"Love is a Drag," a 1962 LP of love songs by men, for men, was a mystery wrapped in an enigma for over 50 years. Now we know the back story.

Graphic novels have come into their own only in recent times, shedding their association with comic books and superheroes and gaining literary respectability.

This two-volume boxed set from Taschen weighs in at 10 pounds, with a staggering 1,000 pages of lustrously printed reproductions of Bob Mizer's classic physique photographs. Over 2,000 of them.