“Beat Girls” smoking peyote! Topless! Yeah, man! I read it in UNTAMED magazine…

I’ve done several posts about the men’s pulp adventure magazine UNTAMED. It’s one of my favorites, though it didn’t last long. Only 8 issues of UNTAMED were published, in 1959…

MAN’S ILLUSTRATED exposes “The Instant Thrill Pill.”

In an entry I posted here a while ago, I featured a wild, but apparently true story about a doctor who volunteered to be a guinea pig in some early…

Reefer madness from SPUR magazine – “GANGI: Hell Smoke of the Caribbean”

From 1956 to 1961, a men’s adventure magazine titled Rugged Men was published by Stanley Publications, Inc., one of the magazine companies owned by former comics publisher Stanley Morse. In…

A rare LSD story from 1956 – “I WENT INSANE FOR SCIENCE”

There are several noteworthy things about the August 1956 issue of Man’s Magazine (Vol. 4, No. 7, published by Almat Publishing Corp.) One is the great action cover painting, showing…

When cocaine grew on trees (in men’s pulp magazines)…

By the early ‘70s, the men’s adventure magazine genre was dying out, largely due to competition from more sexually explicit men’s magazines. “The market slid ever crotchward,” as Josh Alan…

The REAL scoop on Reefer Madness

A common article topic in the men’s postwar pulp magazines was illegal drugs. Men’s pulp mag editors especially loved such articles when they combined drugs and sex. Many were sensationalistic…