Cover Details
New York: Ace Books, Inc., c1958.
FRONT COVER
ACE BOOK. 35¢
The Got Their Kicks From Forbidden Feats Of Strength.
MUSCLE BOY
by BUD CLIFTON
Complete & Unabridged
BACK COVER
A NOVEL EXPOSING THE BEEFCAKE KINGS.
Most men fall in love with women. But some men fall in love with themselves – men like the weight-lifters of Muscle Beach. For these body worshippers, their physique is their fortune. Whether it’s being exhibited performing feats of strength, or leered at in glossy photos by thrill-seekers of every sex and taste, there’s big money in those biceps. And it’s often dirty money! Teen-ager Jerry Carpenter found that out when he, for kicks and vanity, got himself involved in the sordid dealings of a notorious photographer and the strange characters that surrounded him. What you’ve heard about in whispers is frankly, startlingly revealed in MUSCLE BOY, a novel that bares the naked truth about the beefcake Kings.
An ACE Book.