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Title: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 13, 2009, 04:57:51 PM
Is there a website out there with all the past covers from Flex, Ironman, Muscular Development, Muscle & Fitness, etc.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: tendonitis on August 13, 2009, 05:01:33 PM
man that FLEX cover is exceptionally gay
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: mass 04 on August 13, 2009, 05:03:20 PM
man that FLEX cover is exceptionally gay
compared to a shiny  Muscleman in a towel?
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 13, 2009, 05:06:25 PM
compared to a shiny  Muscleman in a towel?

LOL should i create a poll...?  Which cover is more gay? ;D
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Topskin69 on August 13, 2009, 05:08:15 PM
LOL should i create a poll...?  Which cover is more gay? ;D

Do you still have the one with Jay wearing dasiy dukes?...That was Uber Gay.

M!
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 13, 2009, 05:10:31 PM
Do you still have the one with Jay wearing dasiy dukes?...That was Uber Gay.

M!

I don't think that was ever a cover photo. :-\
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: tendonitis on August 13, 2009, 05:12:52 PM
compared to a shiny  Muscleman in a towel?


i think the porn stache and come hither look give it a slight edge
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: DeketheCreep on August 13, 2009, 05:13:39 PM
LOL should i create a poll...?  Which cover is more gay? ;D
the flex cover is way more gay dude hahaa
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Wiggs on August 13, 2009, 05:14:47 PM
Man, if that Labrada cover aint gay, I don't know what is. :-X
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Topskin69 on August 13, 2009, 05:17:28 PM
I like how Jay has this look on his face like, "I cant believe I am doing this...I really hope my check is going to clear."

M!
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: webcake on August 13, 2009, 05:17:41 PM
wow!

Look at Cutler!

wow!
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on August 13, 2009, 05:18:35 PM
Is there a website out there with all the past covers from Flex, Ironman, Muscular Development, Muscle & Fitness, etc.

Musclememory is your friend

http://www.musclememory.com/mags.php
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Topskin69 on August 13, 2009, 05:27:14 PM

The best...
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Topskin69 on August 13, 2009, 05:27:56 PM

Another great shot...
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Topskin69 on August 13, 2009, 05:33:46 PM

Baker looks ridiculous here!

M!
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Hulkster on August 13, 2009, 07:23:55 PM
best arms and delts in history
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Hulkster on August 13, 2009, 07:24:40 PM
in a class of his own
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: HTexan on August 13, 2009, 07:28:03 PM
you should make one long with online reading of complete old mags.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: IceCold on August 13, 2009, 07:28:04 PM
best arms and delts in history


do tricpes and forearms count?


Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: IceCold on August 13, 2009, 07:28:40 PM
(http://www.getbig.com/magazine/flex/flex9805.jpg)
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: getbig105 on August 13, 2009, 07:36:32 PM
http://www.musclememory.com/mags.php

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 13, 2009, 07:39:40 PM
http://www.musclememory.com/mags.php

 ;D ;D

You look less foolish if you read first... then post. ;)

Musclememory is your friend

http://www.musclememory.com/mags.php
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: MethodGNA on August 13, 2009, 07:39:59 PM

i think the porn stache and come hither look give it a slight edge

yes, lee labrada looking like a frequent patron of the blue oyster there in that photo............gives him the edge for sure.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Hulkster on August 13, 2009, 07:40:11 PM

do tricpes and forearms count?




yup. they are still the best:
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: mass 04 on August 13, 2009, 07:42:01 PM
best arms and delts in history
that was the first magazine i ever bought.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: getbig105 on August 13, 2009, 07:42:58 PM
 ;D ;D

Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 13, 2009, 08:06:55 PM
yes, lee labrada looking like a frequent patron of the blue oyster there in that photo............gives him the edge for sure.

This is amusing!  Several of you--without any prompting--have identified that Lebrada cover as gay, but when it was first posted here about a year ago, and I suggested it was gay several guys here went balistic insisting that there was absolutely nothing gay about it and I only perceived it as gay because I had cock on the brain.  I guess some guys are just slow to see the obvious.  ::)
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: MethodGNA on August 13, 2009, 08:15:16 PM
This is amusing!  Several of you--without any prompting--have identified that Lebrada cover as gay, but when it was first posted here about a year ago, and I suggested it was gay several guys here went balistic insisting that there was absolutely nothing gay about it and I only perceived it as gay because I had cock on the brain.  I guess some guys are just slow to see the obvious.  ::)

let me just say, that i was not here that long ago.......and that i think me, and that other guy were just being facetious regarding the 80's porn stache' he is sporting........do not take it to seriously.  pretty much everything in bodybuilding is gay to one extent or another, since its inception the sport has been controlled by a rigid faction of wealthy jewish homosexual businessmen............. .but like many other things in life, everything is in the eye of the beholder.

