Category: Ben Weider

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In search of the mysterious pulp illustration artist Peter Poulton…

12 years ago
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Recently, while putting away some old magazines I bought on eBay, I focused on one that sent me on a quest that lasted for several weeks — and is still…

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Back to the atomic future with Joe and Ben Weider’s MR. AMERICA magazine…

13 years ago
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In the 1950s, when atomic bombs and nuclear power were relatively new, views about the atom were even more schizoid than they are today. On one hand, there was constant…

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Getting manly and “Living the Gay Life” with AMERICAN MANHOOD magazine

14 years ago
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American Manhood was an interestingly schizophrenic and unique men’s pulp magazine. It combined elements of a bodybuilder magazine, a men’s adventure mag and a gay-oriented male pin-up mag. As I…

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American Manhood magazine didn’t ask and didn’t tell – and Joe Weider didn’t care…

14 years ago
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I am a big fan of the bodybuilding and fitness guru Joe Weider. But not because I’m into bodybuilding (or fitness, as my wife frequently reminds me). I became a…