{"product_id":"the-little-book-of-tom-bikers-9783836594172","title":"The Little Book of Tom. Bikers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1953 Marlon Brando donned a black leather Perfecto motorcycle jacket, military cap, denim jeans, and engineer boots to portray Johnny, sneering leader of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, in The Wild One. In 1954 \u003cb\u003eTom of Finland\u003c\/b\u003e abandoned brown leather in his artwork to create his own wild ones: \u003cb\u003emuscular, hyper-masculine, black leather-clad rebels\u003c\/b\u003e with powerful engines between their legs. The look was adopted by the Satyrs Motorcycle Club, the first gay outlaw club, that same year, making Tom's fantasy world reality. Of course, being Tom, he soon customized his \u003cb\u003enew gay icons\u003c\/b\u003e, adding leather jodhpurs, knee high boots and leather caps, and every motorcycle bore the brand name \"Tom\" on the gas tank.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tom's bikers first appeared as two \"Motorcycle Boys\" in Physique Pictorial, Winter 1958. Another made the cover of the April 1960 issue. Bikers dominated his PP content from then on, as a nod to its American readership as much as his growing obsession. When he sought an ongoing character, a personal avatar, in 1968, \u003cb\u003ehe created Kake as the ultimate biker leatherman\u003c\/b\u003e, and elaborated on his riding adventures - of every kind - through 26-panel stories. Tom adopted Kake's gear as his own, presenting in black leather jacket, white t-shirt, jeans, and high boots to the end of his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Little Book of Tom: Bikers includes Tom's earliest images for Physique Pictorial, Kake in motorcycle gear, biker panel stories, and sizzling single drawings, all packed into \u003cb\u003e192 pages of sexy, masculine men enjoying other masculine men\u003c\/b\u003e in black leather, blue jeans, and high black boots. On bikes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363124592876,"sku":"9783836594172","price":45.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27929853483553.jpg?v=1772915386","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-little-book-of-tom-bikers-9783836594172","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}