while you may look at a cover and see a scantily clad, slutty looking muscleman giving you a come-hither glance............an 18 year old aspiring bodybuilder might see an archetype of masculinity who probably gets tons and tons of pussy............now a guy like me, who has grown up around the sport........knows that these two things are not mutually exclusive, and with most bodybuilders...........b oth are working in tandem in the same individual.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: MethodGNA on August 13, 2009, 08:27:21 PM
now..........the correct answer to which cover is "gayer" is not even debatable..............t hat shot of jay cutler standing there holding a tattered cloth over his mid-section is meant to drum up the feeling of him serving as a  young gladiator-fuck-slave, who was thrown a dirty sheet and told to cover himself up and wipe himself off, once a throng of wealthy old drunken aristocrats worshiped his physicality, and basically had their was with him as a group for hours on end.

a quintessential schmoe fantasy.....

 :-X :-X :-X
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: timfogarty on August 13, 2009, 09:26:10 PM
Is there a website out there with all the past covers from Flex, Ironman, Muscular Development, Muscle & Fitness, etc.

I'm hurt that not only didn't you know that my website contains over 3000 mag covers, but that you then go and post scans from my website.  its safe to say that pretty much any scan of a physique mag you find on the internet that has as its filename 2 or 3 letters followed by 3-4 digits (for vol and num, or year and month, or just num), such as fl0510.jpg, im5409.jpg, mti0102.jpg, or mmi204.jpg, I scanned.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 13, 2009, 09:40:14 PM
I'm hurt that not only didn't you know that my website contains over 3000 mag covers, but that you then go and post scans from my website.  its safe to say that pretty much any scan of a physique mag you find on the internet that has as its filename 2 or 3 letters followed by 3-4 digits (for vol and num, or year and month, or just num), such as fl0510.jpg, im5409.jpg, mti0102.jpg, or mmi204.jpg, I scanned.

I knew nothing of your scans.  The covers I posted where taken from old threads on getbig. If you say they originated with you, I believe you... that's quite a hobby you have there!
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: hipolito mejia on August 14, 2009, 08:07:17 AM
Man, if that Labrada cover aint gay, I don't know what is. :-X

Is only gay, If you want it to be.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: hipolito mejia on August 14, 2009, 08:08:47 AM
Man, if that Labrada cover aint gay, I don't know what is. :-X


It was a decade called the 80's.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Bix on August 14, 2009, 08:18:55 AM
I knew nothing of your scans.  The covers I posted where taken from old threads on getbig. If you say they originated with you, I believe you... that's quite a hobby you have there!

He jerks off after each completed scan.  :D
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: donrhummy on August 14, 2009, 08:43:38 AM
Cool cover:
(http://www.musclememory.com/magCovers/im/im4601.jpg)

Who wouldn't want to look like this? No gut!
(http://www.musclememory.com/magCovers/mmi/mmi061.jpg)

Still the best chest ever:
(http://www.musclememory.com/magCovers/mmi/mmi314.jpg)
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 14, 2009, 08:43:59 AM
He jerks off after each completed scan.  :D

I doubt it.  Tim gets the real thing; he doesn't need to settle for glossy magazines.  In any case, the purveyor of muscle mags is no more of a schmoe than those whom consume them: Topskin69, Hulkster, IceCold, getbig105, donrhummy, etc. ;)
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Topskin69 on August 14, 2009, 10:50:00 AM
I doubt it.  Tim gets the real thing; he doesn't need to settle for glossy magazines.  In any case, the purveyor of muscle mags is no more of a schmoe than those whom consume them: Topskin69, Hulkster, IceCold, getbig105, donrhummy, etc. ;)

How did I get added to the Schome list?  ??? This is the first time I have been accused of that!  ;D
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: HTexan on August 14, 2009, 11:57:11 AM
I'm hurt that not only didn't you know that my website contains over 3000 mag covers, but that you then go and post scans from my website.  its safe to say that pretty much any scan of a physique mag you find on the internet that has as its filename 2 or 3 letters followed by 3-4 digits (for vol and num, or year and month, or just num), such as fl0510.jpg, im5409.jpg, mti0102.jpg, or mmi204.jpg, I scanned.
How do you scan so many mags?
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: timfogarty on August 14, 2009, 12:07:21 PM
How do you scan so many mags?

one by one, a few everyday, started in 1999, had most of them done by 2003.  Ones I didn't own, Bob Adams scanned for me.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: HTexan on August 14, 2009, 12:29:22 PM
one by one, a few everyday, started in 1999, had most of them done by 2003.  Ones I didn't own, Bob Adams scanned for me.
why don,t you scan the articles?
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: timfogarty on August 14, 2009, 01:18:25 PM
why don,t you scan the articles?

