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BEEFCAKE
Large collection of bodybuilder and physique magazines from the late 1950s and 1960s. Approximately 370 issues under dozens of different titles, including a few duplicates, most in octavo format; minor to moderate wear. Various places, bulk 1955-1967.
"Adonis: The Art Magazine of the Male Physique." 14 issues, circa 1960s.
"Big." 12 issues, circa 1964-1966.
"Body Beautiful: Studies in Masculine Art." 25 issues, circa 1957-1967.
"Butch: The Male Nude in Photo." 15 issues, 1965-1967.
"Drum: Sex in Perspective." 6 issues, 1965-1966.
"Fizeek" / "Fizeek Art Quarterly." 25 issues, circa 1960-1966.
"Grecian Guild Pictorial" / "Grecian Guild Studio Quarterly." 19 issues, circa 1956-1967.
"International Nudist Sun." 4 issues, 1964-1965.
"Iron Man." 12 issues, circa 1958-1961.
"The Male European Nudist." 5 issues, 1960s.
"The Male Figure." 5 issues, 1962-1963.
"Male Pose." 4 issues, circa 1960s.
"Manorama." 7 issues, 1964-1966.
"Manual." 8 issues, circa 1964-1967.
"Mars." 17 issues, circa 1963-1967.
"One: The Homosexual Viewpoint." Not at all a beefcake magazine, but from the same era. 21 issues, 1960-1965, plus two 1966 issues of the successor magazine "Tangents."
"Physique Pictorial." Includes 3 Tom of Finland covers. 10 issues, 1967-1977.
"Rugged." Issues 1-4 complete, 1967.
"Sir Gee." 4 issues, circa 1960s.
"Tomorrow's Man." 41 issues, circa 1962-1966.
"Vagabond." 7 issues, 1964-1966.
"Vim." 35 issues, circa 1955-1965.
Plus 70 other issues with many different titles.
Provenance: The collection of Charles "Chuck" Renslow (1929-2017), co-owner of Chicago's Gold Coast bar; publisher of the magazines Triumph, Rawhide, and Mars; and founder of the long-running International Mr. Leather contest and the Leather Archives and Museum. He is a member of the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame and the Leather Hall of Fame.
