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In last week's installment of Ed Wood Wednesdays, we continued indexing Pendulum/Calga/Gallery Press titles with a
listing of all titles filed for copyright in 1973. It was a time of
transition, with the pillars of Pendulum and Calga disintegrating early in
the year. Gallery Press (previously a Calga d.b.a) incorporated in
the late winter/early spring of 1973, and though the d.b.a. Edusex survived into the latter part of that year, there was solely
Gallery by 1974, with all magazines under the Gallery Press imprint,
published and filed for copyright by Gallery Press, Inc. This amounted to fewer than 60
issues across 37 titles, some carrying over from previous imprints,
some new with wonderfully fanciful titles, including the
resurrection of the incredible Heads
Up. A pair – pun intended – of issues of Sam,
solely featuring the otherwordly Roberta Pedon, also appeared in 1974. In all, Gallery's output in 1974 was less half of what was published by
Pendulum/Calga/Gallery the previous year.
GALLERY
PRESS (Gallery Publishers, Inc.)
Balling
v3n1 AprMay
v3n2 AugSep
Blue
v1n1 JanFeb
Body
v1n1 JanFeb (in notice: Dec73)
Boyplay
v3n1 JanFeb
Cherry
v3n1 JanFeb
Couples
v3n1 JanFeb (in notice: Dec73)
v3n2
JunJul
Fantastic
v3n1 MarApr
Fantasy
v2n1 MayJun
v2n2 JulAug
For Girl Lovers
v1n1 FebMar
Friends
v1n1 AprMay
Gemini
v2n3 JanFeb (in notice: Dec73)
v3n1 MarApr
v3n2 JunJul
The Girl
Friends
v3n1 AprMay
Goddess
v3n1 JunJul
Group Case
Histories
v2n1 JanFeb
v2n2 JunJul
Guys and Pals
v1n1 FebMar
Heads Up
v1n1 JanFeb
Hellcats
v3n1 JulAug
Jackie and Jill
v1n1 JunJul
Lesbian Case
Histories
v2n1 AugSep
Lovers
v3n1 FebMar
v3n2 MayJun
v3n3 SepOct
Mr/Ms.
V1n1 MayJun
Party Time
v3n1 JulAug
Passion
v3n1 MarApr
v3n2 JunJul
v3n3 OctNov
Pat and Mike
v1n1 AprMay
Sam
v1n1 FebMar
v1n2 MayJun
Savage
v3n1 AugSep
Sex Report
v1n1 FebMar
Sex Scene
v1n1 FebMar
Sexy Singles
v1n1 FebMar
v1n2 MayJun
v1n3 AugSep
Sugar and Spice
v3n1 MarApr
Titties
v2n1 MarApr
Turn On
v3n1 OctNov
Two Girls
v1n1 JulAug
v1n2 AugSep
v1n3 AupSep
v1n4 SepOct
v2n1 OctNov
Wanted
v3n1 AprMay
Wanted Women
v3n1 JanFeb (Dec73)
Woman's World
v3n1 JanFeb (in notice: Dec73)
v3n2 (called 1) AprMay
v3n3 (called 2) JulAug
We've now indexed
approximately 550 individual issues from the Pendulum family of
publishers, 1970 through 1974. As
the publisher waned, so did Ed's involvement, with Wood historians agreeing that this was Ed's last gig as a paid staffer for an adult
magazine. We'll discuss why that may not be so in future editions of
The Wood Magazine Odyssey.