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Apt. 3 · Vol. 1 No. 1

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Apt. 3’s first issue moves a new tenant into an all-gay building, sends him down to the courtyard with a book and a hard-on, and lets the neighbors do the rest.

Condition
CoverModerate wear
SpineLight stress
PublicationApt. 3
PublisherPublisher unknown

1 in stock

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

Condition report

Good. The color inside is warm and clean, while the soft blue covers carry some crease lines along the right edge and a vintage price sticker. Every mark is in the photos.

Flaws notedCover wear, Creases, Stains or moisture marks, Writing, stamps, or labels

PagesNot fully verified

Front: an old blue 'Adults $6.00 Only' price sticker beside the printed $12.50 price, white crease lines running down the right edge in both the upper and lower halves, light rubbing overall and a few small stress ticks along the left spine edge. Back: light crease lines and rubbing along the right edge, scattered fine surface scratches, a small hand-drawn outline mark in the upper left blue area and a few small brown specks at left middle. Inside: the first story page has a small tan stain at the bottom edge left of center; the other color pages are clean and bright with no tears or writing visible.
The story

The opening page sets up the premise in one horny paragraph. The narrator has just moved into a building he knows is all gay, which is the whole reason he moved in, and instead of unpacking he takes a book down to the courtyard ("it helps meet the thinkers") and plunks himself under a tree. It isn't ten minutes before a hot number in a white tank top wanders over and says hi, and by the end of the page they're back at his place with the door shut and tongues already working.

From there it goes full color in a living room of floral upholstery, shag carpet and potted ferns. A mustached man in a blue tank top and his partner in a yellow one kiss on the cover with their white briefs around their thighs, then he takes him from behind over the couch, they cool off together in the shower, and the back cover finishes them in a sixty-nine on the carpet.

Catalog facts
FormatMagazine; photo story with black-and-white and full-color pages
DateNot printed
IssueVolume One, Number One
PublisherNot printed
Cover price$12.50 printed (cover, top right); a round sticker on the cover reads "Adults $6.00 Only"
Cover lines"Adults Only"; "Sale to Minors Prohibited"
ModelsNot printed
PhotographyART / Not printed
ContentsOpening black-and-white photo story: a new tenant in an all-gay building takes a book to the courtyard, sits under a tree and is picked up by a man in a white tank top; color couch scenes of a mustached man in a blue tank top and a partner in a yellow tank top; a full-page color shower scene; full-page color kiss with briefs pulled down; color photo collage on the back cover
Notice"Adults Only, Sale to Minors Prohibited" (cover)
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Why it matters

It's a Volume One, Number One with an actual storyline, and the cover carries both its printed $12.50 price and a round "Adults $6.00 Only" sticker, a bit of shop history right on the front.

The copy in hand

What we checked before listing it.

GradeGood

Good. The color inside is warm and clean, while the soft blue covers carry some crease lines along the right edge and a vintage price sticker. Every mark is in the photos.

CoverModerate wear

Visible in the photos.

SpineLight stress

Noted in the listing.

PagesNot fully verified

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