As noted, this is the fourth issue and rounds out their first year. I think this made it a stronger issue than if it had just been a collection of various stories with no specific focus. Then we learn of a forbidden compound of Amazons in the jungles of Brazil.Īs always, the mix of stories is great. Borneo’s topless army is highlighted next. A “true life” adventure of a white explorer who rules over a tribe in Guatemala. We get a story of a strange, female vampire in Malay. Rounding out the issue are four other jungle-girl stories, with much accompaning artwork, taken from various MAMs. Bob Deis provides a introduction and overview, followed by three photo articles on her from MAMs of the time. A sequel was done the next year that was titled Nature Girl and the Slaver. This was a movie along the lines of Tarzan, but with Liane replacing Tarzan. Michael starred in a jungle-queen movie, Liane, Jungle Goddess, in 1956. Marion Michael (1940-2007) was, at the time, a young German actress who was billed as Germany’s answer to Brigitte Bardot. Another is an article on her getting into a harem. There are a couple of photo articles on her, one by Ken (credited to him at least) and another by Jane. We then get a trio of articles by her, one being “I Helped Shrink a Human Head” (!?!), another taken from one of her books. We get an interview with Lawrence Abbott, who wrote a bio, Jane Dolinger: The Adventurous Life of an American Travel Writer in 2010. How much was true or not in her writing? Who knows. They both used pictures of Jane, sometimes (often?) in various levels of undress in their articles. She was married to fellow author and documentarian Ken Krippene, though this was kept out of their articles. She was in her time a well-known adventure-travel author who wrote books and articles on her travel adventures in exotic and remote parts of the world. Now, the focus on this issue is “jungle girls,” with a particular focus on Jane Dolinger and Marion Michael. These magazines ran from the 1940s until the ’70s, and I view the numbered men’s adventure paperback series, such as Mack Bolan and The Destroyer, as one of the replacements of them. Many claimed to be “true life” adventures, but probably most were not, or were heavily exaggerated. Others were paperback books and digest magazines.įocus was on what interested men: pinups of girls and stories of lurid adventure, as well as non-fiction. So MAMs are not pulps, but a replacement of them in popular literature. So, again, for those new, let’s make a few things clear on men’s adventure magazines (or MAMs): These were an outgrowth of the pulps, with many of the first ones being former pulp magazines that changed their focus and format. This rounds out the first year of this magazine.įull disclosure, I was sent a copy to review. It comes in at about 150 pages, and is 8.5- x 11-inches in size, like all the rest. This is another well-designed issue, with both color and black-&-white artwork, articles, and reprints that include fiction, non-fiction, cartoons, ads, and pictorals. Think stuff like hot jungle girls of various ethnicities who may either threaten the men or be a possible love interest, or a female version of Tarzan, such as Sheena, Queen of the Jungle and the like.Īs before, publisher Bob Deis ( Men’s Adventure Library) and graphic designer Bill Cunningham ( Pulp 2.0 Press) have put out an excellent issue. Here we have the fourth issue of this excellent fanzine devoted to “men’s adventure magazines”: Men’s Adventure Quarterly.
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