Cover and interior pages from the French erotic magazine La Vie Parisienne, January 1959. If you recognize the photo of Lily Niagara in panel two, that may be because we used it back in August for another post. We have more issues of this publication to show you in the future.

Cover and assorted interior pages from the January 1974 issue of the great Australian men’s magazine Adam. Incidentally, that suspicious stain on Heidi's leg in panel twenty-four was put there by a previous owner, we swear. Click keyword Adam below to see the other issues. 

Paris-Hollywood was a cinema and cheesecake magazine published every two weeks in France from 1947 to 1973. Its first issue featured Rita Hayworth on the cover, and over the years dozens more movie stars, as well as scores of unknown models, graced its cover. This issue, from 1952, features not just a provocative cover shot, but one of the magazine’s favorite interior treats—a centerfold that strips. It’s ingeniously simple. The centerspread is a piece of semi-transparent white paper inked in such a way as to strategically block portions of the pages beneath. In this case, a silhouette of black ink creates the image of a woman in a catsuit. But lift the white paper and you see the same figure nude. The coolness of this trick can only be described using the word on the magazine’s cover: “espièglerie”—the state of being mischievous or frolicsome. Take a look below and see if we aren’t right. 

Today, nudie mags seem to be the last refuge of women whose careers are failing, but back in the day such publications were instrumental in launching careers. This photo of Italian actress Anita Pallenberg appeared in the Italian nudie mag Playmen in 1965, two years before she scored her first film role. Other women who used Playmen as a stepping stone to stardom include Brigitte Bardot, Patty Pravo, Ornella Muti, and Barbara Bouchet. Pallenberg, in addition to acting, became a famous companion to Keith Richards and moved into fashion design, but fame was a turbulent ride. She dealt and consumed drugs, became involved in the occult, and was even acquitted of manslaughter charges in 1979. There's too much to tell in one small post. We'll revisit this interesting person at a later date.

Assorted pages of Adam magazine, December 1963.     

Assorted pages of Adam, from Australia, December 1957. Though the cover art here is similar to the 1973 and 1976 issues we posted, at this stage Adam was a pure pulp magazine. It became a nudie magazine around 1971 or 1972, we think, but we can’t be sure because we don’t have any issues from either year. We’ll keep looking, and we'll post the rest of the issues we do have in the coming months. 

Assorted covers of the whimsical Japanese nudie magazine B&B, circa 1968 and 1969, with German actress Elke Sommer in the top panel. The Sommer photo is actually a production still from her film Deadlier than the Male, part of this session in which she wears the same distinctive plaid bikini. You can see lots more Japanese nudie mag covers at this amazing Japanese blog.     

Another Monday, another cover and selected interior pages from Australia’s incomparable men's magazine Adam, October 1973.

We thought we’d start your Monday off right with a brilliant cover and some interior panels from the great men’s magazine Adam. This is not the American nudie mag we posted a while ago, but rather the publication of identical name that was printed in Australia, seemingly back before people gave a damn about trademark infringement. This issue, with its stunning image of a burning locomotive plummeting into a canyon, is from thirty-three years ago this month.     

Assorted Pazar covers. Pazar was an erotic magazine printed in Turkey. These examples are circa 1973. You can see what’s inside a typical issue here.