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…
“Weasels Ripped My Flesh!” – From MAN’S LIFE to Zappa to the Men’s Adventure Library…
The Mystery of the Nude Nazi Love Captives…
A while after I posted my three-part interview with former men’s adventure magazine artist Gil Cohen, I ran across an online photo of one of his original paintings that made…
The men’s adventure magazines section of the newsstand – fifty years ago…
Fifty years ago, if you went browsing through the magazines at your local newsstand, you would have seen a wide variety of magazines that were primarily targeted to men. There…
MAN’S STORY, August 1968 – Part 2: “Hippy” Stag Films, Instant Sex, X-Ray Specs and more…
A significant part of the entertainment value you can get from reading vintage men’s adventure magazines today is not exactly the same entertainment value that was originally intended. For example,…
MAN’S STORY, August 1968 – Part 1: DEXTER vs. THE NAZIS’ HARNESS OF TERROR
Last night, after watching an episode of the Showtime TV series Dexter, I went to bed and read the August 1968 issue of Man’s Story magazine (Vol. 9, No. 4).…
Surfing for Mort Kunstler illustration art…
If you’re a reader of this blog, you probably know that Mort Kunstler is one of the greatest of the many great artists who provided cover paintings and interior illustrations…
Interview with artist Gil Cohen: Part 3 – The Magazine Management years and beyond…
Part 3 of my interview with Gil Cohen, an artist who once painted hundreds of cover paintings and interior illustrations for men’s adventure magazines, picks up after he was discharged…
Interview with Artist Gil Cohen: Part 1 – An artist who won’t be pigeonholed…
Artists are often pigeonholed based on the type of art they did during a particular phase of their career. Today, many people know Gil Cohen as an “aviation artist.” That’s…
The magazines for men who liked their adventures “savage” and “big”…
Not long after I wrote the New Year’s post about duplicate uses of the same illustration in different issues of men’s adventure magazines, I ran across an example that involves…
It’ OK to see double on New Year’s Eve – if it’s on the covers of men’s adventure magazines
In my New Year’s Eve post last year, I showed some examples of cover paintings that appeared on the covers of two different men’s adventure magazines. I thought about that…
Merry Christmas – Men’s Adventure Magazine style…
The holiday season got me thinking about what it might have been like if some of the pulpier men’s adventure magazines had used Christmas-themed cover paintings on their December issues.…