Talking with Josh Alan Friedman about Mario Puzo, men’s pulp magazines and Marvel Comics

Last week I had a fun conversation with writer and musician Josh Alan Friedman, talking about his father and Magazine Management, the company owned by Martin Goodman that published some…

Cover artist Stanley Borack – from Jivaro headhunters to Jaws

In my previous post, I featured a cool shrunken head cover by the great artist Wally Richards (aka Walter Dubois Richards). The headhunter story Richards’ cover art was done for…

Artist Walter DuBois Richards’ shrunken head masterpiece for Men magazine

  Headhunters and shrunken heads were popular topics in men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. In a recent post, I featured a wild “head on a stick” headhunter…

Dr. David M. Earle on men’s magazines – and “Monkey Madness”

In the weeks since I posted my January interview with Dr. David M. Earle — author the groundbreaking book about Ernest Hemingway and 1950s men’s magazines, titled All Man!— David…

Getting ahead in life with men’s adventure magazines

Yes, I know, given the woman’s head on the stick on the cover of the February 1958 issue of For Men Only magazine (shown at left), the title I used…

Josh Alan Friedman relates his inside knowledge of men’s adventure magazines

I’m a bit envious of Josh Alan Friedman for several reasons. His father was Bruce Jay Friedman, who – prior to becoming a world famous novelist, screenwriter and playwright –…

Psycho killer cannibal Albert Fish vs. killer fish. Which is scarier?

Challenge for Men was a classic men’s adventure magazine published from 1955 to 1959 by Almat Publishing (part of the Pyramid book and magazine publishing group). Most issues of Challenge…

Harlan Ellison’s “lost” men’s adventure magazine stories

Harlan Ellison is most often associated with science fiction. That’s understandable, of course. He is the author of some of the greatest science fiction stories ever written, like “‘Repent, Harlequin!’…