The second in our series of galleries of pictures from Bad Mags 2 by Tom Brinkmann, a book dedicated to the trashiest magazines of all time.

Devilish Magazines

In the early sixties a few adult magazines picked up on a popular cultural craze - satanism. In 1966 Anton Szander LaVey inaugurated the Church of Satan in San Francisco and not long after, he could be found all over the national media, in such places as the girlie and nudist mags, as well as sleazy tabloids in which he eventually wrote an advice column called 'Letters from the Devil'.

The later sixties and early seventies saw a rise of interest in the occult, paganism and witchcraft, and publishers in both Britain and America released magazine series' - Man, Myth and Magic and in the UK, Gresham published a monthly magazine called Witchcraft in the early seventies. In the US, adult slicks and magazines used these same themes for some of their articles and photo layouts.

Here we present a selection of those layouts. Click on the gallery right to enlarge.

All images taken from Bad Mags 2 - available from Headpress now!