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Thanks to KDOKDO for contributing this one.

I'm a fan of anything made by Selbee Associates, and when it's one of these great little digests, I'm doubly pleased. A lot of Honey Bee in this one, gang, and it's a great issue.

I was hoping to include some biographical data on Honey Bee, a famous stripper in the early 60's, but I couldn't find a thing. If someone knows something about her life, it would be much appreciated.

Share & Enjoy,
Eric

Another new addition comes your way with Ace Vol 04 No 05 from 1961.

Ace was the poor man's Adam. About the same mixture of articles to pictorials, but Ace didn't have the merchandising that Adam had. Adam sold everything from calendars to party albums, while Ace sold just, well, Ace. Still, while Ace couldn't seem to draw the big-name writers that Adam boasted, it did manage a few more color pictures.

Enjoy.

Gala, like its sister magazine, Frolic, was noted for featuring starlets and strippers in non-nude pictorials. In fact, the nudity ban was so prevalent that photographed nude breasts usually had hand-painted tassels on them. Still, the magazine flourished for many years before succumbing to demand and allowing topless models. By the time this issue was published, a little nudity was showing, if not a lot.

Still, you had to admire the quality of the women if not the quality of the photographs. Well done cheesecake throughout the long run of this magazine.

Mushashi7 has graciously allowed me to post his scan of Garter Parade #1 from 1960. This is a beautiful job, and I'm much impressed with Mushashi's ability at cleaning up the scan and making the images clear and beautiful. Thank you, Mush!

You've all heard my spiel before about digest magazines, one picture per page, blah, blah, blah... All I can say here is bravo, Mush! We all appreciate it.

Mushashi7 has graciously agreed to help moderate things here. He's been a vocal supporter here and generous to a fault. Please join me in welcoming him to the new position.

Eric

The latest magazine for your viewing pleasure is Cocktail Vol 01 No 03 1958. This magazine was created by Studio Publications and should not be confused with the Parliament magazine of the same name that started a year later. Both had the same concept, though: pictures of beautiful women and mixed drink recipes. Somehow, it works. There are a lot of pictures and the women are beautiful, so make a Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blaster and enjoy the show.

Things are really starting to gel here at VintageGirlieMags.Com. When I restarted the site, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find content. Ha! I've got so much waiting in the wings that I may have to start doing twice-daily updates just to keep up with the flood!

The sources are varied and in fact, a lot of you are already aware of them. Some sources are unique, and as I've been sworn to secrecy, I'll have to keep them to myself for now. Sufficed to say that I'll be gladly sharing what I have. Just keep tuned.

Some sources have been posted on Rapidshare, and I just want to take this opportunity to thank those who have posted there and to also express my dissatisfaction with Rapidshare, as a service. It takes forever to download off of them because of the wait time they impose between downloads. That's not really their fault, I guess, and I understand that they're a business. But I urge all of you, if you have magazines to share, please consider sharing them here as well. It won't take forever for people to download them, and we'd all be grateful.

This is also the time and place, I guess, to remind everyone that you can add whole albums to the "shopping" cart in the gallery and then download the whole magazine as a zip file. Pretty neat and handy, if you ask me.

Anyway, thank you all for coming. you make it all worthwhile. And remember my motto: Share & Enjoy!

Eric

Look in the "Small Contributions" album. There's a sub-album called "Uploads". Over 1,200 images added there.

Enjoy.

Here's a fun little digest from 1962 called Garter Parade. Digest magazines of this type are pretty much pictures, pictures, pictures, usually with a single page thrown in about how the digest magazine is to assist the photographer or model in their studies (wink-wink, nudge-nudge). Text pages were often used to get around postal regulations for second-class mail that required them of magazines and comic books. That's why mags and comic books originally had letter pages.

Anyway, this magazine is very cool, with one picture per page and a LOT of lingerie.

Enjoy.

Today we have a magazine that's not really a magazine. The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques put out this ebook as a demonstration of graphic techniques. Fortunately, their effort dovetails with our interest beautifully.

This is a great example of Bill Ward's "A" style. The images are detailed and beautifully drawn. I don't think there's an image here that was made after, oh, 1974 or so. It's a great addition, so I'm treating it as a full-fledged magazine. You'll find it in the Magazine album, under "S" for "Siggraph Presents". Enjoy.