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Best of Screw Numbers 1 to 10 Magazine Back Issues
The publication, which was described as "raunchy, obnoxious, usually disgusting, and sometimes political", was a pioneer in bringing hardcore pornography into the American mainstream during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Founder Al Goldstein won a series of nationally significant court cases addressing obscenity. At its peak, Screw sold 140,000 copies a week. In November 1968 in New York, Al Goldstein and his partner Jim Buckley, investing $175 each, founded Screw as a weekly underground newspaper. An an initial price of 25ยข, a statement on the cover offered "Jerk-Off Entertainment for Men". Beginning in 1969, Screw co-founder Jim Buckley founded Screw's "sister" tabloid Gay, edited by Screw columnists Jack Nichols and Lige Clarke. Contributors to Gay included Dick Leitsch, Randy Wicker, Lilli Vincenz, Peter Fisher, John Paul Hudson, Arthur Bell, Vito Russo, and George Weinberg. Gay reached "a broad audience and went on to become the most profitable LGBT newspaper in the U.S.;" it continued until early 1974. In 1973, Screw published nude photos of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which led to scandal โ and issue sales of more than a half-million copies. (Nude photos of Onassis had previously appeared in the Italian softcore magazine Playmen and later were published by the American hardcore magazine Hustler.) Goldstein tried, unsuccessfully, to expand Screw's reach beyond New York City. In 1976โ1977 National Screw was published, only lasting nine issues. The June 1977 issue of the magazine contained, according to its cover, a new story by William Burroughs and an interview with Allen Ginsberg. Other issues contained original adult comic strip work from cartooning legends Wally Wood and Will Eisner. In 1979โ1980, Goldstein's company, Milky Way Productions, published Screw West out of an office in Hollywood, California. According to an advertisement, it was intended to answer such questions as, "Where can I get laid in San Francisco? What's the best swinger's club in Los Angeles? How do I find all those out-of-the-way Pacific Coast nude beaches? And what are those bawdy brothels outside Las Vegas really like?" Screw West is known to have published 54 issues. One of Goldstein's best friends was Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, founded seven years after Screw. Goldstein claimed that Hustler stole its format from Screw, but that he was not angry. According to Goldstein, Flynt succeeded in creating a national publication, at which he had failed. Screw folded in 2003, unable to make payroll; only 600 copies were sold of the last issue. Goldstein's Milky Way Productions, which published Screw and Midnight Blue, entered bankruptcy in 2004, having lost sales and subscribers as a result of the proliferation of internet pornography, abetted by Goldstein's financial mismanagement. In 2004 the Screw periodical was restarted by former employees led by Kevin Hein, with writer Mike Edison coming onboard as the new editor. (Edison had started writing as a freelancer for Screw almost two decades earlier years before.) In late 2006 Edison announced that he was leaving the editor-in-chief position. Soon after, in 2007, Screw ceased physical publication as the title neared, but did not reach, its 2,000th issue. Original founder Al Goldstein died in 2013. In 2019, Screw returned as an adult, subscription-based television channel ("SCREW TV") on Roku, developed and produced by longtime Goldstein friend and associate Phil Autelitano. On November 4, 2020, the 52nd anniversary of its initial launch, Screw resumed publishing in digital-only format, published by Autelitano (as "Phil Italiano") and Autelitano Media Group of Miami, Florida. Click here to see our entire line of adult mens magazinesClick here to see our magazines by CategoryLogin|Complaints|Blog|Games|Digital Media|Souls|Obituary|Contact Us|FAQ
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