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Title: It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps by Adam Parfrey, Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Mort Künstler, Bill Devine, Josh Alan Friedman, David Saunders ISBN: 0-922915-81-4 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I Fought Off Nazi She-Wolves and Cannibal Head Hunters
Comment: Conventional wisdom says that the pulp era in American publishing reached closure during WWII. This is incorrect. It just stagnated until morphing into something more extreme and sensational: the man's adventure magazine of the '50s and '60s.
This book presents hundreds of the most outrageous covers in full color throughout, as well as perfect reproductions of many of the original canvases by masters like Kunstler, Saunders, and Eastman. The reproduction work on the covers is excellent, but the original canvases are much sharper and more vivid. Anyone remotely interested in pulp or paperback book style illustration from the golden age should pick this up immediately.
Rating: 4
Summary: great covers
Comment: The covers were great...what was not needed is the looney left commentary.
Rating: 5
Summary: Raw emotions and the armpit slicks
Comment: Who would expect to see such a lavish all-color book about this down-market corner of American publishing, not me but I'm interested in visual popular culture and It's a Man's World is really quite a fascinating study of these 'slicks', produced from 1950 to 1970. They were edited by a small group of men who put out over six thousand issues of about a hundred and thirty titles. The leading publishers, Magazine Management went bust in 1975 and this particular male market slid predictably into soft porn.
The book rightly concentrates on the garish, dazzling covers, fortunately they all retain the logos and unbelievable cover lines and there are hundreds to pore over. Each cover (many shown life size) has a caption with the publishing date and where known, the artist's name. Leading illustrators like Mort Kunstler, Norm Eastman and Norman Saunders have a magnificent showing through all the pages. These covers were the USP of this particular market, a few of the magazines inside pages are shown and it seems clear to me that most of the editorial budgets were spent on the cover art. No matter what the title, it would sell better if some female, who always seemed unable to do up all the buttons on her blouse, was in a distressing situation just about to be rescued by a nearby white hunk.
One chapter, The Sadistic Burlesque, covers the titles that are most sought-after today. The paintings show sadistic extremes, mostly by Nazis or Commies, yet they were displayed on newsstands across the nation to be bought by any male. Perhaps for obvious reasons many of these covers have no artist credit. The cover lines are equally suggestive, the February 1963 issue of 'Men Today' promised 'Brides of agony in the cave of horror', 'Soft maidens for the monster devil fish' and 'Love captive of Castro's execution squad harlots'. Needless to say all the 'true' articles in these magazines were made up.
I found 'It's a Man's World' covered the post war pulps in loving detail and certainly worth getting if you are curious about popular art and culture. Now that these titles are (fortunately) gone men can read about themselves in 'The Von Hoffman Brothers: Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness' (ISBN 1575440849) and I doubt that the male authors of this book would be seen dead reading the 'armpit slicks', they would be too busy being real men.
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Title: Bad Girls of Pulp Fiction by Thomas Campbell, Nancy Armstrong, Jason Rekulak, Running Press ISBN: 0762412569 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Uncovered: The Hidden Art Of The Girlie Pulp by Douglas Ellis ISBN: 1886937745 Publisher: Adventure House Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Belarski Pulp Art Masters by John P. Gunnison, Rudolph Belarski ISBN: 1886937761 Publisher: Adventure House Pub. Date: 25 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward by Alex Chun, Bill Ward ISBN: 1560975318 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines by Peter Haining ISBN: 1556523890 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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