Men’s “sweat magazine” art from the Rich Oberg Collection – Part 1: Mel Crair covers

Bondage and torture cover art and stories are fairly common features of some vintage men’s adventure magazines. The most notorious and most sought after are the Nazi B&T covers —…

Risque Rebel Belles and Hot Yankee Spies: artist Wil Hulsey’s sexy Civil War cover paintings…

Although artist Wil Hulsey may be best known for the animal attack cover paintings he created for vintage men’s adventure magazines, especially his famed “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” cover, he…

Interview with artist Gil Cohen: Part 2 – Gil’s first men’s adventure magazine assignment…

Here’s the second part of my interview with Gil Cohen, the renowned aviation artist, book cover artist, movie poster artist and illustration artist. You did a huge number of cover…

Interview with Artist Gil Cohen: Part 1 – An artist who won’t be pigeonholed…

Artists are often pigeonholed based on the type of art they did during a particular phase of their career. Today, many people know Gil Cohen as an “aviation artist.” That’s…

It’ OK to see double on New Year’s Eve – if it’s on the covers of men’s adventure magazines

In my New Year’s Eve post last year, I showed some examples of cover paintings that appeared on the covers of two different men’s adventure magazines. I thought about that…

Some wild Basil Gogos paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection…

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that Rich Oberg is the world’s foremost expert on and collector of men’s adventure magazine art. It’s the Rich…

Scorpions ripped my flesh! (in men’s pulp magazine art)

Many kinds of “killer creatures” were featured on the covers of men’s adventure magazines in the 1950s and 1960s: big animals, small animals, fish, birds, crabs and various creepy crawlies,…

The Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook page

Some months ago, as an experiment, I created a Men’s Adventure Magazines page on Facebook to go with this blog. I wanted to try it out as an alternative to…

Bloodthirsty baboons, a transgendered damsel in distress, vicious anteaters — and a killer Komodo dragon…

A while ago, in a post featuring monkey and baboon attack covers, I included the cover of the May 1955 issue of Men magazine. The cover painting on that issue…

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…

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…

“Men’s adventure magazines” – or “Sweats” – or “Men’s pulp magazines”?

There’s a debate going on among members of the new Facebook Group associated with this blog about the terminology used for the magazine genre featured here. Back in the 1950s…