RAGE magazine, January 1963, featuring a whip-mad sheik, a Beatnik brothel, man-starved nymphos, and more…

RAGE is one of my favorite low-budget men’s pulp magazines, though I have always been a bit puzzled by its name. Was it supposed to appeal to some subset of…

The story of Cinque and the Amistad – done men’s pulp magazine style

In the politically incorrect, sensationalized realm of vintage men’s adventure magazines, “true” stories based on historical facts usually had some angles and embellishments you don’t find in other sources. Case…

Inside MAN’S EXPLOITS: Vampire Vamps, Bill Ward “Good Girl Art” cartoons, and more…

Man’s Exploits was one of the men’s adventure magazines that earned the genre the nickname “men’s sweats.” The “sweats” subset of men’s adventure mags tended to be very cheaply produced,…

Man’s Exploits magazine gives us an imaginary look at, um, extreme bullfighting…

Last week, vintage men’s magazine expert Dr. David M. Earle posted a series of classic bullfight covers and interior illustrations on his men’s mag Facebook site. Dr. Earle teaches courses…

“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.…