Reefer madness from SPUR magazine – “GANGI: Hell Smoke of the Caribbean”

From 1956 to 1961, a men’s adventure magazine titled Rugged Men was published by Stanley Publications, Inc., one of the magazine companies owned by former comics publisher Stanley Morse. In…

Before men sang “Viva Viagra!”

How many times, while you’re chillin’ with your bro’s, singing the “Viva Viagra” song like those guys on TV, have you wondered what erectile-challenged men did before there was Viagra?…

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…