Drummer No 025 December 1978 cover

Shot by Sparrow-Fritscher, Cover Photo and Contents Page Photo, both of model Mike Glassman aka “Ed Dinakos.” This was Mike Glassman’s first cover, shot immediately upon his arrival in San Francisco from New York, prior to Mike’s steroid-pumped hustling career in Los Angeles, and prior to his stardom as the Colt Studio print model renamed “Ed Dinakos,” whose best film (13 years after he was shot by Sparrow-Fritscher) was also Colt’s best film, 1991’s *Muscle Ranch*, with Mike’s then-partner Jake Tanner. According to sources within AIDS mythology, Mike Glassman died a year or so after the release of *Muscle Ranch*.

*Drummer* #25 includes a centerspread on Big Mike of 7 photographs on 4 pages with a 4-page-size poster on the reverse of the fold-out. Other Sparrow-Fritscher photographs (27 photos, 6 pages) comprise the photo cartoon “The Day They Installed the Phone in the Dungeon,” with dialog balloons written by *Drummer* publisher John Embry; also includes product photography (20 photos, 5 pages) for “*Drummer* Gift Guide” with text by Jack Fritscher. A single Fritscher photograph, “Cowboy in Bondage,” appears on page 32. Two other David Sparrow photographs appear on page 68 with Target Studio photos shot by Lou Thomas.

Editor of issue for *Drummer* #25: Jack Fritscher.