Data Boy

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Background

Data Boy co-published two editions in the same volume (“dos-à-dos” format), each with its own numbering scheme at first. For example, the Los Angeles edition for October 4, 1979, was issue #233, but the back of the issue covered San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest, and was numbered #168. By the following year, however, the issue numbering was abandoned, although the double-format was retained.

A sales listing for back issues available at Bolerium Books in SF states: “ Data-Boy Instant Press was a printing house and early computer publishing house with a largely gay clientel and staff. The magazine covered gay interests for all of California and Portland and Washington State.”

Typography

Cover typefaces

Cooper Black, Jackson MN, Sinaloa

Collected issues

Data Boy, October 1979

1. Data Boy, 93/28 (May 1974)
2. Data Boy, 122/57 (June 1975)
3. Data Boy, 233/168 (October 1979)
4. Data Boy, 272/207 (April 1981)
5. Data Boy (October 1980) (missing cover)