#421 - THREE 2 1969 Consolidated Publishing Jennifer Jordan
Three, Number 2
Consolidated Publishing, Inc.
New York, New York
1969
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Mr. Burtman didn't always have the cash to pay for the printing of magazine content he developed, and often sold "publication packages" to other publishers, such as Unique, Health Knowledge, Bilife Publications, Bizincorp and Consolidated (in collaboration with Gordon McCausland). For these, he received a fee and copies, which he, in turn, sold to raise cash for other publishing projects. The address shown on page two is 200 West 57th Street, Suite 702 in New York, which is the same address shown on page two of New High Heels , Number One, the first publication of Eros Publishing Company (Eros Goldstripe), a company owned and managed by Mr. Burtman. In Bizarre Life 11 (1969), Three is promoted along with High Heels and Corporal.
Selbee publications explored and exposed alternative lifestyles such as fetishism, female domination, male domination and cross-dressing. The second issue of this short-lived nameplate intended to depict lesbians — in Italy, in London, on campus, underground in east Greenwich Village, in films and elsewhere. Described in photographs and the text that accompanies them, lesbianism, Selbee-style, means two young women in bras, panties, stockings and garter belts, touching, kissing and licking. Tongues appear repeatedly. While photos show attractive models expressing affection, no sex is depicted.
A few pages show publicity stills from a film titled The Sisters, starring Susan Strasburg. In “When Two Girls Marry,” a pictorial with lots of text, two models who appear on the cover of Bizarre Life 8 as Jenifer and Jeanne (Jennifer Jordan, Jutka Goz, the second Mrs. Burtman, and another brunette who appears with several different names) show up in Three as lesbians Jeanne and Jan. Letters to the editor are mostly accompanied by stock photos. A couple of illustrations by Gene Bilbrew and one by Eric Stanton.
This is one of the most obscure magazines we've converted to ebooks; I can't to find a reference to it anywhere. Which makes the vintage content ideal addition to our nostalgia library. The rare old magazine is presented as a page-for-page digital replica that preserves original layouts and sequence. Some of the margins have been reduced or eliminated to allow for enlargement of content on ebook pages. The original was printed on good quality paper and the digital replica is clear, without graininess or moire.
The optimized version forms the photos and illustrations of the original 64-page magazine into a picture album of more than 110 pages, with one picture per page. The images are sized to fill screens from top to bottom, reducing the need for zooming and scrolling. A few small photos are a bit grainy or rough in texture in the optimized version.
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