“Lesbians on the Prowl!”– Portrayals of Lesbians in Vintage Men’s Adventure Magazines (Part 2)

My previous post here explored some historically interesting stories about lesbians published in the 1950s, such as “The Sin You Don’t Dare Talk About” from the August 1957 issue of…

How publisher Stanley Morse and I got even with anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham

Recently, Richard Greene, one of the the many talented and knowledgeable artists who have become members of the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group, posted a link to an interesting opinion…

Men’s adventure magazine covers that stoked “ophidiophobia” (and some ophidiophilia)…

Most species of snakes are harmless. Relatively few people, at least in the United States, ever have personal encounters with snakes that pose a real threat to humans. Nonetheless, many…

Syd Shores, Mel Crair, evil Nazis, crawling death and man killing nymphos…

My previous post featured some great “sweat magazine” style cover paintings by the legendary comics and magazine artist Sydney “Syd” Shores, from the collection of my friend Rich Oberg, the…

Men’s “sweat magazine” cover paintings from the Oberg Collection – Part 3: originals by Bruce Minney, Walter Popp and Vic Prezio…

Today’s post is the third in a series showing original men’s “sweat magazine” cover paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection (courtesy of Rich). The first post in the series featured…

“Love slave” stories in men’s adventure magazines – featuring evil geishas, evil hippie chicks and more!

Although the men’s adventure magazines published in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s often claimed to feature “real stories,” most of their stories were pulp fantasy. I note this because…

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.…