Mike Shayne in men’s adventure magazines – Part 2: 1953 thru 1961….

  When Davis Dresser’s novel, DIVIDEND ON DEATH, was published in 1939 under the pseudonym Brett Halliday, it launched what became a huge multi-decade multimedia empire. It was the first…

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…

Ho! Ho! Ho! Men’s adventure magazines style…

Most of the more than 160 different men’s adventure magazines published from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s never featured holiday-themed covers for Christmas or any other holidays. I guess…

An interview with artist James Bama – Part 3…

Toward the end of Part 2 of my interview with artist James Bama, we discussed one of the classic men’s adventure magazine illustrations he painted that’s featured in the must-have…

Merry Christmas, men’s adventure magazines style!

It’s not too surprising that there aren’t many issues of vintage men’s adventure magazines had Christmas-themed covers. The cover paintings used by most of the 160 or so periodicals in…

Norman Baer: another men’s adventure magazine artist who deserves wider recognition…

Not long ago I did a couple of posts about Peter Poulton, an artist who has been ranked as one the best pulp illustration artists of the 1950s but is…

Classic ARGOSY magazine covers by artist Bob Kuhn…

Unlike mainstream magazines published in the 1950s and 1960s, most men’s adventure magazines did not feature Christmas-themed covers on their December issues. So, alas, there are no covers of MAN’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…

Talking with the American Art Archives team, Thomas and Christiane Clement

I first ran across the American Art Archives website about a year ago, when I was looking for some online information about Robert E. Schulz, one of the many great…

Merry Christmas – Men’s Adventure Magazine Style

The December issues of men’s adventure magazines rarely featured Christmas-themed covers. I suppose it was hard to mix rugged manliness with sentimental seasonal cheer. But there are some that managed…