If you’re interested in classic pulp magazines, men’s adventure magazines or vintage paperbacks and you live within reasonable traveling distance of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that’s where you want to be…
Category: Norman Saunders
REAL, January 1956 – a classic issue featuring four famous killers…
REAL magazine was one of the best and longest-running men’s pulp adventure magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. It was published from 1952 to 1967 by a series of companies.…
Classic evil Nazi covers by Basil Gogos, Norm Eastman and Norman Saunders (Part 3 of the “missing” HORRORHOUND captions)
A while ago, I started a series of posts about the article that men’s pulp art and magazine collector Rich Oberg and I put together for HORRORHOUND magazine, published in…
The men’s adventure magazines section of the newsstand – fifty years ago…
Fifty years ago, if you went browsing through the magazines at your local newsstand, you would have seen a wide variety of magazines that were primarily targeted to men. There…
“SQUIRM IN HELL, MY LOVELY MUCHACHA!” – Evil Cuban Commies, Part Two
The post-WWII men’s adventure magazines had a love-turned-to-hate relationship with Cuba. In the 1950s, when Cuba was run by dictator Fulgencio Batista, with a little help from his friends in…
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…
Daring to compare Norman Rockwell, Norman Saunders and Norm Eastman
Men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s have a special place in the history of illustration art. The artwork they used was a more modern incarnation and…
Rich Oberg’s gives us the first online glimpse of his awesome men’s adventure art collection
One of the must-have books for fans and collectors of men’s pulp mags is Men’s Adventure Magazines, published by Taschen. It features hundreds of men’s adventure magazine covers from the…
Man vs. Octopus – “Cephalopods Ripped my Flesh!”
I know that an octopus is a generally shy creature that is very unlikely to attack a human. But when I was a kid in the 1950s, some of my…
Connecting the dots between horror films and men’s pulp magazines (Boris Karloff Blogathon)
On this blog, I regularly feature some of the great cover paintings and interior art from men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. I’m a big fan…
Man the lifeboats! Woman them, too!
In addition to staples like stories about war, killer animals and sex-related topics, survival stories were a common subject in men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.…