Vintage RARE "The Lowdown" Magazine 1956 Elvis Presley/James Dean
$20
Posted 10 months ago in Pasadena, CA
Condition: Used (normal wear)
Listed in categories: Electronics & Media - Books, Movies, & Music - Books & Magazines
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Entertainment & Celebrity, Lifestyle, Men's, Pop culture, Short story
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Magazine
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This is a great find! These early Magazine's are hard to find! Most were thrown away, probably by the Wife.. Really good condition for being around 70 years old! Some creases and little tears and chips as expected but overall, good condition ! Features great articles on James Dean, Billie Holiday, ELVIS, Oral contraceptives and more! More vintage Adult/Gentleman Magazine's will be posted on my site..I do good bundle deals! After the death of James Dean in September 1955, the actor's growing legion of fans expressed extreme, almost cult-like devotion to the dead star, flooding Warner Bros. with 8,000 fan letters per month. The Lowdown got hold of some of these letters, much franker and more explicit than the sanitized versions typically appearing in the press, and published them, alongside information cribbed without credit from a Life magazine feature from a few months earlier. Notably, they included a letter from a gay man, one of the very few to be publicly acknowledged. (Rumor was that Winton Dean had letters from male fans destroyed to protect his late son's image.) “James Dean
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