John, Joe and Jim Manning

My friend at Vintage Muscle Men recently posted the first photo in this series and correctly identified him as John Manning but did not know the name of the photographer.  

I also posted this photo a while back and my guess then was it's from Dave Martin, but I wasn't sure.  So today I went on a search to compare my photos of John Manning when he posed for various photographers on the west coast. 

After hours of research (😉) I think I may have a better idea of who did this one.  As I'll explain in this post I have a hunch this may be from photographer Lyle Frisby.  

The next two photos are John Manning (right) and his younger brother Jim.  (There was a third even younger brother named Joe whom I will reference later in this post.)  Both of these photographs are obviously from the same photographer and I have several confirmations they are from Lyle Frisby.  

I've also previously posted the next two photos of John and attributed them to Bruce of LA.  I have several confirmations that they are actually from Mr. Frisby. 

The next photo is once again John and his brother Jim and I'm going with Lyle Frisby.  I love the tan lines on these guys. 

Now here's a great photo of Jim Manning and I'm tempted to say it's from Frisby.  I can't find any attribute for this one.  I'm also tempted to say Pat Milo, since I know John posed for him and this one has a sort of Milo feel to it.  I will say Jim looks damn good in this photo.  

Here's a photo of Jim that I know is from Bruce of LA.  Jim looks like the cat who ate the canary.  And for you size queens out there (I'm raising my hand) Jim should definitely appeal to many of you.  

I couldn't resist posting the next photo.  It's from Bruce of LA and IMO it has many things going for it.  

Here's one I used as a screensaver for a few months last year.  It's John on the left with brother Jim in a similar position. (I assume they were studying for the LSAT.)  Once again, I'm going with Frisby.  

I remember the first time I saw this one.  I thought, "Well, they may not be twin bros, but they definitely had a remarkable resemblance."

And finally we move on to Joe Manning.  To my knowledge he only posed for AMG and did just four films -- two of them with his brothers.  Here he is with everyone's favorite bad boy, Bob Wilson (right) in the film The Trespasser.  

I would say Joe was the most conventionally handsome of the three bros.  He never did any nude work at AMG, so I can't say he was as blessed as John and Jim.  But, like his older brothers, he sure could pack a posing pouch.