This is a reprint put out by Adventure House, one of a series of reprints of early pulps. The cover is color, the inside a facsimile edition of the original pulp, but without the smell or crumbling and yellowing pages. In other words, they've done a really good job on these.
They also have covers that are rather wild, even by today's standards. This woman has one breast fully exposed, and the other nearly so. Inside, there are numerous black-and-white drawings of women who are nude or partly so. Some of the drawings are pretty good, some not-so-good.
For this one, I'm going to make a few comments about each story, but also note some of the rather titillating type of words and phrases used.
The Table of Contents page has 7 drawings of women, six of them with both breasts bared, and one in a see-through top.
“Diane Doubles: 'Double Trouble,' Amateur movies, spice, moonlight rendezvous, and a star in the making.”
There's one drawing of a woman showing one of her breasts, and a drawing of a woman in a bikini. It's a story of a talent scout and a woman.
Some of the rather interesting phrases:
“glorious curves”
“firm protruding breasts, their taut apexes punching arrogantly behind the wispy pink bandeau which tried to hold them captive”
“pliant, snowy mounds bulging enticingly from the edges of their silken covering; her hips rounded parabolas of molded perfection.” These are all on just the first page of the story!
“One of her breasts slipped from the transparent wet brassiere and bounced gelatinously; the enticing nudity of her flushed flesh.” (Page 3)
Later: In reference to another woman:
“the thrusting melons of her breasts”
...”and with a deep breath cupped her swelling breasts as she surveyed herself in the glass.” These refer to a woman named Myra who is attended by her maid Diane. It turns out the maid made the dive and not Myra, who was supposed to.
In relation to the maid:
“The taut strawberry centers of her youthful solid breasts pouted through their cobwebby covering” (of her bra). Also: “...her peerlessly-formed hips and alabaster thighs a symphony of vibrant flesh that invited caresses.”
Diane and Myra were roommates in college.
Fulton, the movie scout, and disguised Myra start to have sex: “Roger's hand explored over the jutting bulges of her full breasts.” Moments later: “Roger's lips brushed over the exquisite scented valley and over the slopes of the pliant knolls.”
Myra goes on an errand and Norton shows up at the flat, mistaking Diane for the fake-Diane from the previous night. He and the real Diane go out and have a make-out session, from which this memorable line comes: “His deft fingers unclasped the silk bandeau, releasing the pouting twin mounds of blissful mollescent flesh in all their glory.”
(“Mollescent”, by the way, means softening or tending to soften.)
Myra later confesses to Norton that she wasn't Myra. Then he says he's going to take her to Hollywood, not Myra.
An extremely sexy story, but one in which the “nice” girl (comparatively nice, at least) wins.
“Private Screening: Married life enables the 'Queen of Burlesque' to give the best performance of her career!”
On the second page of the story, one woman is wearing a see-through outfit so both breasts are quite visible. A few pages later there are two women, totally nude. A guy wants to sketch a nude image of his made, and his wife helps him, but it backfires.
The Leopard Girl's Romance
One nude image of the woman tied to a tree, and another of her being carried away by a leopard-man. The woman wants rough sex and no regular man will be enough for her.
Legs Make the Man
First two pages have images of women partly nude and scantily dressed. June is a singer in the chorus and doesn't want to give in to the “casting couch” syndrome.
Historical note: The story makes a reference to the 18th amendment which repealed prohibition.
The story concerns two girls, June and Mona, Mona being the bad influence. As a moral lesson type of story, Mona is killed in a car crash she causes, and June ends up with her love interest Len.
Marcia at the Movies
A two-page cartoon insert, the first part of a story.
Go Get That Story
Some women in bikinis and one in a see-through top form the drawings for this story. The story concerns a reporter and a greedy railroad owner. The owner, Matthews, is not well. A reporter fakes being a doctor to see him.
Matthews ends up falling off the train, though, and ends up in a hobo jungle and enjoys it. Jimmie, the reporter, catches up with the train and kisses Helen, Matthew's daughter. Matthews has to be found soon, or his stocks will tank.
Fortunately, there's a happy ending for all. It's actually a very nice story.
Pent-House Murder
Lance is in Broadway, but has become tired of the parties and the playing around that goes on. Madame Clair has a thing for him, but he is also rejecting her (she's married).
He goes to a cabin in the woods but finds a woman sleeping there. Some guys come looking for her but think no one is in the cabin and they leave. The woman is escaping from her drunken husband.
Lance ends up being accused of murder, but the girl clears him. Her nasty husband divorces her, and she and Lance end up getting married.
Men in Scarlet
A Mountie is on patrol and finds a nude woman. Her brother had been suspected someone he was trapping with. It wasn't him, though, but a really mean guy who plans to shoot the Mountie and the woman, the woman since she knows the truth about what actually happened.
There's two vicious crooks involved, a lot of fighting, a little shooting, and a whole lot of the woman losing her blouse and descriptions of her breasts. Actually, the story itself is pretty good.
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