“Weasels Ripped My Flesh!” – from MAN’S LIFE to Frank Zappa to the Men’s Adventure Library…

My very first post on this blog, back in 2009, was about the magazine cover that sparked my initial fascination with men’s adventure magazines: the cover of the September 1956…

Ho! Ho! Ho! Men’s adventure magazines style…

Most of the more than 160 different men’s adventure magazines published from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s never featured holiday-themed covers for Christmas or any other holidays. I guess…

Happy Mothers Day – and thanks to head Mother Frank Zappa for my men’s adventure magazine obsession…

Naturally I think about my late mother every Mother’s Day. This year on Mother’s Day, in addition to thinking about Mom, I’ve been working on a new book collecting men’s…

Killer elephants, tigers, snakes and lobsters?…Oh yeah!

Last year, I co-wrote an article about “killer creature” man vs. animal themed stories in vintage men’s adventure magazines for HORRORHOUND, a nicely-produced periodical about horror and science fiction movies,…

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…

The WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! book is now available…

I’m pleased to be able to announce that WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! — the world’s first modern anthology of vintage men’s pulp adventure magazine stories — is now available on…

The “missing” HorrorHound article captions – Part 1 (info for covers on p. 44)

Like many fans of vintage men’s adventure magazines, I’m also a fan of horror and science fiction. The three genres have a lot in common. And, the connections they share…

Inside MAN’S LIFE, September 1956 – from sin happy vacationers to accordion-playing geeks…

In recent posts, I featured cover paintings by artist Wil Hulsey, starting with his famous “WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH” cover from the September 1956 issue of Man’s Life. Tonight’s post…

“Weasels Ripped My Flesh!” – From MAN’S LIFE to Zappa to the Men’s Adventure Library…

My very first post on this blog, back in 2009, was about the magazine cover that sparked my initial fascination with men’s adventure magazines: the cover of the September 1956…

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…

Looking for artist Will Hulsey, creator of “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” and much more…

I am a great admirer of the cover paintings and illustrations artist Will Hulsey did for men’s adventure magazines in the Fifties, Sixties and early Seventies. The cover with the…

“Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos”

When I bought the August 1954 issue of Male magazine shown at left, with the superb cover painting of a rhino attack by artist Robert G. Doares, it reminded me…