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There were so many "adult-themed" magazines in the 70s it's sometimes hard to imagine. It's a marketplace that no longer exists, I think, as mainstream comics are now capable of showing in their pages the sorts of things that were only possible in black and white magazines in the 70s.
That said, Gasm, cover and name aside, is pretty tame by comparison. There's not that much graphic violence and not that much nudity. The stories are in the same vein as much of the sci-fi output of the decade, though only one or two venture into that weird, post-psychedelic cosmic strangeness that one can sometimes expect from the black and white mags of the era. I think it must be the influence of the undergrounds on so many of the artists working at the time. There's definitely something of the undergrounds to one or two of the stories in today's magazine.
On the other hand, nothing really jumped out at me. The titular story is pretty good, and printed in colour, but that aside, there wasn't anything that made me gasp or laugh out loud. Good, but not great.
More to follow.
Further Reading and Related Links
For another low-rent Heavy Metal, check out Rump.
And for an adult sci-fi/fantasy magazine done right, you can't do much better than Epic Illustrated.
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