During our recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even the anti-war protesters have been saying they “support the troops.” It was different during the Vietnam War. And, men’s adventure magazines…
“Baseball doesn’t deserve support!”
Decades before the controversies over players on steroids and taxpayer-funded stadiums, some baseball fans were already mad as hell about the trends in “America’s national pastime.” In 1955, one of…
“Shotgun Husband of the Long-Pig Amazons”
Before we get to today’s “true” story from Ken for Men magazine, here’s a little pulp history… Ken for Men was one of many postwar men’s magazines published by pulp…
Robots want your job! Resistance is futile!
As the 1950s came to an end, the long, slow decline of manufacturing jobs in post-WWII America was starting to kick into higher gear. There were more and more automated…
Harlots, Nazis and killer fish!
Men Today was one of the spicier men’s adventure magazines. It is probably most famous – and infamous – for its gonzo Nazi bondage and torture covers, many of which…
The REAL scoop on Reefer Madness
A common article topic in the men’s postwar pulp magazines was illegal drugs. Men’s pulp mag editors especially loved such articles when they combined drugs and sex. Many were sensationalistic…
Manly men buy trusses and accordions
Adventure magazine was obviously a men’s adventure mag. The full title was ADVENTURE: THE MAN’S MAGAZINE OF EXCITING FICTION AND FACT. If that didn’t make it clear that this was…
Crawling Death of Bad Luck Island
Stag was one of the most successful and long lasting of the men’s pulp mags. It was first published in 1950 and ran in the classic men’s adventure style format…
Killer weasels – and squirrels, and bats, and…
As noted in my previous post, Frank Zappa took the title of his 1970 album Weasels Ripped My Flesh from a cover headline on the September 1956 issue of Man’s…