“Bruce Minney: The Man Who Painted Everything” — Part 2 (guest post by author Tom Ziegler)

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of special guest posts by Tom Ziegler, author of BRUCE MINNEY: THE MAN WHO PAINTED EVERYTHING — a great new book…

“Bruce Minney: The Man Who Painted Everything” — guest post by Tom Ziegler (Part 1)

Editor’s Note: Tom Ziegler, son-in-law of the great illustration artist Bruce Minney, has just released a new full-color book titled BRUCE MINNEY: THE MAN WHO PAINTED EVERYTHING. (Available in both…

Men’s adventure magazine covers that stoked “ophidiophobia” (and some ophidiophilia)…

Most species of snakes are harmless. Relatively few people, at least in the United States, ever have personal encounters with snakes that pose a real threat to humans. Nonetheless, many…

Some classic “killer creature” covers on men’s pulp adventure magazines…

From the early 1950s to the early ‘60s, men’s pulp adventure magazines regularly featured cover paintings showing bloody confrontations between humans and various types of land and sea creatures. I…

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.…

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…

MALE magazine, May 1973 – Part 2: from “Good Girl Art” to bad clothing…

There are cool, interesting or entertainingly wacky things in almost every men’s adventure magazine published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. As mentioned in my last post, the May 1973…

MAN’S DARING: the men’s sweat magazine that exposed Hitler’s baboon tortures – and some legendary glamour girls…

[Post updated with new images, text and links, March 21, 2012.] The terms “sweat magazines,” “men’s sweats” or just “the sweats” are often used to describe vintage men’s adventure magazines.…

Solving men’s pulp mag mysteries in the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group…

If you’ve visited the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook Group recently, you’ve probably noticed that there has been a steady increase in members, posts and discussions there. My own posts in…

More artwork by Norm Eastman, Basil Gogos, Norman Saunders and Earl Norem (Part 4 of the “missing” HORRORHOUND captions)

It’s only natural that many fans of the vintage men’s adventure magazines are also fans of horror mags, movies and books. So, when I was asked to write an article…

Some rarely seen John Duillo artwork from the Rich Oberg Collection…

A couple of years ago, I created a Men’s Adventure Magazines Group on Facebook to provide a place where other fans of the genre could discuss the magazines, writers and…

BIG ADVENTURE magazine – featuring a Snake-eating Geek, Satanist Love Cults, Donalda Jordan and more…

There were several notable premieres in the realm of mainstream pop culture during the month of September 1960. The musical IRMA LA DOUCE debuted on Broadway. Marilyn Monroe’s movie LET’S…