Esquire, Volume LXIX, No. 4

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One (1) copy of the April 1968 issue of Esquire magazine featuring Muhammad Ali on the cover. The cover is fully white, with the Esquire masthead at the top in black and a color photograph of Ali at center, standing shirtless in white boxing shorts and shoes. He has been shot with six arrows. Five pierce his chest while the sixth arrow punctures the upper thigh of his proper right leg, each creating a bloody wound. His hands are behind his back and his head is thrown back so that he looks up and slightly to his proper right. In small black text near his proper left shoe is [The Passion of Muhammad Ali], the title of the feature article written by Leonard Shecter found on page 128.

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