Barbarians on Bikes: Bikers and Motorcycle Gangs in Men's Pulp Adventure Magazines (The Men's Adventure Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1943444145 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Informative and Beautiful. Men's Adventure Magazines (MAMs) were birthed just about the same time as the first motorcycle gangs began touring the US. An odd sort of cross-fertilization began where the barbarians of the road became malevolent thugs on magazine covers which in turn fueled the image of outlaw bikers in so many exploitative films of the 60's and 70's! Men's Adventure Magazines withered off to extinction when I was a child. Just as the magazines have passed on, so has their version of biker gangs. Though biker gangs still, of course, exist, their deadl. "Ride, baby, ride" according to Dan Leo. I'm a fan of all the "Men's Adventure Magazine" anthologies that Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle have put out, and I have to say that this new one just might be my favorite so far. What sets this volume apart from all the others – besides its specialization on the Motorcyclist Menace – is that this book is all about the artwork as opposed to the "texts" of the men's adventure mags of the 1950s-70s. It's just page after page of deliciously lurid sweaty violent sexual completely over-the-top pulp art, most of it in fabulous full-co. "Five Stars" according to 70's TV is the best. Awesome! Fun! Hide when they come to town looking for kicks!
His latest novel, Lie Catchers, begins a new series featuring top LAPD interrogators Ray Pagan and Calamity Jane Randall. He is co-founder, editor, and designer of The Men's Adventure Library series. Zappa, Stop Requested, is available from New Texture, as are his photography collections, Dollar Halloween and I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat! Doyle curates the New Texture website, as well as Josh Alan Friedman's Black Cracker Online and Rev.Raymond Branch's RevBranchNov
"Sex Rampage of the Cycle Savages" "Big Mama's Killer Cycle Army" "Cross-Country Blast With 'Satan's Riders'" "Cycle Queens of Violence" The headlines in classic men's pulp adventure magazines sure could paint a picture and so could the masters of pulp art who illustrated them! Barbarians on Bikes rounds up three decades of vintage pulp magazine covers and interiors, from the 1950s through the early 1970s, most unseen since their original publication. A unique archive of biker illustration art at its most savage, with history and context by editors Robert Deis (MensPulpMags) and Wyatt Doyle (Cryptozoology Anthology), and an afterword/reality check by crime novelist/top cop Paul Bishop. And this deluxe hardcover presentation includes 20 bonus pages of belted and booted biker pulp art! Barbarians on Bikes is big, bad, and untamed. Can you can handle the ride?
Zappa, Stop Requested, is available from New Texture, as are his photography collections, Dollar Halloween and I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat! Doyle curates the New Texture website, as well as Josh Alan Friedman's Black Cracker Online and Rev.Raymond Branch's RevBranchNovelist, screenwriter, and television personality, Paul Bishop spent 35