This was adapted from an image found at Tom Brinkman’s superb badmags.com.
Tom is publishing an eponymous book this year:
Bad Mags is a book devoted to strange, bizarre and peripheral magazines because the back alleys of the publishing industry have been little explored in print. In most cases there isn’t any information readily available, limited only to the information given in the periodical itself.I would hope that this latest contribution to the few available books and articles on this subject matter will spark more of an interest in it, and lead others to help put into higher focus the very blurry picture we have so far. With more of this material becoming available to a wider range of people via the internet it makes sense to me to try and sort out their history as much as possible.
Bad Mags is a compilation of titles, each one a small time capsule from hither and yon, that ended up under my scrutiny. A few of these magazines I purchased at the time they hit the newsstands, others I bought as pulp curiosities and collector’s items on eBay and elsewhere.
I have focused on the amusing, sleazy, sexual, violent, and sensational weirdness that found a home in these peripheral and adult mags with occasional excursions into both the tabloid and the main stream press.
It is a carnival of covers, ads, photos and art from the adult magazine rack sideshow of the last half of the 20th century. But, with so much written about the film equivalents of these mags, it was time to take a closer look at the printed side of the coin. This is what I have attempted to do and hopefully have succeeded by adding another facet to the information already available. MORE
Found via Jahsonic.com
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