Groovy Age of Horror has
scans of the infamous story about Nazis experimenting with baboons. The story has an interesting sciencefictional premise (yeah, right), but the climax is a bit rushed, don't you think? The story was published in a magazine called Man's Daring - it was one of those men's adventure magazines that flourished from the fifties to the seventies.
I found SAGA, TRUE and, for that matter ARGOSY, fascinatingly strange when a child, where I would see them mostly in barber's shops. These titles were slightly less pornish than the likes of MEN'S DARING, in fact ARGOSY was kind of a weak-kneed (yet two-fisted) MAXIM (or a very down-market ESQUIRE) of it's time, but they were still pretty sad.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't get those here in Finland, even though in an early sixties Finnish film there's a newsstand with an issue of Rogue clearly in sight! Nevertheless, I'm too young to have any first-hand experience on the Real Thing.
ReplyDeleteSome of the men's mags' stories were translated in Finnish equivalents, but I'll have to get to those later... Umm, I did post something about a mag called Uusi Aatami a while back, did I mention there were some American stories in there?