Magazine covers: eyes on stalks

[Sharkhunter]

Originally Posted by Jenkinson

The set inside was excellent, but for me the cover picture was still the best. I do love to see a beautiful bottom and a beautiful face simultaneously, especially if the model is looking at the viewer as if to say, ‘Lusting after my arse, are you?’

Indeed, Jenkinson old chap, indeed. A stunning cover, one that certainly stirs the loins of this gusset fetishist. That's the perfect rear view, with the perfectly-defined gusset seam. This was a great look often seen on covers in the 1970s and 1980s, but hardly almost ever these days.

The story of your putting the mag down your trousers whilst travelling with your parents gave me the shivers. Yikes!

Glad it all turned out well though!

[rudolph_hucker]

These two covers were the first two wank-mags I ever owned, and were purely opportunistic at that. I can remember having them in my bag unable to give them a good look and anticipating what I was to find later on. It wasn't until I got home that I opened up the copy of Ravers, having marvelled over that glorious arse on the cover, and wanking my rigid cock until I shot a huge load over her centre fold spread. And then there was the Escort, with the sumptuously sexy Melanie. Shot a few over her I can tell you.




Even now when I go into a newsagent, my eye is drawn upwards to have a quick peak at the covers, and from experience I think many are more interesting than the magazine itself.

[caboosier]

Originally Posted by Jenkinson

Then in 1984 I saw Men Only 48/11 on a top shelf in a larger neighbouring town:-



A glorious presentation by the model I now know as Jeanette Starion... The set inside was excellent, but for me the cover picture was still the best. I do love to see a beautiful bottom and a beautiful face simultaneously, especially if the model is looking at the viewer as if to say, ‘Lusting after my arse, are you?’

Naturally, after this introduction, I also became a regular buyer of Men Only. So many of its covers at this time seemed to be tailored exactly to my preferences

Men Only didn't command my attention until the 1990s.
It wasn't very common in Canada before then.
I will need to search my files for my first Men Only purchase,
but one thing is certain,
it got me addicted to


Jo Guest's arse.


When I arrived at VEF 7 years ago,
in search of Jo Guest and Sam Fox,
this cover (and its related picture set)
were one of the first things I snatched!


I've been quite a Men Only devotee since then.
They really seem to have my number. I love any short-shorts
and bicycle seat theme pictorials, so that one's essential.
Carla Fernandez's ass is magnificent, and Men Only has
shown it many times. And I blame Men Only for turning
me into a Stephanie Bews obsessive!

I too love to see models in provocative poses wearing an expression that says
‘Hmm. You really are a perv, aren’t you?’

[caboosier]

This thread has made me realize how much I love photos of
swimming, bathing, wet or poolside women.


My jaw dropped when I first saw this
Playboy newsstand edition. This is one
of the glossiest and most lustrous covers ever.
Print job as blow job. Playmate Dona Speir
is the model on both the front and back cover.


And there she is again in the frontispiece
looking like some water sprite/siren.

[Historian]

Although I certainly bought MO and Club fairly regularly, I was always very much a Mayfair guy in my teens and 20s- A few favourite cover pics:

24/4, April 89. OK, if I'm really honest, as a piece of cover design it's not a classic, it almost looks like something Mayfair's designer threw together in a hurry after they'd had a very long boozy lunch in the pub and suddenly realised 'Oh bugger, we've not done the cover'
It's not the artistic quality though, that matters here, it's the girl herself.



Mayfair called her Annabel Stewart, she appeared in a couple of sets for them around that time, as well as a variety of overseas mags under a variety of names, adding up to no more than a couple of pages of VEF thread. A bit of a footnote in glamour history she might be, but back in 1989, probably dropping into the newsagent on my way home from work, I saw that cover pic, and I knew I'd be wanking myself silly over her within the hour- and a quarter of a century later, I still do.



Artistically, a much more satisfying cover, although the contents were maybe more a source of frustration- Karen Brennan, one of my favourite Page 3 girls on the cover of 23/7 July '88- How could you resist her? I certainly couldn't. IIRC this was the first of Karen's several Mayfair appearances, but the frustration came when in every damn one of them, her knickers either stayed firmly on, or if she did take them off, it was a side-on view, or a bum shot. OK, I enjoyed them all, regularly, but we never did get that Karen Brennan full-frontal nude I'd been almost praying for.




Finally from that late-80's era of my Mayfair-buying career, 24/8, August 1989. The headline may have screamed 'Pamella Bordes nude' (for those who've forgotten about her, she was the former Miss India who made headlines when it was discovered that she'd recently shared her sexual favours with a couple of national newspaper editors, a Tory minister- and allegedly some senior chap in Libyan military intelligence...), but the covergirl who grabbed me by the balls was Marlyn Lindsay. Like Annabel's cover, that 'skirt pulled up over her arse to show her stockingtops' look has always been totally irresistible for me, and Marlyn's couple of Mayfair appearances around that time inspired a lot of masturbatory activity- and her return to modelling in her 40s a few years back has given my wrist plenty of exercise as well.

