“All Man” magazine – and the new “All Man: Hemingway” book by David M. Earle

In my previous post, I showed some of over-the-top male prisoner of war torture covers from issues of All Man magazine. The covers on All Man weren’t always as quite…

“The Hippies Raped Him And Then They Told Him How Much It Was Going to Cost!”

Say what? Yep, I said – “The Hippies Raped Him And Then They Told Him How Much It Was Going to Cost!” That’s an actual headline from a men’s adventure…

It would be a great George Romero zombie movie…

In addition to being a big fan of men’s adventure magazines, I am also a big fan of zombie movies. So, when I saw the July 1962 issue of MAN’S…

Love Slave of a Red-Hot Blonde Sorceress

Back in the 1950s, most hunters read mainstream fare like OUTDOOR LIFE and SPORTS AFIELD. But for brief period, men who liked hunting magazines that were a bit spicier could…

What’s up with that bondage and torture cover art?

The men’s postwar adventure magazines didn’t invent bondage and torture cover art. It was already common in the pre-WWII pulp magazines. During 1930s and early ‘40s, there was an entire…

Harlots, Nazis and killer fish!

Men Today was one of the spicier men’s adventure magazines. It is probably most famous – and infamous – for its gonzo Nazi bondage and torture covers, many of which…

“Nothing cheap or sordid.”

Sure, many of the covers, articles and headlines from the men’s adventure pulp magazines were bizarre, lurid and un-PC. That’s part of the fun of viewing, reading and collecting them…

“The Greatest Generation” liked Nazi bondage art

Some men’s adventure magazines of the ’50s and ’60s were mainstream and mild, like Argosy and True. The entry for Argosy in the 1957 edition of Writer’s Market said it…