in the back, and…
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NAVAL DAZE
BACKROOM · EAGLE PRODUCTIONSAD / 002056Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSJack Wrangler and Steve Parker for Eagle Productions, on a pleasure boat out on open water. All hands on deck.
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NOVA MEN
Annuals, Specials & One-Shots · BACKROOMAD / 002134GoodWHY IT MATTERSNova Studios invented the West Coast look: bright, staged, story-driven sex with groomed California boys, and it sold its films through 16-page full-color glossies exactly like this one. Six Nova…
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PHOTORAMA (NUMBER 2)
BACKROOM · CHARLES VINSONAD / 002078Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSA DSI male-nude serial out of Burbank, with Charles Vinson among its named models and a house ad for the publisher's other titles. Small-press, mail-order, and the kind of thing…
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PLAYGUY (FEBRUARY 1985)
1980s · BACKROOMAD / 002103GoodWHY IT MATTERSDowntown performance artist John Sex in the interview slot of a skin mag. The East Village club kids crashed Playguy, and it's a gem for anyone who loves '80s New…
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PLAYGUY (VOL. 6 NO. 11)
1980s · BACKROOMAD / 002113Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSRight on the back cover, a New York club is renting out VHS and Beta tapes, fronted by filmstar Keith Anthoni. Porn was about to move from the magazine rack…
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RAUNCH RANCH
BACKROOM · Cowboys / WesternAD / 002057Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSJack Wrangler and Steve Parker for Eagle Productions, on location at a weathered ranch. Wrangler built a whole career on the cowboy thing, and this is him riding high.
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REX (NO. 1)
1960s · 1970sAD / 002079GoodWHY IT MATTERSA late-'60s NPC Spectracolor first issue still pretending it's about nudism, wink wink, with Guild Press ads in the back. Guild Press was one of the earliest gay mail-order publishers,…
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RIM IT!
1980s · BACKROOMAD / 002058Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSJoe Craig and Robby Berkley on the cover, in stills from William Higgins's 1984 feature Frat House Memories. Pledge week you can keep on the shelf.
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SHARING THE FUN
BACKROOM · BOB MACKIEAD / 002059Near FineWHY IT MATTERSDon Layman and Bob Mackie in Nova's campus and frat-house fantasies, shipped to Europe through Amsterdam's Le Salon International. Fraternity rush, now with international shipping.
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STROKE (MAGCORP 12/2)
1990s · BACKROOMAD / 002109Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSCatalina and Falcon photo sets, dirty fiction, fetish features and drawings by the Hun, all between the same Magcorp covers. Early-'90s Stroke was the all-you-can-eat buffet, and the Hun's art…
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STROKE (MAGCORP 13/6)
1990s · BACKROOMAD / 002110Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSFalcon star Jon King quit films in 1989, and this Magcorp Stroke is built around his "Big Cum Back." Some comebacks deserve a whole magazine.
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SURF’S UP (ISSUE NO. 2)
BACKROOM · Castro CloneAD / 002100Near FineWHY IT MATTERS"An Al Parker Production," says the cover, from Surge Studio, the company Parker co-founded. Beach, surfboards, hairy mustached men, and a legend behind the camera for a change.
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TARGET’S CHAMPIONS
BACKROOM · GLEN DIMEAD / 002062GoodWHY IT MATTERS"The first all color, all hard" issue, says the cover, and Target wasn't being modest. Glen Dime and Jeff Cameron, poolside, muscled, mustached and proud of it.
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THE AL PARKER ALBUM
1980s · AL PARKERAD / 002099FairWHY IT MATTERSAl Parker was the gay porn star of his era, and this Colt Studio album is all about him, with Colt men Mike Davis, Bob Bishop, Tony Romano, Toby and…
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THE JOCK BOOK
1970s · Annuals, Specials & One-ShotsAD / 002074Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSThe jockstrap, fully fetishized, in the 1970s. Every gear fantasy since has been doing homework from this locker room.
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THREE DAYS OF LOVE WITH ROGER (NO. 1)
Annuals, Specials & One-Shots · BACKROOMAD / 002135GoodWHY IT MATTERSMost of the era sold sex. This one sold a love story: a kiss on the cover, two men walking hand in hand into a beach sunset on the back,…
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UNCUT (ISSUE NO. 1)
1980s · BACKROOMAD / 002068Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSIssue one from San Francisco's Lobo Studios, introducing two "exclusive discoveries," Jeff Porter and Cal Driver, in flannel and denim. Lobo found them first; now you get to.
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VICIOUS DICKS (NUMBER ONE)
1980s · BACKROOMAD / 002081Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSForty dollars, all color, and video stars Marc Bennett, Cody Rogers and Rex Morgan named on the cover. Graficolor Productions didn't do budget, and neither should you.
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