Lesbians in Men’s Adventure Magazines, Part 1: Objects of Fear, Loathing – and Desire…

American males who read the men’s pulp adventure magazines published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s seem to have had a special fascination with lesbians that editors were happy to…

An interview with Luis Ortiz, co-editor of CULT MAGAZINES: A to Z

A while ago, I posted a brief review of the recently-published book CULT MAGAZINES: A to Z. Simply put, I love this wide-ranging, lavishly-illustrated book. In fact, I consider it…

Artist Tom Beecham: from “wild men” cover art for men’s adventure magazines to wildlife art for Remington

My previous post showed the amazing covers that artist Thomas Beecham painted for True Strange, an unusual supernatural-flavored men’s adventure magazine published by Weider Periodicals Inc in the late 1950s.…

True Weird and True Strange – men’s adventure magazines meet the Weekly World News

True Weird and True Strange were unusual, short-lived magazines that were like a cross between a men’s pulp mag and the Weekly World News (the wonderfully wacky supermarket tabloid that…