Big Time (Vintage magazine, Feb 1951)
New York: D-A Publishing, 1951. V2 N2, Feb 1951. Distributed by PDC/ID, with their logos on the front, and a member of the Holmes Group, w/ Allied Printing Trades Council Union Label (Philadelphia) logo on contents page. Formerly "Taboo" magazine. Larger format magazine (approx. 10.25 x 13.5 inches), b/w throughout, color cover, 42 pp., devoted to celebrity sightings, sports, world happenings, war events, and more. Lots of full-page photographs. Short-lived, likely less than 100 issues. Scarce. Cover (June Bright, Nelson Podolsky, Bunny Pope), Judy Landon vignette, Maila Nurmi aka Vampira doing her Bat Dance, Royal Dramatic School (Stockholm), ice skate badminton, Bob Hope & Jane Russell, June Bright, surplus govt materials, house fave Lili St. Cyr 3pp, Tangier girls, "Call Me Madam" play, Charles Binaggio, basketball predictions, Frank Sinatra w/ Ken Murray & Faye Emerson, Elizabeth Taylor vignette, trick shooters Dot & Ernie Lind. Photographers: Globe, Robert Lavelle, Bill Marks, Rapho-Guillumette, Graphic, Three Lions, Max Haas, INP, Acme. VG+, short spine tears, faint foxing. [Book ID 125521] [Magazines]