Although I focus on men’s adventure magazines on this blog, I also enjoy reading — and reading about — vintage magazines from many other genres. I have been a huge…
Category: Harlan Ellison
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…
A good man’s Exotic Adventures magazine is hard to find…
Depending on how you categorize certain vintage magazines, roughly 150 different men’s adventure magazines were published during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Categorization can be difficult for various reasons. One…
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…