I decided to spruce up the logo a bit. The current one is NOT the one I'll stick with, but if anyone wants to contribute a logo, it would be much appreciated... Here are the requirements:

• It MUST include our site mascot (Jackie Lane; see below).
• It must have a retro feel to it.
• It must be 700 width x 150 height pixels.
• It must have a transparent alpha layer (to allow the blue background through).

If anyone feels the urge to be creative, please feel free to make something up. Otherwise, I'll come up with something myself. I just thought someone with more creativity could do better than me.

Jackie Lane Read more

Sorry I didn't post a specific "Merry Christmas" message before the 25th, but the personal life is always so busy this time of year.

I did want to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas and a "just-in-the-nick-of-time" Happy New Year. I've been enjoying the heck out of the website this time around and it's all due to the wonderful contributors and users here.

Just for an example of what I've been doing behind the scenes here, check out this link:

http://www.vintagegirliemags.com/matrix/magazine_titles

A list of magazines by title. This has not been as easy as it might seem. The trick was getting it to show only one magazine for each title, as opposed to all the magazines, as it does when you look at a "by publisher" listing. This required me to create a special content type and requires a new page for every title! (ex. Adam, Bachelor, Trojan, etc.) The end result looks nice, but it will take me awhile to index everything. When it's finished, however, I can do some interesting things with how the data is sorted. Stand by for that!

Again, thanks to everyone who has made this site such a joy and I hope you're all having as much fun as I am.

Just a note that I've done a few things in the last day or so.

• Updated all of the contributions marked "Other" for publisher. They should now all have the correct publisher listed.
• Added some fields to The Publishers suggested by Cyber Sleuth. (Thanks, CS!)
• Added a "Magazines (Latest)" block to the front page. This is the one I'm most excited about, because when I relaunched this website a few months ago, I never dreamed that it would take off like it has. The number of magazine contributions has been more than I've been able to keep up with, which is a joy. I'm glad that we can all share the magazines here. Thank you, one and all, for all you contribute, be it magazines, covers, data, forum posts, or just logging in. You have all made me a happy man, giving me people to share my passion with!
• Been looking over some new feature ideas. Hopefully I'll be able to include them in the next week.

With my limited online time, that's the best I can do for now.

I just wanted to thank all of the magazine contributors. If I haven't added some comments to the front page about your newer magazines, please bear with me while I work through them.

thebigtc, I will probably post just one article about your Australian Cavalcade magazines when I get to them. Not because they're not appreciated (They are GREATLY appreciated!), but because the sheer number that you've uploaded have left me a bit speechless (not an easy task, amigo). I'm afraid that I would get even more redundant than I already am if I commented on every single issue.

They are a wonderful set of magazines and looking at them allows you to see how the magazine differs from American pin-up mags and how they have changed over the years. It's a fascinating read. Thank you!

Well, that's it for now. See you all on the pages.

Regards,
Eric Read more

Thanks, as always, to waw5114 for a great contribution!

Follies was in transition during this period. The publishers had finally gotten the message that nudity sells, and this particular issue is full of nude pictures. I assume that someone at the publishing company didn't like the idea of nudity as Follies, Gala, et. al. were dragged, kicking and screaming, into the world of girlie magazines (as opposed to pin-up magazines). These magazines, published by Cavalcade under a different banner (Frolic Magazines Inc.), were in the process of dying, but it was a slow, lingering death. By the time Frolic caught up with other magazines (in the 1970's) it was a ghost of its former self.

Still, the girls are, as expected, many and beautiful. Enjoy! Thanks, waw5114! Read more

I love the magazines put out by Publishers Development Corporation (PDC), one of the few publishers who could make Hugh Hefner sweat! And with good reason: PDC made a classy set of magazines that, IMHO, were better than Hef's. The women looked less assembly-line than Playboy's girls and the articles had a certain professionalism that Hefner's mag missed at this time. In fairness to Playboy, this had more to do with finances than finding good writers. By 1960, Hefner was well into the black with Playboy and able to get the best writers, but in the mid 1950's, he was publishing what he could find.

This issue of Modern Man Quarterly is from 1958 and it's filled with 1950's babes. Lots of beautiful women here in PDC's unique spiral-bound issues that a scanner has got to love. You don't have to destroy the magazine to scan it!

A classic gem. Thanks again, arun.yothin! Read more