tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post4288620263849203458..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: Fredric Brown: Night of the PsychoJohn Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-74380626318483763652011-01-03T16:11:09.412-08:002011-01-03T16:11:09.412-08:00Never assume, UTW...albeit the incidences of the f...Never assume, UTW...albeit the incidences of the film adaptation being better, such as with DR. STRANGELOVE and the first TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE, are indeed rare.<br /><br />Most amusing that Ray Palmer was flogging saucer articles around, if he indeed didn't have a hand in the magazine's publishing.<br /><br />I think the Taschen book might've been republished by B&N's instant remainder arm, but also maybe not. I picked one up...the text is unreadably small, so perhaps someone decided that wasn't going to be the draw.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-8667445851251394722011-01-03T08:47:24.213-08:002011-01-03T08:47:24.213-08:00Nice article Jack. I've been kicking around t...Nice article Jack. I've been kicking around the idea of buying "Knock 3-1-2," since it is one of my favorite Thriller episodes. Your descriptions of the opening chapters and how Brown used starting clock times has sold me. Of course, the books are always better then the movies or t.v. shows.Jockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16292833295819266389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-28501791298353105612011-01-03T05:27:30.780-08:002011-01-03T05:27:30.780-08:00The Taschen book shows up pretty regularly on the ...The Taschen book shows up pretty regularly on the sale racks at Barnes & Noble, at least around here.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-77719807821744971292011-01-02T22:17:33.546-08:002011-01-02T22:17:33.546-08:00Thanks for the tip on men's adventure mag book...Thanks for the tip on men's adventure mag books, Walker! I've got Men's Adventure Magazines and It's a Mans World, but had not heard of All Man! before. Looks like I'll have to pick that up, too. I've got a few stacks of original magazines, which I love to flip through just to read the sensational article titles and enjoy the incredible, outlandish illustrations.John Scolerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15830334036783163702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-23020588026785306112011-01-02T21:52:32.503-08:002011-01-02T21:52:32.503-08:00Excellent coverage of one of the lesser known men&...Excellent coverage of one of the lesser known men's adventure magazines. I've made a feeble attempt to collect some of the titles and the reason I use the word feeble is because the attempt has made me exactly that. Most of these magazines had great artwork illustrating stories titled "Nazis Party With Nude Girls as GI Guns Them Down!". The fiction and articles were usually of such low quality that they were almost unreadable.<br /><br />Jack points out one of the reasons that the stories were so hopeless. To take a novel and edit it down to 16 pages is very close to a criminal act. The short stories and articles were usually not much better in these magazines, often reading like outlines or summaries of a proposed plot.<br /><br />For those readers brave enough, I can recommend two books about the men's adventure magazines. The first one is a Taschen big art book, MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES, showing 500 pages of artwork from the Rich Oberg collection. I know Rich and have even sold him some men's art, including a crazy cover showing Nazis turning girls into gold ingots. No wonder they lost the war...<br /><br />The second book is IT'S A MAN'S WORLD by Adam Parfrey and it also is full of sick and disgusting art showing beautiful and sexy girls in very distessful situations. I love it...<br /><br />However, if you feel these books are beneath your dignity and perhaps catering to our lowest instincts, there is a third more literary book, ALL MAN! by David M. Earle, a university professor. His book is subtitled "Hemingway, 1950s Men's Magazines, and the Masculine Persona". I've met David a couple times at pulp conventions and the book is better than it sounds. All are available on amazon.com.<br /><br />Most of these magazines were on a very low, bare bones, budget(no pun intended), and I can only shudder at the low word rate that Fredric Brown must have been paid for the hatchet job done on his novel.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com