ready for my closeup

I love that mag! In my notes I wrote that there actually more than 7 men pictured, but what I eventually figured out is that one man is pictured twice. Don’t have a name though.

BJ, you chose blowjob pics from three of the best segments of the mag. I have a quote from John Gamble saying that he “put together” the mag- well, I’ll just post the full quote. (I didn’t record the source for unknown reason) Why are my notes not complete?!

“Yes, that’s my magazine, though I wonder if it’s a latter-day re-issue. I don’t remember its having either a Parliament News logo or an Academy logo (or a price that low) on it. I believe I was in a fiscal crunch and put together a bunch of the hardcore pics from creating other softcore magazines to get the crummy payment the Mafia-associated publishers in New York were willing to pay for a camera-ready magazine ‘package’ at that time. The pics look familiar because these are the missing pics with the ‘insertion’ shots. In fact, the first sequence was shot in my apartment at that time (Cathedral Pkwy. near the Cathedral Church of St. John The Divine and Columbia University, where 20 years earlier my good friend Walter Kundzicz had photographed Dick Stark and his jockstrapped buddies in the field house showers). The type (added from my manuscript after I handed in the otherwise camera-ready mechanicals, chromes,
and b&w prints) appears to have been sloppily handled. There are blanks spaces where type ought to be. Oh, well! How much art direction can you expect from The Sopranos?” John Gamble (2005)

Cool, right?

The leather cap and the cowboy hat are maybe the hottest segments in the mag, perhaps in part because I can’t ID any of the players. The text gives them names, but they are likely fictional. The Leather Cap guy is “Big Zeke” a truck driver, and his partner is “Kevin Delaney.” And yet, one of the names in the mag is :John Best which is a known alias of Jack Hacker (not shown in this post). So the info is sketchy, but who cares really? It’s such a gorgeous mag.

I know that third pic is Big Max aka Sam Pasco aka Mike Spanner, even though there is no text in that segment and he isn’t credited. I just recognize him. He’s sucking the cock of another known gay porn star, Scott Cooper(with a delicious furry belly, right?) This set also appears in a mag called “The Manhandlers.”

Great magazine and a great triptych of photo excerpts!

Thanks BJ!