FINAL SALE! Last copies of the original B&W edition of WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH!

Description

WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! was the first men’s adventure magazine (MAM) story anthology in the Men’s Adventure Library book series. This original black-and-white paperback edition is discontinued and no more copies will be printed now that the new full-color, expanded hardcover and paperback editions are available via Amazon, other bookstores and this website.

WEASELS is a 6″x9″ paperback featuring 25 classic MAM stories, including stories by writers who later became famous, such as Lawrence Block, Harlan Ellison, Bruce Jay Friedman, Robert Silverberg and Walter Wager.  It’s 436 pages long, illuminated with intros about the authors, artists and magazines and an interview with Mario Puzo, who worked for men’s adventure magazines before THE GODFATHER made him famous. It’s illustrated with black-and-white cover scans, interior scans and examples of classic ads from vintage men’s adventure magazines.

And, yes, one of the stories included is the actual story “Weasels Ripped My Flesh!” from the September 1956 issue MAN’S LIFE — the title Frank Zappa made famous by using it for an album title in 1970.

You can see an extensive preview of this 2013 edition of WEASELS by clicking this link.

If you’re a completist collector of the books I co-edit, you may want a copy of this discontinued edition. Used copies already sell for more than I charge. The remaining mint condition copies I am selling in this listing may be a collector’s item someday.

Here’s the Table of Contents:

• Preface by writer and musician Josh Alan Friedman (son of Bruce)
• Foreword by Wyatt Doyle, Men’s Adventure Library co-editor and publisher
• Introduction by Robert Deis, co-editor of the Men’s Adventure Library series and the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY
• “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” by Mike Kamens, from MAN’S LIFE, September 1956
• “Beat Girls: Worshippers of Zen and Sin?” by Gilbert Nash, from UNTAMED, February 1959
• “Bar Room Girl Who Touched Off a Tribal War” by Walter Kaylin, from MALE, June 1966
• “She Doesn’t Want You” BY Lawrence Block (using the pseudonym Sheldon Lord), from REAL MEN, June 1958
• “Death Climb” by Harlan Ellison, from TRUE MEN STORIES, February 1957
• “Bayonet Killer of Heartbreak Ridge” by Robert F. Dorr, from MAN’S MAGAZINE, October 1964
• “Eat Her…Bones and All” by Bruce Jay Friedman, from MALE, December 1954
• “Trapped by Mau Mau Terror” by Robert Silverberg (using the pseudonym Norman Reynolds), from EXOTIC ADVENTURES, 1958
• “An Interview with Walter Wager” conducted by Josh Alan Friedman
• “Please God, Help Me Break Out” by Walter Wager, from MALE, November 1958
• “Chewed to Bits by Giant Turtles” by Vic Pate, from MAN’S LIFE, May 1957
• “Grisly Rites of Hitler’s Monster Flesh Stripper” by Jim McDonald, from MAN’S STORY, March 1965
• “Calypso: Is It Pornography in Hi-Fi?” by George Majari, from GUSTO, October 1957
• “50 Days as an Amazon Love Slave” by Robert Silverberg (using the pseudonym David Challon), from SIR!, November 1959
• “An Interview with Walter Wager” conducted by Josh Alan Friedman
• “The Stewardess “‘Call Girl Slave’ Ring” BY Walter Kaylin, from FOR MEN ONLY, December 1971
• “Girl Crusoe” by Jane Dolinger, from ESCAPE TO ADVENTURE, March 1959
• “I Married a Jungle Savage” by Ken Krippene, from SIR!, November 1959] 289
• “I Went Insane for Science” by ‘Dr. Robert H.’ from MAN’S MAGAZINE, August 1956
• “‘Ghost’ Bear That Terrorized a Town” by Robert F. Dorr, from MALE, February 1975
• “Just Window Shopping” by Lawrence Block (using the pseudonym Sheldon Lord), from MAN’S MAGAZINE, December 1962
• “I Was a Slave of the Savage Blonde” by E.C. Schurmacher, from HUNTING ADVENTURES, 1956
• “I Went to a Lesbian Party” by Joanne Beardon, from ALL MAN, May 1964
• “Monkey Madness” by Carl Evans, from MALE, August 1953
• “Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos” by Bruce Jay Friedman

Before you buy this discontinued edition, be sure that you didn’t mean to buy the new, full color, expanded hardcover edition or new, full color, expanded hardcover softcover edition.