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Fanservice Cover
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When a magazine is known for content unrelated to sex appeal, then the occasional cover with one is not a case of Covers Always Lie, but Fanservice. Most readers know the content will be mostly the same, and it's (usually) more of a thank you to the readers than a ploy for more sales (which is usually Magazine Decay). Key points of this trope: It's for a periodic publication, like Magazines (so that there are covers without fanservice). The subject of the publications is largely unrelated to sex. Most issues do not have covers like this. Most covers are about the magazine's typical subject matter. It's not to deceive readers (usually). A Sub-Trope of Sexy Packaging. |
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Play, when they still existed, used to provide an entire magazine of pinups, Girls of Gaming. Interestingly, it was more fun to see the artists give love to obscure or long-forgotten characters (such as Annet) than it was to bask in the titillation. | |
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The July 2002 issue of anime magazine Animerica, the "swimsuit issue", featured a bit of Faye Valentine eye candy on the front cover. | |
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Ayakashi Triangle often has racy illustrations on title pages, often in otherwise tame chapters. For instance, the cover of chapter 28 has Matsuri holding a guitar while fully naked. | |
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Cube issue 49 reviewed WWE: Day of Reckoning and to celebrate, put Christi Hemme in underwear on the cover. | |
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2000 AD occasionally uses this. For instance, there was one that depicted a sexual encounter between Judge Dredd and Judge Galen DeMarco. In the actual stories, it's just Unresolved Sexual Tension and goes no further than her planting a single kiss on him in his office. | |
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Dragon usually averted this even when putting women in fantasy outfits on the cover, but one infamous April issue from the mid 00s was done by Phil Foglio and had Dixie in her evil phase with her back to the cover and an outfit that really didn't cover her lower half. It was actually so fanservicy that that particular issue was sold in brown plastic bags. | |
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Heavy Metal magazine, which features fantasy and science fiction comics, used various cover subjects in its early years. But it found that issues with pin-up covers sold better and gradually all of its cover subjects became scantily attired women. It helps that the magazine's founder and EIC is married to B-movie maven Julie Strain, as 90% of most of these covers seem to be modeled after her. | |
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Rolling Stone: Most people featured on the cover are shown in a cool, badass, sexy or otherwise glamorous pose. Two famous examples are Jim Morrison (The Doors) featured with his shirt off and Janet Jackson nude, with her then-husband covering her breasts while standing behind her. | |
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Gwenpool Strikes Again had it in the Beach Episode issue 3◊. Which for some inflated assets even crosses with literal Self-Fanservice: when the Cover Drop happens, Gwen tells the cover artist "Gimme a D-cup, Terry!" | |
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The picture is from the Holiday 2001 issue of "Playstation Magazine" (not to be confused with "Official Playstation Magazine"), which has Keira in Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy in a really skimpy Sexy Santa Dress, complete with a bare midriff and a Cleavage Window (this was before a later game revealed that she was fourteen at this time). | |
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Some of the covers for the Birdy the Mighty manga feature Birdy in various states of undress. The original manga's cover featured a waist-up shot of Birdy, showing Toplessness from the Back and sideboob as she's flexing her arm. | |
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Some of the covers for Frank Miller's RoboCop tended to feature Lewis, Dr. Love, or a random background character in a state of undress (including a cover of issue 4 featuring a bloodied and clothing-damaged Lewis posed on a street lamp like a stripper). | |
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Many issues of the S(cience) F(iction) X magazine have gorgeous women in seductive poses, with the top of their heads conveniently covering the bottom of the F, so it looked like an "E", which changed the acronym's interpretation a lot. The magazine itself has articles on things like sci-fi authors and Battlestar Galactica. Readers of SFX have complained about this for years; the bottom of the F tends to get covered a lot. When the American Godzilla (1998) movie came out, they put the magazine in a black wrapper and had the subtitle "Bigger is better". |
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Readers of SFX have complained about this for years; the bottom of the F tends to get covered a lot. When the American Godzilla (1998) movie came out, they put the magazine in a black wrapper and had the subtitle "Bigger is better". | |
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The Play Magazine Muramasa: The Demon Blade cover. While the cover does show a scene that can happen (the octopus is a bonus boss), your character will not get their clothes torn off and nearly raped like this cover would have you believe. Play, when they still existed, used to provide an entire magazine of pinups, Girls of Gaming. Interestingly, it was more fun to see the artists give love to obscure or long-forgotten characters (such as Annet) than it was to bask in the titillation. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer pulls this on the Season 1 DVD menu, with a seductive and dangerous◊ looking Sarah Michelle Gellar crawling towards the viewer. | |
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Grimm Fairy Tales comics series has a reputation of being Hotter and Sexier take on classic fairy tales. But this is based solely on their covers. The actual content is just plain Darker and Edgier. | |
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The Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue is basically an entire issue like this, as a big service to its fans. The 50th Anniversary issue featured two covers - the main one had Nina Agdal, Lily Aldridge and Chrissy Teigen; flip it over and say hello to Kate Upton (for her third cover in a row, technically) as a big service to her fans. |
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The British SF short story magazine Interzone had a couple of (rather atypical) bimbo covers in the late 2000s, which caused some complaints from readers about sexism and/or being embarrassed to read the issues in public. They did however balance it with one cover showing a beefy man in Stripperific Gothwear having blood drained from him. (Note that the covers are traditionally not related to any specific story in the issue.) | |
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