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BAD MAGS VOL 2 continues to collect the colourful and sometimes shocking news-stand publications of the 1960s through to the 1980s that together provide a fascinating and occasionally biased, humorous and exploitative counterpoint to news events and the burgeoning countercutlure scene. Chapters are divided into subject categories for easy reference, such as sexploitation, Sharon Tate and Charles Manson, Ed Wood Jr, outlaw bikers, the occult, the mob and punk. Author Tom Brinkmann has spoken with many of the individuals responsible for these magazines, some of whom are referenced here for the first time. BAD MAGS VOL 2 also provides comprehensive background details on the creators and often maverick publishers, along with plenty of anecdotal information, mind bending extracts and hundreds of rare photos and cover reproductions. ... Read more

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Great
This book, is a wonderful, little insight, on a time period, that I find very interesting. Witches, satanism, California, Manson, Tate, and all things, dark, are found here. I wish there were more publications, today, that are found in this book. Not For The Innocent!

May Well Be The Greatest Book Ever....
.....If you are a collector of Mansonabilia and all ephemera true crime related with a dose of Satan and Myron Fass thrown in!I have both volumes of this title and if I were limited to just buying one of the volumes of Bad Mags, Volume 2 would be the one I would pick, in spades!Not that I'm an enemy of Sexploitation and Sleaze, as heavily featured in Volume 1.It's more that Volume 2 is a better tool in the things I collect and a much better reference therefore.Just the photos alone would make this a valuable reference, and the descriptions of all the mags within are succinct and not only useful, but valuable.My only caveat would be that there is not enough color.It must be a typo on the publishers part, but in the ad for the books at the rear of volume 2 it says that both volumes have 8 pages of color, each.Perhaps that was the total of the 2 volumes taken together, but even with the dearth of color, I recommend this title in a big way, especially to anyone interested in the minutia of the obscure and the savagely esoteric.Mr. Brinkman is to be thanked by the rank and file of the great unwashed collector of the bizarre, and no, I'm NOT the Jeff Goodman who endorses the book on it's rear cover, just another in a long line of fans of this type of material who have similar names and tastes....maybe it's astrological, somehow! ... Read more

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The Flip Side of Popular Culture As Seen Through Magazines and TabloidsBAD MAGS illuminates the darker recesses of "pop lit"-focusing upon magazines and tabloids that had articles and features on various themes of interest such as, Mondo Bizarre, Sexploitation, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Ed Wood, Outlaw Bikers, Devilish Men's Mags, Violent World, Punks, and pre-code-comic-book-artist-turned-pulp-publisher Myron Fass, as well as pieces on Rene Bond, Criswell, Titus Moody, and others.BAD MAGS gives background info and publisher details on most titles covered, along with anecdotal information.BAD MAGS includes entries on such titles as: Violent World, Crime Does Not Pay, Sluts & Slobs, Official UFO, Mobs and Gangs, Bizarre Life, True Sex Crimes, Colors Motorcycle Magazine, Shocker, Love-In, Horror Fantasy, Wildest Films, National Enquirer, Esquire, National Informer, Punk Sex, Horror Sex Tales, Freakout, Biker Orgy, Bitchcraft, National Insider, Way Out, and hundreds more! ... Read more

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Mad Mags: Volume 1
If, like me, you like the sleazy underbelly of culture, then you'll like Bad Mags. It's a collection and reference tome of those bad taste sleazy news-stand magazines from the 60's and 70's which contained lurid covers of such delights as topless girls being forced into giant cooking pots, naked hippies or scantily clad Satanists taking part in some Satanic ritual in front of a suburban home's fireplace. With such titles as, Biker Orgy, Torrid Film Reviews, Cropped Crotches, Sluts & Slobs and Outerspace Sex Orgy, these magazines fulfilled the masturbatory fantasies of the males of those times.

Some publishing houses would bring out a series of titles while others only printed one-offs. The author, Tom Brinkmann, really knows his stuff and can navigate his way around these many titles and publishers; pointing out when photos and articles were re-used or magazines were re-printed with new titles. The book consists of each magazine cover followed by a capsular review.

The book is broken down into three main parts: Mondo Adult Slicks, which encompasses everything from SM magazines through to candid exposés of the widening hippie culture; Sexploitation Film Slicks, 1963 -1973, which covers film related magazines specializing in the adult grind-house cinema of the times; and the 1%ers: Outaw Rider, Sixties Style, which looks at the magazines which begun to cash-in on the surge and fear of the Hell's Angels and other biker gangs.

