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…
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Funny text and image juxtapositions on “stripped” men’s adventure magazine covers…
I’d planned to take a few weeks off in September, but when Hurricane Irma hit the island where I live in the Florida Keys, it led to a much longer…
Model/Actress Eva Lynd and Photographer Earl Leaf: Together Again…
Over the past few years, it’s been my great pleasure to have an ongoing correspondence with model and actress Eva Lynd. I first became fascinated with Eva after learning that…
R.I.P. Charlie “Angelo” Liteky: a man of courage and conviction in wartime and after…
One of the stories by the late military historian Robert F. Dorr featured in A HANDFUL OF HELL, our collection of Bob’s classic men’s adventure magazine stories, is about Charles…
WILDCAT ADVENTURES presents killer Leopard Women and deadly tattooed Geishas…
I have a love-hate relationship with the men’s adventure magazine WILDCAT ADVENTURES. I love many of the gonzo stories you’ll find in it, like “DEATH ORGY OF THE LEOPARD WOMEN,”…
Robert F. Dorr takes us “BEHIND THE SCENES OF BUDAPEST’S SEX REVOLT”
EDITOR’S NOTE: I first met author Robert F. Dorr, via email, in 2009. Between then and his death on June 12, 2016 I talked to him many times by phone…
“Charge of the Mad Machine Gunner” – one of Robert F. Dorr’s classic war stories…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an updated version of a post I wrote in 2009, shortly after I had my first of many phone calls with writer Robert F. Dorr. In…
An interview with monster art master Basil Gogos about his men’s adventure magazine artwork…
Artist Basil Gogos is the most widely-known and revered painter of movie monster paintings in the world. His reputation as the King of Monster Art was first established in the…
Fidel Castro and Cuba in men’s adventure magazines: Part 1…
Recently, I’ve been reading stories in men’s adventure magazines from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s about Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution and the first decades of Cuba’s Communist era under…
The Florida Pulp AdventureCon, from the perspective of a men’s adventure fan…
When my men’s adventure magazine mentor Rich Oberg and I heard that there would be a bunch of issues from the legendary Napa Collection and some original men’s adventure artwork…
An interview with artist James Bama – Part 3…
Toward the end of Part 2 of my interview with artist James Bama, we discussed one of the classic men’s adventure magazine illustrations he painted that’s featured in the must-have…