Men of Action · No. 1 / 1978

Men of Action, copyright 1978 and "published annually" by House of Milan Corp. in Los Angeles, is Action Male's greatest-hits record, and the editor, who signs himself TAU, says so on the first page: this is a selection of the best photographs of models who have appeared in Action Male, picked to bring you "the hottest and sexiest MEN we can find." The cover backs him up with a bare torso against a brick wall, belt hanging open, and fourteen names running down the side from Mark Wolf to Bill Ridge.

Inside, a bearded, furry man kneels in black and white next to that welcome note, a mustached stud in jeans and work boots holds up another brick wall, and a full uniform sequence goes from service cap and aviator shades to undershirt to undone. The back cover lines up Fred Halsted, Arron Taylor, Micheal Raven and Doug Thomas in color, one of them in a leather cap and studded wrist cuffs, and promises "twelve other equally hot models in this special edition."