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| The next step on our tour of Ed Wood's career? The foul year of 1975. |
In our last index of magazines, we listed all titles filed for copyright by Gallery Press, Inc in
1974. As with that year, the 1975 filings were solely under the
Gallery Press imprint, and the volume of publications considerably
less than in the early '70s, when Pendulum/Calga was in full swing
(no pun intended). Fifty-three titles and 75 issues were filed in 1975, a
number of issues dated late 1974 that had yet to be filed. Most
titles saw the release of only a single issue (three issues at most
for only a handful of titles), but a few early Pendulum titles still
continued, e.g. Swap
and Wildcats
into their respective eighth volumes. New titles included such gems as Bush
Lovers,
Cunny, and
Young Sugar. Excepting three titles of Case Histories, the
sociological angle, once the province of the defunct SECS Press and
Edusex imprints, was almost entirely gone; no longer was it
necessary to continue the ruse of educational content, due to the
relaxation of obscenity laws and now-widespread existence of
pornographic magazines.
Worth noting: Gallery
Press also published adult paperbacks in 1975.
Gallery Press/Gallery Press, Inc.
Balling
v3n3 JanFeb (in notice: Dec74)
v4n1 AprMay
Belly Button
v4n1 JulAug
Bi
v2n1 MarApr
Black and White
v3n1 AugSep
v4n1 JulAug
Body
v3n1 AprMay
Bush Lovers
v1n1 SepOct
Couples
v3n3 Dec74Jan75
v4n1 AprMay
Cunny
v1n1 AugSep
Erotic Love
v5n1 JunJul
Exotic Behavior
v1n1 OctNov
Fantastic
v3n2 NovDec74
v4n1 MarApr
Fantasy
v2n3 OctNov74
v3n1 JulAug
Fantasy Bound
v1n1 FebMar
v1n2 MayJun
Foxy Girls
v1n1 AugSep
Gallery
v3n2 OctNov74
v4n1 FebMar
v4n2 AprMay
Gay Girls
v1n1 AugSep
Gemini
v3n4 SepOct74
v4n1 FebMar
v4n2 JulAug
The Girl Friends
v3n2 OctNov74
v4n1 MarApr
Girl Mates
v1n1 SepOct
Girls in Love
v1n1 JulAug
Goddess
v3n2 JanFeb (in notice: Dec74)
v4n1 MayJun
Group Case Histories
v2n3 NovDec74
v3n1 MarApr
Horny
v1n1 AugSep
Illustrated Case Histories: A Study of Erotic Love Practices
v1n1 SepOct
Lesbian Case Histories
v2n2 JanFeb (in notice: Dec74)
v3n1 JunJul
v3n2 OctNov
Lesbian Fantasy
v1n1 SepOct
Lesbian Life
v4n1 JunJul
Lesbian Lovers
v1n1 OctNov74
v2n1 MarApr
Love Me
v4n1 MarApr
Lovers
v4n1 JanFeb
v4n2 JunJul
Mr./Ms.
V2n1 AprMay
Nude Rebels
v6n1 OctNov74
Party Time
v4n1 MayJun
Passion
v3n4 FebMar
v4n1 JulAug
Pussycats
v1n2 MayJun
Raunchy
v1n1 AugSep
Roommates
v1n1 SepOct74
Sisters
v1n1 SepOct
Spice and Nice
v5n1 FebMar
v6n1 JunJul
Super Sex
v1n1 AugSep
Swap
v8n1 JulAug
Swinger's Pad
v1n1 JanFeb (in notice: Dec74)
Three Girls
v1n1 NovDec74
Three of a Kind
v1n1 SepOct74
Turn On
v4n1 MayJun
Two Girls
v2n2 NovDec74
v3n1 MarApr
Two Tone
v1n1 OctNov
Weird Orgy
v1n1 JulAug
Wild Lesbos
v1n1 OctNov
The Wild One
v1n1 OctNov
Wildcats
v8n1 MayJun
v8n2 SepOct
Woman's World
v3n3 NovDec74
v4n1 AprMay
Young Sugar
v1n1 SepOct
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| Brinkmann's book |
Tom Brinkmann's superb 2009 book Bad Mags 2: The Strangest, Sleaziest, And Most Unusual Periodicals Ever Published! lists two additional 1975 Gallery Press
titles, both containing work by Ed: Bi-Sex, v2n1 (April/May) contains the Wood-written-and-credited story "Flowers For Flame LeMarr," reprinted
from the Feb/Mar 1973 Pendulum Spice 'n' Nice. The story was also
reprinted in the seminal 2014 collection Blood Splatters Quickly: The Collected Stories Of Edward D. Wood, Jr., edited and compiled by Bob Blackburn, co-heir of Kathy Wood's estate. Gold Diggers, v7n1 contains the uncredited Ed story "Not So Freewheeling." The issue itself is identified as a reprint of Gold Diggers v4n1 from 1972.
In all, we've now indexed upwards of 625 individual issues filed for
copyright from 1970 through 1975 under the Pendulum family of
imprints, not including annuals, reprints and sporadic issues not
filed for copyright. Ed claimed in a 1978 interview with Fred Olen Ray published in
Cult Movies #11 from 1994 (dissected in-depth by Joe
Blevins here at Wood Wednesdays in two parts here and here) to have written a thousand short stories and articles going back to
the early-to-mid-1960s. The lion's share of these appeared in
Pendulum-related titles, although we still know little about Ed's
magazine writing from 1963 through the end of that decade.
We've
barely begun to scratch the surface.