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A FEW GOOD MEN… GET DOWN AND GIVE ME TEN (GM19)
1980s · A FEW GOOD MENAD / 002101Near FineWHY IT MATTERSAl Parker's Surge Studio goes to boot camp, with Lee Ryder and Peter Barrie on the cover of this Hardball tie-in to Steve Scott's 1983 film. Drop and give me…
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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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AVANTI (VOL. 1 NO. 3)
AVANTI · BACKROOMAD / 002008Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSDallas Ramsey in the pictorials, then news, poetry, travel, decorating tips, sex-law reform and personals. Avanti wanted to be your porn, your newspaper and your interior decorator, all at once.
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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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BORDELLO STUDS
1980s · BACKROOMAD / 002102Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSThe Old West brothel from Steve Scott's 1983 feature Gold Rush Boys, Victorian parlor and all, printed on paper. Saddle up.
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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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BULLPEN
BACKROOM · Bears / HairyAD / 002104GoodWHY IT MATTERSTan lines, mustaches, body hair and a $35 cover price. Men paid top dollar for this in the '80s, and one look inside tells you why.
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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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COCKSURE
BACKROOM · MustacheAD / 002067GoodWHY IT MATTERSFour panels on the cover, ten bucks, and not a word wasted. The adult-shop pictorial with zero small talk.
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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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DOUBLE HEADERS (VOL. 1 NO. 1)
ALAIN · BACKROOMAD / 002072Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSAlain, Bobby-Jo and Beau on a baseball-pun first issue, with the Sunshine Beach Club selling the matching 200-foot 8mm "Skin Flicks" in the back. Buy the magazine, then order the…
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EL TORO (VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1)
1960s · BACKROOMAD / 002071Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSPre-Stonewall, full nudity, and not a single barbell for cover. Most physique mags of the mid-'60s were still pretending to be about fitness. This one didn't bother.
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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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GAY ACTION
BACKROOM · GAY ACTIONAD / 002106Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSShag carpet, period bedrooms and "ten dollars" spelled out in words on the cover. This is the adult-shop pictorial in its natural habitat, and exactly the kind of thing that…
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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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HARD RIDERS
BACKROOM · Denim / WorkwearAD / 002105GoodWHY IT MATTERSCruising for a pickup, in full color, still wearing the $7 markdown sticker over its $15 cover price. Somebody got a deal, and now you get the sticker too.
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HIS (NO. 1)
BACKROOM · HISAD / 002112Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSA first issue that puts a full-frontal color nude right on the cover and doesn't apologize for it. Little titles like His tended to vanish after an issue or two,…
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HOT SHOTS (VOL. 1 NO. 1)
BACKROOM · Denim / WorkwearAD / 002080Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSOne story, "Pocket Pool," a billiard room, and Toby Watson and Randy Andrews named on the cover. A first issue that knew exactly what game it was playing.
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HUSTLER’S HOLIDAY (NO. 1)
BACKROOM · HUSTLER'S HOLIDAYAD / 002054Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSFirst-person hustler confessions and staged two-man photo sets. Dear Diary, in the first issue of a title almost nobody has heard of.
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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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JOCK (JANUARY 1990)
1990s · BACKROOMAD / 002108Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSJoey Stefano as Cover Jock, with Roger inside, in the first year of a short, wild career people are still writing about. Get him while he's fresh.
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LEATHER AND LEVI GUYS (NO. 4)
BACKROOM · Blue-Collar / Working MenAD / 002066GoodWHY IT MATTERSDan Kennedy in outdoor restraint and workwear, plus a hand-drawn serialized erotic comic in the same issue. Leather, Levi's and a bedtime story.
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MAKING IT (VOLUME 2)
BACKROOM · MAKING ITAD / 002055Very GoodWHY IT MATTERS"Las Vegas" and "San Diego" on the cover. 1970s gay erotica as a road trip, printed on colored stock that's half the fun.
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MALE INSIDER (VOL. 1 NO. 3)
1980s · AL PARKERAD / 002069Near FineWHY IT MATTERSRick "Humongous" Donovan inside, plus a Male Insider readers' poll of the Top 10 biggest stars. Al Parker and Jack Wrangler made the list, and yes, the pun is intended.
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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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MY-O-MY
BACKROOM · GROUPSAD / 002076GoodWHY IT MATTERSThree-man poses like living sculpture, against saturated color backdrops. It's half pop art, half porn, and it will stop conversations on your coffee table.
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MY-O-MY (VOLUME II)
BACKROOM · MY-O-MYAD / 002077Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSThe state of New Jersey entered this very title as evidence in a 1972 obscenity case. Own the magazine they put on trial.
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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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PILEDRIVERS
BACKROOM · MustacheAD / 002010Very GoodWHY IT MATTERSAction photos with the dirty story running right alongside. Before video, this is how you got the plot and the payoff at the same time.
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PISTON POWER!
Annuals, Specials & One-Shots · BACKROOMAD / 002130GoodWHY IT MATTERSBruno was the face of 1970s gay macho, a Colt and Target man with the mustache and the chest hair to prove it. Here he shares the bill with Hawk…
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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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QQ MAGAZINE (APRIL 1978)
1970s · BACKROOMAD / 002137GoodWHY IT MATTERSQQ started as Queen's Quarterly in 1969, the year of Stonewall, and by 1978 it was selling science, sex advice and personals on one cover: the origin of homosexuality, the…
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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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SPARTAN FOR MEN (VOL. 1 NO. 3)
BACKROOM · SerialsAD / 002060GoodWHY IT MATTERSSpartan for Men ran full-frontal pictorials next to an exposé on the "cure peddlers" who swore they could cure homosexuality. Nothing says "no thanks" like a centerfold.
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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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