I didn't see this cover on a top shelf, I saw it on a magazine carousel at the back of a newsagents I used to visit solely to shop-lift girly mags from in the early 80s when I was unemployed and skint for a while. No excuse, I know, but I was too skint to buy, never mind too skint to date, so this badly supervised newsagent with its wank mags on a carousel in a blind spot was too much of a temptation for me to resist.
As I mentioned in my
Carol Heaps 'Escort' cover post earlier in this thread I'm very much a bum man and though I'm not a fan of bottle blondes, that cover with the model standing with her back to the viewer, leotard pulled up tight between the cheeks of her arse, the sunlight pouring over her while she stood legs akimbo with a hand on each of her ample pale buttocks just cried out to me "buy me!"
Or more accurately "Steal me!"
I would usually flick through girly mags before acquiring them but I slipped that one into my bag uninspected, looking forward to getting home and enjoying a very bottom-centric set.
I was very aware that the girl on the cover wasn't entirely to my taste and that the cover photo was a bit 'rough and ready' even for Rustler but there was also something appealingly casual about the cover photo. I'm guessing in hindsight that it was probably taken by Eric Wilkins, a photographer who had a gift for 'cheap and cheerful' but, as far as I can tell, little gift for the erotic beyond "show us your fanny, Love" and "Bend over and spread your bum, Love". That said, I'm not complaining, that would have done the job for me.
Back in the late 70s and early 80s I bought Rustler and the other G*S*P publications along with my favourite mags, 'Men Only', 'Club International' and 'Mayfair', because the G*S*P had an almost unique selling point in the UK - they were as genitally and anally explicit as the Sullivan magazines but didn't feel like Sullivan's cheap con-jobs which feaured very few colour photos and those of women who mostly looked like skanks.
Rustler and Rapier/Raider often published the stronger photos from sets that has earlier appeared in the likes of 'Mayfair' where the crotch shots had been airbrushed into shadow, so the cute girls I'd seen posing tastefully in the softer girlies would turn up in the likes of 'Rustler' with their ankles behind their ears, clunge on the pout and ringpiece on resplendent display.
Except the model on this particular Rustler cover was unknown to me.
But the promise of her spreading her bottom wide inside the mag was enough to make me take the magazine unopened.
So imagine my disappointment when I got the magazine home, stretched out on my bed, took out my little fella to give it some exercise and found the following set:
CTOP
Yep, it was a version of the common problem with Girlie magazine covers, the cover featuring a girl in a pose that wasn't followed up in the set inside, (even worse was the girl on the cover who wasn't to be found anywhere inside the magazine).
As you'll notice above, not only did the set not contain the held-open bum shot the cover had implied, it contained little but nondescript frontal shots, two with the girl's leotard still covering her 'lady's treasure' and two unimaginative shots of her showing said cunt that were almost identical to one-another, one of which the editor clearly thought merited a centrespread.
So that was an 'eyes on stalks' cover that had no other part of me on stalk.