I've entered hundreds of articles, some using an OCR, some typed in by hand.  (the old Weider mags are on newsprint and don't scan well.  vintage S&H and Ironman can be done with an OCR.   new mags, with their color backgrounds don't scan well at all.)

for example, see http://musclememory.com/show.php?o=Olympia+-+IFBB and http://musclememory.com/show.php?o=Mr+America+-+AAU

Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 14, 2009, 01:31:43 PM
Ideally, each publication would have archives of its magazines available online as PDFs (even limiting it to subscribers or pay for access would be ok) or some BB federation would offer PDF archives of old/defunct magazines.  That this hasn’t happened uderscores how disorganized this sport is.

Tim, you’ve done a big service to BB fans schmoes everywhere!  But will musclememory.com continue if you fall of a cliff or get crushed in a bearhug with a pro bodybuilder? ???
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: timfogarty on August 14, 2009, 02:25:10 PM
Ideally, each publication would have archives of its magazines available online as PDFs (even limiting it to subscribers or pay for access would be ok) or some BB federation would offer PDF archives of old/defunct magazines.  That this hasn’t happened underscores how disorganized this sport is.

none of the existing mags have their original owners, and when they bought the mags, they generally didn't buy the rights to the back issues.  In addition, copyright law regarding magazines changed in 1975.  Prior to that, mags were in the public domain the day they hit the newsstand.   (In the 1940s Weider was notorious for reprinting articles from European mags in Your Physique and Muscle Power, without compensation to the original mag or author.)  For mags after 1975, someone still owns the copyright, but figuring out who is pretty much impossible.

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Tim, you’ve done a big service to BB fans schmoes everywhere! 

Thanks.  I've had so many more plans for musclememory, such as finishing the searchable database of magazine table of contents (http://musclememory.com/toc/) (only have gotten up to the mid 1970s) but both time and money is in short supply.

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But will musclememory.com continue if you fall of a cliff or get crushed in bearhug with a pro bodybuilder? ???

I've designated who gets what, but what they'll do with it is up to them.

BTW, IFBB pro bodybuilders are so last millennium.  Now its UFC pros.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: arce1988 on August 14, 2009, 02:28:58 PM
  Wow...OG...
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: divcom on August 14, 2009, 03:49:30 PM
shawn always had the best covers

(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f266/Astud291/ShawnRayorAlien.jpg)
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 14, 2009, 03:54:14 PM
Timo:

Going forward, please scan issues at higher resolutions.  In the future, schmoes will want to see every single muscle fiber possible!  :D

I think this is the first muscle mag I ever bought!  Ah, memories...
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: Bix on August 14, 2009, 03:57:34 PM
Timo:

Going forward, please scan issues at higher resolutions.  In the future, schmoes will want to see every single muscle fiber possible!  :D

And krack one off while looking.... ;D
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 14, 2009, 03:59:28 PM
shawn always had the best covers

(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f266/Astud291/ShawnRayorAlien.jpg)

Your post appears to be a non sequitur; was that pic ever on the cover of a magazine? ???
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: BayGBM on August 14, 2009, 04:00:13 PM
And krack one off while looking.... ;D

Speak for yourself.  ;)
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: TRIX on August 14, 2009, 05:23:08 PM
Link to scans? MD must of cracked down on there online pdf mag. Haven't been a new one since dennis wolf cover. 2 months
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: HTexan on August 14, 2009, 07:08:02 PM
I've entered hundreds of articles, some using an OCR, some typed in by hand.  (the old Weider mags are on newsprint and don't scan well.  vintage S&H and Ironman can be done with an OCR.   new mags, with their color backgrounds don't scan well at all.)


I would think color backgrounds would scan well. I scanned old 35mm photos on a cheap scanner, and they look good. ???
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: MB_722 on August 14, 2009, 07:08:49 PM
this one is pretty good

(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=293877.0;attach=334063;image)

that labrada one is flaming
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: HTexan on August 14, 2009, 07:11:31 PM
Timo:

Going forward, please scan issues at higher resolutions.  In the future, schmoes will want to see every single muscle fiber possible!  :D

I think this is the first muscle mag I ever bought!  Ah, memories...
Do you really jack off the bb mags? :-X :-X Man, seriously go dl some porn. That's what the net is for.
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: timfogarty on August 14, 2009, 07:41:31 PM
I would think color backgrounds would scan well. I scanned old 35mm photos on a cheap scanner, and they look good. ???

OCR, optical character recognition, using a comptuer to automatically converting a scan into characters, sentences, paragraphs, etc., that you can then edit or search.

old magazines:  black characters on a white background, easy for an OCR to convert (if its on high quality paper, yellowed newsprint, not so easy)

new mags:  mix of black and white characters on various colored backgrounds, doesn't covert well at all
Title: Re: Magazine covers?
Post by: HTexan on August 14, 2009, 10:50:38 PM
OCR, optical character recognition, using a comptuer to automatically converting a scan into characters, sentences, paragraphs, etc., that you can then edit or search.

old magazines:  black characters on a white background, easy for an OCR to convert (if its on high quality paper, yellowed newsprint, not so easy)

new mags:  mix of black and white characters on various colored backgrounds, doesn't covert well at all
oh.