[Bender2]

Combine this pulp fiction with BeadCounter poking a stick in my cage on my Lost in the 1950s- The Cherry Bowl Drive In [And record covers from my childhood] with two manly magazines from the 1950s--

They were this... and that...

Gadzooks, I had to take the bait... and what follows [If blame is to be given--] is mostly BeadCounter's fault which we shall discuss later fully and completely after I get all these rags back in my Fibber McGee Closet!

Gadzooks! That's a lot... of my child and manhood there--

So don't ask me again why... I drink so much!

[Bender2]

Okay, first one to quess which one of those rags was my favorite... gets all this gold and lifetime free drinking at my place--

[Red Badger]

You have lost your mind.........film at eleven.............

[Charles Martel]

Dang, now I really want to read about the two strippers who stalled Rommel’s desert campaign! These fascinating bits of WWII history, still surfacing after all this time. ;-)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember seeing those magazines in lots of magazine stores and drug stores. I even sneaked a peek when Mom wasn’t looking!

They always promised more on the cover than they gave, and the tales were fabricated.

They died out in the 1970s as more overt porn became normal, and one book I have says too many HOMO magazines grabbed the male names and destroyed the readership of these magazines.

I lament my favorite one. TRUE Magazine was great to read and safe for kids to find. In the 1970s it was sold to some new publisher who promptly turned it into a sleazy porno mag, and it died the death.

[stormer]

Love the covers. The one from “Alibi” really cracked me up. I guess I didn’t realize that back then there were men’s magazines for men that really liked men. Good grief - if the Fire Island article didn’t tip anyone off, the Truck Stop Tearoom and the Liberace stories certainly would. I did a little research but couldn’t find anything else about the publication, but you could make a fortune if you had a bunch of them.

[tet68]

Thanks bender, when I was a kid there were always stacks
of these in the barber shop.

My mom wondered why I wanted to get my hair cut all the time.

[JimRed]

That’s some collection!

[tanuki]

Wow! I remember the old magazine and comics racks-what a bounty! Back when a hack writer could make a living. Now, all the kids and wanna-be kids have are micro-chip art and effects-nothing near real entertainment.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Your favorite TV show?

[martin_fierro]

Hey, I'm published!