Tom of Finland, Kake: Loading Zone, Vol. 17, 1975, VG+ SC, gay interest

Tom of Finland. Los Angeles: Tom of Finland, 1975.  English, Very Good+, SC, 8vo, 10 7/8" x 7 3/8", 31 pp. Very Good+ yellow pictorial staplebound. Small bend near head, light shelf wear, minor soiling to pg.28 and blue ink fingerprint to pg.29, else attractive. 31 pp. Volume 17 of the 26-issue comic series Kake, which ran from 1968 to 1986 and was named after the main character, a hypermasculine, leather-wearing gay man who has steamy sexual encounters in a variety of scenarios and locations. Illustrated and published by an icon within the realm of homoerotic illustration, Finnish artist, Touko Valio Laaksonen (Tom of Finland). Scarce in the trade.