Men's Adventure Magazines

From Mafia hit men and farmers’ daughters to a 70-year-old “love captive.” (MALE magazine, May 1973 - Part 3)

noreply@blogger.com (SubtropicBob) — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:00:56 PDT

For me, reading old men’s pulp mags is a like visual, literary and sociological treasure hunt. If you’re interested in things like vintage pulp fiction and pulp illustration art, and mid-20th Century pop culture, sexual politics and history, you can find cultural gems in almost every vintage men’s adventure magazine published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. I featured some examples I found in the May 1973 issue of MALE in two previous posts. (Here’s a link to the first post and here’s a...

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MALE magazine, May 1973 - Part 2: from “Good Girl Art” to bad clothing...

noreply@blogger.com (SubtropicBob) — Sat, 12 May 2012 12:20:50 PDT

There are cool, interesting or entertainingly wacky things in almost every men’s adventure magazine published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. As mentioned in my last post, the May 1973 issue of MALE magazine includes classic stories by pulp-writer-turned-historian Robert F. Dorr, artwork by the great Mort Kunstler and photos by Jack Kerouac’s friend Jerry Yulsman. That issue also includes some other pop culture treasures. One is a lush, orange-tinted “Good Girl Art” duotone by Charles...

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Pulp fiction, pulp art and pop culture treasures from the May 1973 issue of MALE magazine...

noreply@blogger.com (SubtropicBob) — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:06:23 PDT

By 1973, the genre of male-oriented periodicals called men’s adventure magazines was starting to fade away. Most of those that remained had stopped using action/adventure paintings on their covers and switched to photos of semi-nude models. For example, the cover of the May 1973 issue of MALE magazine featured a photo of an unnamed topless model laying in the grass. The rest of the cover is taken up by a jumble of headlines. Most of those fall short of the gonzo creativity of cover...

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