The Bruce Minney Interview– Part 2: “Sweat Magazines,” paperbacks and beyond…

In the first part of my interview with Bruce Minney, he told me how he got started doing cover and interior art for men’s adventure magazines in 1955, after linking…

An interview with Bruce Minney – Part 1

Bruce Minney is one of the most talented and prolific of the many great artists who created cover paintings and interior illustrations for men’s adventure magazines from the mid-1950s to…

Visiting Rich Oberg, the Dean of Men’s Adventure Magazines…

Recently, I had the great pleasure of visiting men’s adventure magazine art expert and collector Rich Oberg at his home in Tennessee. Original artwork and magazines from Rich’s collection are…

From Vic Prezio and James Bama to Walter Popp and Norm Eastman – the missing HORRORHOUND captions, Part 2…

As explained in my previous post, men’s pulp art collector Rich Oberg and I recently put together an article about men’s adventure magazines that was published in the July/August 2011…

The “missing” HorrorHound article captions – Part 1 (info for covers on p. 44)

Like many fans of vintage men’s adventure magazines, I’m also a fan of horror and science fiction. The three genres have a lot in common. And, the connections they share…

Evil Leopard Men, Commies, bikers and Nazis: more Norm Eastman paintings from the Oberg collection…

Recently, Rich Oberg — the premier expert on and collector of men’s adventure magazine art (and patron saint of this blog) — has been shooting and scanning up a storm.…

Men’s “sweat magazine” art from the Rich Oberg Collection – Part 1: Mel Crair covers

Bondage and torture cover art and stories are fairly common features of some vintage men’s adventure magazines. The most notorious and most sought after are the Nazi B&T covers —…

“Weasels Ripped My Flesh” – From MAN’S LIFE magazine to the Mothers of Invention…

My very first post on this blog, back in August of 2009, was about the magazine cover that sparked my initial fascination with men’s adventure magazines: the cover of the…

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…

Connecting the dots between horror films and men’s pulp magazines (Boris Karloff Blogathon)

On this blog, I regularly feature some of the great cover paintings and interior art from men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. I’m a big fan…

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…