It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps

by Adam Parfrey
It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps  
published May 2003 by Feral House
binding Hardcover
isbn 0922915814   (isbn13: 9780922915811)
pages 288
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"A panorama of lurid vintage covers and magazine layouts as well as acerbic insightful narratives from Parfrey... a sprawling, well-endowed re...more

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02-16-07



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Andy
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04/30/08

bookshelves: art-gallery, pulp-fiction
Read in April, 2006
recommends it for: beer- drinkin' farters
Ass-kickin' gut-punchin' comp from REAL MENS Magazines of the Fifties and Sixties when us machos were chain-smokin' Luckies and spitting in front of church and all we shaved was our chins...if we felt like it!
I was gonna review this book but I was too busy fightin' off a Grizzly Bear in the Sahara while a Nazi Colonel had a bikini clad blonde bound and gagged in front of a red ant hill and a dozen scorpions ready to kill her and an evil but fetchingly stacked Japanese dragon lady in a torn up ...more
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Evan
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01/25/08

I loved the covers of shirtless guys getting attacked by everything imaginable in the animal kingdom. The Nazi stuff wasn't as funny.
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Seth
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01/17/08

bookshelves: art-graphic-novels
Read in January, 2006
A collection of old men's pulp magazine cover art with some essay's thrown in. Great stuff.
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Libbie
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05/01/08

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everything about this book is amazing. One of my all-time favorite books EVER.
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