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Men's magazines: an A to Z

Men's magazines, lad's magazines, glamour magazines, pin-up magazines, top-shelf magazines and covered alphabetically. This page addresses Deluxe via Escort to Esquire. On other pages:

Introduction
  1. 3D titles to Boys Toys
  2. Carnival to Cut
  3. Deluxe to Esquire (this page)
  4. Fable to Front
  5. The Gentleman's Magazine to The Humorist
  6. Ice to London Opinion
  7. Man to Maxim
  8. Mayfair to Monkey
  9. Nine to Playboy
  10. Razzle to Stuff
  11. T3 to Zoo Weekly

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Deluxe launch issue from Face publisher Wagadon

 

Deluxe [closed] Back to top

Wagadon, May 1998-Jan/Feb 1999
Launched as a reaction to the flesh-driven strategies of lads' magazines FHM and Loaded. Editor Andrew Harrison introduced the concept:

'Deluxe is here because a group of people got tired of being told that the same clapped-out subjects were the be-all and end-all of men's interests. They got bored of pro-celebrity shark-fishing and Z-list actresses in their knickers. The world is more interesting, and more complicated, than all that...'

Music was a mainstay of the title and Pulp's Jarvis Cocker was on the first cover. Unfortunately, the new mix did not work. Despite a redesign (including a move from stapled to a more upmarket perfect-bound cover) and a bigger 'babe factor', the magazine failed to work up towards a 150,000 sales target. It closed at issue 8 with sales of fewer than 80,000. The main cover lines were: 'She wants your sex: your girlfriend's filthy fantasies' and 'Mine's a vodka and Red Bull. Davina Murphy will see you now...' with the semi-clad Hollyoaks actress on the cover. Even worse, the failure of this and its women's magazine Frank was to drain Face and Arena publisher Wagadon, which sold out to Emap six months later.
Wagadon profile


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Eat Soup, a Loaded spin-off

 

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IPC, October 1996
Short-lived food title as a spin-off from lads' magazine Loaded.
IPC profile


Ego men's magazine Prince Naseem
Ego put boxer Prince Naseem on its first cover in 1999

 

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Portfolio, March 1999-?
Ego took up the challenge tro create a serious men's magazine in the midst of the lead's mag culture (with Marie Sim'one as editor). ‘Ego has landed at WHS,’ read its advertising campaign; unfortunately, it wasn't able to stay long.


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Enter, a digital men's magazine on CD-Rom
Enter CD-rom magazine

 

Enter (CD-Rom) [closed] Back to top

Pure Communications, March 2001 (on sale: no cover date)-?
A monthly CD-Rom for PC and Mac run by editor Sam Delaney (ex-Later). 'The magazine that moves' was an interactive CD-Rom (IPC's Unzip, Dennis's Blender and a children's title Fun Online from Egmont all tried CD-Rom magazines in the early 1990s). Men's lifestyle, age 18-35. Lead feature: 'Girls on film: Britain's sexiest women - walking, talking and cavorting.' First launched in Ireland in 2000. Target sales were 150,000.


 

 

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Dennis, 1996-?
Short-lived title from Maxim publisher Dennis aiming to explore the World-Wide Web. The first issue was withdrawn for legal reasons. Jennifer Aniston was on the cover.
Dennis profile


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An edition of monthly men's magazine Escort, in the 1960s

 

Escort [closed] Back to top

1958-1971
Monthly pin-up magazine that closed in 1971, then re-emerged as a top-shelf magazine 10 years later published by Paul Raymond.


Esquire mens magazine first cover
Esquire featured Brigitte Bardot on its first cover

 

Esquire (UK) Back to top

National Magazines, 1953-1959; March 1991-
In 1953, Esquire made its first attempt to launch a British edition of this men's magazine, but this folded after six years of trying.

The title returned to the battle in March 1991 with Lee Eisenberg as editor-in-chief and Alex Finer as editor. Unusually, it had a woman on the cover - a late-1950s photograph of Brigitte Bardot.

It has since established its position but at a low level of sales.
National Magazines profile


 

 

Esquire (US) Back to top

Hearst, 1933-
In the US, Esquire was founded in 1933. It established itself in the war years with its pin-up illustrations and calendars. The first fold-out pin-up appeared in October 1940 and the calendar by Peruvian-born Alberto Vargas that year sold 320,000 copies - by 1943 a million calendars had sold. (It was his work that inspired aircrews to paint women on the sides of their planes.) However, Vargas and the publisher fell out in 1946 and the magazine, which had persuaded him to sign his work as Varga, copyrighted that name to stop him using it.

In 1957, Esquire spun off its Gentleman's Quarterly supplement, which was to end up in the hands of Condé Nast and overtake its parent in terms of sales. The magazine reduced its reliance on pin-ups in the late 1950s after the launch of Playboy. Esquire was bought by Hearst in 1986.
Esquire cover gallery


Excel men's magazine 1988
The coverline 'How to spot a bullshitter' led to advertising for Excel being banned

 

Excel [closed] To top

White Line Publishing, April 1988-?
The first issue's main coverline 'How to spot a bullshitter' led to its advertising being banned on the London Tube and the editorial mix under Rod Fountain was seen as too yuppy and it soon folded (although the title would be used again more than once in the next decade).


Executive men's magazine May 1982
The cover girl was Janine Andrews for Executive's first issue

 

Executive [closed] To top

Fragilion, London. May 1982-?
Brian Keogh was editor of this Playboy-style men's magazine 'For the man of today.'


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