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Here's the classic Glamour Girl Gladiator cover of the March 1962 issue of RAGE, one of my favorite gonzo men's pulp adventure magazines. More about it here - bit.ly/11gGhtV
“It was the procession of the beasts. Cosmo Versal had concluded that the time was come for housing his animals.” [Accompanying description]
“The time was come for housing his animals in the ark. He wished to accustom them to their quarters before the voyage began. The resulting spectacle filled the juvenile world with irrepressible joy, and immensely interested their elders.
“No march of a menagerie had ever come within sight of equaling this display. Many of the beasts were such as no one there had ever seen before. Cosmo had consulted experts, but, in the end, he had been guided in his choice by his own judgment. Nobody knew as well as he exactly what was wanted. He had developed in his mind a scheme for making the new world that was to emerge from the waters better in every respect than the old one.
“Mingled with such familiar creatures as sheep, cows, dogs, and barnyard fowl, were animals of the past, which the majority of the onlookers had only read about or seen pictures of, or perhaps, in a few cases, had been told of in childhood, long since sleeping in their graves.
“Cosmo had rapidly collected them from all parts of the world, but as they arrived in small consignments, and were carried in closed vans, very few persons had any idea of what he was doing . . .” [Quoting from the story]
If you're going to get a tramp for your boat, I recommend the Luxury Boat Tramp upgrade... (MALE, August 1965. Art by Charles Copeland for a story by Alex Austin.)
30" x 60" LEGO Stacked Plate Mosaic of John Travolta playing Vincent Vega and Samuel L Jackson playing Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
Huge thanks to Adam Jay from superherocreations.com/ for photographing this mosaic and to Pepa Quin for processing the raw images.
Here's one of the men's adventure magazine cover paintings I saw last weekend on my trip to the Florida Pulp AdventureCon. It's by Norm Eastman and was used on the cover of BLUEBOOK, October 1966. More shots of what I saw in this post on my blog - www.menspulpmags.com/2015/02/the-florida-pulpadventure-co...
One of the cheapo, sleaze mags published by Natlus, Inc. - www.menspulpmags.com/2010/05/mans-exploits-magazine-gives...
Long before the term "sideboob" existed, men's adventure magazine editors knew it was something that would attract attention on newsstands... SEE FOR MEN, July 1962. Cover painting by George Gross. More about George here -> www.pulpartists.com/Gross.html
by Arthur Abram
He couldn't resist her exotic beauty...though it enticed him to murder!
Digest size
UNI Book 24
(c) no date but Feb 15, 1952 stamped on back
On the cover is an illustration of a battleship that has been cut loose by sweeping waves and runs down the lofty New York Municipal tower where crowds had sought refuge from the rising flood waters.
“The late Professor Garrett P. Serviss, the well-known scientist-author hits upon the effects which would be produced on humanity by a second deluge. It is an impressive tale, and not a whit more improbable than the first Noachian deluge of Biblical days. Only the setting is modern, and the second great ark is, of course, vastly different from that used by Noah. . .” [From the Editor’s Note]
“An undersized, lean, wizen-faced man, with an immense bald head, as round and smooth and shining as a great soap-bubble . . . Cosmo Versal sat bent over a writing desk with a huge sheet of cardboard before him, on which he was swiftly drawing geometrical and trigonometrical figures. Compasses, T-squares, rulers, protractors, and ellipsographs obeyed the touch of his fingers as if inspired with life. . .
“My God!” he said. “That’s it! That Lick photograph of the Lord Rosse nebula is its very image, except that there’s no electric fire in it. The same great whirl of outer spirals, and then comes the awful central mass – and we’re going to plunge straight into it. Then quintrillions of tons of water will condense on the earth and cover it like a universal cloudburst. And then good-by to the human race – unless –unless I, Cosmo Versal, inspired by science, can save a remnant to repeople the planet after the catastrophe . . .” [Quoting from the story].
In 1970, artist Stan Borack did several cover paintings for MAN'S MAGAZINE that are reminiscent of James Bama's famed HARRAD EXPERIMENT paperback cover. Some of Borack's MAN'S MAGAZINE covers were signed. Some were not. This one is not and no artist credit is given, but I'm pretty sure it's by Borack. The male model is the great Steve Holland -- who was also Bama's model for the HARRAD EXPERIMENT.
For more on this one, you could have a look at my blog: davewhatt.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/streaked-out-like-a-fo...
