In search of the mysterious pulp illustration artist Peter Poulton…

Recently, while putting away some old magazines I bought on eBay, I focused on one that sent me on a quest that lasted for several weeks — and is still…

Back to the atomic future with Joe and Ben Weider’s MR. AMERICA magazine…

In the 1950s, when atomic bombs and nuclear power were relatively new, views about the atom were even more schizoid than they are today. On one hand, there was constant…

Getting manly and “Living the Gay Life” with AMERICAN MANHOOD magazine

American Manhood was an interestingly schizophrenic and unique men’s pulp magazine. It combined elements of a bodybuilder magazine, a men’s adventure mag and a gay-oriented male pin-up mag. As I…

American Manhood magazine didn’t ask and didn’t tell – and Joe Weider didn’t care…

I am a big fan of the bodybuilding and fitness guru Joe Weider. But not because I’m into bodybuilding (or fitness, as my wife frequently reminds me). I became a…

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…

Gays in the military? American Manhood magazine may have been ahead of its time…

American Manhood magazine was an unusual men’s adventure magazine published by Weider Periodicals Inc. The Weider company did publish several magazines that were representative of the genre, such as Fury,…