Today’s issue of Adam magazine was published this month in 1960, with cover art meant to illustrate an interesting short story titled, “Yellow Isn’t for Cowards,” by Damon Mills. He wrote often for Adam during the early 1960s. In fact, this is the fourth tale of his we’ve run across, and his best, we think. It’s about an experienced circus aerialist, his younger competition in both love and acrobatics, and the triple somersault the younger one can perform but the older one can’t—usually. Yellow is said to be bad luck in the aerialist community, so the scene above shows the love interest jinxing one of the flyers. The tales in Adam varied greatly in quality, but Mills had talent.
Back around 1960 Adam was using pretty poor paper stock, which accounts for the grainy scans below. There was also not as much beautiful art as later, which accounts for the smaller than usual number of pages uploaded. Furthermore, humidity got to the magazine in the eighty or so years it was in storage. The bottom line is today’s share will consist of only nineteen panels. But one of those has famed nudist model Diane Webber, so that’s something anyway. Plus, though there aren’t many art pieces, a few are nice, including one by the hard working Jack Waugh. A final note: this is the eighty-eighth issue we’ve shared. Hey, we’re impressed by that. Adam will return, as always.
