Tempest Storm Burly Q Burlesque Vintage Erotica Digest RARE

Description

Mid-century adult digests like 40+ Forty-Plus occupy an interesting place in American print culture—part pin-up magazine, part underground photography annual, and part artifact of the transitional moment between 1950s cheesecake publications and the more explicit adult magazines that would dominate later decades. Published by Selbee Associates in New York, these magazines leaned heavily on glamour photography, burlesque performers, and pulp-era graphic design to attract readers browsing urban newsstands and smoke shops.

This Issue No. 9 features legendary burlesque performer Tempest Storm alongside a striking cover design loaded with saturated reds, yellows, and turquoise blocks that feel unmistakably early-1960s. Interior photographs, advertisements, and production choices capture the look and tone of pre-counterculture American erotica before the visual language of adult publishing fully shifted in the later sixties and seventies. Material from Eric Kroll’s collection carries additional provenance interest given Kroll’s long involvement with fetish photography, burlesque history, and underground erotic publishing.

A strong copy with excellent shelf presence and real crossover appeal for collectors of burlesque, vintage erotica, and mid-century graphic design.