Recently, I’ve been reading stories in men’s adventure magazines from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s about Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution and the first decades of Cuba’s Communist era under…
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Connecting dots between model Eva Lynd, artist Al Rossi, mystery writers Manning Lee Stokes and Carter Brown – and the Rocky Horror Show…
About a year ago, after I did some initial posts here about Eva Lynd, the legendary artists’ model, pinup glamour girl and actress, I got a surprise email from Eva…
Eva Lynd vs. The Nazis (and various other bad guys) – Part 2, updated…
AN EXCITING UPDATE ABOUT EVA LYND: I originally uploaded this post in 2012. At the time, I noted that I wasn’t sure if Eva Lynd was still alive. A few…
Eva Lynd vs. The Nazis (and various other bad guys) in Norm Eastman’s classic cover paintings – Part 1…
During the decades when men’s adventure magazines were being published, Eva Lynd was best known as an actress and a glamour photography model. In the late 1950s, she was a…
The Bruce Minney Interview– Part 2: “Sweat Magazines,” paperbacks and beyond…
In the first part of my interview with Bruce Minney, he told me how he got started doing cover and interior art for men’s adventure magazines in 1955, after linking…
Visiting Rich Oberg, the Dean of Men’s Adventure Magazines…
Recently, I had the great pleasure of visiting men’s adventure magazine art expert and collector Rich Oberg at his home in Tennessee. Original artwork and magazines from Rich’s collection are…
Basil Gogos paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection…
Recently, men’s pulp art collector Rich Oberg and I were asked to put together an article about men’s adventure magazines for HorrorHound, a nicely-produced periodical about films, TV shows, books,…
Men’s “sweat magazine” art from the Rich Oberg Collection – Part 1: Mel Crair covers
Bondage and torture cover art and stories are fairly common features of some vintage men’s adventure magazines. The most notorious and most sought after are the Nazi B&T covers —…
Men’s pulp magazines take on Fidel Castro and his evil Cuban Commie comrades
Recently, I finally got around to watching director Steven Soderbergh’s controversial movie Che, starring Benicio del Toro. I think it’s an interesting movie that’s worth seeing, though I can understand…