Author Topic: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?  (Read 2215 times)

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I'm looking to get some old back issues, specifically to see the ad for the tshirts that they used to sell that had hugely muscled barbarian like figures and slogans like "living well is the best revenge" "hardcore" and an executioner with "next"? (No homo)

Or if someone has copies of old mags and a scan of that ad page that'd be nice too.


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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2017, 11:12:22 PM »
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Cepello - This is the guy that did a bunch of them, He was a staff artist at Ironman magazine for a bit.

Funk 51 posted this scan of his shirt artwork a few years ago -

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2017, 01:48:15 AM »
Ebay id guess.

When i lived in LA id hitbthe Musclemag storenin Venice and pick up back issues from early 90s dor like 6$ "brand new"

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2017, 04:51:40 AM »
Last time I moved, I threw out about 300 pounds of them.  I saved the old Ironman's though.

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2017, 05:36:52 AM »
I threw out a lot of them reluctantly myself years ago for lack of space. Wish l hadn't. I still have a few.in

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2017, 05:39:18 AM »
Barnes and Schmoebles

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2017, 05:41:52 AM »
Vince Basile. If he doesn't,, he is his gimmick.

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2017, 05:56:46 AM »
Last time I moved, I threw out about 300 pounds of them. 

a years worth of muscular development (in its prime)

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2017, 06:22:47 AM »
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Cepello - This is the guy that did a bunch of them, He was a staff artist at Ironman magazine for a bit.

Funk 51 posted this scan of his shirt artwork a few years ago -

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Thank you thank you thank you for this.  For years I've been looking!  Thanks to all others who replied.  You schmoes done good!

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2017, 07:30:08 AM »
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Cepello - This is the guy that did a bunch of them, He was a staff artist at Ironman magazine for a bit.

Funk 51 posted this scan of his shirt artwork a few years ago -

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2017, 08:03:01 AM »
I'm looking to get some old back issues, specifically to see the ad for the tshirts that they used to sell that had hugely muscled barbarian like figures and slogans like "living well is the best revenge" "hardcore" and an executioner with "next"? (No homo)

Or if someone has copies of old mags and a scan of that ad page that'd be nice too.



You may want to check in SF1900s mom's basement.
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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2017, 07:11:00 AM »
I realize that what you were looking for has been posted, but you may also want to check out Lyman Daly's stuff. He did the Max Rep series for MD back in the 80s-90s, along with the illustrations for a lot of their articles.

http://www.lymandally.com/project/pure-muscle/

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #12 on: April 16, 2017, 07:19:40 AM »
You may want to check in SF1900s mom's basement.

You might find his moral compass buried deep beneath it.

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #13 on: April 16, 2017, 08:31:16 AM »
Last time I moved, I threw out about 300 pounds of them.  I saved the old Ironman's though.
Me too. I sold may over the years.

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #14 on: April 16, 2017, 01:56:27 PM »
I left three huge boxes of them in a garage when I moved house in 1995, they might be still there.

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bodybuilding mags from the 80s?
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2017, 05:22:19 AM »
Last time I moved, I threw out about 300 pounds of them.  I saved the old Ironman's though.

I did the same thing. Had Weider's going back to the 60's. Wish I had them. I still have a good collection of Ironman too.