Earl Norem artwork in our HE-MEN, BAG MEN & NYMPHOS story anthology…

I’ve been sidetracked lately, working with my publishing partner Wyatt Doyle to put together two new books in our Men’s Adventure Library series, which currently includes WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH!,…

Art by Earl Norem does double duty, for a “Spider Tribe” and a “Scorpion Cult”…

My previous post here took a closer look at Earl Norem’s amazing interior illustrations for the “Book Bonus” version of Mario Puzo’s novel THE GODFATHER in the August 1969 issue…

Earl Norem and Mort Kunstler artwork for THE GODFATHER…

In my previous post here, I featured some of the original artwork by Earl Norem that’s owned by members of our Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group. We’ve been posting a…

Earl Norem is gone, but his men’s adventure and comics artwork is immortal…

Three of the top illustration artists whose work appeared in many men’s adventure magazines have died in recent months. One was Wilbur “Wil” Hulsey, the man who created the iconic…

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…

NEW! The full color, deluxe hardcover edition of the classic HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS collection

“Walter Kaylin, come back!”
     – Mario Puzo, author of THE GODFATHER

“Outrageous and wonderful.”
     – Bruce Jay Friedman (STERN, LUCKY BRUCE, SHAMPOO), Kaylin’s editor at MEN and MALE

HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS collects some of the best men’s adventure magazine stories written by Walter Kaylin (1921-2017), one of the greatest writers who worked for the MAM genre in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In 2014, men’s pulp culture historian Robert Deis and indie publisher Wyatt Doyle worked with Walter to publish a limited run of a black-and-white paperback edition of his classic stories. Now Deis and Doyle have published a new full-color, expanded edition of the Kaylin collection in paperback and deluxe hardcover editions. This listing is for the deluxe hardcover edition.

Under his own name and the pseudonyms Roland Empey and David Mars, Walter Kaylin wrote everything from war stories, exotic adventure yarns, and Westerns to Cold War spy stories, science fiction and sexed-up noir. Most of his stories appeared in the MAMs published by Martin Goodman’s Magazine Management company (birthplace of Marvel Comics), such as ACTION FOR MEN, FOR MEN ONLY, MEN, MALE, MAN’S WORLD and STAG.

In addition to collecting some of Walter’s best stories, HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS includes special introductions by Deis, Doyle, and Walter’s daughters, Jennifer Kaylin and Lucy Kaylin, who became successful writers in their own right.

It also includes Walter’s own reminiscence about his days as a men’s adventure story writer and an exclusive article about him written by novelist, playwright and screenwriter Bruce Jay Friedman (1939-2020). Friedman was an editor for Magazine Management before becoming famous. He hired Walter and another then unknown writer, Mario Puzo, to pen action/adventure yarns for the magazines he edited. Both Friedman and Puzo, who later became famous for his novel THE GODFATHER, considered Kaylin to be one of the best of the many writers who wrote stories for MAMs.

In 1987, when writer/musician Josh Alan Friedman (Bruce Jay’s son) interviewed Puzo about his days working for the Goodman MAMs, Puzo singled out Kaylin for praise. “He was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off,” Puzo exclaimed. “Walter Kaylin, come back!”

Now, Walter is back in a way that’s bigger and better than ever, in the new, expanded full color edition of HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS. It’s available in both a high quality 6″ x 9″ paperback and a special 330-page, 6 ½” x 9½” deluxe hardcover with a wraparound dust jacket.

Both editions have additional content not included in the now out-of-print 2014 paperback. Both feature full color reproductions of the covers and interior illustrations from the magazines Walter’s stories first appeared in—painted by top pulp adventure artists like Mort Künstler, Earl Norem, James Bama, Gil Cohen, Robert E. Schulz and Samson Pollen.

This listing is for the deluxe hardcover version of the new HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS collection. The full color paperback edition is available in a separate listing in this bookstore.

You can see an extensive flip-page preview of E-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS by clicking this link. You can see an extensive video preview of HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS by clicking the image below.

