Category: Man’s Adventure

Champion for Men EC Comics Fredric Wertham Key Publications Man’s Adventure Man’s Best Man’s Look Man’s Prime Men in Combat Men in Conflict Normandy Associates Real Men Real War Rugged Men Spur magazine Stanley Morse Stanley Publications War Criminals Women in War

How publisher Stanley Morse and I got even with anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham

12 years ago
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Recently, Richard Greene, one of the the many talented and knowledgeable artists who have become members of the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group, posted a link to an interesting opinion…

All Man magazine Lou Cameron Man’s Adventure Mel Crair Men in Conflict Real Men Real Men magazine Real War Syd Shores True Men Stories War Criminals

Syd Shores, Mel Crair, evil Nazis, crawling death and man killing nymphos…

13 years ago
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My previous post featured some great “sweat magazine” style cover paintings by the legendary comics and magazine artist Sydney “Syd” Shores, from the collection of my friend Rich Oberg, the…

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…

15 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 —…

Captain America Indiana Jones Man’s Adventure Marvel Comics Men's adventure magazines Men's pulp magazines Men's sweat magazines Raiders of the Lost Ark Snake menace Syd Shores Why'd it have to be snakes?

Why’d it have to be snakes, Indy? ‘Cause they’re frakkin’ scary!

15 years ago
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Remember that snake scene in the original Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)? Indiana (Harrison Ford) looks down at the slithering mass in the “Well of Souls”…

Action for Men magazine All Man magazine Clarence Doore Lifeboats and life rafts subgenre man Man's Action magazine Man's Exploits magazine Man’s Adventure Men's Pictorial Norm Eastman Norman Saunders Rage For Men Real Men Rugged Men SEE magazine Survival at sea

Man the lifeboats! Woman them, too!

15 years ago
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In addition to staples like stories about war, killer animals and sex-related topics, survival stories were a common subject in men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.…

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…

Adventure magazine Bondage and Torture Expose for Men Man's Life Magazine Man's Story Man’s Adventure Men in Conflict Men Today magazine Nazi bondage and torture Real Men magazine True Men Stories Weird menace

What’s up with that bondage and torture cover art?

15 years ago
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The men’s postwar adventure magazines didn’t invent bondage and torture cover art. It was already common in the pre-WWII pulp magazines. During 1930s and early ‘40s, there was an entire…