“Islands of Space” is generally credited with introducing the concepts of “hyperspace” and the “warp drive” to science fiction. (So, Star Trek got it wrong in claiming Zefram Cochrane was the inventor:-) The story concerns the adventures of four heroes: Arcot, Morey, Wade and Fuller. They put together a ship that can travel faster than light.
“The concept was simple; to make it plausible wasn’t – unless you were John Campbell. With this out-of-space drive, they hightail it among the stars. They locate the fugitive planets of the Black Star. . . find a frozen cemetery-world of a lost race. . . then head out for another galaxy. . . and wind up in a knock-down drag-out interplanetary war.” – P. Schuyler Miller, Astounding Science Fiction
The story was published in book form in 1957 by Fantasy Press, and a paperback edition was put out by Ace Books in 1966. John W. Campbell, Jr. went on to become the editor of “Astounding Science Fiction” from late 1937 until his death in 1971 and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He wrote super-science space opera under his own name and stories under his primary pseudonym, Don A. Stuart. [Source: Wikipedia]
[Note: You know writers and producers are combing through these old files for story ideas, especially those for which the copyright has expired]
Somewhere near Gilligan's Island, there's "Bad-Girl Island"... (MAN'S CONQUEST magazine, August 1959. Artwork by Phil Berry.) This tender love story seems like a good one to include in the sequel to the WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH anthology (www.WeaselsRipped.com).
The, er, titillating stories written by Erskine Caldwell were popular in the men's adventure magazines and usually had great GGA ("Good Girl Art") illustrations to go with them... Like this one in FOR MEN ONLY, December 1966. Artwork by Charles Copeland. More about the term GGA here - www.menspulpmags.com/2010/11/good-girl-art-by-basil-gogos...
Daylight Savings humor from the Men's Pulp Adventure Magazines Facebook Group. More here -> www.facebook.com/groups/187984097012/
More classic evil Cuban Commies, on the cover of MAN'S STORY, June 1964. Painting by Norm Eastman. The model for the poor distressed damsel was Eva Lynd. More about Norm and Eva in these posts - www.menspulpmags.com/search?q=Eastman+Eva+Lynd
by Doug Duperrault
They Called Her A Trailer Tramp!
A Story Of The Carefree Women Who Live -- And Love -- In Trailer Camps
From back cover: A Girl In A Gilded Cage -- On Wheels! TRAILER Tramp, they called Anne Mitchell. Yet she was no more than the innocent victim of explosive desire, the dupe of a diabolical brute who made of her life a hell on wheels -- and Anne herself, a hellcat!
Digest size
Intimate Books 46
(c) 1953
“So Young . . . So Evil”
“Theona was so young to be so evil but only her sister Kit, who looked enough like her to be her twin, knew what rottenness lay below Theona’s luscious blonde beauty. Now at nineteen Theona had become involved in the ugliest scandal of her entire life and Kit felt duty bound to extricate her. ‘YELLOW HEAD’ is the staccato-paced story of Kit’s hopeless struggle to save her wanton, love-crazy sister from self-destruction at any cost – even at the cost of the man she loves.
“Unfolding against the tough, realistic background of a mushrooming West Coast town, itself threatened by powerful forces of vice and corruption, this novel breathes life and warmth into an unforgettable story of love, loyalty and murder – a story that could only have been written about – and for – our times.” [From the back cover]
“Scratch the Surface . . .”
“Two exquisitely lovely sisters, as alike as identical twins on the surface – so utterly different inside! Theona – wanton, cruel and provocative. And Kay “[sic]” – warm, reserved, desirable. Brill O’Hearn thought he knew which sister he wanted – until he discovered that, by falling in love with one, he had become doubly susceptible to both!
“Here is the raw, shocking story of two warm-blooded women whose desire for the same man stirs up that deepest rivalry of all, a rivalry between sisters, where blood ties are forgotten and all restraints removed as the age-old animal, struggle for a mate, erupts in uncontrollable viciousness and passion.” [From the Intro inside the front cover]
[Note: The pulps paved the way for mass-market erotica, normalizing stories that flirted with taboo. Both genres were often dismissed as "low brow" or "trash," yet they tapped into real emotional and psychological currents -- especially around gender, power, and desire.]
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...You're a real Khan-do kinda guy. (MAN'S ADVENTURE, October 1958. Cover painting by Clarence Doore.)
Nothing Freudian to see here...Move along, folks. (REAL MEN, February 1965. Artist uncredited. More examples of "snake menace" artwork in the post at this link - bit.ly/M0PdNL.)
