Last week I had a fun conversation with writer and musician Josh Alan Friedman, talking about his father and Magazine Management, the company owned by Martin Goodman that published some…
Category: Men magazine
Cover artist Stanley Borack – from Jivaro headhunters to Jaws
In my previous post, I featured a cool shrunken head cover by the great artist Wally Richards (aka Walter Dubois Richards). The headhunter story Richards’ cover art was done for…
Artist Walter DuBois Richards’ shrunken head masterpiece for Men magazine
Headhunters and shrunken heads were popular topics in men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. In a recent post, I featured a wild “head on a stick” headhunter…
Yes, you are seeing double. Happy New Year!
If you’re you’re reading this on New Year’s Eve, don’t worry. You are seeing double, but it’s not alcohol related. It’s an example of the same cover art being used…
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…
Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds would’ve loved “The Virgins from Hell”
Recently, I bought a copy of the January 1961 issue of Male magazine online, largely because it had a cover painting by Mort Kunstler, one of the greatest and most…
Dudes, here’s your electric car – Sixties style!
The pulptastic cover art on the July 1960 issue of Men magazine is by of the most talented and popular pulp artists ever, James Bama. It’s a teaser for an…
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…