No 3: front cover: David West back cover: Charles Kassapian. Photographers: Vulcan, Togof, Spartan, Collier, Arax, Bruce etc. Other models include: Tony laTrace, Joe Godino, Bob Gordon, Hugh Pendleton, Alex Pilin, Harold Lang, John Trenton, Vince Plumeri, Dave Wiler, Tony Knight and many others. No 2: Front cover model: Wengryn back cover: Buddy Dean inside front: Don Cerulli inside back: Gerald Leung.
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They have light marking from handling and storage. The covers of all have some wear and scuffing from shelving/ storage. A VERY RARE bundle of this iconic Beefcake magazine. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. The contents are tidy, poised, very healthy and clean, bountiful. Covers are scuffed and a little creased and marked from handling and storage. Other models: Mike Scott, Dick Harrison, Bob Hover, Paul Nash, Paul Wynter, David Reid, Bob Burke, Mike Keller, John Hadnagy, Steve Finder, Ernie Lopez, Vince Perri, Roger Cote and many more! Photographers: Quirk, Take 1 Studio, Royale, Cal Models, Apollo, Bruce, Stan of Sweden and others. August: Front cover: Rich Potoczek back cover: Bob Curry inside front: Bob Huff inside back: Ted Bengion. The contents are tight, hale, sure, clean. Other models: Mark Tyler, Ron Sueflohn, Joe Warmuth, Henry Downes, Vince Perri, Rich Potoczek, Glenn Johnson, Dennis van Zuydam, Bob Rath, Ray Harper, Mel Fortune, Peter Hearne, Alwyn Murtough, stills from AMG movies and much more! Photographers: J Rome, Mark One, Fredon, Royale, Sidney, Quirk, Matt's Studio, George Lukas, Stanford St George and others. May: Front cover: Mel Fortune back cover: Joey Krnjaich inside front: Billy Hill inside back: Firooz Changizi.
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The contents have mild evidence use about the corners, but otherwise the pages are healthy, confident. Inside other models include: Bob Vezina, Paul Johnson, Jacques Loyau, Laszlo Gyori, Warren Blackstone, David Worth, Barney Sherman, Roger Keith, Henry Bunkers and many others! Photographers: Mark One, Ajax, Vulcan, Pin, Graham, Studio 10, Bruce, Titan among others. March: front cover model: Keith Fisk back cover: Kip Behar inside back: Dave Bell. The covers of these copies have some wear about the edges and corners, some scuffing and general handling and storage marks. Interestingly by 1960 'Body Beautiful' had abandoned any pretence of fitness and muscle-building instruction and illustration, instead, with its photographs of barely clothed and naked men in careful, artful poses, it was clearly a magazine for the gay man. Very rare copies of the iconic beefcake magazine. Wash day for this group of GIs, somewhere in Europeįive English soldiers from the Dorsetshire Regiment enjoying a steaming hot bath, after helping to liberate Normandy - France, 1944.Softcover. Two German soldiers washing their comrade in a stone troughĪ watchful eye being kept over eight shirtless young recruits, while they perform their morning ablutions Marines helping one another out in the showers Two shirtless young German soldiers shaving outside their barrack roomĮarly morning ablutions for German soldiers Two German soldiers at an outside washing troughĮarly morning ablutions on the Front Lineįour handsome German soldiers washing at a well
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Troops were encouraged by their superiors to form close “buddy” relationships, and these bonds were often cemented through horseplay.
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These personal snapshots of World War II soldiers bathing and swimming are a record of the unselfconscious camaraderie between young men at war during a period when physical intimacy was less discouraged among straight men. If someone had a camera they’d pose together, to remember their closeness. Between battles soldiers were able to bathe in makeshift showers and in rivers, lakes and streams to swim catch a few rays, and just mess around like the kids they recently were.