Grand Slam #1 1996 Vintage Gay Magazine Magcorp Vol 1 No 1 Premiere Issue

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GRAND SLAM #1, Volume One Number One — the premiere issue. Published by MAGCORP, The Magazine Corporation of America, California. Copyright 1995, printed in the U.S.A. in January 1996. Cover price $7.00. UPC 786520-00216. The indicia carries a detail collectors of this era look for: the publication is exempt from the federal labeling and record-keeping law because all photographs were produced prior to July 3, 1995. Translation — this is a 1996 magazine built from earlier material, and the imagery is older than the print date. The soft-focus interiors and the styling bear that out. MagCorp ran one of the busiest men's magazine houses on the West Coast through the eighties and nineties, working across several imprint names. Their catalogue is still poorly documented, which makes attribution harder than it should be and complete runs genuinely difficult to assemble. First issues are the ones that matter. Debut print runs were cautious, distribution untested, and once a title found readers it was the later numbers that got kept. Condition: VG — edge and corner wear, creasing to the front cover, light soiling. Interior sound and complete. Ships bagged, boarded and flat in a rigid mailer with tracking, from a smoke-free home. Gentlemen Books drops vintage LGBT+ gems every day — bold covers, beautiful men, and titles that vanished from newsstands decades ago. Worth checking back often, because the good stuff moves fast. Buying more than one? Add them to your cart and shipping combi

• Publisher: Magcorp
• Year: 1996
• Condition: Very Good

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