The very politically incorrect tale of “Ann Dawes: Love Queen of the Pygmies”

Men’s adventure magazines did not create the subgenres of stories about “white queens” and “white kings” who rule some benighted group of “natives” in a jungle, on an island, or…

An interview with David M. Earle, author of the new book All Man! Hemingway…

All Man!, by Dr. David M. Earle, is a fascinating new book that provides a unique perspective on men’s adventure magazines. It traces the evolution of Ernest Hemingway’s giant-size public…

Man vs. Octopus – “Cephalopods Ripped my Flesh!”

I know that an octopus is a generally shy creature that is very unlikely to attack a human. But when I was a kid in the 1950s, some of my…

A look at some of the notable writers published in men’s adventure magazines

In addition to having great painted covers and interior artwork by some of the top illustrators of the era, the best men’s adventure magazines had articles and stories by many…

An exclusive Men’s Adventure Magazines Blog reprint – Robert F. Dorr’s classic WWII story “Yank Ace Who Saved the Anzio Invasion.”

The best men’s adventure magazines not only used illustrations by great artists, they also published stories and articles written by some excellent writers. Consider, the December 1967 issue of Man’s…

Artist Tom Beecham: from “wild men” cover art for men’s adventure magazines to wildlife art for Remington

My previous post showed the amazing covers that artist Thomas Beecham painted for True Strange, an unusual supernatural-flavored men’s adventure magazine published by Weider Periodicals Inc in the late 1950s.…

True Weird and True Strange – men’s adventure magazines meet the Weekly World News

True Weird and True Strange were unusual, short-lived magazines that were like a cross between a men’s pulp mag and the Weekly World News (the wonderfully wacky supermarket tabloid that…