🛵♟💥🔫👄 SECRET AGENT WOMAN This post-WW2 #espionage thriller is by Charles L. Leonard—aka Mary Heberden! 1954 paperback cover #illustration & original #artwork: Rafael DeSoto!

BAYOU GUNS (1972) has a great Ron Lesser cover painting - one of many Western covers featured in THE ART OF RON LESSER VOL. 3, coming this fall. THE ART OF RON LESSER, VOL. 1 (amzn.to/45XR6sq) focuses on his detective covers. Vol. 2 showcases his paintings of sexy women.

This week at pulpfest.com, we're previewing the programming at PulpFest 2025. Visit pulpfest.com for a look at "Steve Holland: The Torn Shirt Sessions," a presentation on James Bama’s decision to have Steve Holland play the role of pulp superhero Doc Savage

CROWN VIC 2 (amzn.to/44lkScs) is another excellent story by Lee Goldberg about his intriguing, amoral, anti-Reacher character Ray Boyd. I especially love the multiple twists at the end of this one. Kudos and thanks, Lee. More please.

Happy Birthday to artist Bob Larkin, one of America's greatest living illustration artists. (Scan via the Men's Adventure Magazines & Books Facebook Group - bit.ly/mensadventureFB.)

You can see a flip page preview of the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #12, the Private Eyes Issue, by clicking this link -> online.fliphtml5.com/rklpp/tick/

PREORDER alert!🚨 My #FilmNoir art book is available for preorder. Just follow the link below. Publishing date is October 7. jauntworks.com/form-of-human-…

Shark Week reading: MANEATERS: KILLER SHARKS IN MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES (amzn.to/2W7ay7j), a lushly illustrated anthology of vintage MAM stories, with commentary by modern shark experts and an intro by the creator of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week, Steve Cheskin.

🎺🎷🎙️👄💙🚨 PLAY WHO YOU ARE This 1960 “jazz life” paperback novel features a cover illustration by … Artist Unknown! 🎨

A cool story in MANEATERS: KILLER SHARKS IN MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES (amzn.to/2W7ay7j), our anthology of MAM shark stories & artwork — which also includes commentary by shark experts and an introduction by the creator of the Discovery Channel's SHARK WEEK, Steve Cheskin

🎺🎹🥁💿 R.I.P. CHUCK MANGIONE The time The Jazz Messengers featured Chuck Mangione & Keith Jarrett … m.youtube.com/watch?v=H7kow9…

Think you're having a bad day? This logger's day was probably worse.... Artwork by Bob Stanley for a "True Medical Adventure" in STAG, August 1959. (Scan via the Men's Adventure Magazines & Books Facebook Group-> bit.ly/mensadventureFB.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Gil Cohen, the great men's adventure magazine and paperback artist, and military aviation artist. I’m honored to have co-edited ONE MAN ARMY: THE ACTION PAPERBACK ART OF GIL COHEN (amzn.to/49C9Z6l). Coming soon: a book series featuring Gil’s MAM artwork.

"IT'S FANTASTIC! THIS BOOK IS AWESOME!" popular book reviewer Michael K. Vaughan says about the new full-color edition of WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! THE ILLUSTRATED MEN'S ADVENTURE ANTHOLOGY, which I co-edited. Michael says more in his podcast here-> bit.ly/3HadQP4.

As I rewatched the HAVE GUN-WILL TRAVEL episode "Face of a Shadow" from 1963, the cool knife fight scene reminded me of the cover of CAVALIER, April 1957, which features artwork by Frank McCarthy. (Scan via the Men's Adventure Magazines & Books Group-> bit.ly/mensadventureFB.)

Please join us next year from 7/30 – 8/2 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, PA, for a salute to the centennial of AMAZING STORIES, the first specialized science fiction pulp, and a lot more at PulpFest 2026. Learn more at pulpfest.com.

“Lovingly curated and a joy to read.” Nice praise from popular book reviewer Olly “Criminolly” Clarke about our book THE ART OF RON LESSER, VOL. 1. instagram.com/p/DNNLNZxI_vs/…

Aug. 12 is World Elephant Day. It reminded me of this illustration from TRUE ACTION, Feb. 1973. Lord knows elephants deserve to get some revenge. Art by the late, great Earl Norem. You can read my homage to Earl in the post on my blog at this link -> bit.ly/4fzEc9J