“WHEN SHRUNKEN HEADS WERE BIG!” Guest post by John Navroth, Editor of MONSTER MAGAZINE WORLD

EDITOR’S NOTE: John Navroth has an encyclopedic knowledge of just about everything related to monsters and horror. On his long-running, award-winning blog, MONSTER MAGAZINE WORLD, his main focus is on…

“Jane Dolinger 101” – required for students of vintage men’s magazines…

There’s a new book out about Jane Dolinger — the brainy and beautiful adventurer, author and pin-up model I featured in a previous post on this blog. It’s a biography…

“Jungle Jane” Dolinger among the Jivaro headhunters and beyond

The previous post here focused on Marion Michael, star of the 1956 cult film Liane, Jungle Goddess. Marion is one of the two famous “jungle girls” featured in the premiere…

Cover artist Stanley Borack – from Jivaro headhunters to Jaws

In my previous post, I featured a cool shrunken head cover by the great artist Wally Richards (aka Walter Dubois Richards). The headhunter story Richards’ cover art was done for…

Artist Walter DuBois Richards’ shrunken head masterpiece for Men magazine

  Headhunters and shrunken heads were popular topics in men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. In a recent post, I featured a wild “head on a stick” headhunter…

Action Magazine, Part 2 – Manly adventures and anxieties in 1953

My previous post about Action magazine showed some of the great painted covers used for this short-lived men’s adventure mag (touted as “THE BEST IN LUSTY ADVENTURE”). Now let’s take…