Get ready, Pulpers, this is a BIG one!
Man’s Exploits, September 1963, Cover by Norm Eastman
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Man's Exploits was one of the sub-group of Pulps called “men’s sweats” not because the men pictured were particularly sweaty, but because they tended to be very cheaply produced, badly edited and full of raunchy stories. Some were sleazy enough to be “under the counter” magazines. Think sweatshop.
Since this issue is a rather quality example of the group, we will explore it in depth:
“The Vicious Vampire Vamps of Vera Cruz” A winner on alliteration alone. Here is the inside title:
View attachment 623642With this longer Blurb: “Chunks of flesh had been ripped from the sailor's blood-soaked corpse by sharp teeth, and in his throat was a gaping hole encircled with red that was NOT blood – but lipstick! Most incredible of all, each clue led straight toward the spoiled young wife of the wealthiest man in town, and her thrill-mad girlfriends.”
The entire story on PDF below.,, including ad for wonderful, "Saucy Scanties." Did men buy these for their wives? Love to be a fly on the wall when he presented those, “Honey, I have a surprise for you!”
Two GGA (Good Girl Art – over sexy, but naïve girl in suggestive poses)
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There’s the anti-Commie yarn “CHIANG KAI-SHEK’S SUICIDE SQUAD OF NAKED GIRL RAIDERS.” According to the promotional subhead for that credibility stretching tale:
“Before advancing against Red outposts, the lushly-curved, almond-eyed raiders stripped off all their clothes. ‘The sight of beautiful, nude girls coming toward them spoils the enemy’s aim,’ it was explained to me. And, looking at this suicide corps of beauties, I could see it might...”
“We fought the KILL-CRAZY HELL PIRATES of the MALAY STRAIGHTS” — postulates a world where the pirates are beautiful, scantily-clad babes. And looking at the inside shows:
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“I RESCUED 100 GIRLS FROM DICTATOR KASSEM’S HAREM!” at least has a tenuous connection to reality. It tells the story of a Yank who gets involved in the February 1963 revolution that overthrew the Iraq dictator Abdel Karim Kassem.
Kassem was an Iraqi military officer who seized power in 1958. He apparently had some Commie pinko ideas, like redistributing land owned by rich Iraqis to impoverished farmers. And, when he got a little too cozy with Soviet Russia, the CIA encouraged the February 1963 coup by Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party. {This was Barb’s second Mission with Jewels with Kathy joining them; it didn’t turn out exactly as planned}, Kassem was killed in the revolt and the way began being paved for Saddam Hussein’s eventual rise to power. Somehow the history books and other websites leave out the part about Kassem’s harem. Here in the artwork, Barb is again left “holding the bag” and ending up in Saddam’s interrogation rooms.
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“BULLWHIP BATTLE on the Dude Ranch for Divorcees” — is about a unique Western ranch where bored, rich babes go to indulge in some cowboy love and whip lashings. Somehow the cover morphed into real bulls!