My Scrapbook Become a Fingerprint Expert! Back cover ad from gawdknowswhere I JUST LOVE these corny old ads offering dubious products and services that can be found in old magazines, comics and even now on late night television and those "free" streaming services. I'm not sure where I stumbled across this one (Did someone send … Continue reading My Scrapbook: Become a Fingerprint Expert!
Tag: Men’s-Adventure
My Scrapbook: A Private Eye Cartoon by Pete Wyma
My Scrapbook A Private Eye Cartoon by Pete Wyma Chicago's Pete Wyma (b. 1922) was a true master of the classic one-panel gag, best known for his often raunchy adult cartoons for various girly mags, generally featuring large-breasted and often topless babes, and as the artist behind the satirical newspaper comic strip Senator Caucus (1958–1968). … Continue reading My Scrapbook: A Private Eye Cartoon by Pete Wyma
My Scrapbook: “The Deadly Stripper” by Robert Maguire
My Bookshelf "The Deadly Stripper" by Robert Maguire (January 1962, Man's Magazine) As if there weren't Mike Shayne enough short stories, novelettes and novellas by "Brett Halliday" floating around in various pulps, digests and sundry other outlets — not to mention Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, of course — there were also “Book Bonus” versions of … Continue reading My Scrapbook: “The Deadly Stripper” by Robert Maguire
My Bookshelf: The Men’s Adventure Quarterly #12: The Private Eyes Issue
My Bookshelf The Men's Adventure Quarterly #12: The Private Eyes Issue Fans of this site will probably dig The Men's Adventure Quarterly. It's an unabashed love letter to the once-mighty Men's Adventure magazines that roamed the newsstands in the fifties, sixties and seventies, proudly dedicated to those periodicals that "once drove hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading My Bookshelf: The Men’s Adventure Quarterly #12: The Private Eyes Issue
Ray Martin (The Bodyguard)
Created by Richard Reinsmith Pseudonyms include Richard Rein Smith, Damon Castle, Ann Taylor, Dan Elliott Journeyman writer Richard Reinsmith caught the Men’s Adventure wave with the eight-book Bodyguard series, published by bottom feeder paperback publisher Tower (and starting with book three, Leisure Books). Its hero/narrator was gray-haired RAY MARTIN, a highly regarded bodyguard working out … Continue reading Ray Martin (The Bodyguard)
Morocco Jones
Created by Jack Baynes Pseudonym of Bertram B. Fowler (1893-1981) "Only suckers play straight in my game. Ethics is a word that means holes in your head— bullet holes. I'm one of those old-fashioned operatives. When someone takes out after me I don't bother to haul out my conscience and frisk it for motives. I … Continue reading Morocco Jones
Brian Petersen (aka “The D.C. Man”)
Created by James P. Cody Pseudonym of Peter T. Rohrbach (1926--) Another rescue from Lee Goldberg's Brash Books resurrects James P. Cody's quartet of gritty, action-packed Men's Adventure paperbacks from the mid-seventies, originally published by Berkley Medallion. BRIAN PETERSEN, tagged as "The D.C. MAN" on the covers, was a former football player and military intelligence … Continue reading Brian Petersen (aka “The D.C. Man”)
Tim Kyle (The Pulsar International)
Created by Robin Moore and Al Dempsey When we first meet him in this men's adventure series from the mid-seventies, TIM KYLE (married, with children) is the vice-president and chief operations officer for Pulsar International, and has been for years. Pulsar is an international detective agency that boasts an incredible arsenal of surveillance devices, high-tech … Continue reading Tim Kyle (The Pulsar International)
Private Eyes by the Number
P.I.s in Men's Adventure Books Ah, those Men's Adventure novels of the seventies and eighties! To an Anglo kid growing up in the early seventies in the woodsy Quebec boondocks where English-language books were few and far between, my family's bi-weekly grocery run to the Greenfield Park shopping centre always included popping into — … Continue reading Private Eyes by the Number
Ethan Reckless
Created by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips "I'm not a private eye. I'm just... someone who helps people sometimes." It's Los Angeles in the 1980s, and former sixties radical/undercover FBI agent turned surfer dude/troubleshooter (or is that troublemaker?) ETHAN RECKLESS is on the prowl, going down mean streets Chandler could never have imagined; streets teeming with … Continue reading Ethan Reckless