EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION . . . Recently, my friend writer, editor and podcaster Paul Bishop asked if I had a copy of ARGOSY, July 1956. If so, he asked, could I…
Category: Argosy
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…
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…
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…