This week, two things reminded me of one of my favorite books of the past year, All Man! – Hemingway, 1950s Men’s Magazines, and the Masculine Persona by Dr. David…
Talking about Ernest Hemingway, then and now…
Getting manly and “Living the Gay Life” with AMERICAN MANHOOD magazine
American Manhood was an interestingly schizophrenic and unique men’s pulp magazine. It combined elements of a bodybuilder magazine, a men’s adventure mag and a gay-oriented male pin-up mag. As I…
American Manhood magazine didn’t ask and didn’t tell – and Joe Weider didn’t care…
I am a big fan of the bodybuilding and fitness guru Joe Weider. But not because I’m into bodybuilding (or fitness, as my wife frequently reminds me). I became a…
“Love slave” stories in men’s adventure magazines – featuring evil geishas, evil hippie chicks and more!
Although the men’s adventure magazines published in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s often claimed to feature “real stories,” most of their stories were pulp fantasy. I note this because…
More wild men’s pulp magazine stories about Leopard Men and Leopard Women…
As I noted in a previous post, there really were “Leopard Men” in Africa. They were members of a secretive religious cult called The Leopard Society. They actually did wear…
Tattoo artists Cash Cooper and Kat Von D – a look at women’s skin art in 1964 and today
Recently, I read an article in the June 1964 issue of Men in Danger magazine that made me think of tattoo artist Kat Von D, the star of the reality…
MAN’S EXPLOITS magazine – turning exploits into exploitation from 1957 to 1963
The meaning of the word exploit depends on whether it’s a noun or a verb. The noun exploit means a notable adventure or heroic act. But the verb exploit generally…
The story of Cinque and the Amistad – done men’s pulp magazine style
In the politically incorrect, sensationalized realm of vintage men’s adventure magazines, “true” stories based on historical facts usually had some angles and embellishments you don’t find in other sources. Case…
A tip of the hat to Tom Brinkmann and his BAD MAGS…
Vintage men’s adventure magazines were pretty wild compared to the mainstream magazines published during the 1950s, 1950s and 1970s. Some were deemed to be “pornography,” which forced them to be…
Reefer madness from SPUR magazine – “GANGI: Hell Smoke of the Caribbean”
From 1956 to 1961, a men’s adventure magazine titled Rugged Men was published by Stanley Publications, Inc., one of the magazine companies owned by former comics publisher Stanley Morse. In…