Cult Magazines: A to Z

Nonno · 09-11-2009, 04:11 PM

Cult Magazines: A to Z: A Compendium of Culturally Obsessive & Curiously Expressive Publications, Edited by by Earl Kemp and Luis Ortiz

Product Description
Exploring the subcultures of mid-20th-century America, this encyclopedia comprehensively documents the huge quantity of cult magazines that thrived beneath the mainstream. Chronicling the period between 1925 and 1990, prior to the rise of the Internet age, the book reveals how thousands of these specialized magazines were produced, gratifying the secret life of every fad, taste, obsession, and hush-hush desire. Nothing was beyond the scope of the imaginative publishers and eccentric editors, the guide shows, as it goes behind the scenes of titles such as Amazing Stories, Doctor Death, Gee-Whiz, Jaybird, Phantom Detective, and True Thrills. Featuring full-color reproductions of hundreds of distinctive cult cover images, this reference's backgrounds, histories, and essays offer a complete picture of a bygone era.

About the Author
Earl Kemp was a notorious producer of more than 5,000 salacious novels and men's magazines in the 1960s. He is a Hugo Award-winning editor and the author of Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties. He lives in Kingman, Arizona. Luis Ortiz is the author of Arts Unknown: The Life & Art of Lee Brown Coye and Emshwiller: Infinity X Two, the latter of which was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus awards. His writings have also appeared in Comics Journal, Filmfax, and Illustration Magazine. He lives in New York City.

*morningbell* ^(Premo) · 09-11-2009, 04:42 PM

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Nonno In what respect, Charlie? Member Since: Dec 2003 Posts: 5,087	Cult Magazines: A to Z Cult Magazines: A to Z: A Compendium of Culturally Obsessive & Curiously Expressive Publications, Edited by by Earl Kemp and Luis Ortiz Product Description Exploring the subcultures of mid-20th-century America, this encyclopedia comprehensively documents the huge quantity of cult magazines that thrived beneath the mainstream. Chronicling the period between 1925 and 1990, prior to the rise of the Internet age, the book reveals how thousands of these specialized magazines were produced, gratifying the secret life of every fad, taste, obsession, and hush-hush desire. Nothing was beyond the scope of the imaginative publishers and eccentric editors, the guide shows, as it goes behind the scenes of titles such as Amazing Stories, Doctor Death, Gee-Whiz, Jaybird, Phantom Detective, and True Thrills. Featuring full-color reproductions of hundreds of distinctive cult cover images, this reference's backgrounds, histories, and essays offer a complete picture of a bygone era. About the Author Earl Kemp was a notorious producer of more than 5,000 salacious novels and men's magazines in the 1960s. He is a Hugo Award-winning editor and the author of Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties. He lives in Kingman, Arizona. Luis Ortiz is the author of Arts Unknown: The Life & Art of Lee Brown Coye and Emshwiller: Infinity X Two, the latter of which was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus awards. His writings have also appeared in Comics Journal, Filmfax, and Illustration Magazine. He lives in New York City. __________________ "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done." (B.H.Obama) "This change, my friends, is being delivered in a teabag, and that's a wonderful thing." (M. Steele) "Only dead fish go with the flow." (S. Palin) FOX -- The More You Watch, The Less You Know... Donate to UNICEF's Humanitarian Response in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
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