February 2007: IT’S A MAN’S WORLD by Adam Parfrey

Men’s Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps
By Adam Parfrey, with contributions from Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Mort Kunstler, David Saunders, Bill Devine
Top of Form Man’s Exploits, Rage, Escape to Adventure—these were a few of the 35 cent magazines that helped veterans confront the confusion of jobs, girls and the Cold War after coming home from World War II.

It’s a Man’s World looks back at the last great run of pop illustrations, at least as brilliant as pulp’s best. Contributions from Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, and David Saunders help bring us inside the offices, showing us how the writers, illustrators, editors, and publishers put together two decades of “armpit slicks.”

Original art from the notorious Mort Kunstler, Norman Saunders and Norm Eastman are featured within, and Bill Devine’s annotated checklist of the many thousands of adventure magazines is essential for collectors of the genre.Author Adam Parfrey is the editor of Extreme Islam, Apocalypse Culture II, and the co-author of Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs. The work of Design Editor Hedi El Kholti can also be seen in the Feral House publications Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique and Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin and the Dilettante Press Book, Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan.