German actress Andrea Rau had a knack for making eye-catching publicity photos, but the image above is the prizewinner. It was made when she appeared in 1976 on the West German television show Disco, which ran on ZDF, one of those networks Americans would see while on vacation in Europe and go back home astonished that over-the-air television elsewhere in the world was so much more revealing. Even so, Rau bared a little bit more in the photo than the show. As you can see from looking below, she was well wreathed in foam for home audiences, so this must be one those fun bonus shots that tended to be made back then. Hope she didn't forget to wash behind her ears.

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 K.G. Murray Publshing Co. 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.

Update: This last model, just above, is German actress Andrea Rau. Didn't recognize her at first, but it's defnitely her.