“I had a glimpse of a squirrel perched on his neck; it seemed funny as hell for a second.” That was the initial reaction of the main character in the…
Category: Walter Kaylin
R.I.P. Walter Kaylin … One of the greats.
On February 15, 2017, the great men’s adventure magazine writer Walter Kaylin passed away at age 95. In the days since then, I’ve been thinking about him a lot and…
HE-MEN, BAG MEN & NYMPHOS – now available in full color ebook format…
Late last year, my publishing partner Wyatt Doyle and I released the initial print edition of our second anthology of classic men’s adventure magazine stories, HE-MEN, BAG MEN & NYMPHOS…
Meanwhile, over on the WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! Facebook page…
Earlier this year, when we published the WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! anthology of men’s adventure magazine stories, my multitalented co-editor Wyatt Doyle also launched the WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! Facebook…
From Mafia hit men and farmers’ daughters to a 70-year-old “love captive.” (MALE magazine, May 1973 – Part 3)
For me, reading old men’s pulp mags is a like visual, literary and sociological treasure hunt. If you’re interested in things like vintage pulp fiction and pulp illustration art, and…
Uncovering the Real James Bond – and the Real Roland Empey
The January 1966 issue of Male magazine features a very cool, Sixties-flavored cover painting by Mort Kunstler that looks like a James Bond scene. Quite a few of Ian Fleming’s…
The legendary Walter Kaylin, “Jaws” and the USS Indianapolis
Earlier this month, I posted an entry on this blog about Walter Kaylin, the legendary men’s adventure story writer who was also editor of the short-lived, pocket-size men’s pulp magazine…
BRAVE: the pocket-sized men’s pulp magazine full of “Rugged Adventure”
In Volume 2 of her excellent 6-Volume History of Men’s Magazines, Dian Hanson notes: “A curiosity of the 1950s was a number of American men’s lifestyle digests that…combined all the…