World Of Men Magazine5/5/2021
AdChoices AdChoices Privacy Statement Contact Us Send Us Feedback Jobs At Forbes Reprints Permissions Forbes Press Room Forbes Quote of the Day Advertise Report a Security Issue.Looking at the images along the right hand margin of page 45, from the top down, the first one features a Good Girl Art painting by Basil Gogos.
The article is heavily illustrated and the layout looks great. But there wasnt room to provide captions for all the covers and artwork it shows. World Of Men Magazine Series Of PostsSo, Im providing info about the issues and artists featured in a series of posts here on this blog. Todays post provides info about the images on the second page of the article (page 45 in the magazine). In the middle section of that page there are two original paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection, along with the covers they were used for. The first painting, by artist Vic Prezio, looks like it could be a poster for a pulp sleaze version of Roger Cormans 1961 film The Pit and the Pendulum. It was used on the cover of the June 1964 issue of REAL MEN magazine. The original painting below that was created by Basil Gogos for the March 1972 issue of MANS BOOK. I featured it in a previous post here.) In the 1950s and 1960s, Prezio and Gogos created cover paintings for both mens pulp magazines and the classic horror magazines published by Warren: FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, CREEPY and EERIE. James Bama is another artist who worked in both the mens adventure and horror magazine genres. He also created some terrific paintings for the classic Auroras monster model kits that were popular in the 1960s. A cropped image of Bamas painting for the Aurora Bride of Frankenstein model box is at the bottom left corner of the second page of our HORRORHOUND article. Below are photos of the top of the box and an assembled, unpainted model (from the cool Resin the Barbarian model fan site). The cover next Frankies Bride in the HORRORHOUND article is the November 1973 issue of WORLD OF MEN. The cover painting is by Marty Ripoll for the story TONIGHT SATAN CLAIMS HIS NAKED BRIDE. In my imagination, its a prequel to the campy William Shatner and Ernest Borgnine flick The Devils Rain.) The next image in the bottom row of p. Nazi bondage and torture cover: the October 1964 issue of MANS EPIC. The artist is uncredited, but it looks to me like it might have been painted by Norm Eastman, one of the grand masters of BDSM-themed sweat magazine subgenre of cover paintings. To the right of that is an EXOTIC ADVENTURES cover that features a fantastic painting by artist Hugh Hirtle. From the looks of the distressed damsel in that one, Id guess Hugh is a fan of Bettie Page. ![]() No. 2 from 1958) includes a long-overlooked erotic adventure story by the legendary science fiction author and screenwriter Harlan Ellison. The next cover in the bottom row, showing a bug-eyed babe being lowered onto a bunch of presumably poisonous snakes, is the October 1950 issue CHAMPION FOR MEN. The cover painting was done by the great pulp illustrator Clarence Doore. The March 1961 cover of BATTLE CRY thats next to last in the bottom row features another painting by Vic Prezio. This one is pretty horrific, even by the politically-incorrect standards of mens adventure magazines. It shows a Japanese soldier being fried alive by an American GIs flamethrower. Interestingly, this scene is somewhat similar to a cover used on one of the old BATTLE CRY comic books. Publisher Stanley Morse turned the BATTLE CRY comic into a mens adventure magazine after the puritanical Comics Code was imposed in the 1950s and essentially banned violent images in comics.
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