It is A Man’s World: Males’s Journey Magazines, The Postwar Pulps, Expanded Version

It is a Man’s World was first launched in 2003 to essential acclaim and was featured on the quilt of the Los Angeles Occasions Ebook Overview and within the New York Occasions. This wealthy assortment, crammed with interviews, essays, and coloration reproductions of testosterone-heavy thirty-five-cent magazines with names like Man’s Exploits, Rage, and Escape to Journey (to call a number of), illustrates the tradition created to assist veterans confront the confusion of jobs, women, and the Chilly Warfare on their return from World Warfare II and the Korean Warfare.

Contributions from the unique males’s journal expertise like Bruce Jay Friedman, Mario Puzo, and Mort Künstler convey the reader contained in the places of work, displaying us how the writers, illustrators, editors, and publishers put collectively a long time of what have been then referred to as “armpit slicks.” Reproductions of unique work from Norman Saunders, Künstler, and Norm Eastman are featured inside, and Invoice Devine’s annotated guidelines of the various hundreds of journey magazines is important for collectors of the style.

The expanded paperback version consists of wartime illustrations and commercials from mass-produced magazines that preview the xenophobia and racist concepts later seen all through males’s journey magazines of the ’50s and ’60s.