The full color, expanded WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! anthology (Deluxe Hardcover Edition, 450 pages)

Description

This is the new, deluxe, expanded hardcover edition of WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH!, the acclaimed men’s adventure magazine story and art anthology first published in a black-and-white paperback edition in 2013.

The books is 6″ x 9″ and 450 pages long. It has a dust jacket and a beautiful board cover underneath that has its own special wraparound artwork.

WEASELS includes classic men’s adventure magazine stories by writers who later became famous, such as Lawrence Block, Harlan Ellison, Bruce Jay Friedman, Robert Silverberg, Jane Dolinger and Walter Wager, and many others. The stories are illuminated with full color reproductions of the MAM issues they appeared in, the illustration and photos used for them, and examples of wild MAM print ads.

There are also in-depth introductions about the authors, artists and magazines, an interview with Mario Puzo, who worked for men’s adventure magazines before THE GODFATHER made him famous, and the reminiscence “Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos” by Bruce Jay Friedman about his years as an editor of MALE and other MAMs before he became a renowned playwright, screenwriter and novelist.

From the jungles to the deserts to the mean city streets, the men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s—pulpy periodicals like REAL MEN, MALE, MAN’S LIFE, TRUE MEN STORIES, UNTAMED, EXOTIC ADVENTURES and GUSTO—left no male fantasy or interest unexplored. War stories, exotic adventure yarns, “true, first-hand” accounts of white-knuckle clashes between man and beast, and spicy tales of sadistic frauleins and tropical white queens hungry for companionship…topped off with salacious exposés of then-shocking subjects like free love, the Beat Generation, homosexuality, LSD and the secret horniness hidden in calypso lyrics.

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.

This new, full color, expanded edition also includes cover and interior scans, plus added commentary by the co-editor, graphic designer and publisher of the book, Wyatt Doyle. The new WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! is also available in a softcover edition that has the same content at a lower price.

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

The original 2013 black-and-white paperback edition is now discontinued, though a limited number of remaining 2013 copies in mint condition are available in a separate listing.