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A group of eleven underground magazines and sex newspapers featuring news, articles, reviews and interviews relating to Suck, its contributors and/or the two Wet Dream Film Festivals it organised (1969-1973).
i) SCREW #38 (NY: Milky Way Productions, November 24th, 1969). Tabloid newspaper format. 32pp. Ed. Al Goldstein. Prints a half-page review by Michael Perkins of the first issue of Suck: “Suck is a winner”. Also: film review of ‘Futz’;
ii) SCREW #99 (NY: Milky Way Productions, January 25th, 1970). Tabloid newspaper format. 36pp. Includes a 3pp. review of the first Wet Dream Film Festival by the paper’s editor and jury member, Al Goldstein. Photo-illustrated, incl. Otto Muehl with goose on stage. Also: Goldstein in Amsterdam. Folded. Very Good;
iii) OZ #26 (London: OZ Publications Ink Ltd., February 1970). Magazine format. 46pp. Includes “Gangster of Love Deported” (5pp.), Bill Levy’s account of being held for five days in Harwich and thrown out of England following Scotland Yard’s investigation into his alleged smuggling of thousands of copies of Suck into the country. During his detention he was phoned by Heathcote Williams, who told him about his “new project called Sunday Head Paper” (it didn’t appear for another four years, see item #70). Also: Candy Darling; Albie Thoms. Very Good plus;
iv) FRIENDS #21 (London: T.F. Much Co. Ltd., January 1st, 1971). Tabloid newspaper format, folded. 28pp. Ed. Alan Marcuson. Includes full-page review by John Coleman of the 1st Wet Dream Film Festival, with accompanying photo by Joe Stevens. Also: Arthur Brown; Jonathon Green raps with American DJ Tom Donahue; Courtney Tulloch on “Reggae”, the documentary film by Horace Ové. Very Good;
v) SCREW #101 (NY: Milky Way Productions, February 8th, 1971). Tabloid newspaper format. 40pp. Includes a 9pp. photo-illustrated feature/interview with Suck associate, Monique Von Cleef, who describes herself as a “leather social worker”. Folded. Very Good;
vi) EVERGREEN REVIEW #89 (NY: Evergreen Review Inc., May 1971). Magazine format. 80pp. Ed. Barney Rosset. Includes a 2pp. review of “Suck magazine’s ‘First Annual Wet Dream Festival’ by Robert Coover, who reports that there was “some exhibitionist onstage fucking and sucking”, but points to the contradiction between watching on screen sex and actually having sex itself: “The very nature of film, of course, is counterorgiastic. Orgy is communal, and film by itself is voyeuristic, masturbatory, private.” Also: “Woman as Outsider” by Vivian Gornick; a short story by Chandler Brossard; 14pp. interview by Julius Lester with civil rights activist James Bevel. Very Good;
vii) FOX #5 (Amsterdam: Toad Sweat Frenzy, 1971). Tabloid magazine format, folded (the first three issues were titled Paradiso Fox). 16pp. Printed in different colour inks. Includes a review of the 1st Wet Dream Film Festival by Mycool Manchap (Michael Chapman). Also: d.a. levy: “Suburban Monastery Death Poem. Part II - The Well”; “The Great Rock’n’Roll Rip Off” by John Sinclair; “Kabouter Revolution” centrespread; Scientology; Holland’s radical women’s liberation group, the Dolle Minas. Very Good;
viii) OZ #44 (London: OZ Publications Ink Ltd., September 1972). Magazine format. 56pp. Includes 2pp. photo-illustrated extract from ‘The Virgin Sperm Dancer’ and 2pp. review of it by Colin MacInnes. Also: Dave Robins and Dick Pountain on the countercultural scenes in Amsterdam and Notting Hill; Lillian Roxon’s “monologue, prompted by the occasional question from Louise Ferrier”; “The Dialectics of Menstruation” by Alison Fell; Cozmic Comics insert. Very Good plus;
ix) SCREW #199 (NY: Milky Way Productions, December 25th, 1972). Tabloid newspaper format. 32pp. Prints the infamous full-page nude photograph of Germaine Greer first published in Suck #7, with brief additional text. Folded. Very Good;
x) SCREW #204 (NY: Milky Way Productions, January 29th, 1973). Tabloid newspaper format. 32pp. Includes “The Death of Suck”, a 2pp. photo-illustrated article by Dean Latimer on “the detumescence of Suck”. Folded. Very Good;
xi) SEXUAL FREEDOM #14 (SF: Sexual Freedom League, nd. [1973]). Tabloid newspaper format. 32pp. Ed. Stephen L.W. Greene. Reprints 2pp. by Brummbär from ‘Wet Dreams - Films & Adventures’, reviews Suck #7 and reports rumours of Suck’s imminent closure. Also: interview with Leonard Wolf; the International Museum of Erotic Art (540 Powell Street, SF), incl. illustration of John Lennon etching. Folded. Very Good.
