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 —…
Category: Man’s Life Magazine
“Monkey Madness” and bloodthirsty baboons
During my recent interview with Dr. David M. Earle, the author of All Man! (the excellent new book about Ernest Hemingway and 1950s men’s magazines), I asked him if he…
“Chewed to Bits by Giant Turtles!” – Man’s Life magazine, May 1957
One of the men’s adventure magazine covers that’s a personal favorite of mine (as you can see from the header of this blog) is the May 1957 issue of Man’s…
It would be a great George Romero zombie movie…
In addition to being a big fan of men’s adventure magazines, I am also a big fan of zombie movies. So, when I saw the July 1962 issue of MAN’S…
Snakes in Men’s Pulp Mags: scarier than Snakes on a Plane
There’s a subgenre of pre-World War II pulp magazines called “weird menace” which features good-looking women and men being menaced (and often tortured) by evil villains and freaks. There’s a…
Rugged Men and Rugged Weasels
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…
“Baseball doesn’t deserve support!”
Decades before the controversies over players on steroids and taxpayer-funded stadiums, some baseball fans were already mad as hell about the trends in “America’s national pastime.” In 1955, one of…
Killer weasels – and squirrels, and bats, and…
As noted in my previous post, Frank Zappa took the title of his 1970 album Weasels Ripped My Flesh from a cover headline on the September 1956 issue of Man’s…
Weasels ripped my flesh! And hooked me on men’s adventure magazines.
About 15 years ago, I was listening to a CD reissue of Frank Zappa’s WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH album. It sparked a flashback to the day in 1970 when I…