The Young Physique February 1959, Volume 1, Number 2

[Hal Warner], [Joe Weider]

Union City

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The Young Physique Publishing Co.

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1959

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First Edition.

28cm x 20.5cm. 50 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.

The second issue of The Young Physique, a feature of late 1950s/early 1960s beefcake magazines featuring “the world’s handsomest young bodybuilders” by top physique photographers such as Lon of New York. Starting in 1959 The Young Physique grew out of publisher Joe Weider’s earlier digest sized publications, The Body Beautiful and Adonis, into a full size physique magazine. Weider was an entrepreneurial Canadian bodybuilder who founded the Mr. and Ms. Olympia bodybuilding contests, and was a rare heterosexual among physique publishers. Weider employed Hal Warner as editor of his physique publications. In this issue: Centrefold of Ernie Lopez, 1959 pinup calendar, art by George Quaintance, Bob Storr, Billy Hawkins, and more. Cover model Steve Wengryn.

Foxing to wrappers. Moderate tanning. Bump to tail fore-edge corner. Good Condition.