Artist Basil Gogos is the most widely-known and revered painter of movie monster paintings in the world. His reputation as the King of Monster Art was first established in the…
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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…
Classic evil Nazi covers by Basil Gogos, Norm Eastman and Norman Saunders (Part 3 of the “missing” HORRORHOUND captions)
A while ago, I started a series of posts about the article that men’s pulp art and magazine collector Rich Oberg and I put together for HORRORHOUND magazine, published in…
Basil Gogos paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection…
Recently, men’s pulp art collector Rich Oberg and I were asked to put together an article about men’s adventure magazines for HorrorHound, a nicely-produced periodical about films, TV shows, books,…
More “Good Girl Art” by Basil Gogos
Today’s post features more vintage “Good Girl Art” by the great illustrator Basil Gogos. But first a little history about that term… From the 1930s to the early 1950s, before…
Some wild Basil Gogos paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection…
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that Rich Oberg is the world’s foremost expert on and collector of men’s adventure magazine art. It’s the Rich…
Basil Gogos “Good Girl Art” – and a shout out to artist and author Kerry Gammill
Recently, I was pleased to see that artist and author Kerry Gammill dropped by the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook group. Kerry is a multi-talented Texan who has provided artwork for…
Monster Master Basil Gogos Does Men’s Adventure
Artist Basil Gogos has been called “a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell.” He’s best known for the legendary monster paintings he did for horror magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland, created by…
ATOMIC WEREWOLVES AND MAN-EATING PLANTS: A preview, Part 2…
In my previous post on this blog, I provided a look at eleven of the stories in new book ATOMIC WEREWOLVES AND MAN-EATING PLANTS: WHEN MEN’S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES GOT WEIRD,…
Hardcover Edition: ATOMIC WEREWOLVES AND MAN-EATING PLANTS
The latest book in in Men’s Adventure Library series is ATOMIC WEREWOLVES AND MAN-EATING PLANTS: WHEN MEN’S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES GOT WEIRD, now available in paperback and a deluxe hardcover edition in Amazon in the US (amzn.to/3sx1k4m ) and worldwide. It’s a unique, lushly illustrated collection of vintage men’s adventure magazine stories featuring monsters, ghosts, aliens, robots, a legendary Key West weirdo, and more, written by “weird tales” luminaries such as H.P. Lovecraft, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon, and Gardner Fox. Featured artists include FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine legend Basil Gogos, EC/MAD magazine artist Jack Davis, and many other great artists who did cover and interior artwork for MAMS. The cover of the men’s adventure magazine each story appeared in is reproduced in full color, along with the original interior illustrations. Background on the stories, writers and artists is provided in commentary by well-known horror expert Stefan Dziemianowicz, PulpFest Convention organizer and pulp mag expert Mike Chomko, and Men’s Adventure Library co-editors Wyatt Doyle and Bob Deis. The book is also available in a paperback edition in a separate listing here and on Amazon worldwide.
Paperback Edition: ATOMIC WEREWOLVES AND MAN-EATING PLANTS
The latest book in in Men’s Adventure Library series is ATOMIC WEREWOLVES AND MAN-EATING PLANTS: WHEN MEN’S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES GOT WEIRD, now available in paperback and a deluxe hardcover edition in Amazon in the US (amzn.to/3sx1k4m ) and worldwide. It’s a unique, lushly illustrated collection of vintage men’s adventure magazine stories featuring monsters, ghosts, aliens, robots, a legendary Key West weirdo, and more, written by “weird tales” luminaries such as H.P. Lovecraft, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon, and Gardner Fox. Featured artists include FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine legend Basil Gogos, EC/MAD magazine artist Jack Davis, and many other great artists who did cover and interior artwork for MAMS. The cover of the men’s adventure magazine each story appeared in is reproduced in full color, along with the original interior illustrations. Background on the stories, writers and artists is provided in commentary by well-known horror expert Stefan Dziemianowicz, PulpFest Convention organizer and pulp mag expert Mike Chomko, and Men’s Adventure Library co-editors Wyatt Doyle and Bob Deis. The book is also available in a paperback edition in a separate listing here and on Amazon worldwide.
About our book POLLEN IN PRINT: 1955-1959
Artist Samson Pollen created hundreds of classic illustrations for the men’s adventure magazines (MAMs, for short) published in the 1950s, 1960s and 197os. He was one of the top illustrators who…