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…
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Men’s “sweat magazine” cover paintings from the Oberg Collection – Part 3: originals by Bruce Minney, Walter Popp and Vic Prezio…
Today’s post is the third in a series showing original men’s “sweat magazine” cover paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection (courtesy of Rich). The first post in the series featured…
PulpFest 2024 gets “Spicy”!
Editor’s Note: From August 1 to August 4, my Men’s Adventure Library co-editor, Wyatt Doyle and will be in Pittsburgh at the PulpFest 2024 Convention. As usual, we’ll have a…
Pollen’s Action: The Art of Samson Pollen (DELUXE HARDCOVER ART BOOK)
This listing is for a brand new copy of the book POLLEN’S ACTION: THE ART OF SAMSON POLLEN, co-edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle with Sam. Samson Pollen (1931–2018), was one of the great men’s adventure magazine and paperback artists, along with artists like Mort Künstler, James Bama, Gil Cohen, Bruce Minney, Vic Prezio, Mel Crair, and Basil Gogos.
He was one of the grandmasters of interiors illustrations for stories that appeared in men’s adventure magazines published by Martin Goodman’s Magazine Management Company in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Magazine Management (which also launched the Marvel comics empire) published some of the best and longest-lasting MAMs, such as ACTION FOR MEN, FOR MEN ONLY, MALE, MAN’S WORLD, MEN, STAG, and TRUE ACTION.
Unlike most other top artists who did artwork for those periodicals, Pollen preferred to do interior illustrations rather than cover art. He liked the greater room for expression provided by the 2-page spreads most MAM interior artwork was used for. Thus, most of the paintings are a horizontal format, designed to be printed across two pages in a magazine. Some were printed across two pages vertically, like a centerfold.
Only a small percentage of the interior spreads in the Magazine Management men’s magazines were published in full color. Most were either black-and-white illustrations or “duotones”— paintings created with and printed in shades of a single color and black.
Pollen was a grandmaster of both black-and-white and duotone art. Indeed, many of his duotones look like they are full color. POLLEN’S ACTION reproduces scores of classic MAM original paintings by Pollen along with scans of the 2-page magazine spreads they were used. It’s a follow-up to POLLEN’S WOMEN: THE ART OF SAMSON POLLEN, which focuses on MAM artwork Sam did that feature alluring femmes fatales and exotic “native” girls.
To do justice Pollen’s artwork, both of those volumes are printed in a horizontal 8.5″ x 11″ format. Thus, the paintings he created for 2-page spreads in the magazines are shown on single pages in the book. Both books are deluxe hardcovers printed on high quality paper.
The majority of the photos of the original paintings included POLLEN’S ACTION and POLLEN’S WOMEN were taken by Pollen himself. Almost none of these original paintings have been shown in any other art books before.
A third book in the series, POLLEN IN PRINT: 1955-1959, is a chronological presentation of Pollen’s work as it was first seen by MAM readers in the pages of men’s adventure magazines published between 1955 and 1959.
All three Pollen books were co-edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle and include commentary by Sam Pollen taken from interviews Deis and Doyle recorded with him before he passed. All are published via Doyle’s New Texture imprint and are available from Amazon worldwide, BudsArtBooks.com and other independent booksellers, or directly from co-editor Bob Deis via his MensPulpMags.com website.
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About our book POLLEN IN PRINT: 1955-1959
Artist Samson Pollen created hundreds of classic illustrations for the men’s adventure magazines (MAMs, for short) published in the 1950s, 1960s and 197os. He was one of the top illustrators who…
Men’s Adventure Quarterly #4 — the “Jungle Girls” story and art issue (PAPERBACK)
This issue of MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY collects classic stories and artwork from vintage men’s adventure magazines that feature both fiction “Jungle Girls” — the savage siren of men’s adventure fiction — and special features about two real-life Jungle Girls: travel/adventure writer and pinup model “JUNGLE JANE” DOLINGER and actress MARION MICHAEL, who played LIANE, JUNGLE GODDESS!
This issue also tells tales of Jungle She-Wolves, Topless Armies, Jaguar Princesses, Battles for Jungle Brides, and Amazon Love Compounds — all brought to life by the finest action illustrators like Mort Künstler, James Bama, Vic Prezio, and Clarence Doore.