This Bruce Minney painting was featured in a recent episode of the History Channel's "American Pickers" TV show. It was used for the cover of the June 1970 issue of NEW MAN magazine. More of the Minney paintings featured in that episode are shown in this post on MensPulpMags.com - bit.ly/1cLFHhO
A classic Earl Norem illustration used for a biker story in STAG, May 1971. More Norems here --> www.menspulpmags.com/2015/07/earl-norem-is-gone-but-his-m...
A demented Nazi Cecil B. DeMille shoots his next epic, in a Norman Saunders painting on the October 1969 issue of MAN'S STORY. "And . . . action!"
For ODC - Escape - guess he had a lucky escape he didn't end up in the Smoothie :)
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This was one of my photos for the Daisy Dayes photo scavenger hunt. The prompt was to recreate a movie poster. Henry in the Pulp Fiction poster seemed like an obvious choice!
Artist uncredited. Does anyone out there know who the artist was on this one? By the way, you can buy t-shirts, posters, coffee mugs, and other cool stuff featuring this cover in the MensPulpMags.com Cafepress store - www.cafepress.com/menspulpmags/7875867
Think you're having a bad day? Consider the situation facing the poor lass in this scene on the cover of CLASH, February 1965, painted by Norm Eastman. More Eastman covers here - bit.ly/1xfuxwU
Now that's what I call pulp fiction! Brilliant anonymous cover to the 1958 printing of "Avenging Nymph" by "Hank Janson". The inside cover notes that it is 'translated from the French', possibly to give it an added air of allure, things "French" being considered very edgy back in those days! 2/6,or half a crown, and 12.5p in decimal currency - that was the price of a Ladybird Book or Matchbox toys then (and that is what my money went on!).
“A groan from amid the wreckage made my twitching fingers make haste, and in another moment I had lighted a candle. I found Vogel sprawled on the floor, his face ghastly, his eyes blank and terrible and he seemed to be in a delirium.” [Text accompanying the illustration]
It was a strange dream, Henry did not understand the meaning at all, but sagacious study of Tarantino films had taught it's lesson's well. After thinking about his dream a while, Henry decided to have a smoke and pay a visit to the International House of Pancakes. It was there that he met Christina. She had a Mercedes and a plan. Henry had the know-how and the contacts. All they needed was a little gasoline.
Strobist: AB1600 with 60X30 softbox camera right. Reflector camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
Eva Lynd was one of Norm Eastman's favorite models for his men's adventure magazines cover paintings. She was a blonde, but Norm sometimes changed a model's hair color in his cover paintings. I'm pretty sure the redhead in this Eastman cover scene is Eva. Here's more info about her and Eastman's "sweat magazine" artwork - www.menspulpmags.com/2012/04/eva-lynd-in-norm-eastman-cov...
“The audience was on edge. Faster and faster the colors flared and streamed . . . Still the musician played madly at his keyboard. A scream of terror split the air as the upper console of the clavilux splintered. The screen flared a terrific series of reds and burst into genuine fire.” [Text accompanying the illustration]
“The color organ, invented by Thomas Wilfred some years ago, and now being used to some extent in the Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn, is, without a doubt, capable of much development. . .” [Intro to the story]
uma ilustração que fiz há cerca de quatro mêses, uma das primeiras que fiz após resolver voltar a desenhar depois de alguns anos parado.
From ARGOSY, September 1967... A story by Jack Schaefer, author of SHANE, MONTE WALSH, and many other classic Westerns (on Amazon here -> (amzn.to/3neKbUE). The great illustration is by artist Fred Mason. (Scan via the Men's Adventure Magazines & Books Group-> www.facebook.com/groups/187984097012/)
Dime novels, and cheaper pulp fiction magazines, were popular from the middle nineteenth century through the early twentieth century.
-- Library, University of Missouri
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Bonco was a parlour game popular from the 19th C but became a term for various illegal activities involving scams, etc. Peaked in the 20s during prohibition, where it was played at speakeasies and gambling joints. There was a Bonco King who eventually was brought to justice in the 20s.
That brings us onto John R Conway. This appears as one of many pen names of William Wallace Cook, who wrote for what we called 'penny dreadfuls' and comics, etc., during this period.
As for the Bowery Boy comic, John R Conway was the pen name shared by both Cook and an Earnest A Young.
-- Ian (fulvue)