Forty Plus Digest was a Leonard Burtman product devoted to large breasted models. The box inset logo of a woman with a tape measure was drawn by Eric Stanton. The cover of Times Square Smut was drawn by Eugene Bilbrew. 250 pages!
TIMES SQUARE SMUT is available in Paperback OR affordable instant PDF Down load from Blurb.com. HUNDREDS of rare illustrations and true tales from the history of early New York City fetish pornography of the 1950's.http://www.blurb.com/b/6035290-times-square-smut
IN 1959, Edward Mishkin was arrested and 72 of the books he had published (or sold) were confiscated for obscenity. Mishkin sold the books in several Times Square bookstores he owned. The Supreme Court of the United States Upheld his conviction and the books disappeared into evidence boxes and attics. 50 years later collector Jim Linderman decides to find them. Eugene Bilbrew, an African-American artist drew many of the covers. He would overdose on 42nd Street. Other artists who worked in the same scene at the same time are Eric Stanton, who shared a studio with Steve Ditko, creator of Spiderman and Joe Shuster of Superman Fame. Along with Mishkin, there were two other smut producers in New York. Leonard Burtman, fetish publisher and Irving Klaw, who photographed Bettie Page. 250 pages with HUNDREDS of illustration not seen in over 50 years, and then not really seen at all. Available in Instant PDF Download, Paperback and Hardcover.
