new book to my collection. anyone collecting vintage books and magazines?

[muscle matters]

knowledge is power.

[bLuEeYes]

I thought that was Bruce Lee in the cover.

 

[Rambone]

Take your gay porn to the Y board, fruitcake.

[Matt]

Zane looks great there.

I have one or two of Robert Kennedy's books like that. He did a series in the 1980s.

Another good one is "Bodybuilding For Men" by Oscar Heidenstam:



https://www.gmv.com.au/default.asp?pageid=products&template=PRODUCTCAT&catid=11&prodid=2960&site=1

I bought that at the Salvation Army nearby for $0.50, in 1999 [before I started working out - but while my interest was starting to grow].

[Fortress]

I have a few boxes of Playboys I’d enthusiastically employee for my teenage (eighties) wack sessions.

A bunch of “special editions”, too.

Fantastic stuff.

[MCWAY]

knowledge is power.

I have a few:

Mass!
Cuts!
Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding
IronMan's Ultimate Guide to Bodybuilding Nutrition
IronMan's Ultimate Guide to Building Muscle Mass
IronMan's Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia
Bodybuilding: The Weider Approach
Sports Supplement Review: 3rd Issue
Sports Supplement Review: 4th Issue

The IronMan books costs me $5 ($4 of which was shipping); same went for Mass and Cuts, and the 4th issue of Sports Supplement Review.

The Weider books were $1.50 each, on the clearance rack of a local book store, near my kids' college.

The 3rd Issue of Sports Supplement Review was a Christmas present from 1997.

[Cook]

Here is a book I bought about 30 years ago and a vhs tape I have nothing to play it on

[Matt]

The IronMan books costs me $5 ($4 of which was shipping); same went for Mass and Cuts, and the 4th issue of Sports Supplement Review.

Lol, what decade was that?

Gas was $5:03 USD per gallon here two days ago. It has since dropped to $4.70 USD per gallon, which is about where it's tolerable to me, but way above the tolerable range for many others.

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/gas-prices

$1 for a book is very cheap. Was that a promotion?

[Matt]

Here is a book I bought about 30 years ago and a vhs tape I have nothing to play it on

That was the Robert Kennedy series I was talking about.

I think he had several in that series. Probably 2-5 of them, but I'm not sure.

I'm almost certain I had another one - not the Mohamed Makkawy [?] cover shown.

[wes]

I had a veritable ton of those books and tons of muscle magazines.....sold them years ago on E-Bay....I think I still have a few of the real old Iron Man mags when they were printed in the smaller size stashed in a tote somewhere.

I have a 1974 issue of Muscular Development with my name in it.....was from the results of my first powerlifting meet,and a few of the more recent Iron Man copies that have a couple of my articles published in them.

I went from having hundreds of books to about 8.

[The Scott]

Robert Kennedy's Muscle Mag International was a bit "weird" when it first started.  The last page of the mag was called, "All Of Us" and featured male nudes as "art".  Too weird. Too fuckin' weird.

He was all about the Reeves type of physique and later on started in with his "Beef It!" photos.  Fookin' size queen.  One of the most highlarious of all bodybuilders featured in that magazine was one named Wilfried Dubbels.  A good physique but for some reason his photos made most of us at the gym laugh uncontrollably. Posed like a tall version of weird Vince Gironda.

Kennedy didn't so much as have skeletons in his closet as he did himself. Just weird.

[Fortress]

Robert Kennedy's Muscle Mag International was a bit "weird" when it first started.  The last page of the mag was called, "All Of Us" and featured male nudes as "art".  Too weird. Too fuckin' weird.

He was all about the Reeves type of physique and later on started in with his "Beef It!" photos.  Fookin' size queen.  One of the most highlarious of all bodybuilders featured in that magazine was one named Wilfried Dubbels.  A good physique but for some reason his photos made most of us at the gym laugh uncontrollably. Posed like a tall version of weird Vince Gironda.

Kennedy didn't so much as have skeletons in his closet as he did himself. Just weird.

Bob was a good friend. We had some moments, but I loved the guy.

One of the most colourful characters I’ve ever known. Eccentric. A true original.

I miss him.

[The Scott]

Bob was a good friend. We had some moments, but I loved the guy.

One of the most colourful characters I’ve ever known. Eccentric. A true original.

I miss him.

Probably a nice guy but I wondered why in the heck he would put nekkid menz photos in the back of the magazine.  Schmoe and tell, I suppose?

[Moontrane]

Robert Kennedy's Muscle Mag International was a bit "weird" when it first started.  The last page of the mag was called, "All Of Us" and featured male nudes as "art".  Too weird. Too fuckin' weird.

He was all about the Reeves type of physique and later on started in with his "Beef It!" photos.  Fookin' size queen.  One of the most highlarious of all bodybuilders featured in that magazine was one named Wilfried Dubbels.  A good physique but for some reason his photos made most of us at the gym laugh uncontrollably. Posed like a tall version of weird Vince Gironda.

Kennedy didn't so much as have skeletons in his closet as he did himself. Just weird.

Vince Girona's columns were hilarious: "What are you, stupid?"

[Fortress]

Probably a nice guy but I wondered why in the heck he would put nekkid menz photos in the back of the magazine.  Schmoe and tell, I suppose?

He was well aware of the phaggot angle in the successful marketing of a bodybuilding publication.

[wes]

Great magazine...I loved it......I also loved Muscle Digest.

It really improved quickly after the early issues.

[Matt]

Bob was a good friend. We had some moments, but I loved the guy.

One of the most colourful characters I’ve ever known. Eccentric. A true original.

I miss him.

It's sad that within one year from the time of his death, with his wife Tosca Reno taking over the magazine, that it folded.

I heard there was more to that story. Apparently, they lost the MuscleTech contract, which was massive - that represented something like $2 million in lost revenue alone.

In his last article in the magazine, Robert attributed excessive suntanning as the reason for his skin cancer. That seems plausible to me. Sad story. RIP.

[Fortress]

It's sad that within one year from the time of his death, with his wife Tosca Reno taking over the magazine, that it folded.

I heard there was more to that story. Apparently, they lost the MuscleTech contract, which was massive - that represented something like $2 million in lost revenue alone.

In his last article in the magazine, Robert attributed excessive suntanning as the reason for his skin cancer. That seems plausible to me. Sad story. RIP.

Tosca.

What a piece of work.

[Matt]

Tosca.

What a piece of work.

Was she a gold digger? He was 61 and she was 40 when they initially got together, which seemed appropriate enough. It definitely seemed to me that he did more for her than the reverse though.

[Fortress]

Was she a gold digger? He was 61 and she was 40 when they initially got together, which seemed appropriate enough. It definitely seemed to me that he did more for her than the reverse though.

Absolutely she is.

Her office at the MMI offices was like a hippy-dippy spa retreat.

Any celebrity she had, for the short time she had it, was 100 percent because of Bob.

[ElPolloSalmonello]

knowledge is power.

Loved him in Rocky

[The Scott]

He was well aware of the phaggot angle in the successful marketing of a bodybuilding publication.

Sounds feasible.  Unsavory to me, but feasible.  As for his gold digger wife?  FTB!

[GigantorX]

When my dad died many moons ago I took his collection of original Dune novels (dust covers in Good condition) great cover art. Worth a bit too.

[Grape Ape]

He was well aware of the phaggot angle in the successful marketing of a bodybuilding publication.

Great magazine...I loved it......

Outed

[wes]

Outed

You ass.  LOL