Esquire (1933 Esquire, Inc.) Magazine comic books 1982-1984

Vol. 98 #1 - Man At His Best. In this issue: Making It in America's Success Capital - New York's Best-Kept Career Secrets. Plus: John Gregory Dunne and Paul Schrader on Writing, Guilt, Death; Robert Duvall Goes C&W; What Movies Cost; The Real Money on Wall Street, by Adam Smith; Portrait of a Perfect Advertising Man; and Careers That Take Off. Cover price $2.00.

Vol. 98 #2 - Man At His Best. In this issue: 125 Great Restaurants for Business, Romance, Late Nights and Old Friends - The Critics' Choices. Plus: Inside Las Vegas with Wayne Newton; Adam Smith on Nuclear Disarmament; Fiction by Bernard Malamud; Mordecai Richler on His Father's Life; Harry Hopman, Ace Tennis Coach; Cowboys, a Photo Roundup; Stretching with Master Seo; Where to Marathon; A Library of Career Books; Record Collecting; and Great Summer Canoe Trips. Cover price $2.00.

Vol. 98 #3 - Man At His Best. In this issue: The Collection - A Complete Wardrobe for the Professional Man. Plus: Emmylou Harris, Joan Armatrading, Lorin Maazel, Woody Herman; Sports Clinic - How to Compete When It Really Hurts; The Begelman Scandal - Hollywood vs. Wall Street; Gay Talese - An Autobiography of Style; An Ex-Seminarian's Spiritual Quest, by Paul Hendrickson; The Greening of Tom Watson; Adam Smith on the Real News; Collecting Etchings; and Outward Bound for Execs. Cover price $2.00.

Vol. 99 #3 - Man At His Best. In this issue: The Collection - The Business and Fine Art of Dressing. Plus: Optimal Performance - New Ways to Use Your Brain, by Chris Welles; Introducing Truman Capote's Observations; Ted Bundy Talks About Murder, Motive and Madness; The Philosopher Kings of Harvard; Alan Furst on Seattle; and James Dickey on Style. Cover price $2.00.

Vol. 99 #4 - Man At His Best. In this issue: The Man Who Would Leap Twenty-nine Feet - Carl Lewis and the Longest Jump. Plus: The Hotshot Lawyers of Hollywood; The Cry Guys of Country Music; Adam Smith Goes to Singapore; Picking a President; Thinking About Your Money in the Eighties; Vasectomy - The Secret Operation; John Gardner on Becoming a Novelist; Bob Greene Visits Ingemar Johansson; and Martin Cruz Smith on Spy Stories. Cover price $2.00.

Vol. 99 #5 - Man At His Best. In this issue: Teachers, Engineers, Hispanics - Three Tales of America in Crisis. Plus: Coppola and Lucas, an Odd Couple; Bill James's Baseball Forecast; Harry Stein on the Beatles; Adam Smith in Asia; Robert Reich's New Industrial Revelations; When Men Compete with Women; and The Man Who Wrote "Heartaches by the Number." Cover features Roy Scheider. Cover price $2.00.

Vol. 100 #1 - Man At His Best. In this issue: White House Keeping with Meese, Baker and Deaver, by Laurence I. Barrett. Plus: Introducing Monthly Cartoons; The Graceful Power of Aikido; Jack Paar Talks About Talk; Oil and the Economy; Frances FitzGerald on Tokyo; Stewart Brand, Forever Hip; A Photo Session with Helmut Newton; An Eighties Love Story; and Fashions of Alexander Julian. Cover features Peter Martins. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 100 #2 - Man At His Best. In this issue: The Man Who Makes Those Amazing Commercials. Plus: The Odd Etiquette of L.A. Restaurants, by David Freeman; Senator Christopher Dodd Is Not His Dad, by Robert Friedman; Adam Smith on the Last Taxpayer in America; Bob Greene's Rules for the Road; The Death of Honor, by Anthony Brandt; A New One-Act Play by Paul Rudnick; John Gregory Dunne on a Movie Deal; Alan Furst on Drug Books; The Mad Days of Ezra Pound; and Sweatless Fitness. Cover features Joe Sedelmaier. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 100 #3 - Man At His Best. In this issue: The Collection - The Return to Elegant Dressing. Plus: Teri Garr and Michael Keaton Interview Each Other; Vietnam Guilt, by Christopher Buckley; The Most Powerful and Persistent of the Washington Establishment; Bob Greene Visits the Gerald R. Ford Museum; Adam Smith's Savvy Guide to Reading a Stock Prospectus; Diva Author Delacorta on American Style; Michael Fuchs; New Fiction by James Salter; The Massage Is the Message; and El Salvador Up Close. Cover price $2.50.

