Fizeek Quarterly Art Journal [ Partial Run 1960 – 1966 ]
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A large and often contiguous run of the rare homoerotic gay body building photography magazine, Fizeek , also known as the Fizeek Quarterly Art Journal.
Wade, Carlson, et al. Fizeek Quarterly Art Journal. #6-7, 9-20, 23, 25-26, 31-32, 40. Fizeek Enterprises Inc. Washington DC. 1960 – 1966.
“From the cover you might think these midget mags were body-building guides. But look again – if your stomach can take it… They may call these dirty, disgusting little mags “Manorama”, “Man-ifque” or “Fizeek”.” But they could just as well call them “The Queersville Quarterly” or “The Faggot Gazette”
— “Reading For A Limp Wrist!” Hush-Hush Magazine, September 1961
A large and often contiguous run of the rare homoerotic gay body building photography magazine, Fizeek, also known as the Fizeek Quarterly Art Journal.
The contents consist largely of nearly nude photographs of models, wrestlers, boxers, former Royal Air Force members as well as a good number of underage models, most aged 17, but some advertised as young as 10 and 14 years old, a feature of such magazines derogatorily called “the Lolitas of the lisping set” by Vice Squad writer Vince Crowell. Includes an index of underground photographers and suppliers of gay erotic photography like Pat Milo (James Patrick), whose work is collected at the University of Southern California.
Recurring “Sex survey” segments including excerpts from reader letters on topics like the healthiness of masturbation, fantasizing about sex with a 14-year-old boy in the neighborhood, and one letter that asks, “What is the youngest a boy can be anally penetrated?” Also includes essays on topics like tanning and bowling by esoteric health enthusiast Carlson Wade.
(Issues 7, 9, 11, 15, 18 and 20 of Fizeek are listed among the papers of Allen Ginsberg at Stanford University.)
About 70pp per issue. Staple bound photo printed magazines in pictorial wraps. Occasional wear and rubbing to wraps. Some reading creases to spines. Occasional margin tears to spread pages from previous owner separating signatures. Good to very good throughout.
If you liked this collection of Fizeeks you might also like this first edition of Howl by Allen Ginsberg or this scarce English edition of a pornographic novel with an interesting publishing provenance The Fleshly Prelude
