Today we have the cover and thirty-four scans from an April 1972 copy of Australia’s Adam magazine, which you know by now we collect obssessively. Because of this issue's condition it was added gratis to the last group we bought, but the inside is basically intact, which makes it well worth sharing. We have eleven more issues of Adam in reserve, and we’ve already posted twenty-nine others you can see by clicking here.

Above is a January 1978 cover for Australia’s Adam, a magazine you know well by now if you frequent this site. The art here illustrates Terry P. Duval’s story “The Final Run,” in which a hapless truck driver picks up what he thinks is a damsel in distress, but who soon shows she’s a pure femme fatale. Adam began in 1946, and this is the magazine near the end—it folded, looks like, in May 1978. Inside this issue you get the usual literary, artistic and photographic treats, including five pages of Patti Clifton shots, plus skiing Nazis, and a profile of the notorious but misunderstood Tokyo Rose, who we wrote about last year. Readers also get to visit a Dakhma, aka Tower of Silence, a Zoroastrian structure where dead bodies—considered in the religion to be unclean—are left to be sun baked and picked apart by scavenging birds, thus preventing putrefaction which would pollute the earth. Mmm. Fun! The author visits a tower near Yazd, Iran, and must have gotten there just before the government shut all such structures down permanently. Today, the only towers still used for ritual exposure are in India. So put those on your travel itinerary. And lastly, on the rear page, you get Paul Hogan in another ad for Winfield cigarettes. Forty-seven scans appear below.

Above, the cover and some random scans from an issue of Australia’s Adam magazine published November 1964. We only uploaded about twenty images because they came from an online source and the quality isn’t quite what we’d like. But even badly scanned Adam is worth a look, and the cover art is nice, illustrating Walter S. Bratu’s adventure “Peaceful Executioner,” which is set in the fictional Caribbean nation of San Felipe. Did you know that a Mexican standoff is officially between three antagonists? Strategy is key. If person A shoots at person B, person C can shoot at person A, with increased odds of never being shot at, since if A kills B and C kills A, the fight is over with C as the survivor. That’s why, unlike a duel, a Mexican standoff can last forever because the first person to shoot is actually at a disadvantage. Just a little FYI, in case you ever find yourself in that predicament. We still have about fifteen issues of Adam, and we’ll get those up as soon as possible.

Above is the cover of the November 1976 issue of Australia’s Adam magazine, with art for Philip Gould’s short story “Flight from Shadow.” Also in this issue is a tale from Mike Rader entitled “Wall of Fear,” a nice piece of Cold War fiction about a reporter in Germany who gets on the trail of what he thinks may be the story of his career. Unfortunately the clues lead to East Berlin and plenty of complications. We talked about Rader here and have corresponded with him, so it was nice to be able get hold of more of his fiction. It’s a shame Kenmure Press never (as far as we know) collected the tales that appeared in Adam into a reader or anthology. Forty years of stories is a lot of literary output and it really needs a wider audience, not just for the entertainment value, but because the writing is an interesting window into the past. For instance Rader’s story, with its crossing into East Berlin, brings to life some details of that time that you don’t really get from just reading about the Berlin Wall. We also like the stories set in Australia and the vast spaces and isolation some of them describe. They make us want to fly down there. Anyway, below are about forty scans of the magazine’s interior, with its great illustrations, cartoons, and erotic photography. This makes twenty-five issues of Adam we’ve posted, and all of them have been a treat. We’ll have more from this excellent publication soon.

 

We’re excited today. The international mails worked as advertised and we have secured a new stack of Adam magazines, which you know, if you follow this site, is our favorite of the post-pulp publications. It was launched in Sydney, Australia by Kenmure Press, the outfit that also produced Man, Man Junior, Foxylady, Eves From Adam, Laughs and Lovelies, Girls and Gags, and a raft of comic book titles as well. We had been looking for more Kenmure output for more than a year, but the prices were simply too high on the few items we found. This batch, we think, was fairly priced. Since the last issue we bought disappeared into the postal ether, we had little hope that a package this size would arrive safely. But arrive it did, and perhaps it teaches a lesson—maybe people are afraid to steal bigger packages because it seems more likely to produce consequences. Just a theory. Incidentally, we’re not putting down our lovely hosts here. We never had more mail disappear than when lived in the U.S. and worked at a certain famous company that has a bunny logo. Instead of the company name, we used PEGI on those packages—that’s how likely our mail was to vanish otherwise. Anyway, look for many more appearances from Adam on Pulp Intl. to go with our already large collection—24 issues posted and counting. See those by starting here. 

Yet again we are back to our favorite men’s magazine of all time—Australia’s Adam. This issue is from August 1973, with a cover illustration for Mark Graham’s “Cruise into Danger.” We still have the scans Adam writer Mike Rader/James Lee sent in from two issues in which his fiction appeared in 1975, but we delayed putting them up because we saw both of those issues for sale at an online auction and figured we’d wait and put up thirty scans rather than five or six. But in the end, we didn’t get them because, well, embarrassingly, we stayed out at the clubs until 7:00 a.m. and the damned auction ended half an hour before we got home. Worse, it was for nine issues and they went for fifteen dollars. Just our luck. Oh well, we promise we’ll get those Rader/Lee scans up shortly. In the meantime, this issue will have to tide you over. In other news, the Pulp Intl. subscription button at upper right should be working again, so those who have written in asking about that should be good to go. Thanks for your patience.

 

We checked out Jim’s Wikipedia entry, which led us to his publisher’s website and, sure enough, he’s put together a quite impressive bibliography. His million-selling Mr. Midnight series, and his newer Mr. Mystery collection, are both written under the pseudonym James Lee, and are described as being for Asian teens (Jim has lived in Singapore for 20 years). But they’re written in English and we suspect they have plenty of pan-cultural aspects. A few days after we first heard from Jim, he really surprised us by sending in some scans from two issues of Adam in which his fiction appeared. Since we already had today’s post ready to go, we’re going to share those a little later, so keep an eye open for them. In the meantime, enjoy the below scans from July 1973. 

Update: a sharp-eyed reader informs us that the model featured in the photo series entitled "Cynthia's Poses" is none other than Rene Bond, who appeared in about 300 x-rated loops and films during the 1970s. Thanks to Rai for soptting that. A bit more info here.

Above, a cover from the Aussie men’s mag Adam, April 1955, with art depicting a tense moment on the road in Lester Way’s short story “…the Dotted Line.” Below are some interior scans, including one containing the immortal Bettie Page, identified by the editors only as “this brunette”. But even if they didn’t name her, they certainly knew of her. By 1955 she was extremely famous. Her image had been used in dozens of magazines, including Playboy in January of that year, and she had appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show, in the burlesque films Striporama, Varietease, and Teaserama, and had acted in two off-Broadway plays. Page is in panels twelve and thirteen below, and you also get other pin-ups, some nice art, cartoons, and an interesting ad.