Talking with Rich Oberg: the Dean of Men’s Adventure Magazines

Recently, I had the good fortune of talking with Rich Oberg, who is literally the world’s greatest collector of men’s adventure magazines and the original artwork created for them. Examples…

An interview about our book POLLEN’S WOMEN: THE ART OF SAMSON POLLEN…

As noted in previous posts on this blog, I love the fanzines published by UK paperback and action/adventure media maven Justin Marriott. Justin began publishing his flagship fanzine THE PAPERBACK…

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…

I WATCHED THEM EAT ME ALIVE! — the new Men’s Adventure Library book and first “Men’s Adventure Journal”

“I had a glimpse of a squirrel perched on his neck; it seemed funny as hell for a second.” That was the initial reaction of the main character in the…

The art of torture and execution using honey-crazed hummingbirds, killer anteaters and big ass snakes!

In a previous post here, I showed a set of men’s pulp adventure magazine covers and interior illustrations with scenes depicting the use of various types of animals as instruments…

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…

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…

Talking with Rich Harvey about the Napa Collection and Pulp AdventureCon…

If you’re interested in classic pulp magazines, men’s adventure magazines or vintage paperbacks and you live within reasonable traveling distance of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that’s where you want to be…

Connecting dots between model Eva Lynd, artist Al Rossi, mystery writers Manning Lee Stokes and Carter Brown – and the Rocky Horror Show…

About a year ago, after I did some initial posts here about Eva Lynd, the legendary artists’ model, pinup glamour girl and actress, I got a surprise email from Eva…

More classic illustration art and photos featuring Eva Lynd…

After I wrote my last post about model and actress Eva Lynd, I got an email from Eva that included a new revelation. It was a scan of an interior…

MAN’S STORY, Feb. 1963: the good, the so-bad-it’s-good, and the gonzo (Part 1)…

One of the most common words I see associated with men’s pulp adventure magazines published in the 1950s and 1960s is lurid. The Oxford English Dictionary defines that word as…

Glamour girl Eva Lynd and artist Al Rossi: together again…

To men’s adventure magazine collectors, Eva Lynd is best known — by sight if not by name — as a favorite model of artist Norm Eastman. She appeared on many…