History Main / FanserviceCover

** The 50th Anniversary issue featured '''two''' covers - the main one had Nina Agdal, Lily Aldridge and Chrissy Teigen; flip it over and say hello to Kate Upton (for her third cover in a row, technically) as a big service to ''her'' fans.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' pulls this on the DVD menu, with a [[http://horror-music.narod.ru/Buffy1_meny1.jpg seductive and dangerous]] looking Creator/SarahMichelleGellar crawling towards the viewer.

* The Play Magazine Muramasa: Demon Blade cover. While the cover does show a scene that can happen (the octopus is a bonus boss), your character will not get their clothes torn off and nearly raped like this cover would have you believe.

* Even ''Time'' and ''Newsweek'' do this from time to time. Once in a while, they'll do a cover story on women's health, a recent sex study, even the influence of pornography, and they'll feature a [[ToplessnessFromTheBack nude woman with her back to the camera]].
** ''Time'' had an issue on childbirth in 2010. What better to represent an article called "How the first nine months shape the rest of your life" than a totally nude pregnant model covered only by her hands and strategically placed shadows?
* ''Newsweek'' did have an article on health with a gymnast in a tank top and biker shorts posing on the cover.
* Another ''Newsweek'' example: they got into a flap with Sarah Palin by putting a photo of her in track shorts on their cover.

** Readers of SFX have complained about this for years; the bottom of the F tends to get covered a lot. When the American Film/{{Godzilla 1998}} movie came out, they put the magazine in a black wrapper and had the subtitle "Bigger is better".

* The old UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum magazine ''Your Sinclair'' got into trouble for [[http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/ys29.htm doing this in 1988]]. Well, if the featured game is ''Vixen'' (it was crap), why not slap a PageThreeStunna with a leopard-print bikini and a whip on the front cover. They followed it sometime later with Creator/DolphLundgren as He-Man just as scantily clad, to which they got near zero complaints. [=WHSmith=] still put both of them on the top shelf because of their covers, though. The magazine writers called people out on this hypocrisy and then stopped printing complaints about the Vixen cover.

A SubTrope of SexyPackaging. Compare ContemptibleCover.

* Some of the covers for the ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty'' manga feature Birdy in various states of undress. The original manga's cover featured a waist-up shot of Birdy, showing ToplessFromTheBack and sideboob as she's flexing her arm.

* Some of the covers for the ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty'' manga feature Birdy is various states of undress. The original manga's cover featured a waist-up shot of Birdy, showing ToplessFromTheBack and sideboob as she's flexing her arm.

* Some of the covers for the ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty'' manga feature Birdy is various states of undress. The original manga's cover featured a waist-up shot of Birdy, showing ToplessFromTheBack and sideboob as she's flexing.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' often has racy illustrations on title pages, often in otherwise tame chapters. For instance, the cover of chapter 29 has Matsuri holding a guitar [[HandOrObjectUnderwear while fully naked]].

A SubTrope of SexyPackaging.

* ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' usually averted this even when putting women in fantasy outfits on the cover, but one infamous April issue from the mid 00s was done by Creator/PhilFolio and had [[ComicStrip/WhatsUpWithPhilAndDixie Dixie]] in her [[EvilIsSexy evil phase]] with her back to the cover and an outfit that really didn't cover her lower half. It was actually so fanservicy that that particular issue was sold in brown plastic bags.

* ''Men's Health'' is a magazine about male fitness, so they usually have, well, a [[ShirtlessScene healthy-looking man]] on the cover. As expected, ''Women's Health'' does the same thing, except [[CaptainObvious with a woman]].

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* Even ''Time'' and ''Newsweek'' do this from time to time. Once in a while, they'll do a cover story on women's health, a recent sex study, even the influence of pornography, and they'll feature a [[SexyBack nude woman with her back to the camera]].

* The first issue of the Franchise/NationalLampoon magazine had a randy-looking young woman in a revealing costume on the cover, labeled "Sexy Cover Issue".

* The album cover of ''Music/ElectricLadyland'' by Music/JimiHendrix features a lot of naked women. This was done without his permission, by the way, and the American edition just replaced it with a cover of his own face, again without consulting him.

* ''Heavy Metal'' magazine, which features fantasy and science fiction comics, used various cover subjects in its early years. But it found that issues with pin-up covers sold better and gradually all of its cover subjects became scantily attired women.
** It helps that the magazine's founder and [=EIC=] is married to B-movie maven [[MsFanservice Julie Strain]], as 90% of most of these covers seem to be modeled after her.

* The first issue of the NationalLampoon magazine had a randy-looking young woman in a revealing costume on the cover, labeled "Sexy Cover Issue".

* Actually invoked deliberately by HideoKojima when he marketed the original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. Yoji Shinkawa was contacted to draw magazine covers for game mags promoting the game, and Kojima reportedly asked him to make sure that most, if not all, of the art had at least one sexy woman in it. Shinkawa notoriously dislikes drawing women, and did [[http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-02/mgs-misc10.html an artwork made up entirely of the game's sexy women]] to satisfy Kojima, probably as reductio ad absurdium. The art campaign was even nicknamed 'Lover's Rock' by the staff, presumably after the song by The Clash about meaningless sex for the man's pleasure as opposed to genuine romance (which the game was actually about).

* The picture is from the Holiday 2001 issue of "Playstation Magazine" (not to be confused with "Official Playstation Magazine"), which has Keira in ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy'' in a [[BareYourMidriff really]] [[CleavageWindow skimpy]] SexySantaDress (this was before [[HarsherInHindsight a later game revealed that she was fourteen at this time]]).

* [[http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/08/playcover.jpg The Play Magazine Muramasa: Demon Blade cover]] (safe for work, as it doesn't show any true nudity). While the cover does show a scene that can happen (the octopus is a bonus boss), your character will not get their clothes torn off and nearly raped like this cover would have you believe.