Today we have for you a special annual edition of the Australian magazine Man, published this month in 1962. As a year-end compendium, it mostly dispenses with text and instead highlights glamour models and cartoons. The models include Diane Webber, aka Marguerite Empey (on the title page and posing later with a guitar), and Betty Brosmer (inset on the cover). The cartoons, mostly by Phil Belbin signing as “Humph,” are only intermittently clever, and are occasionally offensive. We document those anyway because we don’t believe such material should simply go down the memory hole. Man was double-edged—it was visually spectacular, yet disseminated stereotypes. The page count on this issue runs about seventy. We managed to scan fifty. We’d like to have done more, but it takes time plus processing, and we admit we ran out of steam. We have more annuals we’ll scan down the line.
