[EDITOR’S NOTE: A link to a flip page copy of the first issue of BATTLE CRY magazine is at the bottom of this post.] Memorial Day is a day to…
Category: Clarence Doore
I WATCHED THEM EAT ME ALIVE! — the new Men’s Adventure Library book and first “Men’s Adventure Journal”
“I had a glimpse of a squirrel perched on his neck; it seemed funny as hell for a second.” That was the initial reaction of the main character in the…
Animals as instruments of torture: from real history to the surreal world of men’s pulp magazines…
Recently, I worked with Wyatt Doyle, my co-editor for the WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! story anthology, to write another article for HORRORHOUND magazine about killer creature artwork and stories in…
Men’s adventure magazine covers that stoked “ophidiophobia” (and some ophidiophilia)…
Most species of snakes are harmless. Relatively few people, at least in the United States, ever have personal encounters with snakes that pose a real threat to humans. Nonetheless, many…
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…
MAN’S EXPLOITS magazine – turning exploits into exploitation from 1957 to 1963
The meaning of the word exploit depends on whether it’s a noun or a verb. The noun exploit means a notable adventure or heroic act. But the verb exploit generally…
The story of Cinque and the Amistad – done men’s pulp magazine style
In the politically incorrect, sensationalized realm of vintage men’s adventure magazines, “true” stories based on historical facts usually had some angles and embellishments you don’t find in other sources. Case…
Man vs. Octopus – “Cephalopods Ripped my Flesh!”
I know that an octopus is a generally shy creature that is very unlikely to attack a human. But when I was a kid in the 1950s, some of my…