My previous post here focused on stories about four famous killers who are featured in the January 1956 issue of REAL magazine. That same issue also features two famous glamour…
Category: Real magazine
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.…
Rico Tomaso – one of the best of the many great artists who worked for men’s adventure magazines…
Recently, in the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook group, I posted a few examples of the great painted portraits of US servicemen artist by Rico Tomaso that were used on covers…
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…
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…
“C-girls,” thorium prospecting and killer crocs
In my previous post, I featured the cover of the January 1958 issue of Man’s Conquest magazine, which has a great crocodile attack cover painting. Several people who read the…
Mort Kunstler – plus Survival at Sea: Part Deux.
My previous “survival at sea” post showed some great men’s adventure magazine covers. Since tales of survival in lifeboats and life rafts were a popular subcategory of stories in men’s…
The REAL scoop on Reefer Madness
A common article topic in the men’s postwar pulp magazines was illegal drugs. Men’s pulp mag editors especially loved such articles when they combined drugs and sex. Many were sensationalistic…