Recently, I read and enjoyed THE MIKE SHAYNE PRIVATE EYE COMIC COLLECTION. That book is a new release from Pulp 2.0 Press, an indie imprint founded by the self-described “Mad…
Category: Bluebook magazine
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…
Leopard Men Ripped Their Flesh! (Updated)
“Leopard Men” — vicious killers wearing leopard skins and gloves fitted with metal claws — have been featured in stories, books and movies since the 1930s. Their first big splash…
Robert F. Dorr takes us “BEHIND THE SCENES OF BUDAPEST’S SEX REVOLT”
EDITOR’S NOTE: I first met author Robert F. Dorr, via email, in 2009. Between then and his death on June 12, 2016 I talked to him many times by phone…
More wild men’s pulp magazine stories about Leopard Men and Leopard Women…
As I noted in a previous post, there really were “Leopard Men” in Africa. They were members of a secretive religious cult called The Leopard Society. They actually did wear…
An interview with Luis Ortiz, co-editor of CULT MAGAZINES: A to Z
A while ago, I posted a brief review of the recently-published book CULT MAGAZINES: A to Z. Simply put, I love this wide-ranging, lavishly-illustrated book. In fact, I consider it…
CULT MAGAZINES: A to Z – a highly recommended new book…
Although I focus on men’s adventure magazines on this blog, I also enjoy reading — and reading about — vintage magazines from many other genres. I have been a huge…
“SQUIRM IN HELL, MY LOVELY MUCHACHA!” – Evil Cuban Commies, Part Two
The post-WWII men’s adventure magazines had a love-turned-to-hate relationship with Cuba. In the 1950s, when Cuba was run by dictator Fulgencio Batista, with a little help from his friends in…
When cocaine grew on trees (in men’s pulp magazines)…
By the early ‘70s, the men’s adventure magazine genre was dying out, largely due to competition from more sexually explicit men’s magazines. “The market slid ever crotchward,” as Josh Alan…
An interview with David M. Earle, author of the new book All Man! Hemingway…
All Man!, by Dr. David M. Earle, is a fascinating new book that provides a unique perspective on men’s adventure magazines. It traces the evolution of Ernest Hemingway’s giant-size public…
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…