We continue our review of the history of east coast publication Cheri, looking at the magazine’s third year in business: 1978.
These issues include articles and photo spreads with Annie Sprinkle, Cherry Bomb, Jill Monro, Honeysuckle Divine, Fanne Foxe, and many more.
Fully digitized copies of each Cheri magazine can be found in the article below. You can find The Rialto Report’s growing collection of digitized resources by choosing Library in our site menu.
Click on the covers below to access the full magazines. Due to the fact that the magazines are scanned in high definition, allow time for each page to load. If you are viewing on a phone, view in landscape orientation.
Magazines are fully searchable; use the icon displayed in each magazine to search by keyword.
Publications are being shared here purely for the purpose of research. They should not to be used or reproduced for any commercial gain.
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Cheri: The Complete 1978 Issues
January 1978 (Vol 2, No. 6)
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-Interview with photographer Eric Kane -Best swing ads -Annie Sprinkle limericks -Model pictorial by Ed Seeman -Portrait of punk band ‘The Sick Fucks’ -Cheri’s crusade for nude beaches -Two years of Midnight Blue |
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February 1978 (Vol 2, No. 7)
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-Best swing ads -Atlantic City pussy pageant -Cherry Bomb & The Dead Boys -Moral depravity quiz –Veri Knotty pictorial -The Happy Cookers pictorial -Nancy & The Slits – a punk rock legend -Model pictorial by Ed Seeman -Fire Island nude beach |
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March 1978 (Vol 2, No. 8)
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-Best swing ads -Erotic bakery –Jill Monro profile -Black’s beach battle -Jimmy Angel & fan pictorial -Loretta Lou profile -Wendy O. Williams profile -A secretary’s revenge -Flashing in Frisco |
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April 1978 (Vol 2, No. 9)
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-The continuing saga of Jill Monro –Plato’s Retreat party –Honeysuckle Divine profile -The Ballad of Queen Adrena –Al Goldstein wrestling match |
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May 1978 (Vol 2, No. 10)
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-Jill Monro: how to be a woman -The Swinging Turtles -Diana Hardy profile -Puritan profile -Miss Vickie submits -Hooker & ladder -How men’s mags humiliate models -Jane Gross profile -Queen of the fanzines -Miss Mash-Punk |
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June 1978 (Vol 2, No. 11)
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-Gail Palmer column -Best swing ads -69 ways to do the dirty deed -June 1978 Hustler insert -Eating out on the sex circuit |
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July 1978 (Vol 2, No. 12)
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-Best swing ads -Joan Collins profile -Cherry Bomb gives Motorhead |
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August 1978 (Vol 3, No. 1)
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-Jaye P. Morgone profile -The erotic adventures of Gail Palmer -Best swing ads -Nona Hendryx profile -Fellatio follies -Cherry Bomb & The Young Ones -The best cocksucker in the world -Ilah Davis profile |
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September 1978 (Vol 3, No. 2)
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-Sex in Poland -Best swing ads -The great vibrator test –Annie Sprinkle portraits |
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October 1978 (Vol 3, No. 3)
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-Best swing ads -Erotic isometrics -Model pictorials |
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November 1978 (Vol 3, No. 4)
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–Fanne Foxe answers letters -S/M report -Miss Nude World |
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December 1978 (Vol 3, No. 5)
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-Best swing ad -Getting down with Irwin Corey -Cheri calendar girls -Church of Satan |
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This is great stuff! These vintage mags are a fascinating look back at the culture. Plus, there are a lot of great surprises like the article and pictorial of the late Tammy Ward in one of the 1976 issues.
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