Swank September 1964 September 1964 Magazine Back Issue

4 SWANK SOUNDS OFF
notes and comment on the current scene
BARON D'
9 WAXING SWANK
views and review of new discs
LEONARD FEATHER
10 FROM A VIEW TO A KILL
an experience in suspense with agent 007
IAN FLEMING
14 TRIANGLE
Christopher loved Kate loved Prissy
JOHN MALONE
17 A SWINGER UNSWUNG
a Swank profile of jazzman Dick Hyman
LEONARD FEATHER
20 MEMOIRS OF A COXCOMB
an excerpt from the long supressed sequel to "Fanny Hill"
JOHN CLELAND
28 JAPAN: OCCIDENTAL PARADISE
a tour of the 'big towns' of Japan
CLARK COLLINS
42 A SOPHISTICATED VIEW OF CIGARS: 1964
what the modern man—and woman—of today are smoking
LAWRENCE SANDERS
53 THE DOUBLE STANDARD AFTER MARRIAGE
a doctor speaks about extramarital relations
W. D. SPRAGUE, PhD.
PICTORIAL
24 AMERICAN GODDESS AT STONEHENGE
33 KATHY: SWANK'S FLIP-OUT GIRL
46 SEPTEMBER SONG
50 THE BULKY LOOK GOES BUST!

• Covergirl Maria Clarens Photographed by Camera Clix (Not Nude)
• An Excerpt From The Long Suppressed Memoires Of A Coxcomb
• A Sophisticated View Of Cigars: 1964
• The Double Standard After Marriage
• A James Bond Thriller "From A View To A Kill" by the great Ian Fleming

Swank is a pornographic magazine for heterosexual men published in the United States. It includes hardcore sex, such as the use of sex toys, lesbian sex, and sexual intercourse between men and women.

There are also a series of DVDs and an official website produced under the Swank name.

The Magna Publishing Group bought Swank along with dozens of other pornographic titles, including Stag, in 1993 from Charles "Chip" Goodman, the son of Martin Goodman, founder of Marvel Comics. According to the New York Times, Stag and Swank “can even draw a line to the same pulp publishing outfit—Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company—that in 1939 started the comic book publisher that eventually became Marvel Comics, and that in the 1950’s and 1960’s employed future novelists like Mario Puzo and Bruce Jay Friedman as writers and editors.”

At the time Magna purchased the magazines from Goodman, the company was known as Swank Publications, and was a part of the GCR Publishing Group, which also published non-pornographic magazines, including such titles as New Body and Victorian Accents.

The Magna Publishing Group's website includes the claim that Swank has been established for "well over 65 years." A magazine called "Swank" was founded by Fox Features Comics founder Victor Fox in the 1940s. This early version of the magazine was a knockoff of Esquire, but eventually evolved to its current format. The magazine has had breaks in publication of several years during its history, so the "over 65 years" claim may be disputed by some media historians.