Mystery Illustration 61

This woman is attempting to sell you a magazine. What type? Skin mag? Sports mag? CAT FANCY?

The answer is after the jump.

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Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 31, 2017
Category: Magazines | Sexuality | 1970s

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How to sew your own dresses?

Posted by Virtual on 10/31/17 at 10:13 AM

The only part of that I could see "below the fold" was the face, and for a moment I thought it was Ozzy Osbourne...

Posted by PupZappa on 10/31/17 at 06:15 PM

I knew it had to be a Ralph Ginzburg magazine, and this article shows that I was right: http://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/11/business/advertising-how-to-read-ralph-ginzburg.html

Posted by ges on 10/31/17 at 09:51 PM

That's an awful lot of copy for a subscription sale pitch. Typical of the mid to late 1970's alternate magazine style. Last year I disposed of a lot of old National Lampoon issues where many adverts looked like this.

Posted by KDP on 11/01/17 at 09:38 AM

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