This front page of National Informer published today in 1971 may look a little washed out, but its interior content is as colorful as always. Did Informer readers know enough about adultery? Certainly not. Do they know why breasts make men go wild? No, but they soon did. Did they know sex hungry females hunt married guys? Did they know which part of the U.S. had the most seduceable girls? National Informer existed to satirically broaden knowledge and brighten horizons. As long as you didn’t really believe any of it you were fine.
As always, we need to touch upon the predictions of Informer psychic Mark Travis. In this issue he seems to predict cellphones when he says, “People taking on the phone will be able to see each other’s faces on a small screen as they talk,” which is nice, but Star Trek also predicted cellphones years earlier with their planetary communicators, and Nikola Tesla beat everyone by half a century when he imagined them too. But we’ll give Travis a little credit anyway.
We love National Informer. Our aliases—BB and PSGP—come from there. That’s Black Bomber and PSG Pumpometer. We probably don’t have to explain what those are. We also probably don’t need to explain why we upload tabloids. With their focus on secrets, scandal, celebrity, sensationalism, and sex they express a clutch of core pulp literature vales. Informer is more focused on sex than, say, Confidential, but they’re all in the same family. We have a tabloid index here where you can access hundreds. As a time killer, you can’t beat it.
