My previous “survival at sea” post showed some great men’s adventure magazine covers. Since tales of survival in lifeboats and life rafts were a popular subcategory of stories in men’s…
Mort Kunstler – plus Survival at Sea: Part Deux.
Man the lifeboats! Woman them, too!
In addition to staples like stories about war, killer animals and sex-related topics, survival stories were a common subject in men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.…
Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire
Not long ago, I stumbled across a post about men’s adventure magazines on another blog that is now among my favorites. It’s the blog Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire,…
Rugged Men and Rugged Weasels
As I mentioned in a previous post, finding out Frank Zappa got the name for his 1970 Weasels Ripped My Flesh album from a headline on a vintage men’s…
The war you couldn’t give away.
The cover and cover story for the November 1967 issue of Man’s Epic magazine is unusual for the men’s adventure magazine genre. Its cover painting, by artist Basil Gogos, features…
Dudes, here’s your electric car – Sixties style!
The pulptastic cover art on the July 1960 issue of Men magazine is by of the most talented and popular pulp artists ever, James Bama. It’s a teaser for an…
“GIRLS GIVE IN TO MEN WHO GO IN”
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…