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Vol. 100 #4 - Man At His Best. In this issue: The Esquire Winter Traveler - Cadillac Cowboy by Larry McMurtry, Marilynne Robinson on Idaho, Bruce Chatwin on Nepal; When Men Won't Grow Up, by David Hellerstein; Norman Mailer on the British Elections; "The Anatomy Lesson" by Philip Roth; The First Complete Account of How We Got into Vietnam, from a Book by Stanley Karnow; The Hidden Life of Wally Shawn; How Bankers Cash In on Cocaine; Bob Greene on Frank Gifford; and Why Michener Sells. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 100 #5 - Man At His Best. In this issue: Will American Express Devour America? Plus: Sting - The Dark Thoughts of a Rock Star; Confessions of a Radio Shrink; One Couple's Struggle to Save Their Child's Life, by Harry Stein; Scott Spencer on John Updike; The Prince of Puberty Is Back in Business; Womanizing Within Marriage; Cheers! - A Guide to the Newest Bars and Best Drinks in America; The Great Divorces of History; and News About Stress. Cover price $2.50.

Man At His Best. In this issue: Dubious Achievement Awards of 1983; A New Sports Column by Pete Dexter; Why "Scarface" Should Terrify Brian De Palma; Ted Koppel - ABC's King of Night; When a Dog Writes a Best-selling Book; Our Man in Honduras; Newest Fashions from Italy; and Curing Hangovers. Cover price $2.50.

Man At His Best. In this issue: The New Passion of the Eighties - A Special Valentine's Report on Men and Their Money; A Father's Story by Bob Greene; War - Who Is the Real Enemy?; Cheers - The Toughest Turnaround on TV; The Professional Victim; How to Buy Computer Books; and European Fashions. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 101 #3 - Man At His Best. In this issue: The Collection - Best Buddies and Fine Clothes...The Endurance of Quality. Plus: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Still a Minority of One; Men and Women - The Big Thaw; The Revolution in Radio; Ten Diseases That (Honestly) You'll Wish You'd Never Heard About; The Lionization of Robert Dole; and The Forgotten Fonda. Cover features Paul Maxursky and Robin Williams. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 101 #4 - Man At His Best. The Esquire Summer Traveler. In this issue: The Best Beaches in the World: Jumping into Summer Waters - Listen to Jamaica by Bobbie Ann Mason, The Danube Blues by Alan Furst, Southern California Beach Towns by Charlie Haas. Plus: A Special Report - Redefining "Blue Collar" by Adam Smith; Nicholas von Hoffman on the Hottest Scene in Washington; A Proposal for Education; and John Cleese, Solo. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 101 #5 - Man At His Best. In this issue: Ultimate Fitness - The Esquire Guide to Conditioning, Participating, and Winning; The Physically Fit Man - Ten Keys to High-Level Health and Athletics; Bill James Surveys the '84 Baseball Season; Angel Cordero - The Toughest Man on Four Legs, by Pete Dexter; Dreamgirls - The Supremes' True Story; Special Report - Cashing In on Outer Space; and The Billion-Dollar-Merger Maestro, Bruce Wasserstein - His Incredible Getty Deal, by Paul Cowan. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 102 #1 - Man At His Best. In this issue: How Champions Do It - An Insider's Guide to Olympic Excellence, by Charles Siebert. (On the pommel horse, the gymnast must keep his hips out and his body in a straight line, like a long stick swinging from the shoulders. His basic move is a double leg circle, in which the gymnast swings both legs together in even circles above the horse, quickly displacing his hands each time his body sweeps through, to allow for an uninterrupted flow. See page 101.) Plus: Thomas B. Morgan on the Reporters Who Covered Vietnam. And: Jimmy Carter, Reexamined, by Tom Wicker. Cover features Olympic gymnast Mitch Gaylord. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 102 #2 - Man At His Best. In this issue: Take This Magazine on Vacation! The Best of Summer Reading by John Updike, E.L. Doctorow, Robert Stone, Joyce Carol Oates, Ken Kesey, James Salter, Jayne Anne Phillips, Tobias Wolff, William H. Gass, Joy Williams and Richard Yates. Plus: A Report of Works in Progress by Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Philip Roth and 50 other great American writers. Also: Fishing Rods, Ice Cream and New England Inns. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 102 #3 - Man At His Best. In this issue: The Esquire Fashion Collection - Bright Fashion Ideas for the Professional. Plus: Arlo Guthrie Goes Home Again; The Other Children of the Holocaust, by James Reston, Jr.; The Chip Wars - Silicon Valley vs. Japan; Nutrition for the Fast Lane, by Jane E. Brody; How New Is the New "Wall Street Journal"?, by Richard Levine; How to Speak to Bartenders; and The Perfect Hat. Cover features Jack Cooney, attorney. Cover price $2.50.

Vol. 102 #5 - Man At His Best. In this issue: The Secret Love of a Man's Life..."It is a sexual turn-on that conceals inadequacies. It is a brutal, deadly game but the best game there is. It is for men what childbirth is for women. It is like lifting the corner of the universe and looking at what is underneath." Why Men Love War, by William Broyles, Jr. Plus: Cheers! - An Indispensable Guide to Home and Holiday Entertaining. Also: Men and Women and the New Vanity, by Gay Talese. Cover price $2.50.

April 1944 - Long Running News and current magazine. 10-in. x 13-in., 184 pages, Text (with B&W and Full color images) Cover price $4.00.