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Here's a quick guest post from Bountiful BARRY PEARL, which contains a wee bit of nudity - gasp! Don't look, Ethel!
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We all know that after Marvel was bought by Perfect Film and Chemical and their distribution was handled by Curtis, the company began to publish black and white magazines. We usually think of their 'comic book' variety of titles, such as Dracula Lives, but they got into some very different material that you wouldn’t think of.
Here are some photos from their Sensuous Streaker mag (1974), in which Kid has obscured some of the 'naughty' bits, along with some images from a Stan Lee edited book on Hitler. Click on images to enlarge, then click again for optimum size.
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Can you tell us more about this? The magazines seem to be published by Curtis, not Marvel.
ReplyDeleteTo quote the Marvel Database:
ReplyDeleteCurtis Magazines was the name of an imprint used by Marvel Comics to publish black and white magazines in the early 1970s.
There's more, but that should cover it.
Curtis was the distributor owned by Perfect Film. The books are published by Magazine Management, the parent company of Marvel, owned by Martin Goodman.
ReplyDeleteNote that Lee is the publisher of the Hitler book and he was listed as Publisher of Marvel
Is the Marvel Database wrong then, Barry? Although it said Magazine Management in the indicia, Curtis was used on the cover so that the book wasn't obviously associated with Marvel. And distributors usually didn't get their names on the cover. So was MM trying to make it look like the publisher was Curtis in some sort of sleight-of-hand move?
ReplyDeleteAnother title in this line was Nostalgia Illustrated, which lasted eight issues. The link below should take you to a bunch of relevant Google links. https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=tablet-android-samsung&source=android-browser&q=nostalgia+illustrated+magazine
ReplyDeleteTa, will take a look, as will others, I'm sure.
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ReplyDeleteThe distributor was often mentioned on the cover. In fact, in the 1950s "Atlas" was the distributor for Goodman's comics and that name was often on the cover. Look. It says Maga in the indicia of the magazines, you have that posted, it says magazine management.
Yeah, but that's where the confusion comes in, Barry, because didn't the mags still say Atlas on the cover when IND were distributing them? And IND (Independent News Distributors, I think) was on the cover of later mags, but in very tiny nondescript letters. And Magazine Management was in the indicia when the covers had Marvel Comics Group in the corner box.
ReplyDeleteSo most people tend to regard Atlas, Marvel, and Curtis as Subsidiaries of Magazine Management, who were the parent company, but Marvel, Atlas, and Curtis were considered publishers within the parent. The Marvel Database (and you'd think they'd know) describe Curtis as a publisher. I don't suppose the two functions are mutually exclusive. See? It's confusing. Even the early Marvel UK weekly comics said Magazine Management in the indicia, but everyone still regarded them as being published by Marvel. Weren't all these groups really just a ploy by Goodman for tax purposes anyway?
I hope you will not be practicing this once lockdown is over, or you'll be left social distancing for a lot longer!
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Practising what? Streaking or Fascism?
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