Since I started this blog last year, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing three notable authors who once wrote stories for men’s adventure magazines: Harlan Ellison, Walter Kaylin and Robert…
Category: Cold War
“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…
Men’s pulp magazines take on Fidel Castro and his evil Cuban Commie comrades
Recently, I finally got around to watching director Steven Soderbergh’s controversial movie Che, starring Benicio del Toro. I think it’s an interesting movie that’s worth seeing, though I can understand…