Category: Crestwood Publishing

American Art Agency Crestwood Publishing Earl Norem elephants Killer creature stories killer creatures Man's Life Magazine Milton Luros Stanley Publications Wil Hulsey Will Hulsey

The “killer creature” animal attack covers of MAN’S LIFE magazine…

10 years ago
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For many collectors of vintage men’s pulp adventure magazines, issues that feature cover paintings with “killer creature” animal attack scenes are among the most highly prized. And, some of the…

Basil Gogos Crestwood Publishing Emtee Publications Inc. HorrorHound magazine Man's Epic magazine Man's Life Magazine Rich Oberg Stanley Publications World of Men magazine

More artwork by Norm Eastman, Basil Gogos, Norman Saunders and Earl Norem (Part 4 of the “missing” HORRORHOUND captions)

12 years ago
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It’s only natural that many fans of the vintage men’s adventure magazines are also fans of horror mags, movies and books. So, when I was asked to write an article…

Candar Publishing Captain America Champion for Men Clarence Doore Crestwood Publishing Man's Action magazine Man's Life Magazine Man’s Life Men's Adventure Magazines in Postwar America Rich Oberg scorpions Stanley Morse Stanley Publications Syd Shores True Men Stories Wil Hulsey Will Hulsey

Scorpions ripped my flesh! (in men’s pulp magazine art)

14 years ago
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Many kinds of “killer creatures” were featured on the covers of men’s adventure magazines in the 1950s and 1960s: big animals, small animals, fish, birds, crabs and various creepy crawlies,…

Arnold Magazines Clarence Doore Crestwood Publishing Edgar Rice Burroughs Feature Publications girl-crazy gorilla subgenre King Kong Man's Life Magazine Man’s Adventure Normandy Associates Rage For Men Stanley Publications Tarzan True Men Stories Will Hulsey

Girl-crazy gorillas, men’s adventure magazine style…

14 years ago
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In the first half of the 20th Century, tales and scenes of gorillas who carried away white women were fairly common in magazines, books and movies from various genres —…

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“Chewed to Bits by Giant Turtles!” – Man’s Life magazine, May 1957

15 years ago
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One of the men’s adventure magazine covers that’s a personal favorite of mine (as you can see from the header of this blog) is the May 1957 issue of Man’s…

All Man magazine Battle Cry magazine Champion for Men Crestwood Publishing Man's Life Magazine Man’s Adventure Man’s Best Men in Combat Men in Conflict Real Men magazine Stanley Publications Weasels Ripped My Flesh Will Hulsey

Rugged Men and Rugged Weasels

15 years ago
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  As I mentioned in a previous post, finding out Frank Zappa got the name for his 1970 Weasels Ripped My Flesh album from a headline on a vintage men’s…