On February 15, 2017, the great men’s adventure magazine writer Walter Kaylin passed away at age 95. In the days since then, I’ve been thinking about him a lot and…
R.I.P. Walter Kaylin … One of the greats.
Inside MAN’S MAGAZINE, February 1954 – Part 1: Savages, Sex and Severed Limbs…
As I explained in a previous post on this blog, the February 1954 issue of MAN’S MAGAZINE is the legendary painting vs. photo market test issue mentioned in the Taschen…
R.I.P. Charlie “Angelo” Liteky: a man of courage and conviction in wartime and after…
One of the stories by the late military historian Robert F. Dorr featured in A HANDFUL OF HELL, our collection of Bob’s classic men’s adventure magazine stories, is about Charles…
WILDCAT ADVENTURES presents killer Leopard Women and deadly tattooed Geishas…
I have a love-hate relationship with the men’s adventure magazine WILDCAT ADVENTURES. I love many of the gonzo stories you’ll find in it, like “DEATH ORGY OF THE LEOPARD WOMEN,”…
“YANK ACE WHO BATTLED THE JAPS OVER PEARL HARBOR.”
Every year on the anniversary of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, I think about my favorite men’s adventure magazine story about that fateful event: “YANK ACE WHO…
The Eva Lynd 2017 Pinup Calendar – and some key facts about Eva…
One of the nicest things that has happened to me as a result of writing this blog about vintage men’s pulp adventure magazines was getting an email from model and…
Robert F. Dorr takes us “BEHIND THE SCENES OF BUDAPEST’S SEX REVOLT”
EDITOR’S NOTE: I first met author Robert F. Dorr, via email, in 2009. Between then and his death on June 12, 2016 I talked to him many times by phone…
“Charge of the Mad Machine Gunner” – one of Robert F. Dorr’s classic war stories…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an updated version of a post I wrote in 2009, shortly after I had my first of many phone calls with writer Robert F. Dorr. In…
The art of torture and execution using honey-crazed hummingbirds, killer anteaters and big ass snakes!
In a previous post here, I showed a set of men’s pulp adventure magazine covers and interior illustrations with scenes depicting the use of various types of animals as instruments…
Farewell to writer Robert F. Dorr…
Robert F. Dorr, the great military aviation historian, journalist and novelist who got his start as an author by writing stories for men’s adventure magazines in the 1960s and 1970s,…