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Post by dem bones on Apr 8, 2024 19:24:06 GMT
Robert Deis & Wyatt Doyle [eds] - Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants: When Men's Adventure Magazines Got Weird (New Texture, Aug. 2023) Front cover. Geoffrey Biggs Trapped by a Man-Eating Tree [detail] Back. Jack Davis Curtain Call Men's Adventure Magazines [MAMs}
Mike Chomko - A Century of Weird Tales
Stefan Dziemianowicz - Weasels Ripped Their Flesh!
Robert Deis & Wyatt Doyle - A Turn for the Weird
Ronald Adamson - The Flag of the Stonewall Brigade
Ward Semple - When the Vampire Was Captured
Lewis Greer - Vampires Ripped My Flesh
Bill Wharton - Island of Doom
Robert Moore - Trapped by a Man-Eating Tree
Manly Wade Wellman - Song of the Slaves
H. P. Lovecraft - The Rats in the Walls
Gardner F. Fox - The Man Who Couldn't Die
Rick Rubin - The Hunted
Stuart Evans - The Werewolf and the Cowboy
Peter Eldridge - Mad Doctor of No-Name Key
George Venner - Her Body Belonged to the Devil
Dane Marshall - Their Bodies Glowed with Fire
Theodore Sturgeon - The Blonde with the Mysterious Body
William Bayne - Fowl Play
Rick Manners - Strange Cult of the Vampire Tarantulas
Martin Bowers - Soft Nudes for the Nazis' Doktor Horror
Goeffrey Costain - Stone Age Lust—Today
Gene Preen - Killer of the Cave Latest Men's Adventure compilation from regular Paperback Fanatic/ MOV/ Sleazy Reader & co. contributors. Attractively presented with glorious full colour cover reproductions and b/w interiors. A few stories are familiar from elsewhere. The Wellman and Lovecraft are via Cavalier (April 1959) and Sensation (Jan 1959) as opposed to Weird Tales. Theodore Sturgeon's The Blonde with the Mysterious Body is The Other Celia retitled for Men appeal. The Mad Doctor of No-Name Key is Count Carl von Cosel! Ronald Adamson - The Flag of the Stonewall Brigade: ( Action, March 1953). On his deathbed, Crofts, a veteran of the Civil war, passed on the tattered flag to his grandson Luther, who now has it with him in Korea. The blood-stained banner is sacred to the family as it has never been surrendered. When the platoon are ambushed by Chinese near the Manchurian border, Luther advances toward them, holding aloft the flag. The ghosts of a thousand Confederate soldiers rise to the rescue. Ward Semple - When the Vampire Was Captured: ( True Weird, March 1953). Retelling of Croglin Grange/ Varney the Vampyre via Augustus Hare's account as told in The Story of My Life. Lewis Greer - Vampires Ripped My Flesh: ( Man’s Life, March 1956). "I saw men sliced down the middle, split like stuck pigs by machetes that lanced through the jungle, thrown by unseen hands. I saw a lot of things that came under the general heading of horror but as I'd guessed, the worst was yet to come." Pursued by torture-happy Columbian tribesmen, Caymen and our narrator, army buddies turned emerald hunters, hole up for the night in a cave of blood-gorging winged death!  John DuilloTBC. Cheered me right up, this has.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 9, 2024 8:30:48 GMT
Lovecraft in Cavalier. Okay.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 9, 2024 15:46:59 GMT
Lovecraft in Cavalier. Okay. It's Wellman makes Cavalier. The Lovecraft appears in Sensation for January 1959, alongside Nude Siren of the Seven Seas! ("True adventure!"), The Sensation Girl ("photography for men") and a Sex Camp of the Cuban Rebels exclusive. "He'd likely have been appalled" deadpans Stefan Dziemianowicz. Bill Wharton - Island of Doom: ( Sport Trails, Spring 1957). It's a cinch to find the fortune of Aldabra. The trick is to get out — alive. Lister, Moyle and Hammett fall foul of the giant iguana's time forgot while hunting elephant-tortoise on a Madagascan island. Loosely based on factual events! Robert Moore - Trapped by a Man-Eating Tree: ( Man's Life, March 1958). WWII. Three Dutch Naval officers escape a Japanese prison camp only to stray into a vile green cannibal death trap! Manly Wade Wellman - Song of the Slaves: ( Cavalier, April 1959). As revisited and thrilled