From the early 1950s to the early ‘60s, men’s pulp adventure magazines regularly featured cover paintings showing bloody confrontations between humans and various types of land and sea creatures. I…
Year: 2012
From Mafia hit men and farmers’ daughters to a 70-year-old “love captive.” (MALE magazine, May 1973 – Part 3)
For me, reading old men’s pulp mags is a like visual, literary and sociological treasure hunt. If you’re interested in things like vintage pulp fiction and pulp illustration art, and…
MALE magazine, May 1973 – Part 2: from “Good Girl Art” to bad clothing…
There are cool, interesting or entertainingly wacky things in almost every men’s adventure magazine published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. As mentioned in my last post, the May 1973…
MAN’S DARING: the men’s sweat magazine that exposed Hitler’s baboon tortures – and some legendary glamour girls…
[Post updated with new images, text and links, March 21, 2012.] The terms “sweat magazines,” “men’s sweats” or just “the sweats” are often used to describe vintage men’s adventure magazines.…
Solving men’s pulp mag mysteries in the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group…
If you’ve visited the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group recently, you’ve probably noticed that there has been a steady increase in members, posts and discussions there. My own posts in…
More artwork by Norm Eastman, Basil Gogos, Norman Saunders and Earl Norem (Part 4 of the “missing” HORRORHOUND captions)
It’s only natural that many fans of the vintage men’s adventure magazines are also fans of horror mags, movies and books. So, when I was asked to write an article…
Some rarely seen John Duillo artwork from the Rich Oberg Collection…
A couple of years ago, I created a Men’s Adventure Magazines Group on Facebook to provide a place where other fans of the genre could discuss the magazines, writers and…
BIG ADVENTURE magazine – featuring a Snake-eating Geek, Satanist Love Cults, Donalda Jordan and more…
There were several notable premieres in the realm of mainstream pop culture during the month of September 1960. The musical IRMA LA DOUCE debuted on Broadway. Marilyn Monroe’s movie LET’S…
A tip of the hat to CINEMA RETRO magazine and artists Frank McCarthy and Reynold Brown…
Like many fans of the men’s pulp adventure magazines that were published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, I’m also a fan of the classic action, adventure and science fiction…
Inside MAN’S MAGAZINE, Feb. 1954 – Part 2: Burlesque, bull running, idiotic divorce laws and other cultural traditions…
My last post provided a look at some of the wild stories and photos in the February 1954 issue of MAN’S MAGAZINE, the legendary painting vs. photo issue mentioned in…