Real Men Magazine ran from 1956 to 1975. It was a magazine full of pin-ups and stories about war, crime, and adventure. You can probably guess what the magazine was about just by looking at the covers below. If you think some of the covers below are racy, you should see the ones that I couldn’t include in this post!
by Clarence Doore
by Clarence Doore
by John Leone
by Mel Crair
by Milton Luros
by Roger Kastel
by Roger Kastel
by Sydney Shores
by Victor Prezio
by Victor Prezio
One of the most popular and financially successful pulp magazines, Adventure Magazine ran from 1910 t0 1971, for a total of 881 issues! That’s 881 covers, all done by some of the best illustrators and artists in the pulp field. I can’t share all 881 of those covers but I can still offer a small but representative sampling of the adventurous covers of Adventure Magazine! As you can see Adventure featured adventures that took place everywhere, including underwater, in the jungle, in war, and during the era of the Old West.
By Charles Dye
by Griffith Foxley
by Herb Mott
by Mel Crair
by Mort Kunstler
by Peter Stevens
by Rico Tomaso
by Roger Kastel
by Shannon Stirnweis
by Sydney Shores
by Victor Prezio
by Walter Baumhofer
by Mel Crair
He’s definitely hard something! And look at those intense eyes, my God. I don’t know if I’d want to be the woman standing behind him because he looks like a rough character.
Hardrock was first published in 1963. From the 30s until he died in 1988, Bonham wrote over 40 novels. The majority of them were westerns, like this one. The cover was done by Mel Crair, who this site has featured in the past and will probably feature again in the future.
Mel Crair was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended the LaGuardia High School of music and art, where one of his classmates was future artist Stanley Borack. After serving in the Army during World War II, Crair attended the Art Students League of New York on the G.I. Bill. Starting in the 1950s, he became one of the most prolific artists working in the pulp magazine and paperback business. Especially remembered for both his western piantings and the military-themed covers that he painted for several men’s magazines, Crair never retired, working until his dying day.
Below is a small sampling of his work:
Through the Shattered Lens 