THE MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #10: FULL COLOR EDITION By Robert Deis
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In his younger days Robert Deis worked as a teacher an artist a musician a logger in the Maine woods a magazine writer and a state government official Eventually by accident rather than design he fell into a long lasting career as a political media consultant Now retired Bob spends much of his time collecting writing and publishing books about the men s adventure magazines MAMs that flourished in the 1950s 1960s and 1970s In 2009 he created a popular website about the genre site_link www. The men's adventure quarterly book review com Several years later he became friends with another MAM fan Wyatt Doyle head of the New Texture indie book and CD publishing imprint Together Bob and Wyatt co edit and publish the Men s Adventure Library series of books that col In his younger days Robert Deis worked as a teacher an artist a musician a logger in the Maine woods a magazine writer and a state government official Eventually by accident rather than design he fell into a long lasting career as a political media consultant Now retired Bob spends much of his time collecting writing and publishing books about the men s adventure magazines MAMs that flourished in the 1950s 1960s and 1970s In 2009 he created a popular website about the genre site_link www. THE MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY epubs com Several years later he became friends with another MAM fan Wyatt Doyle head of the New Texture indie book and CD publishing imprint Together Bob and Wyatt co edit and publish the Men s Adventure Library series of books that collect classic MAM stories and artwork Their books currently include WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH HE MEN BAG MEN NYMPHOS CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY A HANDFUL OF HELL BARBARIANS ON BIKES I WATCHED THEM EAT ME ALIVE and POLLEN S WOMEN THE ART OF SAMSON POLLEN and CUBA SUGAR SEX AND SLAUGHTER Bob also writes two blogs about famous quotations site_link www. The men's adventure quarterly book review com He lives near Key West with a beautiful wife who graciously tolerates his piles of old magazines and their three dogs and four cats site_link Anyone familiar with the wonderfully bizarre world of the men s adventure magazines that became a popular phenomenon in the mid 1950s until finally petering out in the 1970s will know that World War II provided much of their material with a heavy emphasis on the evil and tortuous predilections of Nazis and fanatical Japanese The much recent conflict in Korea also provided plenty of derring do for brave Americans against the villainous Communist North Koreans and Chinese But then came the early 1960s and a whole new and contemporaneous war Vietnam one that was being fought not in the recent past but in the present As enormous as World War II was our own involvement in it lasted less than four years from December 1941 to August 1945 the Korean war was shorter still from 1950 to 1953 Vietnam was a different matter our longest war up to that time from the early 60s to the early 70s with our last personnel not leaving the country until the fall of Saigon in 1975 It was the war that was always there through most of the 1960s into the early 70s a war with few major battles but constant and so the men s magazines reflected this new ongoing reality Unlike with World War II the stories could not look back on a war that had ended because this war had not ended but just went on year after year and for a whole generation of American men it was a war that could not be entirely ignored because we had this reality called the draft in other words when you turned 18 you could be called up to serve in the army or eventually the marines unless you were lucky depending on your definition of luck or had a deferment for college medical reasons or some other special consideration This great new edition of the Men s Adventure Quarterly gives us a vivid look at this new war occurring right during the heyday of the men s adventure magazine As was customary in this strange subset of the publishing world the stories range from non fiction to outright fiction but the stories are mostly presented as true it was a given in the genre that the readership wanted material no matter how outrageous and improbable that at least appeared to be true and the stories in this issue go from the the early days of the war and our first casualties on to various battles in the jungles in Viet Cong tunnels the actual and horrific siege at Khe Sanh and aerial dogfights with North Korean MIGS As fans have come to expect with the Quarterly we get some great pictorial features such as coverage of the Hollywood bombshell Raquel Welch s trips to Nam to entertain the troops and a terrific collection of covers featuring the amazingly ubiquitous rugged model Steve Holland fighting the war as a GI marine or fighter pilot One unusual special feature is the work the brilliant cartoonist Will Eisner did as editor and illustrator for a military magazine called PS The Preventive Maintenance Monthly in which you could learn how to keep your M 16 shipshape even in the most adverse conditions As always with the Men s Adventure Quarterly the best part is the amazing full color reproductions of cover paintings as well as interior illustrations by masters like Norman Saunders Mort K nstler and Vic Prezio with what seems to be an especially large amount of work from the brilliant Mel Crair If you are a fan of mid 20th century illustration art this magazine is worth every penny and will take a permanent place on your bookshelf. PDF THE MEN'S ADVENTURE quarterly calendar As always with the Men s Adventure Quarterly the best part is the amazing full color reproductions of cover paintings as well as interior illustrations by masters like Norman Saunders Mort K nstler and Vic Prezio with what seems to be an especially large amount of work from the brilliant Mel Crair If you are a fan of mid 20th century illustration art this magazine is worth every penny and will take a permanent place on your bookshelf Paperback Another collection of action this time all stories in or about Vietnam There are some true stories and a bunch of inventions but all are very readable and beautifully illustrated This series seems to somehow keep getting better and better I can t wait for the next issue UFO abductions and alien sex Paperback
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