EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an updated version of a post I wrote in 2009, shortly after I had my first of many phone calls with writer Robert F. Dorr. In…
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Norman Baer: another men’s adventure magazine artist who deserves wider recognition…
Not long ago I did a couple of posts about Peter Poulton, an artist who has been ranked as one the best pulp illustration artists of the 1950s but is…
Women in Prison – Portrayals of Lesbians in Vintage Men’s Adventure Magazines (Part 3)
I’ll start this third post in my series about the depiction of lesbians in vintage men’s adventure magazines with a startling revelation from a story in the December 1964 issue…
Men’s adventure magazine covers that stoked “ophidiophobia” (and some ophidiophilia)…
Most species of snakes are harmless. Relatively few people, at least in the United States, ever have personal encounters with snakes that pose a real threat to humans. Nonetheless, many…
Solving men’s pulp mag mysteries in the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group…
If you’ve visited the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group recently, you’ve probably noticed that there has been a steady increase in members, posts and discussions there. My own posts in…
An interview with artist Mort Kunstler – Part 1…
Recently, I had the pleasure and honor of talking with Mort Künstler — one of the best and most famous of the many artists who did cover paintings and interior…
The Mystery of the Nude Nazi Love Captives…
A while after I posted my three-part interview with former men’s adventure magazine artist Gil Cohen, I ran across an online photo of one of his original paintings that made…
Surfing for Mort Kunstler illustration art…
If you’re a reader of this blog, you probably know that Mort Kunstler is one of the greatest of the many great artists who provided cover paintings and interior illustrations…
Interview with artist Gil Cohen: Part 3 – The Magazine Management years and beyond…
Part 3 of my interview with Gil Cohen, an artist who once painted hundreds of cover paintings and interior illustrations for men’s adventure magazines, picks up after he was discharged…
Bloodthirsty baboons, a transgendered damsel in distress, vicious anteaters — and a killer Komodo dragon…
A while ago, in a post featuring monkey and baboon attack covers, I included the cover of the May 1955 issue of Men magazine. The cover painting on that issue…
Talking with the “Black Cracker” about the black artist Al Hollingsworth
The publication of Josh Alan Friedman’s new memoir Black Cracker this week reminded me of some things he recently told me about the pioneering black artist Alvin C. Hollingsworth. In…
“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…