[Sharkhunter]

Originally Posted by Historian

24/4, April 89. OK, if I'm really honest, as a piece of cover design it's not a classic, it almost looks like something Mayfair's designer threw together in a hurry after they'd had a very long boozy lunch in the pub and suddenly realised 'Oh bugger, we've not done the cover'
It's not the artistic quality though, that matters here, it's the girl herself.



Mayfair called her Annabel Stewart, she appeared in a couple of sets for them around that time, as well as a variety of overseas mags under a variety of names, adding up to no more than a couple of pages of VEF thread. A bit of a footnote in glamour history she might be, but back in 1989, probably dropping into the newsagent on my way home from work, I saw that cover pic, and I knew I'd be wanking myself silly over her within the hour- and a quarter of a century later, I still do.

I am really starting to get the feeling that some of here could have organised a porn-buyers club in the late 1980s and early 1990s, one where there would have been little dissent among the ranks and the decision which mags to buy and pass around.

As I have said many times, I was a true-blue Club International man, apart from my buying Men's World during its best spell in the mid-1990s and both MO and Mayfair dependent on the content. As Mayfair tended to contain a larger quota of bustier girls (not my type, as I prefer C-cup and below) it was the mag I tended to buy least, but on many occasions I'd be drawn in by the cover.

I too was immediately captivated by Annabel. I have always loved the hitched up skirt/minidress and stocking top combo, and that pretty face could make any man melt. I can't remember much else in that issue, to be honest.

Continuing on the theme of hitched-up dresses, Vol. 23 No. 11 of Club from 1994 is another that really sticks in the memory. As a regular buyer of the title I was going to sweep it off the top shelf anyway, but if I had seen that cover of the delectable Sara St. James (going by the name Jacquie) pulling up her 1920s-style flapper dress to show off that tiny g-string and her delicious derrière on the cover of any other mag I would have snaffled it immediately.



Add to that the fantastic look over the shoulder, and those bright baby blue eyes looking at you as you started to get all hard and feel all funny down there. What made the cover even more compelling was her "request", in big white letters, to "come on her bum". Well, if a sexy girl makes such a demand, it is only right that any right-thinking man accepts it without question.

The wonderfully glossy covers were perfect wank targets of course, so long as you didn't shoot too far over the edge and risk catching the ends of the pages. I must have uploaded a good half a dozen times on that cover within the space of the first month I had the mag in my possession.

[martsm]

One more Knave cover that grabbed me at the time.



I remember thinking that this was a clever way to get a complete nude on the cover of a magazine. The 'period London' set inside didn't really live up to the promise of the cover. For my money, the best set inside was of Irma (Carolyn Evans), and this pic in particular still features in my imagination from time to time:



Scans of the whole mag are here (all credit to Mayfair1975).

[downloader]

I remember as a 15 year old,trying to pluck up the courage and go into the newsagents to buy this.

[Sharkhunter]

I have posted a number of memorable covers already, and have seen plenty of fine examples shared by others. However, I thought I'd wait until now before revealing what is my own personal opinion the finest cover shot of all time, one that always stirs my loins, stiffens my rod and gets the little fellows swimming for the exit gate.

Wearing a tiny pink miniskirt and hitching up a leg to show off some perfect pink gusset, Stella aka Sophie Moone/Renata provides a view that almost had me cumming in my boxers as I reached up to the top shelf. I kid you not - when I got home I hardly had time to stroke my cock before I was decorating the walls, floor and heaven knows what else with hot baby batter.



Nothing quite does it for me like a gusset shot, and this one is as perfect as one can get. The material is perfectly taut, showing off the twins horizontal seams of the knickers, hiding that delicious treat - which, of course, Stella shows off beautifully in the actual photospread - with the emphasis on "spread".

I have had many fantasies about this cover shot, and have often imagined the thought of rubbing my throbbing bellend hard on that taut material, feeling the gradual dampness as Stella's sweet juices begin to flow. Then, it's just a matter of pulling those now wet knickers them aside and sliding in, balls deep.

Oooh.

[Sharkhunter]

Originally Posted by downloader

I remember as a 15 year old,trying to pluck up the courage and go into the newsagents to buy this.

15? Crikey! When I was 15 I was not even five feet tall... Me reaching for the top shelf would have been a comical sight if I tried. Was your courage strong enough? Did you get the mag and manage to walk out of there?