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Truth is stranger than fiction! 'The Napa collection was literally “unearthed” in the Napa Valley of Northern California. It was discovered after an earthquake cracked the foundation and walls of a house revealing, to the wife of the Owner’s surprise, a massive room full of thousands of magazines placed in a hidden room with no windows. They were obtained from a local drugstore before they hit the shelves. These magazines had never been opened, read or circulated. They are mostly in near Mint condition with glossy covers that look the same as they did in the last century. The Napa Collection consists of deep runs of almost every single pin-up/sleaze magazine on the newsstands in the 50s-70s.'

I did get some high grade copies from a collection found in the Napa valley a year or two back. Apparently, the guy didn't want his wife to know that he collected them, so had built a secret room to house them! It was only uncovered after his death.

Interesting!

I dont know him, jimbo, sorry. I haven't actively collected these -or much of anything really - in quite a while. (The only things I've collected have been downgrades so I could liberate funds for other things unrelated to collecting.)

That cover is exceptionally good! Who did the artwork? Norman Saunders

Yes. Unsigned, but that's John Duillo.As is this.

They dont appear to have been collected as avidly as comics, though an OO collection did surface not so long ago in California. Here are some random examples:

Yep, from a short lived title. This is by far the best cover.

- Here's another message from Washington. "Use every means to protect lives, but take no steps against your prisoner." Our prisoner. - You can't ignore orders. - Testify to that at my court-martial. You're robbing science of the greatest secret that's ever come to it. - Go back. - Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing. To think. To find out. To learn. What can we learn from that, except a way to die? It doesn't matter what happens. Nothing counts except our thinking. We fought into nature. We've split the atom... That sure made the world happy. Didn't it? We owe it to the brain of our species to stand here and die...