R.I.P. Charlie “Angelo” Liteky: a man of courage and conviction in wartime and after…

One of the stories by the late military historian Robert F. Dorr featured in A HANDFUL OF HELL, our collection of Bob’s classic men’s adventure magazine stories, is about Charles…

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…

Sheiks, harems and occasional Nazis: The “Arab Peril” subgenre in men’s adventure magazines

Today, fairly or not, many Americans primarily associate the word “Arab” with terrorists and religious extremism. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, we had somewhat different stereotypical mental images of…