Scratch Monkey posted:

Someone’s gotta cook meth, I guess.

I bet the 80s start to really lean into the “Vietnam Vet as a personality” thing I’ve seen with a lot of bikers over the years

Catzilla posted:

I always wondered if it was actual hells angels that read Easyrider, or if it was wannabe's? I'm not sure who the target audience was there.

Szyznyk posted:

Probably the same number of actual mercenaries who read Soldier of Fortune.

Gutter Phoenix posted:

So many casual swastikas.

AKZ posted:

ChesterJT posted:

I'm going to assume either Irving Penkethman is an alias or Irving Penkethman died in federal prison.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

[quote="June 2, 1976
The Daily Inter Lake from Kalispell, Montana · Page 4
Optical Character Recognition"]Drug ads irk officials... BOSTON (AP) -

"High and I do mean high," began the letter opened by a Fontana, CaUf., nwther. For $20, a Pocasset, Mass., man offered to send to her son his latest publication, "Speed Made Easy." But the young man in Fontana never got to see that letter. He was in a mental hospital, '/ do it as a hobby 9 the victim of a bad trip on that same powerful street drug. Federal postal officials could do no more than tell the irate parents, who related that incident, that their hands were tied. The same advertisements are going out to prison inmates, too, and it's all perfectly legal. "We've had a lot of complaints against this guy," said a postal official in Boston, pointing to a stack of letters, "but it's not against the law." For $20 sent to the post office box of Irving Penkethman in the quiet Cape Cod village of Pocasset, he promises to send his Publication No. 62: how to make speed -- methampheta- mine, a central nervous system stimulant -at home with easy-to-get products from "the local hardware, the corner drugstore and the nearest gas station." "It's a hobby," said Penkethman of mail order business he has been running for nearly five years. "I'm not trying to get rich. I just want to turn people on to how they can turn themselves on. "To get rid of all the dealers, the narcs (narcotics police officers), the heat, the paranoia, the bloodshed. That's where I'm at," he said. A musician and music teacher by profession, Penkethman, 36, admits he is largely self-taught in drugs and chemistry. "I got turned on to grass in '65, DMT in '66 and acid in '67," he said. "I got involved in a speed lab. We made about a pound a week for 12 weeks. We went on to mescaline, but we messed up, and I blew myself up." So, .for the next two years, Penkethman said, he took chemistry courses, including a I I officials air complaints correspondence course offered by the state Department of Education. "But I didn't finish because they had too many mistakes in their workbooks," he said. Penkethman justifies his drug instruction business saying: "They're going to go out and buy it on the streets anyway. It's all over the place and a lot of it is really poor. If they do it for themselves, then they won't have to go out on the street and get poisoned." Penkethman has come by what he says is a rather extensive mailing list by advertising his service in such drug-oriented magazinesas "High Times." And as a special incentive he offers his list of publications, which usually costs Ji, free to prison inmates. "A lot of these chemicals and items are easily found in prisons and others can be smuggled in," said a postal official. At least two prison officials were among those complaining to postal authorities about the advertisements. Robert J. Klein, superintendent of the Davis Center, a facility for 16-to 21-year-old offenders in Davis, W.Va., complained to that state's attorney general after one inmate received the ad. In Gulfport, Miss., Harrison County Sheriff Leroy Hobbs confiscated and forwarded to postal authorities Penkethman's flyer and list of publications sent to an inmate there. Penkethman says he got some of his formulas from inmates. He says the process for "Speed Made Easy" came from a prison inmate who told Penkethman, in exchange for some of Penkethman's formulas, about how to make speed from a nasal inhaler product. Prison officials and others complaining about Penkethman's business receive from the postal inspector a letter saying that the 'Stuff based on government records' advertisements "while understandably undesirable do not in themselves violate postal statutes" and are protected by the First Amendment. Likewise, Bourne Police Chief Henry F. Mailoini said he has received complaints about Penkethman's business, but "we don't have a thing on him. There's nothing we can do about him."

...but practice is legal

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Armageddon is a 1972–1974 underground comic title published by Last Gasp. Written and illustrated by Barney Steel, the comic expressed an anarcho-capitalist philosophy, influenced by Ayn Rand, and explored sociopolitical themes.

Szyznyk posted:

I’d like to believe they were for shock value and being antisocial as opposed to a swastika today where there’s no ambiguity.

AKZ posted:

Biker pictures.

Automatic Slim posted:

Granted nudity and sex weren't a mouse click away like now but, everything that is supposed to be tantalizing and appealing in those pictures isn't. At all.

Automatic Slim posted:

Granted nudity and sex weren't a mouse click away like now but, everything that is supposed to be tantalizing and appealing in those pictures isn't. At all.

Scratch Monkey posted:

Also, find a copy of Armageddon-3 plz

Edit: haha that was unexpected

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(underground_comic)

Automatic Slim posted:

Granted nudity and sex weren't a mouse click away like now but, everything that is supposed to be tantalizing and appealing in those pictures isn't. At all.

AKZ posted:

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Don't worry, I have my eyes open for copies of Armageddon 1, 2, and 3.