Health Knowledge Magazines

Girls in Orbit, Volume 1, Number 3
Health Knowledge, Inc.
New York, New York
Fall 1967

digital replica

Mr. Burtman didn't always have the cash to pay for the printing of magazine content he developed, and he often sold "publication packages" to other publishers, such as Unique, Health Knowledge, Bilife Publications, Bizincorp and Consolidated. For these, he received a fee and copies, which he sold to raise cash for other publishing projects. Some of these company names may have been in partnership with Toronto-based Gordon McCausland, who reprinted some of Mr. Burtman’s Epic Publishing tomes in the late 1960s.

Girls in Orbit, Volume 1, Number 3, shapes up as a pin-up magazine with 9 pictorials of fetching models showing off the curves that fascinate men. Except for cover colleen Mary O'Hara, who appears nowhere inside, not much fetish content in this issue.

Pretty posers were photographed indoors and outside, some near or in a swimming pool. Bras, panties, lingerie and lace tights adorn womanly figures. Models are named —

• Maggie Martin

• Susan McDermio

• Debbie Jones

• Debbie Moore

• Toni Lambert

• Virginia Hauser

• Angela Carter

• Tammy Merrineau

• Carolyn Fields

Another pictorial shows contestants in a belly dancing competition.

In Carlson Wade's Rent Party short story, Peter arrives in Greenwich Village to manage a brownstone. Tenants include artists, photographers and poets, all of whom advocate nudity. He and his crew devise schemes to keep the place solvent. Introduced by a Gene Bilbrew illustration.

In Mr. Wade's Night Orbit, Danny brings his French bride from Paris to Chicago. There he works the
night shift. In their rough neighborhood, Michelle encounters nocturnal felons. But in this unlikely scenario, she makes the most of it. Introduced by a Gene Bilbrew illustration.

The digital replica includes all content of the original 72-page magazine, including advertising. The sequence of pages was revised to obtain continuity of prose pieces.

Some page layouts were revised. Some margins, borders, walls and floors were cropped out.

Brightness, contrast and levels were adjusted and shadows reduced. Good photography transposed well to ebook format.

All new scans.

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