to just last week in A Treasury of American Horror Stories. The drowned dead take revenge on a slave trader. His The Desrick on Yandro, included in the same collection, is even better. Gardner F. Fox - The Man Who Couldn't Die: ( Adventure, August 1961). It is THE FUTURE. In return for a free pardon, Clarr Morson, criminal psychopath, agrees to have his brain transferred to the steel cranium of an eight-foot robot for a voyage to a star system beyond Pluto. The egghead scientists insist they've eradicated Morson's atavistic impulses, which just goes to show how wrong you can be. Through with the small time, the indestructible man has a new ambition — to lead an intergalactic crime league versus Earth! |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 10, 2024 17:43:00 GMT
 Bruce Minney: ( Adventure, Oct. 1961). The Strong Will Survive. The revolt of the robot — puny human's effortlessly overcome and banished to slave camps. Most accept their fate, but not healthy specimens, Mike Kolkowski and Maggie Eriksen, spurred on by rumours of a free people in the mountains, the mismatched couple escape into the forest, armed metal men in pursuit ... Stuart Evans - The Werewolf and the Cowboy: ( See for Men, Nov. 1961). Set in and around Henry's Corner, a backwoods farming community on the Idaho-Montana border. A malodorous stranger's arrival at the hotel coincides with the slaughter of a sheep herder by an oversized wolf. A second outrage, again on the night of a full moon, has cattle drover Burke Jackson pay a visit to the library to read up on lycanthrope. A month on, Henry sets a trap for the killer, be it man, beast or both. A gory seven pages further distinguished by "one of the worst illustrations we've encountered in a men's adventure magazine." Peter Eldridge - Mad Doctor of No-Name Key: ( Adventure Life, Dec. 1961). "She is sleep, I tell you, We must have patience. It is only a matter of time before she awakes, healthy and completely restored." Florida, August 1932. A 54-year-old radiologist's obsession with a dead consumptive drives him to plunder her corpse from the mausoleum he'd financed in Key West Cemetery. When the theft was eventually discovered, Karl von Cosel and lovely, dead Elena had been sharing a bed for seven years. |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 11, 2024 19:46:39 GMT
 Horror Stories, June 1971. : ( Man's Look, Dec. 1961). A chance meeting with that nice girl he used to know. Joan has since hooked up with a gang of depraved, marijuana-smoking witches fronted by two pillars of the local community. Tonight they celebrate the Black Mass. "Every single one of us is directly menaced by this invisible society. Even without being aware of them, we can become the object of their wrath." The same story resurfaced the following decade in the June 1971 issue of Horror Stories, this time as She Tried To Sell My Soul To Satan. Dane Marshall - Their Bodies Glowed with Fire: ( Peril, Dec. 1961). A flying saucer touches down in the Arizona desert. Viet vet Joe "that crazy redskin" Rainwater is enticed aboard by a crew of amorous big breasted female scientists for study. He's not complaining. Theodore Sturgeon - The Blonde with the Mysterious Body: ( Men, April 1962: Peter Haining [ed.], Beyond the Curtain of the Dark, 1966). Set in Mrs Kowper's cheap, rundown boarding house. Long time resident Slim Walsh, voyeur, obsesses over the activities of Celia Sarton, his new neighbour along the corridor. Slim simply has to know what she gets up to in the privacy of her room. Originally appeared in Galaxy for March 1957 as The Other Celia. Not the most obvious MAM material. |
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Post by helrunar on Apr 11, 2024 21:21:01 GMT
Juicy. Those marijuana-smoking Witches are utterly vicious and depraved. I bet the hero loved every Satanic second.
Hel.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 12, 2024 8:13:05 GMT
The never-ending joy of the MAMs. Here is a bit of random artwork out of Taschen's Men's Adventure Magazines.  Cover: Will Hulsey, 1956.
