Inside MAN’S EXPLOITS: Vampire Vamps, Bill Ward “Good Girl Art” cartoons, and more…

Man’s Exploits was one of the men’s adventure magazines that earned the genre the nickname “men’s sweats.” The “sweats” subset of men’s adventure mags tended to be very cheaply produced,…

Man’s Exploits magazine gives us an imaginary look at, um, extreme bullfighting…

Last week, vintage men’s magazine expert Dr. David M. Earle posted a series of classic bullfight covers and interior illustrations on his men’s mag Facebook site. Dr. Earle teaches courses…

Real War magazine launches men’s pulp mags into space

Occasionally, some of the men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s and 1960s would put out special issues that had a theme. For example, a while ago, I posted an entry…

“I FOUGHT CASTRO’S CUTTHROAT GUERRILLA SQUAD” – Evil Cuban Commies, Part 3

Since I started this blog last year, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing three notable authors who once wrote stories for men’s adventure magazines: Harlan Ellison, Walter Kaylin and Robert…

“SQUIRM IN HELL, MY LOVELY MUCHACHA!” – Evil Cuban Commies, Part Two

The post-WWII men’s adventure magazines had a love-turned-to-hate relationship with Cuba. In the 1950s, when Cuba was run by dictator Fulgencio Batista, with a little help from his friends in…

Men’s pulp magazines take on Fidel Castro and his evil Cuban Commie comrades

Recently, I finally got around to watching director Steven Soderbergh’s controversial movie Che, starring Benicio del Toro. I think it’s an interesting movie that’s worth seeing, though I can understand…