magazine Archives - Desperate Living

Looking back at the glory days of the festive magazine and comic book cover.

The aimless march of the dandy returns to London after a two-year break.

The complete cover collection for a century of festive entertainment guides reflects the changing tastes and concerns of the nation.

Big-haired glamour girls and fancy cars in a 1980s T&A magazine for the auto enthusiast.

The pointless desire to reinvent and complicate the concept of the magazine for 1980s and 1990s hipsters.

From the days before phone sex and cam girls, the pioneering efforts to bring aural sex to adult magazine readers.

A selection of sexy pin-ups helping to hot up the Cold War in the 1950s.

The entire run of the once-revolutionary cybersex magazine is yours to enjoy.

The incredible and stylish 1920s art nouveau magazine covers of Brazil’s José Carlos de Brito e Cunha.

A complete visual history of the first explosion of horror movie magazines.

The notorious Screw Magazine publisher’s ill-fated attempt to do for death what he’d done for sex.

The true detective magazine’s grubbiest era, when lurid photoshoots and outrageous headlines grabbed an eager – and mostly female – audience.