The book also looks at a few key personalities behind these publications and focuses on Titus Moody, who was a low-grade Hollywood actor, producer, photographer, biker and who also appears regularly in the many photo-shoots, either romping in a hippie pad with a naked girl or straddling his motorbike.

There's a large section also devoted to `worst movie director of all-time', Edward D.Wood, who in his later years was a prolific writer for these magazines - his awkward style of writing being impossible to miss as well as his love for angora sweaters.

There's also a brief look at a few of the girls who frequently bared all for these magazines, notably Lynn Harris and Rene Bond.

My only complaint with the book is the format could have been larger because a lot of the excellent magazine covers have been relegated to the side-bar of each page rendering them too small to be really appreciated. This is why I have only given it four stars as opposed to five.

Apart from that it's a great book which will surely contribute to a rise in prices of the original magazines as more people begin to discover these warped period pieces which dealt in the fantasies, taboos and fears of those times.

I'm looking forward to Volume Two which promises Devil worshipping and monster magazines, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Myron Fass, violent crime magazines and punksploitation. ... Read more

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Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you’ve ever experienced. Yes, that’s right: you’re about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men’s magazines—not sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men’s hearts and other organs: the undraped female form. A twenty-five-year veteran of the genre, former men’s magazine editor Dian Hanson traces its development from 1900 to 1980 in six massive and informative volumes.

Volume I explores the period from 1900, when sexy magazines first started to appear in France and Germany, through the decades of subterfuge and censorship up to the great global change wrought by WWII. Along the way the USA, England, Argentina, and many other countries join the publishing fun.

Volume II starts in the post-war period of the 1940s when the US surged ahead in magazine production while the rest of the world rebuilt and recovered, and ends in 1957 when censorship at last began to ease.

Volumes III and IV cover the short but crucial transformation period of 1958 to 1967: ten years in which the world and its men’s magazines changed out of all recognition to anything that had came before. Volume III begins with the redefinition of American obscenity laws and follows the flowering of mass distribution, or newsstand, men’s magazines around the world. Volume IV traces the roots of "special interest" and under-the-counter publications during this same period, ending with the Scandinavian sexual/social revolution that resulted in the repeal of all obscenity laws for most of Northern Europe.

Finally, in Volumes V and VI you’ll find the years 1968 to 1980: the post-sexual revolution era of sudden publishing freedom. Volume V covers the newsstands of the world, showing everything from homemade hippie ‘zines to periodicals for big bottom fanciers.

Volume VI, the final word in this encyclopedic series, is reserved for the most daring and extreme edges of the publishing field. Here you’ll peek inside the adult bookstores of Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the US and Japan to see what sexual freedom really meant. ... Read more

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A MAJOR oversight in Volume 1 of this six-volume work
I already have Volume 2 of Dian Hanson's encyclopedic _History of Men's Magazines_, detailing what I believe to be the golden age of that genre (the 1950's), so I was really looking forward to getting Volume 1.This volume is presented just as beautifully as the other five volumes in the series, with lots of gorgeous full-page color and B&W photos.

However, there is a very big oversight, not to say error, in the material contained in this volume.Let me explain; Volume 1 bills itself as covering the history of men's magazines from 1900 to the period immediately after World War II.OK.So where are all the pictures from 1900 to the beginning of the 1920's? Certainly, there weren't very many magazines specializing in girlie art or photography before the Roaring Twenties, but France did have several, most notably the famous "La Vie Parisienne", which started publishing in, I believe, the 1870's and ran almost continuously for seven or eight decades.There was a LOT of first-class girlie art in that 'zine from the 1870's to the 1910's (including some classic art produced during World War I) that Hanson could have located and reproduced.Also, what about the Gibson Girl in "Life"? That's not strictly "girlie" art within the parameters set by this series, to be sure, but she was such an iconic figure that she should have gotten at least a couple of pictures.Or what about all the "French postcards" of the Gay Nineties and after? Those directly adumbrated the later girlie magazines, and also go unrepresented, at least in the pictures.

Furthermore, Hanson errs seriously in putting a large number of pictures from the 1950's and 1960's in a volume that is expressly _not_ dedicated to those decades (the 1960's, in fact, get two volumes later on in the series). She may have intended to show how girlie photography developed over the decades, but there was plenty of room later on in the series to do that.The space misappropriated to those pictures would much better have been allocated to the kind of imagery I described in the previous paragraph.

Sorry, Dian. I really like Volume 2.Volume 1, however, is a rather disappointing introduction to what should have been a definitive reference work on a little-studied genre. ... Read more

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