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Men's magazines were once filled with stories of action and adventure. Check out the covers on these old magazines.
The Best Of The Worst
Sheldon Lord - A Woman Must Love Midwood 33 (1960) Cover art by Paul Rader
Men's magazines were once filled with stories of action and adventure. Check out the covers on these old magazines.
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Date: 1987 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 31.00" Signature: Signed Center Left This illustration was published as the paperback cover of, Rose in Bloom (Silhouette Special Edition series) by Andrea Edwards, Harlequin Books, 1987.
The Best Of The Worst
I stumbled upon these fantastic covers of “gay pulp” paperbacks from the 1970s the other day and immediately became entranced with them. I saw a few of them at the blog Knee-Deep in the Flooded Victory and immediately knew I had to find out more. It turns out that these covers date from 1974 and 1975; they are from the “RAM-10” series from Hamilton House, a company about which I have no information. It may not be apparent how unusually striking these covers are—for a nice gallery of more standard-issue gay paperback covers, you could do a lot worse than this post I did for DM a couple of years ago. You’ll see that the more usual style of gay pulp covers relies on well-nigh abstract juxtapositions of male silhouettes and that male/Mars symbol in garish colors. Not so for the RAM-10 series, which uses documentary-style photographic portraits of males dressed up as gay archetypes in front of a field of light blue or blood red, while a vertical line pierces the book’s title and author in a stately serif font. Actually, the covers remind me a bit of Gay Semiotics, the brilliantly deadpan monograph that photographer...
The Best Of The Worst
The Best Of The Worst
