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…

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.…

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…

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…

Eva Lynd…Illustration art model, glamour photo model, actress and more…

This year, I’ve had the great pleasure and honor of getting to know Eva Lynd, one of the most multifaceted glamour girls of the 1950s and 1960s. Eva contacted me…