A look at our book: CUBA: SUGAR, SEX, AND SLAUGHTER…

CUBA: SUGAR, SEX, AND SLAUGHTER, in another one of the story and art anthologies in the Men’s Adventure Library series I co-edit with Wyatt Doyle. This one is a collection…

Eva Lynd and I make a guest appearance on IdolFeatures.com…

Recently, Chris Charles, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of IdolFeatures.com asked me if I’d like to do some guest posts on his website. I took some time to explore the site and…

An interview with artist Gil Cohen about his Executioner/Mack Bolan cover paintings…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Last fall, shortly before my life got blown sideways for several months by Hurricane Irma, I saw a brief article in an issue Gary Lovisi’s great magazine PAPERBACK…

Talking with Eva Lynd about Steve Holland, Al Rossi, Richard Deming’s “KILL AND RUN NUDE” and more…

Several years ago, I had the good fortune of becoming friends with Eva Lynd. As I’ve noted in previous posts on this blog, Eva worked as an actress in a…

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…

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…

An interview with Paul Bishop: veteran detective, writer, editor and action/adventure maven…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Paul Bishop seems like he should be a fictional character in a novel like those he writes. He served with the Los Angeles Police Department for 35 years.…

The Eva Lynd 2017 Pinup Calendar – and some key facts about Eva…

One of the nicest things that has happened to me as a result of writing this blog about vintage men’s pulp adventure magazines was getting an email from model and…

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…

WILDCAT ADVENTURES premieres with an artistic and literary bang in June 1959…

WILDCAT ADVENTURES was one of several classic men’s adventure magazines published by Robert C. Sproul, through his company Candar Publishing, sometimes misspelled as “Candor” by sources like the 1960 book…

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…