ADAM MAGAZINE was another of the "poor relations" of its better-known (and more "respectable") cousin, PLAYBOY MAGAZINE, along with similar "wannabe" sophisticated men's magazines of the late 1950s and early 1960s, such as NUGGET, DUDE, KNIGHT, SWANK and so on (and this is many years before the advent of PENTHOUSE, OUI, HUSTLER, etc). Young authors (generally male) who were unable to see their stories published in PLAYBOY would then seek out the secondary markets, of which ADAM was included. For many of these writers, this was their first (and only!) entry into the world of writing stories for the sophisticate market; but, for others, it was an opportunity to be published under a pseudonym, while still maintaining hope for a bigger "payday" at some future date, inside the pages of a better quality "slick" than ADAM. And -- who knows? -- there may well be a better-known author concealed inside the pages of several of these short stories from THE BEST OF ADAM.
Contents:
JEAN CARROL -- Front cover model
TED KELLER -- Doubled-Hippled Hipster
E. J. JEROME -- The Net and the Trident
WILLIAM R. MOREY -- Wastrels's Guide
JAY EDMOND -- Murderess
JAMES BELLAUGH -- A Game of Stud
DANIEL COE -- A Very Expensive Kiss
LEE JACQUIN -- The Signet of Mr. Scratch
RICHARD GEIS -- The Fight Game
CONNIE SELLERS -- The Executioner
JEROME POINC -- The First Man
PAUL MICHAEL FITZSIMMONS -- Green Goods and Gold
WILLIAM PEARMAN -- Striptease at Noon
MINOR AVON NEAL -- Indian Wrestling at Navajoa
GEORGE H. SMITH -- Elinda
CONNIE SELLERS -- Try a Twisted Road
JAMES BELLAUGH -- The Last Notch
LEE MILLER -- Number Please
MYRON BRENTON -- Cannibals for Commoners
RICHARD ARMOUR -- The Kiss
IRISH MCCULLAH -- Back cover model
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