Make believe paperbacks on men’s adventure magazine covers…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s a look back at a previous post on this blog that needed some updating… Lynn Munroe is one of the world’s top experts on vintage paperback books,…

RAGE magazine, January 1963, featuring a whip-mad sheik, a Beatnik brothel, man-starved nymphos, and more…

RAGE is one of my favorite low-budget men’s pulp magazines, though I have always been a bit puzzled by its name. Was it supposed to appeal to some subset of…

Some rarely seen John Duillo artwork from the Rich Oberg Collection…

A couple of years ago, I created a Men’s Adventure Magazines Group on Facebook to provide a place where other fans of the genre could discuss the magazines, writers and…

The Bruce Minney Interview– Part 2: “Sweat Magazines,” paperbacks and beyond…

In the first part of my interview with Bruce Minney, he told me how he got started doing cover and interior art for men’s adventure magazines in 1955, after linking…

The “missing” HorrorHound article captions – Part 1 (info for covers on p. 44)

Like many fans of vintage men’s adventure magazines, I’m also a fan of horror and science fiction. The three genres have a lot in common. And, the connections they share…

Vintage “sweat magazine” cover paintings by John Duillo, from the Rich Oberg Collection

In a recent conversation with men’s adventure art collector Rich Oberg, we discussed the fact that most of the vintage “sweat magazine” cover paintings in his collection have rarely been…

“Men’s adventure magazines” – or “Sweats” – or “Men’s pulp magazines”?

There’s a debate going on among members of the new Facebook Group associated with this blog about the terminology used for the magazine genre featured here. Back in the 1950s…