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Another great collection from Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle.

Interesting to see the change in perspective from Batista-era stories to Castro’s takeover. The pre-Castro stories straight up refer to Batista as a “Caribbean Hitler” using his own people as a means to suck up more and more American dollars, and how Cuba is a lot of fun as long as you’re a white American with lots of money in your hand. They even seem hopeful at the prospect of the inevitable revolution.

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'I Watched Them Eat Me Alive' Book Review By Ron Fortier

I WATCHED THEM EAT ME ALIVE The Men’s Adventure Library Journal Edited by Robert Deis & Wyatt Doyle # new texture 124 pages

Ever since launching their Men’s Adventure Library, Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle have taken on the wonderful task of educating pulp fans on the history of Men’s Adventure Magazines. These over-the-top magazines with their garishly painted covers were by their very nature the true heirs to the classic adventure pulps of the 1930s and 1940s. War weary veterans, having survived the horrors of World War II, were ready for periodicals that unabashedly celebrated their courage and sacrifices. It was a time when being macho was norm, and the ideal of the American male. There was none of the angst and politically correct idiocacy that so pervades every facet of our society today.

These magazines were intended for men and were filled with tales of rugged heroism whether taking place on the battlefields of Europe and the South Pacific or pitting the protagonists against the still existing wildernesses of the world. They certainly were not for the squeamish and under that MAM’s umbrella there were many distinct sub-genres; none more gruesome than those featuring animal attacks. Be they rats, weasels, giant sea crabs or slithering, slimy snakes, the Man vs Critters yarns were some of the most violent ever concocted and often stretched the boundries of the truth. Sure it was unlikely that Australia’s flying squirrels would enmass attack and kill humans, but the idea itself was enough to sell a MAM’s editor and soon inspire a startling cover depicting that very scene.

  With “I Watched Them Eat Me Alive,” Deis and Doyle have given us a new, slimmer tome with this very theme as its central core. The book is filled with five of the most memorable such tales by veteran scribes Stan Smith, Robert Silverberg, Lylod Parker, Lester Hutton and the amazing Walter Kaylin. Kaylin’s snake-fest is a fitting finale to the book’s fiction and will surely be the source of our nightmares to come.

Peppered between these stories are seven pictorial reproducing some of the most beautiful MAM’s covers and interior art ever produced by classic artists such as Rafael De Soto, Norm Saunders, Clarence Doore and many others who got their start in the pulps. Again reminding us of that evolution.

‘Cryptozoology Anthology’ review by Ron Fortier

CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY Edited by Robert Deis, David Coleman & Wyatt Dole New Texture 281 pages

Once again, Men’s Adventure Magazines (MAMS) historian, Robert Deis, and his co-horts, David Coleman and Wyatt Dole, have put together another absolutely wonderful collection of bizarre tales culled from the various MAMS published between the 50s and 70s. In their first book, “Weasels Ripped My Flesh,”…

Announcing the newest collection in the Men's Adventure Library, Cryptozoology Anthology, edited by Robert Deis, David Coleman (author of The Bigfoot Filmography and The Bipolar Express) and Wyatt Doyle.

Cryptozoology Anthology follows Weasels Ripped My Flesh! and He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos in New Texture's Men’s Adventure Library series.

For more details, watch this space!

Friend of the Weasels team Troy Lowe just published the men's adventure magazine-inspired comic Bud Colbert: Time Travelin' Janitor. Story by Troy, illustrations by artist Pat Carbajal. I was honored to provide reference photos for a hapless Aztec priest shown on page 42. Luckily, Pat didn't need me to actually cut off my finger.