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

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.