An interview with Luis Ortiz, co-editor of CULT MAGAZINES: A to Z

A while ago, I posted a brief review of the recently-published book CULT MAGAZINES: A to Z. Simply put, I love this wide-ranging, lavishly-illustrated book. In fact, I consider it…

Real War magazine launches men’s pulp mags into space

Occasionally, some of the men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s and 1960s would put out special issues that had a theme. For example, a while ago, I posted an entry…

Rich Oberg’s gives us the first online glimpse of his awesome men’s adventure art collection

One of the must-have books for fans and collectors of men’s pulp mags is Men’s Adventure Magazines, published by Taschen. It features hundreds of men’s adventure magazine covers from the…

“Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos”

When I bought the August 1954 issue of Male magazine shown at left, with the superb cover painting of a rhino attack by artist Robert G. Doares, it reminded me…

“Fidel Castro’s Sex Secret” – from a 1965 issue of Adventure magazine

It’s often hard to sort out the truly true stories from the phony ones in men’s adventure magazines. The authors and editors of men’s adventure mag stories were masters of…

Snakes in Men’s Pulp Mags: scarier than Snakes on a Plane

There’s a subgenre of pre-World War II pulp magazines called “weird menace” which features good-looking women and men being menaced (and often tortured) by evil villains and freaks. There’s a…

Stranded on “women-ridden” beaches and deadly desert isles

My previous post showcased some men’s adventure magazine covers in the survival at sea subcategory – manly men and womanly women in lifeboats and rafts. A related subgenre involves shipwreck…