Mayfair (magazine) Mayfair (magazine) Mayfair is a British adult magazine for men. Founded in 1965, it was designed as a response to US magazines such as "Playboy" and "Penthouse", which had recently launched in the UK. For many years, it claimed the largest distribution of any men's magazine in the UK. It is a softcore magazine, thus is available in newsagents, although some larger retailers require a modesty bag to hide the cover. "Mayfair" was launched by Fisk Publishing Ltd in 1965 with an August cover date. The company was controlled by Brian Fisk. Its first editor was David Campbell, and its
The Young Men's Magazine to their paracosmic fantasy world in the 1820s, and in December 1827 produced a novel, "Glass Town". In January 1829 Branwell started publishing a monthly miscellany involving events and characters from that world, "Branwell's Blackwood's Magazine", the title taken from the well-known magazine "Blackwood's Magazine", and its content inspired by "Blackwoods" and "Fraser's Magazine". Branwell published it for six months. Its name changed to "Blackwood's Young Men's Magazine" when Charlotte took it over in 1829; six volumes were published over the next six months. She resurrected it in August 1830 as "The Young Men's Magazine". The Young Men were characters