[Brahma]

From the "Rhonda Flaming" comeback days, Gent, circa 1994...
Another fave period of mine.      

-D'Artagnian

I'm really liking that period, right about now.

[togolane]

HELL SQUAD http://www.filefactory.com/file/5e90h6p3ekdz/Joyce%20Mandel%20Hell%20Squad.wmv

[Millmonster]

Ancient History, cont'd: These shots are from Scott Fair's other two sessions with Joyce. The one on the left first appeared in "Hustler's Busty Beauties" - April '93. Other shots from the white bra & g-string, silver boots & stockings session appeared in "Swank" that year and "Double D Fever" in '94. Shots from the 3rd Fair session - gold jacket, black lingerie (on the right) - appeared in at least 2 pubs; "Score" in March of '93 and "Hustler's Busty Beauties" in July of '95. Because anything the Score Group owns is forbidden here, this particular shot is from "Hustler's Busty Beauties." Response was so overwhelming to Alexis' "Score" debut that by November of '93 the Score Group had signed her to an exclusive contract which lasted until she retired from modeling for good in '99. (Because Fair did not give the Score Group exclusive rights to his 3rd session with Joyce, it's the only one the group never created digital imagery for.) In 24 hours I'll explain why I think these 3 sessions were shot within days - or even hours - of each other. 

[Millmonster]

Ancient History, coda: Here are shots from all three Scott Fair sessions. All shots of her in the red wig are from this one session: same naugahyde couch, same pink silk clip-on peony, same purple pumps and same transparent burgundy leotard. All shots of her in the white lace bra and g-string, silver boots and stockings are from the middle session. Since both sessions were shot in front of the same mottled, blue-gray sweep, I'm guessing that - as the crew broke for lunch and Alexis was changing out of her auburn wig and burgundy leotard - Mr. Fair took away the naugahyde couch and potted plant and brought in the blue-blanketed bed and latticed screen. (Or vice versa.) He didn’t even bother to take the framed etching off the wall! The third session was obviously on a different day. The set and wardrobe are much more elaborate and her nails are shorter. But it can’t have been much later because there’s one thing every shot from all three sessions has in common: Just inside the tan line at the top of her left breast is the same ever-so-faint red mark (hickey?) See it? It doesn’t exist in any other shots or videos of Joyce – ever.

And, oh yeah…I almost forgot. There’s one other thing all shots from these three sessions have in common: the same eye-popping, jaw-dropping, traffic-stopping, zipper-busting figure that she alone possessed! 

[toomuch]

I really appreciate this scholarly account. It's interesting to know just a little more about this spectacular woman. I only wish that she had continued modeling longer, or that she would re-appear and let us know what she looks like these days.

[zippydee]

...or that she would re-appear and let us know what she looks like these days.

She did that several months ago when the camera spent more time on the wrong person.  


http://youtu.be/MNUYaAYxcrw

[toomuch]

Yeah, I saw that. I was thinking more along the lines of this Glamourcon appearance from a while back:

[Millmonster]

I really appreciate this scholarly account. It's interesting to know just a little more about this spectacular woman. I only wish that she had continued modeling longer, or that she would re-appear and let us know what she looks like these days.

Thanks so much, toomuch! As you might imagine, doing the research/homework has been quite gratifying!  I'm with you 110% re: your last sentence. She's like a work of art that's been kept from the light all these years! 

[Millmonster]

As pleased as I am about toomuch's assessment of my recent posts as "scholarly," I am now about to be willingly eclipsed by a true Joyce/Alexis scholar, Steve Sullivan. Here is installment #1 of Steve's exhaustive 1998 article in his own (now defunct) publication "Glamour Girls: Then & Now."

In Search of the Perfect Breast: The Battle Over Implants

By Steve Sullivan

(From Glamour Girls: Then & Now, Issue No. 13, December 1998)

In the brave new glamour world of the 1990s, it has become a matter of accepted truth that an exceptionally well-endowed woman is in all likelihood more a representation of modern medical science than the hand of God. It is a popular assumption to which I had given little serious thought until I saw Alexis Love burst into tears.

“My breasts are completely natural, but everyone assumes they’re fake,” she said, in extreme emotional distress. “I’ve been forced to compete against women with huge breast implants, and I’ve lost jobs to them. But the worst thing is that people don’t believe me when I say that no surgeon has ever touched my breasts. They assume that I’m lying. Is that fair? Do people even care if a woman’s breasts are natural or not?”

(To be continued!)

