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…

“Lace Panty Commandos” – From MAN’S BOOK to MALALAND MAGAZINES…

The phrase “Lace Panty Commandos” has become kind of an ongoing joke with some readers of the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook group that’s associated with this blog. I think it…

Some rarely seen John Duillo artwork from the Rich Oberg Collection…

A couple of years ago, I created a Men’s Adventure Magazines Group on Facebook to provide a place where other fans of the genre could discuss the magazines, writers and…

REAL men read “REAL” men’s adventure magazines…

The men’s adventure magazine genre that developed after World War II mixed elements from several other popular genres into a unique blend. Their action-oriented cover paintings and fiction stories were…

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…

MAN’S STORY, August 1968 – Part 1: DEXTER vs. THE NAZIS’ HARNESS OF TERROR

Last night, after watching an episode of the Showtime TV series Dexter, I went to bed and read the August 1968 issue of Man’s Story magazine (Vol. 9, No. 4).…

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…

Norm Eastman cover art: from sadistic Nazis to Harlequin Romance

  Men’s adventure art collector Rich Oberg recently told me about a trip he made in 2004 to visit artist Norm Eastman at his home in Lompoc, California, a few…