Stag Magazine Volume 20 #1 1st Marvel issue

[bill999]

Here is the 1st magazine management A.K.A Marvel published issue of Stag magazine released on the newsstands cover dated January 1969. A silver age scarce Marvel mens magazine thats tough to find. Marvels mens magazines published in the late 60s was probably Marvels best kept secret that few knew about. Stag magazine ran more than 300 issues. Issue #1 was released back in 1937 cover dated the month of June .

 

 

[Comicopolis]

So inside there are pics of scantily clad ladies

[DiceX]

Stag is one of those high quality men's magazines.

I rank it somewhere between Juggs and Cheri.

 

One of those mags where the models look like they didn't get paid with cash, but more like a hot meal.

 

 

[rjpb]

Calling that a Marvel mag is a stretch, as Martin Goodman had a long history of publishing men's adventure mags, as well as the digest pin-up mags going back to the 1950's. These have a more tenuous relationship to Marvel Comics group than even the old Red Circle pulps did to Timely comics, which at least had similar titles and logos at times.

 

It would be somewhat akin to considering Time and Fortune as DC magazines.

 

All that being said - the men's adventure mags of the 1950's had some great and often outrageous painted covers - and are deserving of a thread of their own, although Stag is probably one of the tamer titles of the era.

[Forbush-Man]

Calling that a Marvel mag is a stretch, as Martin Goodman had a long history of publishing men's adventure mags, as well as the digest pin-up mags going back to the 1950's. These have a more tenuous relationship to Marvel Comics group than even the old Red Circle pulps did to Timely comics, which at least had similar titles and logos at times.

 

It would be somewhat akin to considering Time and Fortune as DC magazines.

 

All that being said - the men's adventure mags of the 1950's had some great and often outrageous painted covers - and are deserving of a thread of their own, although Stag is probably one of the tamer titles of the era.

Link-a-dink!

 

[bill999]

Men's magazines

Goodman's Magazine Management Company also published such men's adventure magazines as For Men Only, Male and Stag, edited during the 1950s by Noah Sarlat. As well, there was such ephemera as a one-shot black-and-white "nudie cutie" comic, The Adventures of Pussycat (Oct. 1968), that reprinted some stories of the sexy, tongue-in-cheek secret-agent strip that ran in some of his men's magazines. Marvel/Atlas writers Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Ernie Hart and artists Wally Wood, Al Hartley, Jim Mooney and Bill Everett and "good girl art" cartoonist Bill Ward contributed.[12][13]

 

By the late 1960s, these titles had begun evolving into erotic magazines, with pictorials about dancers and swimsuit models replaced by bikinis and discreet nude shots, with gradually fewer fiction stories.

 

 

[INTERSTITIAL OP-migration]

Pussycat stories were reprinted in several of these types of men's magazines.

 

Link

 

Any info on Marvel Comic's "Pussycat" magazine??

[MR.COMICBOOK]

These Martin Goodman mags look like fun to collect. anybody have a link to the main titles? wikipedia had some information but there is not much on the internet abouut these. damn 300 issues is impressive for any publication.

[bill999]

A magazine title called For Men Only is another one of these type magazines to collect. The first magazine management published Marvel issue is the January 1969 issue of that series. January 1969 is the same cover date month Marvel began publishing Stag magazine with.

[precodekeith]

Is it a buzzed me, or does the guy halfway in the water look like a young Martin Sheen?

[RedRaven]

I love the covers on those old Men's mags (specifically the WWII covers).

Earl Norem did a few but Basil Gogas was the master of them.

[bill999]

This one shot 1975 Stag magazine special issue published by magazine management company looks like a Marvel Penthouse magazine with the amount of adult theme full nudity color photos inside it. It was listed as rare when I bought it several months back on ebay and I have never seen another one listed for sale.

Even the cover is the most revealing I have ever seen on a Stag magazine published. Its hard to believe this magazine is published by the same publisher that published Savage sword of conan, Dracula lives, Gothic tales of love, Deadly hands of kung fu and other Marvel magazines but it is.

Also here is a scan of the 1st Magazine management company published issue of For Men Only. Its cover dated January on the cover but on the indicia it reads Volume 15 issue #10 October 1968?