Editor’s Note: This is the third and final installment in a series of special guest posts by Tom Ziegler, author of the fascinating, lushly-illustrated new book BRUCE MINNEY: THE MAN…
Category: Man’s Conquest
Bruce Minney Interview, Part 3 – From battle scenes and biker babes to African violet pots…
In case you missed them, here are links to Part 1 and Part 2 of my interview with Bruce Minney, one of the top illustration artists who did cover and…
Man vs. Octopus – “Cephalopods Ripped my Flesh!”
I know that an octopus is a generally shy creature that is very unlikely to attack a human. But when I was a kid in the 1950s, some of my…
“The First Time I Died” – plus another raging croc attack cover
A reader on Reddit asked me to post the story that goes with the great croc attack cover I recently posted from the January 1958 issue of Man’s Conquest magazine.…
“C-girls,” thorium prospecting and killer crocs
In my previous post, I featured the cover of the January 1958 issue of Man’s Conquest magazine, which has a great crocodile attack cover painting. Several people who read the…
Exploring Man’s Conquest, January 1958
Last night I got my men’s adventure magazine fix by reading my water-stained but treasured copy of the January 1958 issue of Man’s Conquest. In the 1957 edition of Writer’s…