'Fantastic Escape of Hitler's Lover Boy!'

 

OK, I know that this cover is illustrating the story 'The Last Battle of the Joy Girl Brigade', (which I'm guessing is about indefeasibly glamourous and attractive female resistance fighters in occupied France - they undoubtedly use their womanly wiles to lure Nazis to their doom), the most intriguing story alluded to in this October 1966 issue of New Man is 'Fantastic Escape of Hitler's Lover Boy'.   Which, on the face of it, would seem to be implying that the Fuhrer was gay and that his lover escaped the fall of the Third Reich, (presumably via U-Boat to that secret base in the 'hollow earth' accessed from the Antarctic).  Although, I suspect that it is really about some Nazi war criminal who was considered some kind of 'ladies man', seducing women left, right and centre with the aid of  the Gestapo.  But the ambiguity was undoubtedly deliberate.

As for the rest of the stories teased on the cover, 'I'm anybody's girl - the terrifying saga of a tramp' is, without doubt, the sort of story that while promising all sorts of salacious sexual revelations, turns out to be quite tame.  It no doubt presents itself as one of those cautionary moral tales about the awful consequences of female promiscuity while simultaneously playing into adolescent male fantasies about women.  'What your secret dreams tell about you' looks to be another of the pieces of pseudo-psychology so beloved of these types of magazine.  The great thing about 'dream analysis' is that you can write just about any kind of bollocks you like - the reality is that nobody has a clue what the significance of dreams are or, indeed, if they have any significance at all.  Judging by my own dreams, I strongly suspect that there is no deep meaning to them.  They are probably merely the subconscious equivalent to these men's magazine covers - a concoction of various lurid and usually suppressed fantasies.