Samstag, 15. Januar 2011

Fury - Exciting true adventures for men

Hier seien einmal zwei Ausgaben des alten amerikanischen Men's Adventure Magazines FURY. Exciting True Adventures for Men (Daten: October 1954 - May 1961) vorgestellt. Diese überwiegend für ein männliches Publikum bestimmten Nachfolger der Pulp Magazines lockten mit Gewalt, Sex und angeblich wahren Geschichten voller Sensationen. Cover und Innenillustrationen unterstrichen dies.

1954- December

"FURY", DECEMBER 1956, VOL. 22, NO. 2 PUBLISHED BY WEIDER PUBLICATIONS, INC. GREAT DOUGLS ALLEN COVER ARTWORK!! REAR COVER FEATURES THE BEAUTIFUL... BARBARA NICHOLS!!! SAMPLE OF AUTHORS IN THIS ISSUE INCLUDE... EDMUND KNOWLES, ED WALLIS, WILLIAM McCORMICK AND BERTON HORVATH!!! SPECIAL PICTORIAL BEHIND THE SCENES WITH STRIPPER JOAN TORINO AT THE HUDSON BURLESQUE IN UNION CITY, NEW JERSEY WITH NINE PHOTOS!!! THIS MAGAZINE IS IN VERY CONDITION. FRONT/REAR COVER HAVE SOME EDGEWEAR, SPINE IN GREAT SHAPE FULLY READABLE; INSIDE PAGES IN TERRIFIC READABLE CONDITION!!!
HERE'S WHAT'S INSIDE!!! JOHN CHISUM WAS EXACTLY LIKE THE BIG, BOLD "CATTLE BARON" WE SEE ON TV AND IN THE MOVIES... EXCEPT THAT HE WAS A RUSTLER, HIS WORD WAS NO GOOD, HE COULD BE A COWARD AND HE WAS..... "THE LAUGHING KILLER KING" BY ED WALLIS WITH BUD MASON TWO PAGE ARTWORK!!!; SOME AUTHORITIES BELIEVE PUTTING THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION ON THE SIDE OF - AND UNDER THE STRICT SUPERVISION OF - THE LAW WOULD REDUCE RAPES AND SEX CRIMES AND MAKE LIFE SAFER FOR OUR YOUTH!! "SHOULD PROSTITUTION BE LEGALIZED?" BY LEO MASON WITH FOUR PHOTOS!!!! IN BALTIMORE'S MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR NEON-LIGHTED JUNGLE OF SEX, KNOW AS "THE BLOCK," THEY STILL TALK OF THE MIDWEST HOUSEWIFE WHOSE HUSBAND TOOK HER TO ONE OF THE NIGHTCLUBS WHICH OFFERS ENTERTAINING WOMEN WHO STRIP NUDE!!! "GIRLS BOOZE AND BEDLAM" BY MONROE FRY (REPRINTED FROM ESQUIRE) WITH KARL SCHULTZ GGA ARTWORK!!!; NO CONTROVERSEY HAS SO AROUSED THE COUNTRY AS THE ARGUMENT OVER WHO FIRST STOOD ON "THE TOP OF THE WORLD." HERE'S PROOF OF A GRAVE INJUSTICE FROM AN AUTHORITY WHO BELIEVES DR. FREDERICK A. COOK WAS.... "THE MAN FROM WHO THEY STOLE THE NORTH POLE" BY RUSSEL W. GIBBONS WITH ELEVEN PHOTOS!!!; ONE OF THE MOST SENSELESS, ATROCIOUS AND HIDEOUS MURDERS IN THE ANNALS OF CRIME, TOOK PLACE IN LE MANS, AROUND SIX HOURS AWAY FROM PARIS BY TRAIN. THE KILLERS: THE PAPIN SISTERS, CHRISTINE PAPIN AND LEA PAPIN, COOK AND HOUSEMAID!!! "THE BLOODY SISTERS" BY JULES DE GRANDIN WITH BILL STAPLES ARTWORK OF SISTERS MURDERING INNOCENT MOTHER AND DAUGHTER!!!; WHAT MOTIVATED MOST EVIL WOMAN IN HISTORY MODERN HISTORY? WHAT PROMPTED HER TO ACTS OF OBSCENE CRUELTY ALMOST BEYOND DESCRIPTION? HERE'S THE STORY OF ELSE KOCH!!! "THE BITCH OF BUCHENWALD" BY EDMUND KNOWLES WITH THREE PHOTOS!!!; ON THE MOJAVE WALTER SCOTT KNOWN AS "DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY" WAS A TYPICAL DESERT RAT, BUT IN THE CITY HE WAS A GOOD TIME CHARLEY WHO SPENT MONEY LIKE HE OWNED A PRIVATE MINT. NOBODY YET HAS BEEN ABLE TO EXPLAIN.... "THE MYSTERY OF DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY" BY WILLIAM McCORMICK WITH DOUG ALLEN ARTWORK!!!; GETTING THE BEST OF FLIM-FLAM SPEED TRAPS IS DIFFICULT, BUT SOMETIMES YOU CAN AVOID THE CROOKED JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND HIS ASSISTANT CROOKS. HOWEVER, TRY AS YOU MAY.... "YOU CAN'T BEAT THOSE COPS" BY SUMNER AHLBUM WITH THREE PHOTOS; THERE'S BEEN A LEGEND BUILT UP ABOUT THE PIRANHA, THE CANNIBAL FISH OF SOUTH AMERICA...UNLIKE MOST LEGENDS, THIS ONE IS TRUE ON NEARLY ALL COUNTS - ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY COUNT THE CORPSES!!! "THEY'LL FEED ON YOUR GUTS" BY SAM STANLEY WITH TWO PHOTOS!!!; THE NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE, SERGEANT NITCHIE THORNE AND CORPORAL SID CLAY WERE TRYING TO STOP THE FLOW OF CONTRABAND LIQUOR THAT THREATENED TO WASH OUT SERRATED PEAKS OF YELLOWHEAD PASS!!! "THE MOUNTIES HANDLED THE HOT HOOTCH" BY PHILIP H. GODSELL WITH GEOFFREY BIGGS ARTWORK PLUS FIVE PHOTOS INCLUDING PHOTOS OF SGT. THORNE AND CORPORAL CLAY!!!; WHILE CHISLERS AND PHONIES CAN USUALLY GET THE BEST, THE RANK AND FILE SOMETIMES ARE FOOTBALLED ABOUT AND GIVEN NOTHING BUT HEADACHES. HERE'S AN AIRING OF..... "THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION'S DIRTY LINEN" BY HERMAN DONSKY WITH THREE PHOTOS!!!; FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD'S MOST WIDESPREAD BAD HABIT!!! "HOW TO BE A REGULAR GUY" BY BARTON HORVATH WITH ONE ILLUSTRATION AND FIVE EXERCISE PHOTOS!!!(Beschreibung des Internetangebotes)

1956 - December

1956 - December (Innenillustration)

1956 - December (Innenillustration)

1956 - December (Innenillustration)

1956 - December (Rückseite)

Weiterführende Literatur:
  • Adam PARFREY -- It's A Man's World. Men's Adventure Magazines. The Post War Pulps
    Feral House | Los Angeles 2003  -- 287 S. durchgängig farbig ill. [ISBN: 0-022915-81-4]
  • Max Allan COLLINS u. George HAGENAUER -- Men's Adventure Magazines in Postwar America. The Rich Oberg Collection
    Taschen GmbH | Köln 2008 -- 352 S., durchgängig farbig ill. [ISBN: 978-3-8365-0312-9]

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