Talking with writer Paul Bishop about BARBARIANS ON BIKES…

EDITOR’S NOTE: When Wyatt Doyle and I got the idea for an art book featuring bikers and motorcycle gangs, we ran it by our friend Paul Bishop. In addition to…

“YANK ACE WHO BATTLED THE JAPS OVER PEARL HARBOR.”

Every year on the anniversary of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, I think about my favorite men’s adventure magazine story about that fateful event: “YANK ACE WHO…

The Eva Lynd 2017 Pinup Calendar – and some key facts about Eva…

One of the nicest things that has happened to me as a result of writing this blog about vintage men’s pulp adventure magazines was getting an email from model and…

BARBARIANS ON BIKES: BIKERS & MOTORCYCLE GANGS IN MEN’S PULP ADVENTURE MAGAZINES…

After a 3-month hiatus due to a day job project that kept me way too busy, I’m happy to be able to get back to doing new posts for the…

Robert F. Dorr takes us “BEHIND THE SCENES OF BUDAPEST’S SEX REVOLT”

EDITOR’S NOTE: I first met author Robert F. Dorr, via email, in 2009. Between then and his death on June 12, 2016 I talked to him many times by phone…

“Charge of the Mad Machine Gunner” – one of Robert F. Dorr’s classic war stories…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an updated version of a post I wrote in 2009, shortly after I had my first of many phone calls with writer Robert F. Dorr. In…

The art of torture and execution using honey-crazed hummingbirds, killer anteaters and big ass snakes!

In a previous post here, I showed a set of men’s pulp adventure magazine covers and interior illustrations with scenes depicting the use of various types of animals as instruments…

Farewell to writer Robert F. Dorr…

Robert F. Dorr, the great military aviation historian, journalist and novelist who got his start as an author by writing stories for men’s adventure magazines in the 1960s and 1970s,…

Pulp fiction, pulp art and pop culture treasures from the May 1973 issue of MALE magazine…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Recently, Robert F. Dorr, the great military aviation historian and novelist who started out writing stories for men’s adventure magazines, passed away at age 76. Last year, I…

“Isabelle Eberhardt: The Legion’s Most Wanted Woman”

  Most stories in the classic pulp fiction magazines published from the 1920s to the mid-1950s were just that – fiction – and were identified and promoted as such. The…

Robert F. Dorr talks about his classic war and adventure stories in A HANDFUL OF HELL – PART 2…

My previous post here featured excerpts from the introduction that author Robert F. Dorr wrote for A HANDFUL OF HELL, the fourth book in our Men’s Adventure Library series. HANDFUL…

Robert F. Dorr talks about his classic war and adventure stories in A HANDFUL OF HELL – PART 1…

In November 2009, shortly after I launched this blog about vintage men’s pulp adventure magazines, I received a brief email from author Robert F. Dorr. “I stumbled upon your blog…