|
Men's adventure is a genre of magazine that was published from the 1940s until the early 1970s. Catering to a male audience, these magazines featured pin-up girls and lurid tales of adventure that typically featured wartime feats of daring, exotic travel or conflict with wild animals. These magazines were also colloquially called "armpit slicks", "men's sweat magazines" or "the sweats", especially by people in the magazine publishing or distribution trades. Fawcett Publications was having some success with their slick magazine ''True'' whose stories developed more of a war focus after the U.S. entered World War II in 1941. Pulp magazine ''Argosy'' opted to switch to slick paper in 1943, and mix in more 'true' stories amidst the fiction. The other major pulps ''Adventure'', ''Blue Book'' and ''Short Stories'' eventually followed suit. Soon new magazines joined in - Fawcett's ''Cavalier'', ''Stag'' and ''Swank''. During their peak in the late 1950s, approximately 130 men's adventure magazines were being published simultaneously. The interior tales usually claimed to be true stories. Women in distress were commonly featured in the painted covers or interior art, often being menaced or tortured by Nazis or, in later years, Communists. Many of the stories were actual historical accounts of battles and the biographies and exploits of highly decorated soldiers. Several of the stories were combined and issued under various titles in paperback editions by Pyramid Books with the credit "edited by Phil Hirsch". Phil Hirsch was vice president of Pyramid Books from 1955-1975.〔http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.arts.books.childrens/2006-08/msg00087.html〕 In the 1970s, many of the men's adventure magazines dropped the fiction and 'true' action stories, and started focusing on pictorials of nude women and non-fiction articles related to sex or current events. ==Contributors== Artist Norman Saunders was the dean of illustrators for these magazines, occupying a position similar to that enjoyed by Margaret Brundage for the classic pulps. Charles Copeland〔http://lynn-munroe-books.com/list61/copeland.htm〕 and Earl Norem were two other popular artists who worked for the Magazine Management stable of magazines. Many illustrations that were uncredited were done by Bruce Minney,〔http://www.menspulpmags.com/2011/05/mens-sweat-magazine-cover-paintings.html〕 Norm Eastman, Gil Cohen, Mel Crair, Basil Gogos, and Vic Prezio among others.〔Parfrey, Adam, et al. ''It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps'' (Feral House, 2003) ISBN 0-922915-81-4〕 Historical artist Mort Künstler painted many covers and illustrations for these magazines, and ''Playboy'' photographer Mario Casilli started out shooting pinups for this market. At publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company, future best-selling humorist and author Bruce Jay Friedman was a men's sweat writer-editor, and Mario Puzo was a contributor before he became a well-known novelist. Pierre Boulle, Ray Bradbury, Erskine Caldwell, Ian Fleming and Mickey Spillane also contributed short stories or novel excerpts to men's adventure magazines.〔http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/0start.htm#TOC〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「men's adventure」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|