NEW! The full color paperback edition of the classic HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS collection

“Walter Kaylin, come back!”
     – Mario Puzo, author of THE GODFATHER

“Outrageous and wonderful.”
     – Bruce Jay Friedman (STERN, LUCKY BRUCE, SHAMPOO), Kaylin’s editor at MEN and MALE

HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS collects some of the best men’s adventure magazine stories written by Walter Kaylin (1921-2017), one of the greatest writers who worked for the MAM genre in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In 2014, men’s pulp culture historian Robert Deis and indie publisher Wyatt Doyle worked with Walter to publish a limited run of a black-and-white paperback edition of his classic stories. Now Deis and Doyle have published a new full-color, expanded edition of the Kaylin collection in paperback and deluxe hardcover editions. This listing is for the deluxe hardcover edition.

Under his own name and the pseudonyms Roland Empey and David Mars, Walter Kaylin wrote everything from war stories, exotic adventure yarns, and Westerns to Cold War spy stories, science fiction and sexed-up noir. Most of his stories appeared in the MAMs published by Martin Goodman’s Magazine Management company (birthplace of Marvel Comics), such as ACTION FOR MEN, FOR MEN ONLY, MEN, MALE, MAN’S WORLD and STAG.

In addition to collecting some of Walter’s best stories, HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS includes special introductions by Deis, Doyle, and Walter’s daughters, Jennifer Kaylin and Lucy Kaylin, who became successful writers in their own right.

It also includes Walter’s own reminiscence about his days as a men’s adventure story writer and an exclusive article about him written by novelist, playwright and screenwriter Bruce Jay Friedman (1939-2020). Friedman was an editor for Magazine Management before becoming famous. He hired Walter and another then unknown writer, Mario Puzo, to pen action/adventure yarns for the magazines he edited. Both Friedman and Puzo, who later became famous for his novel THE GODFATHER, considered Kaylin to be one of the best of the many writers who wrote stories for MAMs.

In 1987, when writer/musician Josh Alan Friedman (Bruce Jay’s son) interviewed Puzo about his days working for the Goodman MAMs, Puzo singled out Kaylin for praise. “He was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off,” Puzo exclaimed. “Walter Kaylin, come back!”

Now, Walter is back in a way that’s bigger and better than ever, in the new, expanded full color edition of HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS. It’s available in both a high quality 6″ x 9″ paperback and a special 330-page, 6 ½” x 9½” deluxe hardcover with a wraparound dust jacket.

Both editions have additional content not included in the now out-of-print 2014 paperback. Both feature full color reproductions of the covers and interior illustrations from the magazines Walter’s stories first appeared in—painted by top pulp adventure artists like Mort Künstler, Earl Norem, James Bama, Gil Cohen, Robert E. Schulz and Samson Pollen.

This listing is for the paperback version of the new HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS collection. The deluxe hardcover edition is available in a separate listing in this bookstore.

You can see an extensive flip-page preview of E-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS by clicking this link. You can see an extensive video preview of HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS by clicking the image below.

Out now! HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS — the new, full color, expanded edition

In 2013, when I decided I wanted to publish books reprinting stories from men’s adventure magazines published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, I reached out to two fellow MAM…

MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #11, the UFO issue – Preview Part 2…

My previous post was Part 1 of a preview of issue #11 of the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY, the magazine I co-edit with Bill Cunningham of Pulp 2.0 Press, who also…

MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #10, the Vietnam War issue – Preview Part 2

My previous post on this blog provided a preview of the first half of Issue #10 of the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY, the magazine I co-edit with book designer and head…

MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #10, the Vietnam War issue – Preview Part 1

Issue #10 of the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY, the magazine I co-edit with book designer Bill Cunningham (who is also my co-editor on THE ART OF RON LESSER series), was released…

The MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #6 – Part 3 of an in-depth preview…

This is my third post in a 3-part preview of the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #6, our “Heists Issue.” (If you missed the previous posts, here are links to Part 1…