I have a love-hate relationship with the men’s adventure magazine WILDCAT ADVENTURES. I love many of the gonzo stories you’ll find in it, like “DEATH ORGY OF THE LEOPARD WOMEN,”…
Category: Basil Gogos
An interview with monster art master Basil Gogos about his men’s adventure magazine artwork…
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…
WILDCAT ADVENTURES premieres with an artistic and literary bang in June 1959…
WILDCAT ADVENTURES was one of several classic men’s adventure magazines published by Robert C. Sproul, through his company Candar Publishing, sometimes misspelled as “Candor” by sources like the 1960 book…
The Florida Pulp AdventureCon, from the perspective of a men’s adventure fan…
When my men’s adventure magazine mentor Rich Oberg and I heard that there would be a bunch of issues from the legendary Napa Collection and some original men’s adventure artwork…
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…
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…
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…
MAN’S ILLUSTRATED exposes “The Instant Thrill Pill.”
In an entry I posted here a while ago, I featured a wild, but apparently true story about a doctor who volunteered to be a guinea pig in some early…