Bob Deis

OUT NOW! Our new art book MORT KÜNSTLER COVERED, VOL. 1, showcasing Mort’s classic men’s adventure magazine covers. Available via Amazon & MensPulpMags.com. 
#MortKunstler #MensAdventureMagazines #PulpArt #VintageIllustration #booksky

🐿️🐿️ 🩸📚 Friends! You can now get Squirrels 2: Revenge of the Rodents for 99c USD on Amazon. But, if you're patient, it will be on KU FREE after the 1st week of Nov. It's a transitional piece :) shorturl.at/pdROj #squirrels2 #squirrels #horrorcomedy #Amazon #KUFree #funny #horror

Bettie Page is ready for Halloween! This is one of Ron Lesser’s portraits of her featured in the book THE ART OF RON LESSER, VOL. 2: DANGEROUS DAMES AND COVER DOLLS (amzn.to/47xWOTI), which showcases original paintings of sexy women Ron has created in recent decades for galleries. #booksky

The bad guys are in jail...but that doesn't mean they've been punished. Prison crimes deserve prison justice. Cell Block: Dead Men in Old Stone, by Sterling Dodge ( @fugitivecourier.bsky.social ) Amazon/Kobo books2read.com/deadmenoldst... Itch point-of-impact.itch.io/dead-men-in-...

Retromedia maven Jules Burt's latest video is a cool twofer: a flip-thru review of the new art book MORT KÜNSTLER COVERED, VOL. 1, which I co-edited with Wyatt Doyle, PLUS a flip-thru review of MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #15, which I co-edited with Bill Cunningham. #booksky youtu.be/RdUdLLLetQA

Men's adventure magazines often used still photos from movies to illustrate stories, without mentioning what the movies were. Can you ID the movie that this still came from? (Scan via the Men's Adventure Magazines & Books Facebook Group-> bit.ly/mensadventureFB)

I enjoyed Booktuber Michael K. Vaughan’s reaction when he opened the package I sent him, addressed to his Roger Ho-Tep sidekick(s)… youtu.be/0IuF6dyN6lg?...

Noir Crazy Zine Issue 004—The Postwar Nightmare is now available to order. www.jauntworks.com/noircrazyzin... Featuring 5 films: THE BLUE DAHLIA, CROSSFIRE, ACT OF VIOLENCE, SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT, & THE CROOKED WAY. Watch the trailer below: youtu.be/ilDx9Dx4gcA #FilmNoir #NoirCrazy #Noirvember

Click this link→https://bit.ly/MAQ15preview to see an in-depth preview of MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #15 — The Science Fiction Issue. It’s out now on Amazon. Next week, I’ll have copies available to ship to people who pre-ordered copies directly from me.

This story in our men’s adventure magazine anthology WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH (amzn.to/4d6Msx0) is doubly trippy, since the “Savage Blonde” enslaves men with a mind-altering drug. Reprinted from HUNTING ADVENTURES, Summer 1956. The full-color WEASELS edition is available via Amazon & MensPulpMags.com

@bobdeis.bsky.social has received his print proof of MAQ #15, but of course, mine is still in transit. 😢

From our new book, MORT KÜNSTLER COVERED, VOL. 1: (amzn.to/4qqaWaU). BATTLEFIELD was a Martin Goodman men’s adventure magazine published from 1957 to 1959. Stan Borack and George Gross painted the covers for its first seven issues. Mort Künstler painted the final two, dated July and November 1959.

One of my favorite quotes by musical satirist Tom Lehrer is “Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” I wrote a blog post that provides the story behind the quote and a link to a recording of Tom delivering it. Here's the link→https://bit.ly/LifeIsLikeaSewer

From our book POLLEN'S WOMEN: THE ART OF SAMSON POLLEN (amzn.to/3DQ9jvX), here's Sam’s artwork for a story in MEN, Aug. 1969 next to the 2-page spread it was used for. POLLEN'S WOMEN is available via Amazon, my MensPulpMags.com bookstore or my eBay listings (ebay.com/usr/subtropicbob). #booksky

A rarity: SEA STORIES, March 1954, edited by Harry Harrison before becoming a famous sci-fi author. Cover by Clarence Doore, with stories by Winston Churchill, Edgar Allan Poe, Steve Frazee, and more—plus an article about fake "Jenny Haniver" sea monsters. Take a look→https://bit.ly/SeaStoriesPulp2

A new post on my This Day in Quotes blog discusses how a classic Western TV series & Bob Hope’s autobiography turned the linguistic formula “Have X – Will Travel” into a familiar “snowclone” - i.e. a phrase template people use by replacing the original famous words with new ones) #quotes #quotations

Robert F. Dorr, the late, great author of men’s adventure magazine stories & history books, would have turned 87 this year. His birthday inspired me to repost the introduction he wrote for our collection of his classic MAM stories, A HANDFUL OF HELL. It’s here→https://bit.ly/BobDorrIntro #booksky