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The Men’s Adventure Quarterly #2, the “Espionage Issue” — ’60s spy stories & art (PAPERBACK)
This ALL-ESPIONAGE issue of MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY celebrates spy stories from vintage men’s adventure magazines. These behind-enemy-lines, nail-biting spy thrillers, and articles are brilliantly written by Walter Kaylin, Don Honig, Robert F. Dorr, and many others. Illustrated by renowned artists such as Mort Künstler, Vic Prezio, and Walter Popp. The MAQ Cover Gallery features some of the wildest in espionage illustration, and the MAQ Gal-lery features the ladies who could become “Jane Bond.” More than “swinging spy-fi” this issue of the MAQ is a mission back into the dirty dealings and desperate acts of agents of the Cold War Intelligence services who used any means necessary to succeed. MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY is an acknowledged leader in republishing men’s adventure fiction for new readers.
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The Men’s Adventure Quarterly #1 — classic Western stories & art issue (PAPERBACK)
The MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY is a lushly-illustrated, full color magazine launched in 2021 that reprints and discusses classic stories and artwork from men’s adventure magazines published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. This first issue reprints rip-snorting Western stories by Lou Cameron, Dean W. Ballenger, Jack Pearl, Don Honig and other veteran action/adventure writers. Each story is accompanied by the cover of the magazine it appeared in and the original interior artwork, plus an introduction with background information on the writer, artist or magazine. Issue #1 also includes a special Western cover gallery featuring artwork by great artists like Frank McCarthy, Mort Künstler, Rafael DeSoto, Robert Stanley, Vic Prezio, Norm Eastman, Wil Hulsey, Charles Copeland, Bob Schulz and many others. There’s also a “cheesecake” pinup photo “GAL-lery” featuring model and actress Juli Reding, classic men’s adventure magazine cartoons and ads, and a guest editorial by Western expert and author Paul Bishop, co-host of the SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST. Start your MAQ collection with this inaugural issue, and watch for new ones every quarter. The MAQ is Co-edited by Robert “Bob” Deis, Co-editor (with Wyatt Doyle) of the Men’s Adventure Library book series, which includes art books like MORT KÜNSTLER: THE GODFATHER OF PULP FICTION ILLUSTRATORS, ONE MAN ARMY: THE ACTION PAPERBACK ART OF GIL COHEN, POLLEN’S WOMEN: THE ART OF SAMSON POLLEN, EVA: MEN’S ADVENTURE SUPERMODEL and illustrated story anthologies like WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH, A HANDFUL OF HELL, I WATCHED THEM EAT ME ALIVE and CUBA: SUGAR, SEX, AND SLAUGHTER. The MAQ is designed and co-edited by Bill Cunningham, founder of Pulp 2.0 Press (KILLER, TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN, DEATH KISS: THE BOOK OF THE MOVIE, MIKE SHAYNE PRIVATE EYE COMIC COLLECTION, etc.). Each issue of the MAQ will focus on classic men’s adventure magazines stories and artwork related to a particular theme. This first issue focuses on Western stories and artwork. Issue #2 will focus on James Bond-style Sixties espionage stories and artwork. Other topics will include motorcycle gangs, Bigfoot and other cryptozoology creatures, war stories, Beatniks and Hippies, the Civil War, and other favorite topics of men’s adventure magazine readers. Be sure to get them all!
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POLLEN IN PRINT 1955-1959, our new Samson Pollen art book
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post refers to the special edition of POLLEN IN PRINT 1955-1959 that came with perks via an Indiegogo campaign listing. That campaign has ended. However, the book…
The “Jungle Girls” issue of the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY (MAQ #4)
It has been one year since Bill Cunningham of Pulp 2.0 Press and I launched the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY. The MAQ is a full-color, 150-page magazine that reprints and discusses…
The MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY, Vol. 1, No. 2 – our spy stories & artwork issue
The MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2 – our spy stories & artwork issue. Recently, Bill Cunningham of Pulp 2.0 Press and I released the second issue of our new full-color, 150+ page MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY magazine. Copies the MAQ are available on Amazon in the US and worldwide. You can also get copies directly from me via my eBay listings.