This ad from an early issue of Young Physique Magazine has us thinking about the unfortunate nature of inflation – why, oh why won’t $5 buy us a full-color, life size beefcake poster?

Because turkey is the last thing on your mind right now, here’s your mighty beefy week in review:
•UCLA flexed their muscles with an upcoming screening of Beefcake
•Christmas came early
•This had us totally confused. Seriously, WTF?
•Somebody at Playgirl raided the AMG archives
•We said goodbye to an old friend
•Liberace’s nephew got a healthy helping of mainstream [...]

We here at AMG understand that some people prefer not to spend their Thanksgiving gorging on canned cranberries and giblet gravy. If you’re one of those poor souls who just can’t get behind the feast of the season, then this one’s for you. We’ve got light meat, dark meat and everything in between, but unlike [...]

Charles Huber, and hundreds more beautiful boys are now available @ AMG Classics!

ZENITH and Richard Fontaine Bring You The Captives, a Supercolossal Movie, an EPIC of PAGAN ROME
Starring: Alan Parker, Frank Hlivjka, Bob Trechia & John Novak
So says an ad for this groundbreaking physique reel from the early days of beefcake. Half a century ago you’d have to track down a theatre bold enough to show this [...]

AMG Classic Man Buddy Houston and tabloid sensation Levi Johnston
We hate to weigh in on this, because, well, we find Levi Johnston about as dull and uninteresting as his archnemesis. But when Playgirl, or any other closeted publication, cops our style, we’ve got to call them out. So, your on notice Playgirl. Bob Mizer did [...]

Best known to the rest of the world as a hollywood stunt man, Dennis Cole, who appeared in the Winter 1974 issue of Physique Pictorial, died Sunday November 16 at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He hit the physique scene in the days of its inception, winning admirers for his beautiful [...]

We’ve put a lot of energy over the past few years into gaining exposure for Bob Mizer’s color work. This color campaign was most visibly manifested in this year’s TASCHEN release, Bob’s World: The Life and Boys of AMG’s Bob Mizer. In it, Dian Hanson explores the master of the male nude as he found [...]

We came across this unusually artsy cover of Physique Pictorial during a search for early photographs of Marlon Brando. The image on the back cover is a promotional still from the MGM production of “Julius Caesar,” and the front cover is a detail from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.
This discovery serves as yet another reminder [...]