[mich]

Here's one that I haven't seen in this thread. When I acquired this (during one of her convention appearances in the late 90's), it wasn't the first time we met. Not the type to buy/collect one of everything she displayed on the table, I was really there just to see and talk with her, so I tended to be more selective with my purchases, preferring to hear her tell me something about this or that item. From what I recall her telling me, this picture was a promotional still meant for potential investors. It was made in 1986 (B movie, drive-in fare), but she wasn't part of the cast.

When I first picked it up, she said, "That one was taken some time ago. Can you even tell which one is me?" At first I thought that was an odd thing to ask, but she was also in Alexis mode with the blond wig at the time, so I can see how some might not have been able to identify her right away. I did have to look twice, but the resemblance was obvious. It was one of those moments when she felt comfortable talking about a picture. The more nudity, the less talkative. If she did talk while scanning through her naked photos, it wasn't always something you'd necessarily want to hear. For instance, she never liked anything explicit (legs open), and she would often critique the photo editor's choices. She also didn't like a specific series of pictures taken in the early 70's when she wasn't healthy (too skinny).

By then, after meeting a number of times already, she knew I wasn't one of the pinup fans who didn't care if breasts were fake, as long as they were large. That was a big issue for her, and the reason why she unretired in her 40's. Maybe for that reason, she gave my picture an extra bonus - a kiss.

[Martin Solo]

Maybe for all those reasons, she gave my picture an extra bonus - a kiss.

You lucky, lucky b.....!  

I would have financed and made that movie but would have insisted she was playing a major part in it.  

[Martin Solo]

That film would of course be renamed into "Vampire Bunnies". 

[tdotter]

Thanks for your pictures of Joyce and your stories on meeting her,mich.

[Rentahero]

From 2 different years at the L.A. Glamourcon convention. The top was in '97, the bottom a year (possibly 2) later.  In the top one I was adjusting the focus while she held a pose facing me, then she looked down before I could take the picture, so I said the camera wasn't ready. She just smiled and said, "You gotta be ready." That's when I snapped the picture. The one without the wig was a fun visit. I heard her berate a young guy for walking up to her out of the blue and asking about her bra size. It was actually funny. She said something along the lines of, "Do you normally walk up to a woman you don't know and ask about her bra size? Learn some manners young man." He and his friend left and I heard him say, "I just wanted to know her bra size. What did I do wrong?"

Do you have a higher resolution version of either of these photos?

[Millmonster]

In Search of the Perfect Breast: The Battle Over Implants

By Steve Sullivan

(Part 2)

Alexis Love: The War Against False Assumptions

When Joyce Gibson first exploded upon the glamour scene at age 18 in 1969, silicone (for all its publicity) was still a relative novelty. Like three of the era’s other voluptuous pin-up legends – June Wilkinson, Cynthia Myers, and Michelle Angelo – her bountiful bosom was seen as a wonder of nature. Together with her smoldering, exotic brunette beauty and an erotic aura matched by few models in history, her extraordinary figure helped make Joyce one of America’s most widely-published nude models during the next few years.

But the glamour world into which Joyce re-entered in 1993 under the new, blonde identity of Alexis Love was an utterly transformed landscape. Where a quarter-century earlier only a few glamour stars were known to be augmented, in 1993 Alexis was one of the very few all-natural models to appear in Score and other big-bust magazines. And whereas few models could rival her mammary endowments during her “first life” as a pin-up star, that is no longer the case in a time with the gargantuan-gazongaed ‘90s likes of Tiffany Towers and Crystal Storm.

(When I suggested in good humor that Joyce looked small compared to these women, she was quick to retort, “Actually, I don’t think that’s true. Even though Tiffany Towers’ are fake, her bust size is about the same as mine”)

Indeed, these dual facts were the reasons she got back into the modeling business after more than a dozen years in private life. When I first interviewed her in 1995, Joyce told me about her boyfriend “teasing me about how many other women were in these magazines with breasts as big, or bigger, than mine. We noticed all the 20-year-olds with enormous breast implants, and here I was with natural-shaped breasts.” And so she returned to nude modeling under a new identity “to make a statement that women, even at a certain age, can still look great and without breast implants.”

Our first article on Joyce produced an enthusiastic response from her many fans, but also generated some questions. Come on, some smirked, you don’t actually believe her breasts are real, do you? One fan even sent me side-by-side photocopies of shots comparing the Joyce of 1969-71 – spectacularly endowed, although not enormous by today’s standards – with a ‘90s Alexis photo in which her breasts seemed considerably more imposing. I could only reply that she seemed totally sincere and honest, but inwardly I confess that I had my doubts. The passing years and a few extra pounds (the young Joyce was startlingly slender-waisted) could account for some increase in breast size, but as for the rest … who knows? I shrugged it off without much further thought as one of life’s little mysteries that would never be convincingly resolved.