The legendary “Monkey Madness” story in men’s adventure magazines…

If you ask my wife, she’ll say I already own way too many old men’s adventure magazines. They now fill up bookshelves on every wall of my little man cave/office.…

Cover artist Stanley Borack – from Jivaro headhunters to Jaws

In my previous post, I featured a cool shrunken head cover by the great artist Wally Richards (aka Walter Dubois Richards). The headhunter story Richards’ cover art was done for…

A great site for browsing cover browsing – www.CoverBrowser.com

I recently stumbled across a terrific site for fans of pulp magazine and comic artwork called Cover Browser – at www.CoverBrowser.com. I’m not sure why I hadn’t noticed it before,…

Stranded on “women-ridden” beaches and deadly desert isles

My previous post showcased some men’s adventure magazine covers in the survival at sea subcategory – manly men and womanly women in lifeboats and rafts. A related subgenre involves shipwreck…

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.…