Physique Pictorial – Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1957
Los Angeles: AMG, 1957.
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Softcover. Magazine. Octavo. 31pp. Stapled wrappers. Very lightly rubbed with a touch of toning, near fine. One of the first all-male magazines produced by gay pornography pioneer Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild. This issue features the debut American appearance of "Tom, a Finnish artist," a.k.a. Tom of Finland who produced both the cover illustration of loggers and an interior companion shot. Finland, whose real name was Touko Laaksonen, drew in a style of illustration that has greatly influenced gay culture with images of muscular men, often in roles of authority, and garbed in fashions that have become clichéd uniforms of the gay leather subculture.
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