AN EXCITING UPDATE ABOUT EVA LYND: I originally uploaded this post in 2012. At the time, I noted that I wasn’t sure if Eva Lynd was still alive. A few…
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MAN’S STORY, August 1968 – Part 1: DEXTER vs. THE NAZIS’ HARNESS OF TERROR
Last night, after watching an episode of the Showtime TV series Dexter, I went to bed and read the August 1968 issue of Man’s Story magazine (Vol. 9, No. 4).…
“Lustful Bushwhackers,” a “Heroic Orgy” and Lili St. Cyr’s answer to the question “Are Strippers Oversexed?”
In my last post I featured cover art done for the magazine Untamed by Ed “Emsh” Emshwiller, who is more widely know for his great science fiction cover art. In…
Inside Exotic Adventures: “Tight Pants,” Harlan Ellison, savage women wrestlers, and more…
As noted in a previous post, Exotic Adventures magazine isn’t a typical 1950s men’s adventure mag. It does have war stories, wild exotic adventure stories, exposé “shockers,” noir-like fiction and…
Man’s Exploits magazine gives us an imaginary look at, um, extreme bullfighting…
Last week, vintage men’s magazine expert Dr. David M. Earle posted a series of classic bullfight covers and interior illustrations on his men’s mag Facebook site. Dr. Earle teaches courses…
Real War magazine launches men’s pulp mags into space
Occasionally, some of the men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s and 1960s would put out special issues that had a theme. For example, a while ago, I posted an entry…
BRAVE: the pocket-sized men’s pulp magazine full of “Rugged Adventure”
In Volume 2 of her excellent 6-Volume History of Men’s Magazines, Dian Hanson notes: “A curiosity of the 1950s was a number of American men’s lifestyle digests that…combined all the…
Men’s adventure magazines and PTSD – plus another early Harlan Ellison story
There’s an interesting chapter in the new book All Man! Hemingway, 1950s Men’s Magazines, and the Masculine Persona, by David M. Earle, that discusses how the post-WWII men’s adventure magazines…