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Advertised as "World's Greatest Collection of Strange & Secret Photographs" and marketed mainly to overheated adolescents (see the 1942 Keen ad, left), it consists of nothing but photos and captions with no further exposition. This was not a book published to educate (despite appearing on some public library's shelves), but to titillate (literally)— it's emphasis was on the female form ("Female Beauty Round the World") and fashion, and it featured as many National-Geographic-style native breasts as possible. But anything lurid, weird, or just plain unusual is fair game. This was a book to gawk at by flashlight under the bedcovers.
Secret Museum
Combat Heroes: the 1980s RPG gamebook craze got so wild they were
implementing multiplayer grid-based dungeon crawlers in print
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[image: Combat Heroes]
Gamebook writer Joe Dever is most famous for his *Lone Wolf* series, highly
ranked among "choose-your-own adventure"-like branching ...
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