#men's Adventure Magazines

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1960 01 Real Man cover - Victor Prezio

A Million Dollars Lay in my Grasp, Until a Woman's Flesh Led Me into Hell

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All Man July and November 1962

[mrrubbersuitman]

https://www.etsy.com/.../mans-illustrated-vol-2-4-mens... VF Man's Illustrated 2.4, regularly $25.00, on sale until 7/5 through the link for $20.00

[delguy]

Shudder Pulps also known as Weird Menace Pulps of the 1930s had a brief but very important life. It was discovered through these crudely written magazines with sleazy covers that there was a large market for fiction about lovely young damsels in a state of undress under threat of physical peril being rescued (or not) by studly red-blooded male protagonists. The magazines faded out with a whimper during the 1940s due to burnout and boycotts by the blue noses. The lessons they imparted however were absorbed. The same tropes and situations would reoccur in the post-war Men's Adventure Magazines, only much better written and packaged.

[dirtyriver]

Cover of True Men Stories, May 1961

The Gold Blonde: Key to Freedom - Or Hell, by Earl Norem, 1961

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Adventure For Men Feb 1967

Victor Olson

[driveintheaterofthemind]

The Mad Monsters Of Monda-Lau!

Art by John Duillo

Peril (Mar1962)

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Stag magazine illustrations by Mort Künstler (1950s, 1960s)

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From the cover of BOLD MEN magazine Vol 5, #2 (Cape Magazine Management, 1961)

Artist: uncredited, possibly George Wilson?

[trashmenace]

Man's Book, February 1973

Man's Book February 1973 Vol 12 No 1

From the dying days of the Men's Adventure magazines before they went full porn. A couple of topless spreads and tons of ads. The texts were very short, maybe four pages worth each at most. Man's Book lasted five more issues.

Savagery in Action - They Prey on Homosexuals by Charles Beach

Broad overview of blackmail against gays.

The Incredible Raid of Italy's Kissing Daughters of Doom by Roy Harper

An Italian sex worker working with anti-fascists sneaks a bomb into a detention center to kill her beloved before he's tortured for information.

10 Weaknesses That Can Doom Your Love Life by L.O. Peterson

Pop sexology

The Monster Vampires Who Lived on Maidens' Blood by Chuck McCarthy

Quick story of Elisabeth Bathory. The torture deaths of her accomplices are a bit more embellished than I've seen elsewhere;

I Pay Off in Lust - Confessions of an Orgy Girl by Lola Bryan

The story of women hired by yacht salesmen to entertain potential clients.

Dance, My Darlings, to the Whip's Evil Song by Lotya Grez as told to Jim McDonald

A woman is forced to play the violin in a concentration camp orchestra while others are whipped.

The Truth About Aphrodisiac Foods

They don't work and are dangerous. Gave a stat about heroin overdoses in NYC that works out to 800 a year - in 2021 there were 2668 overall overdose deaths, a 234% increase against just a 19% increase in population. Also mentions the "regulation" WWII era diet of 3000 calories a day. I looked up the study and it was more like 3600, but that may have been the baseline for soldiers in the field.

It's Raining Fire on Hell's Beach by Cpl. Ben Vetter

Brutal tale of rangers being decimated behind enemy lines in Italy. The highlight of the mag.

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Marvel Universe trading cards, series II, 1991, Disney Adventures Magazine ad.

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Stag May 1960

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Adventure magazine - April 1966.

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September 2002

[frankensteinical]

Forty Days of Frankenstein, Day Three: Back in the 1950s there was this array of "Men's Adventure Magazines," with names like "Man's Life," or "Argosy," or whatever. Covers usually featured paintings of manly men doing manly things, sometimes with scantily clad women-in-peril being rescued by said men. They contained lurid stories of adventure presented often in the first person as though true, and breathless "the real truth about" articles. The April, 1959 issue of "Spur" magazine contained the article "The REAL Dr. Frankenstein," (spoiler: no) with a two page illustration of a crazy mad scientist working on his monster. The monster half of the illustration, by artist Emile Ferrari, I present to you forthwith. Note that by this point, we are firmly in Karloff/Pierce territory, with many excellent stitchy stitches and head electrodes.

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Real Men Apr 1963 (and Man's Adventure Jul 1965)

Victor Prezio