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| DUNGEONMASTER No 47 January 1994 |
| Shot solo by Jack Fritscher, black-and-white Cover Photograph shows Palm Drive Video model Goliath about to slap the reclining, yelling Steve Thrasher. Issue includes 2 interior photographs of Terry Kelly from the Palm Drive video, Hot Lunch (in which his co-star is Jack Fritscher in the cult segment shot by Mark Hemry), and one photograph of Dan DuFort and Steve Edwards/Gino Deddino from the Palm Drive video, Gut Punchers. This photograph, shot July 24, 1987, was also printed in Brian Pronger's 1990 nonfiction book titled: The Arena of Masculinity: Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex (GMP, London, hardcover, 305 pages). Fritscher-intimate since 1977, Dan Dufort, who appears fictionalized in Jack Fritscher's historical novel Some Dance to Remember as "bodybuilder Ben Buford" was the second-place winner of the Mr. Physique Contest at Gay Games II, August 15, 1986, at which time Fritscher shot an outdoors video of the nearly naked Dan Dufort repeatedly performing his posing routine at the top of the stairs outside the main entrance of San Francisco City Hall with tourists walking around the posing bodybuilder as if virtually naked muscle was the most natural thing if not in the world, at least in San Francisco. Also reviewed in this Dungeonmaster issue that editor Tony DeBlase cued up from Jack Fritscher/Palm Drive are the PDV videos Slap Happy, and Rough Night at the Jockstrap Gym. The lead DM #47 fiction story is Jack Fritscher's "USMC Slapcaptain." A similar photograph titled, "Slap Contest, 1995," appears on page 27 of the photobook, Jack Fritscher's American Men, London, 1995. This wildly popular, almost archetypal, "slap" photograph of two straight men slapping each other (with two inset photographs of the same pair) appeared as the full-color 2-page centerfold in Drummer # 148, April 1991, publisher Anthony F. DeBlase, editor Joseph W. Bean. Historically, this is the first time two straight men ever appeared as an no-sex action duo in a gay male centerfold. Publisher/editor for Dungeonmaster #47/Desmodus : Anthony F. DeBlase. |