“Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos”

When I bought the August 1954 issue of Male magazine shown at left, with the superb cover painting of a rhino attack by artist Robert G. Doares, it reminded me…

Connecting the dots between horror films and men’s pulp magazines (Boris Karloff Blogathon)

On this blog, I regularly feature some of the great cover paintings and interior art from men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. I’m a big fan…

“Lizards from Hell”, killer crabs, Harlan Ellison and more…

There’s no official artist credit given for the incredible killer lizard painting on the cover of True Men Stories, Vol. 1, No. 3, February 1957. But if you’re a fan…

“All Man” magazine – and the new “All Man: Hemingway” book by David M. Earle

In my previous post, I showed some of over-the-top male prisoner of war torture covers from issues of All Man magazine. The covers on All Man weren’t always as quite…

About those male prisoner of war torture covers on men’s adventure magazines…

Let me start with some clear disclaimers… I am a NOT a “fan” of Nazis. I do NOT “enjoy” Nazi torture and bondage art. I also fully realize why the…

“Fidel Castro’s Sex Secret” – from a 1965 issue of Adventure magazine

It’s often hard to sort out the truly true stories from the phony ones in men’s adventure magazines. The authors and editors of men’s adventure mag stories were masters of…

Wildcat Adventures, Part II – William Burroughs, weird menace, wild women

My previous entry here provided a look at a classic issue of the men’s adventure magazine Wildcat Adventures from 1960, the second year of the magazine’s run. Wildcat Adventures was…

Sheiks, harems and occasional Nazis: The “Arab Peril” subgenre in men’s adventure magazines

Today, fairly or not, many Americans primarily associate the word “Arab” with terrorists and religious extremism. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, we had somewhat different stereotypical mental images of…

When Famous Artists Rubbed Shoulders with Homicidal Nymphos

In my previous entry here, I showed cover scans from the five known issues of the men’s adventure magazine A-OK for Men, a hard-to-find men’s pulp mag published by Jalart…