ARGOSY, ADVENTURE & BLUE BOOK: Top pulps that became top men’s adventure magazines

The 2019 PulpFest convention will be held in Pittsburgh from August 15th to 18th. PulpFest is a descendant of the pioneering PulpCon that used to be held in my home…

Mala Mastroberte’s MALALAND MAGAZINES – a unique new book for fans of vintage pulp covers and pinup photos…

Many of the nearly 400 members of the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group associated with this blog are writers, artists or both. Several have new books that I highly recommend…

Lesbians in Men’s Adventure Magazines, Part 1: Objects of Fear, Loathing – and Desire…

American males who read the men’s pulp adventure magazines published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s seem to have had a special fascination with lesbians that editors were happy to…

Men’s adventure magazine covers that stoked “ophidiophobia” (and some ophidiophilia)…

Most species of snakes are harmless. Relatively few people, at least in the United States, ever have personal encounters with snakes that pose a real threat to humans. Nonetheless, many…

Some classic “killer creature” covers on men’s pulp adventure magazines…

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…

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…

From Vic Prezio and James Bama to Walter Popp and Norm Eastman – the missing HORRORHOUND captions, Part 2…

As explained in my previous post, men’s pulp art collector Rich Oberg and I recently put together an article about men’s adventure magazines that was published in the July/August 2011…

Surfing for Mort Kunstler illustration art…

If you’re a reader of this blog, you probably know that Mort Kunstler is one of the greatest of the many great artists who provided cover paintings and interior illustrations…

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…

“Fidel Castro’s Sex Secret” – from a 1965 issue of Adventure magazine

It’s often hard to sort out the truly true stories from the phony ones in men’s adventure magazines. The authors and editors of men’s adventure mag stories were masters of…

Sheiks, harems and occasional Nazis: The “Arab Peril” subgenre in men’s adventure magazines

Today, fairly or not, many Americans primarily associate the word “Arab” with terrorists and religious extremism. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, we had somewhat different stereotypical mental images of…

Snakes in Men’s Pulp Mags: scarier than Snakes on a Plane

There’s a subgenre of pre-World War II pulp magazines called “weird menace” which features good-looking women and men being menaced (and often tortured) by evil villains and freaks. There’s a…