Product Description

The Flip Side of Popular Culture As Seen Through Magazines and Tabloids BAD 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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35736 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

Review
"I've been looking forward to Bad Mags for awhile, and I think it's going to be well worth the wait."--Will Pfeifer

About the Author
Tom Brinkmann lives on Long Island, New York, and has been an avid collector of underground comix and newspapers, pornography, tabloids, and girlie mags, since an early age.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
THE DARING BREED / Vol 1 No 1 1966 Seven Seventy Publishers, P.O. Box 8337, Universal City, CA 91608 European Distributor: Algemeen Boekbedrijf, Postbus 4134, Amsterdam, Holland1.5072pp / "Girls!!!! Young!!! Wild!!!!! Twisting! What A Wild Breed." This magazine is something else,no kidding,seriously. Seven Seventy again comes through with the goods and even lists a European distributor in the front. The cover sports photos of a goateed Ed "Big Daddy" Roth fashion clone, sitting cross legged on a fire hydrant, dressed in a leather jacket, shades, and a Rat Fink style hat that said "Class of '69" on it, the same photo is used on the cover of Sunset Strip Revolt, another Seven Seventy mag. There is also a photo of a couple who look like blond versions of Sonny & Cher circa 1965: another quintessential primary document of L.A. in the sixties. The blurbs cluttering the cover read: "Cult Found In Caves; 15 Heroin Arrests; Escapism, Lush Femmes, Color Photos, Spicy Night Reading, Today's Films." Seven Seventy would occasionally reuse photos, but their reusing of blurbs and key words and phrases was unique, as some of the blurbs from this mag can be found in Love-In as well as other Seven Seventy publications. The first six pages are a diverse combination of pics and film stills. Three are from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. The blurbs read "On the following pages we will attempt to show you the Wild, Young Daring Breed! L.S.D. can lead to pretty wild parties,all holds okay! The wild music gets the very soul of these young chicks stirred up to a frensy [sic]." The first piece of fiction is Scare Crow by Edwyn A. Gray. It starts with the blurb "Everyone warned Jedd that Myra was a witch,but he knew better!" The story begins with three college frat brothers sitting at a drugstore soda counter, looking out the window and ogling the exposed thighs of Myra as she gets into her silver-gray Corvette. Some Group is two pages of photos of rock acts of the day, including Liverpool Five, The Hard Times, The James Gang, The Barbarians, The Byrds, Lovin' Spoonfuls' [sic], Rolling Stones, Rocking Vicars and Turtles Group (The Turtles), a strange mix of the famous and the obscure, oddly with no text, and only the blurb "Swinging, wild." The next two pages feature more film stills with scantily clad ladies and some clip-art of dice, and a bizarre little illustration of a man astride a large handgun surrounded by women holding it up! ...

Customer Reviews

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.