Today’s post features more vintage “Good Girl Art” by the great illustrator Basil Gogos. But first a little history about that term… From the 1930s to the early 1950s, before…
More “Good Girl Art” by Basil Gogos
Some wild Basil Gogos paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection…
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that Rich Oberg is the world’s foremost expert on and collector of men’s adventure magazine art. It’s the Rich…
MAN’S ILLUSTRATED exposes “The Instant Thrill Pill.”
In an entry I posted here a while ago, I featured a wild, but apparently true story about a doctor who volunteered to be a guinea pig in some early…
Talking about Ernest Hemingway, then and now…
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…
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…