It's been awhile, but we've got a new magazine in the Gallery! Thank you to the generous Cyber Sleuth for sharing with us!

Fury started out a cousin to the girlie mag: one of those "men's adventures" publications. Such mags were prevalent in the 50's and 60's. Not much in the way of nudity, they usually included painted covers of heroic, stubble-faced he-men saving beautiful women in ridiculous bondage situations from Nazis soldiers. In fact, Fury's publisher, J.B. Publications, devoted itself almost exclusively to the genre. Eventually, they branched out and in 1962, started replacing cover images of Hitler and his ilk with scantily-clad women who were not captives of the Nazis.

Somewhere in-between girlie mags and men's adventure mags was the "men's lifestyle" magazines, and this is where Fury found itself: a collection of articles that would appeal to men with an almost begrudging acknowledgement that they had to include some nudity to survive on the newsstand. They weren't going along willingly, mind you. There are two rather tepid pictorials starring Laura White and a woman named Joan (no last name given). The rest of the magazine still wanted to cater to the adventurous he-man (or he-man wannabe). There are some interesting articles from Ben Wolf, John Remington, Ferdric Brown, John Rublowsky, Alan Hynd, and even one from Ian Fleming. So take a look at another viewpoint in what makes a men's magazine.

The latest issue for your perusal is Cover Girl #17. While I can't tell you much about Cover Girl specifically, I can certainly tell you a bit about the era it was published in.

There's no date on this issue, but I'd date it to c1969, give or take a few years. It was published in Copenhagen. At the time, Denmark was well-known in the United States for its more explicit pornography. As early as the mid-60's, magazines (and even playing cards with pornographic pictures) from Denmark were making their way into the U.S. and showing us sex acts, penetration, and what genteel people referred to as "a woman's private parts". I saw a little of this in my father's secret stash when I was a kid, but generally his taste was less graphic.

My own taste is less graphic also, but there's only a little showing of pubic area here, not sex acts and certainly not gynecological exams. Still, it's a little different from our usual offerings, but I thought I'd see what you, the user, thought.

Happy Father's Day!

For all of you dads out there (including me), here's a present for you: Striparama!

You all know how much I gush over Selbee Associates magazines. Well, this one's beautiful, even for them. Unfortunately, my soruce for this magazine (who requests anonymity) gave me the best he had, which is much smaller than our usual fair. Sorry about that, but that's the fault of whomever scanned it, not my contact or me or Selbee Assocaites.

Striparama concentrated on strippers of the time, and there are some famous ones between the covers. (More on that later.)

By 1963 the Burlesque circuit was on its last legs and the ladies working in the business were finding the nightclubs more attractive. The nightclubs had the benefit of waiters serving food & drinks to well-dressed couples and appearing (at least on the surface) to be more upscale than the Burlesque houses. They often presented the strippers as "artistic dancers" and limited some of the raunchier acts. Since the Burley-Q places were now falling into disrepair and being raided on such a regular basis, the girls were willing to work the clubs for less money. Their business network was dying out as local Burlesque houses closed down. They were being replaced by topless clubs that recruited local girls to dance and shimmy with their breasts showing. Burlesque, as a form of dance and as a business, was rapidly disappearing from the American scene.

That didn't matter to Lenny Burtman, owner of Selbee Associates. He knew what his readers wanted and he had good connections with strippers, thanks to his wife, Tana Louise, herself a stripper and model. Lenny got them lined up to appear in his Striparama magazine. It was a form of advertisement for the ladies and a source of the fetish content that Lenny loved.

Included in this issue are pictorials of Marie Davis, Evelyn West, Rosina Revell (the centerfold; here presented as just "Rosina"), Irma "The Body" (real name: Mary Goodneighbor), Dee Thomas and Chen Yu. There's also a reader submission of an "Amateur Stripper" called simply "Kristi".

But it doesn't end there! There's an article on strippers that includes some pictures of Lorelei, Lili St. Cyr(maybe?), Zorita, Tee Tee Red, Tinker Bell, Blaze Starr and Pat Amber Halliday. There's also an ad for another Selbee magazine on the inside back cover featuring Melvina Price. The letters to the editor section seems just an excuse to show more ladies, and they include Yvonne, Tana Louise (2 pics), Pamela Green (9), Paula Page, and Jennie Lee (4).

So all-in-all, I think, the lack of picture quality can be forgiven because of the historical significance of the magazine. Besides, the images are at least large enough that you can still enjoy the pictures, if not preserve them.

The Pink_Panther strikes again* with this beautiful digest from Selbee. A couple of pages are missing, but the bulk of the magazine is there.

Selbee was not adverse to the (at the time) excessively racy concept of female domination, and a lot of their magazines and digests presented the subject in glowing terms. While not my personal cup of tea, I do love the outfits.

This particular issue also includes pictures of Tana Louise AS A BLONDE! I've never seen her with golden tresses before; she still looks gorgeous.

So check this one out and enjoy. As before, join me in thanking Pink_Panther for generously sharing with us.

*You KNEW I was waiting for the second contribution to use that phrase, didn't you?

Thanks to Pink_Panther for our next contribution. Bandit in High Heels is published by Burmel Publishing Co, better know to us as Selbee. Pink_Panther wanted it known that he didn't scan it, only donate it. So whatever happened to the missing page (page 13) is not his fault. Burmel (named after the owners, Lenny BURtman and Ben HimMEL) was pretty much the same outfit as Selbee and used the same models, the same outfits, and most often, the same pictures.

That's not to belittle their efforts, as the quality of the models and outfits is something to be admired. Included in this issue are Maureen (who I don't know; anyone know her?) and Tana Louise (once Mrs. Lenny Burtman) in a photo story about a cat burglar and some female domination. Beautful stuff, in my opinion. This is an Exotique digest, so you know what to expect.

Please enjoy this gorgeous little digest and join me in thanking Pink_Panther for a grand contribution.