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The collection of cover art is excellent. The text is woefully thin, however, with only a couple of essays and a few interviews. This expanded edition includes some fascinating WWII advertising meant to reveal the precursors of Men's Adventure magazine illustrations, but the case is only marginally made in the essay. The hundreds of pages of art carries this one.
It's a Man's World pays tribute to to the American men's magazines that were tremendously popular from the 1950s through the early 1970s. These magazines were highly formulaic and catered to a particular brand of masculinity that became increasingly sexual and increasingly violent as time went on. They contained things you'd expect in today's magazines - how-to sections, dating dips, salacious exposes, etc. But they also contained things you wouldn't expect to find in your typical copy of GQ - o...
It definitely would have benefited from coverage of more publishers, foreign versions, and more demographic information. I wanted to know more about the average guy who bought this magazine, where did he live, what did he do for a living, things like that... and for a magazine genre that survived for a good 20 years, they definitely must have had access to that kind of information somewhere.I also do not understand the book editor's explanation for why they ignored the best selling magazine of t...
I'm kind of inbetween books, so this is a cool placeholder that I pick up and flip through all the time.
Jolly good fun; a heady mix of bizarre homo-eroticism and 50s and 60s prejudices.
I loved this book!
A collection of old men's pulp magazine cover art with some essay's thrown in. Great stuff.
When I was a toddler, I was babysat by a middle-aged neighbor couple, and the husband had a collection of old magazines with covers that, as I later remembered them, featured bikini-clad Nazi chicks exchanging gunfire with other bikini-clad Nazi chicks from the decks of speeding boats. Was I dreaming? As an adult, on the rare occasions that I mentioned those magazines to people my age, no one shared my recollection of them. Then I came across this book, which, at long last, assured me that such
Ass-kickin' gut-punchin' comp from REAL MENS Magazines of the Fifties and Sixties when us machos were chain-smokin' Luckies and spitting in front of church and all we shaved was our chins...if we felt like it!I was gonna review this book but I was too busy fightin' off a Grizzly Bear in the Sahara while a Nazi Colonel had a bikini clad blonde bound and gagged in front of a red ant hill and a dozen scorpions ready to kill her and an evil but fetchingly stacked Japanese dragon lady in a torn up ki...
While I wish there was a little more meat to it in terms of delving deeper into talking about the societal pressures that caused these wacko mags to exist, you can't deny that it gives an overview and provides loads of amazing art. It's not a total examination of a time, but more of a broad look at the weirdness. Totally recommended, if only for the batshit stuff inside.
I loved the covers of shirtless guys getting attacked by everything imaginable in the animal kingdom. The Nazi stuff wasn't as funny.