The skills of these commercial artists are fabulous. Nothing is more difficult to draw than animals. |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 16, 2024 6:08:54 GMT
I can see the appeal. Should anyone not be aware, you can download a handy Men's Adventure starter pack via Archive.org, which is where I got these sample pages (thanks to the scanners). Getting back to Atomic Werewolves ..., Stefan Dziemianowicz hints at compiling a listing of horror & supernatural fiction in the MAMs which would make for an interesting project.  Men, Aug 1958  Rage, April 1957  Man's Adventure, Dec 1964  Exotic Adventure, n.d.  Man's Conquest, Oct. 1959  Charles Copeland, Man's Adventure, Aug 1958  Man's Adventure, Dec 1964 |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 16, 2024 8:20:03 GMT
Getting back to Atomic Werewolves ..., Stefan Dziemianowicz hints at compiling a listing of horror & supernatural fiction in the MAMs which would make for an interesting project. Indeed. Didn't realize they did supernatural stuff in the magazines. |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 16, 2024 19:04:12 GMT
 Sydney Shores: ( Escape to Adventure, May 1962). Meet Bill, an employee at the city poultry plant, whose job is to decapitate chicken. Bill has had it up to here with his moaning wife and ghastly mother-in-law. Why not use his work training to be rid of them and feed the bodies to his hogs? Had this one been included in a mid-'sixties Pan Horror I doubt there'd have been complaints. Rick Manners - Strange Cult of the Vampire Tarantulas: ( Peril. Sept. 1962). Scientists investigating the disappearance of several colleagues in the Pacific are shipwrecked off Nukutipipi island, home to misanthropic maniac, Dr. Unicorn. Hurt in love and ridiculed by the scientific community, Unicorn has relocated to a Gothic castle — laboratory, dungeon, live-in idiot hunchbacked assistant, etc — there to conduct his diabolical revenge .... by transforming beautiful woman into giant blood-sucking arachnids! Can narrator-hero Rick save voluptuous Elaine from a hairy eight-legged death? Martin Bowers - Soft Nudes for the Nazis' Doktor Horror: ( Man's Story, Sept. 1964). First-hand accounts of monstrous "medical experiments in sadism and bestiality" conducted by Memmecke, Eisele, Rascher and fellow Nazi death doctors. Vivisection porn, etc. A cursory flick through sample issues confirms the MAMs went in for a lot of this kind of thing. |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 17, 2024 11:06:13 GMT
Last two;  Basil Gogos: : ( Man's Daring, July 1965). Stonehenge. Costain, an archaeologist attached to a London Uni, and hot girlfriend Doris fall foul of modern day cultists. Much flagellation, horrible gang rape sequence, human sacrifice on the altar stone, etc. Reads like a refugee from Web Terror Tales. Gene Preen - Killer of the Cave: ( Adventure, April 1966). The "good" news is, eight people — five male, three female — survive a nuclear strike. The bad news is that one of them is a throat-ripping monster. Will Don Newman, late of homicide division, nail the killer before it nails him? A post A-bomb And Then There Were None. Well, that was all very entertaining! Think I may have to check out some more of this stuff. Phillip Ronfor: Fury, Nov 1960 Leo Morey: Real Adventure, May 1956 |
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Post by humgoo on Apr 27, 2024 13:48:58 GMT
 Basil GogosI saved up a bit in order to get the hardback edition, as it has this alternate Basil Gogos cover which I just need to have. Turns out it's not just one of those "just bought for the cover" books. Like the Paperback Fanatic publications, this book is both education and entertainment. The introductions, the story notes, the illos ... they're just so well put together. I can understand why you couldn't help getting another title from their MAM library! The hardback edition has a bonus story: Bill Warren as told to Ted McDonald - Tonight Satan Claimed His Naked Bride: ( Man's Story, December 1971; World of Men, November 1973). Resident doctor Bill and his nurse girlfriend Alice fall into the hands of a devil-worshipping cult, led by "Satan" and a "sexy broad" called Monique Aleister. From editors' intro: |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 28, 2024 13:58:10 GMT
[div align="center" I saved up a bit in order to get the hardback edition, as it has this alternate Basil Gogos cover which I just need to have. Turns out it's not just one of those "just bought for the cover" books. I know what you mean. Just ordered a wicked expensive new artbook I accidentally discovered yesterday. I know I will have most of the material here collected, the man even had a blog, But I need to have it. |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 29, 2024 11:36:27 GMT
The hardback edition has a bonus story: Bill Warren as told to Ted McDonald - Tonight Satan Claimed His Naked Bride: ( Man's Story, December 1971; World of Men, November 1973). Resident doctor Bill and his nurse girlfriend Alice fall into the hands of a devil-worshipping cult, led by "Satan" and a "sexy broad" called Monique Aleister. From editors' intro: Wow, they even give you bonus content worthy of the name. Tonight Satan Claimed His Naked Bride is another that sounds like it could have found a home in Horror Stories/ Adventures in Horror. I'd not considered that before, but that's a really good point about the MAM hippies kind of inheriting the mantle of the red cowled and hooded torture merchants of the Weird Menace mags. And your Paperback Fanatic comparison is spot on! |
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