GLAMOUR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE was an Italian Comic Art magazine (1980-2001) dedicated to the visual depiction of Good Girl & Bad Girl themes in 20th Century Comic Strips, Comic Books, Illustration Art, and even Bondage Photography, and targeted the MATURE/ADULT READER.
Readers of Heavy Metal, Metal Hurlant, et al, generally love this magazine - when they discover it.
The magazine's articles generally have parallel text in English, though not all the strips may be in English.
This item for sale here is
Glamour International (series two) #18, 1992
12 x 12", 100 full color interior pages + covers
Art or comic strips in this issue include work from:
Jeffrey Jones (wraparound cover painting The Wall), Nicola Mari, Piero Dall'Agnol, Leone Frollo, Marco Nizzoli, Other illustrations from Frank Frazetta, Milo Manara, Alberto Vargas, et al.
CONDITION: One of the rare times that an issue of GI has survived in NEAR MINT!
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DON'T click the Buy It Now buttons on the various items first, because the GSP DOES NOT ALLOW COMBINED SHIPPING OF MULTIPLE SALES in the GSP cart!!!
REMEMBER, you can make a Best Offer if you think the price is too rich for you.
I have 'automatic offer rejections' TURNED OFF, which means i will see and consciously consider every offer..
(doesn't mean I will accept, tho')
Assuming I have other items you also want at time of this purchase that are allowed to ship Media Mail, do the Buy It Now [BIN] on each of the items you want and PLEASE WAIT for Combined Shipping Invoice - I may be able to trim shipping downwards somewhat when items ship in the same package.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I will answer any other questions of concern/fact by looking at the actual item I am selling
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BECAUSE VIRTUALLY NO DEALERS WHO SELL COPIES OF G.I.M UNDERSTAND ITS PUBLISHING HISTORY
- INCLUDING KNOWING ABOUT THE TWO DIFFERENT NUMBER SERIES, OR THE 'PART B' SUPPLEMENTS -
AND THUS DO NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE THE ITEMS THEY ARE SELLING, LEADING TO MUCH CONFUSION,
I AM PROVIDING THIS
'GLAMOUR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE IDENTIFICATION CHECKLIST'
THE BELOW LIST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY - EXCEPT FOR THE ITEM IN RED ABOVE, NONE OF THE BELOW IS FOR SALE THROUGH THIS LISTING
The publication date of any issue will be the immediate determination of whether it is from volume 1 or 2, as it mags themselves don't mention volume or series #; cover topic, subtitle, partial text, or image description given as further identifier
Most issues' covers have wraparound cover artwork
Glamour International Magazine, Volume 1 (1980-1984)
published by Club Anni Trenta
all issues have saddle-stitched binding
many issues were listed as being supplements to Albi Grandi Adventure (comic strip reprint) series
1 - Connie (Alberto Vargas cover) 1980
2 - Torchy (Frazetta cover) 1980
3 - Women In The Comics (Guido Crepax cover) 1982
4 - Dedicated To Made In The U.S. Hero Women (Milo Manara cover) 1982
5 - Marilyn Superstar (Guido Crepax cover) 1982
6 - The Beautiful And The Beast (Karel Thole cover) 1983
7 - British Girls (Vittorio Giardino cover) 1983
8 - The Spy (Greta Garbo collage cover) 1983
9 - Fashion In Comics (J C Leyendecker cover) 1983
10 - Louise Brooks (Hugo Pratt cover) 1983
11 - Sweet West (Giancarlo Berardi & Ivo Millazo cover) 1983
12 - The Disney Girls (Aurora Miranda & Donald Duck) 1984
13 - Casablanca (Casblanca movie poster cover) 1984
14 - Fellini & Pazienza (Andrea Pazienza woman with blue hair cover) 1984
15 - (Paolo Eleuteri-Serpieri indian couple on horse cover) 1984
16 - Lucca 16 (Grazia Nidasio cover) 1984
17 - Attilio Micheluzzi (...and cover) 1984
Special 1 - (Billy De Vorss cover) 1983
Special 2 - (Alberto Vargas cover) 1984
Glamour International Magazine, Volume 2 (1985-2001)
published by Gianni Brunoro /Glamour International
(issues #1-5 have saddle-stitched binding, the rest have have squarebound binding)
1 - Special Angouleme Prato 1985 (Gaetano Liberatore cover) 1985
2 - Maison-Closes (Vittorio Giardino cover) 1985
3 - Il...Didietro (Milo Manara cover) 1985
4 - Variety Show (Guido Buzzelli cover) 1985
5 - Hedy Lamarr (Sesar cover) 1986
6 (a) - Pelle E Frusta (Guido Crepax cover) 1986
7 - (Dave Stevens 'Betty' cover) 1986
8 - ('reclined deco woman with fan' cover)
9 - (Eric Stanton 'woman stepping out of car' cover) 1987
10 - Black Women & Jungle Girls (Oscar Chichoni cover) 1987
11 (a) - Paris Seductions Et Amours (Moebius cover) 1987
12 - De Sade (Milo Manara cover) 1988
13 (a) - (Paolo Eleuteri-Serpieri 'reclining bare-assed woman' cover) 1989
14 - (Vittorio Giardino 'ladies and champagne' cover) 1989
15 (a) - (Leone Frollo 'lips and tongue' cover) 1991
16 (a) - (John Bolton 'vampire girl' cover) 1991
17 (a) - American Good Girl Art 1900-1950s - NOTE: doesn't have issue # on cover (Al Moore black gloves on thighs cover) 1991
18 - (Jeffrey Jones 'The Wall' cover) 1992
19 (a) - American Good Girl Art 1950-1990s - NOTE: doesn't have issue # on cover (OLIVIA De Berardinis cover) 1992
20 - Doki Doki Zasshi (cover artist listed as Anonymous) 1993
21 - Calendar Girls (Gil Elvgren cover) 1994
22 - Sweet Bettie 4 & Bizarre Life 5 (Leone Frollo cover) 1996
23 - La Chica En Blanco Y Negro (Jordi Bernet cover) 1996
24 - Alex Toth (...and cover) 1997
25 - Crimes 'N' Gals In The U.S.A. (Barye Phillips cover) 1998
26 - Good Girl Art Of Bob Lubbers (...and cover) 2001
SEVERAL of the Vol 2 issues had a second stand-alone 'Supplement' that had a specific subject for the entire tome. They look exactly like any other regular issue of GI - EXCEPT they don't have an issue number on the cover (the tip-off)! If you find the tiny indicia - usually at the bottom of the last page - it will tell you what issue it is the supplement for.
Many dealers sell them separately, generally without knowing anything more about - or what they came with, other than taking a picture!
Vol 2 Supplements (sometimes have the # of the issue on the cover, but they are not the main # sections). These are the ones I have personally or have confirmed - there may be others:
6 (b) - John Willie (Leone Frollo cover) 1986
11 (b) - Bizarre Life 1 (Guido Crepax cover) 1987
13 (b) - Bizarre Life 2 (Saudelli cover) 1989
15 (b) - Bizarre Life 3 (George Pichard cover) 1991
16 (b) - Sweet Bettie 1 (Leone Frollo cover) 1991
17 (b) - Sweet Bettie 2 (Nicola Mari cover) 1991
19 (b) - Bizarre Life 4 w/Sweet Bettie 3 (Peter Driben cover) 1992
There were also other Special one-shots, generally in the same 12x12" format, including the...
Glamour Book: Leone Frollo - Unpublished Color Works (1993)