November 01, 2007

"No! Not the Nazis again! They’ve already taken my bra; what more do they want?"

When I was a small boy, Dad would take me along when he went for a haircut (sometimes so that I could get one too), and I would sit and look at magazines while he was in the barber's chair.

His barber shop in Rapid City, South Dakota, always had a big selection of pulp men's magazines whose editorial offerings ran heavily to lost treasures, Nazis, or lost Nazi treasure. And sex. Possibly lost Nazi sex treasure. ("Swastika Slave Girls in Argentina’s No-Escape Brothel Camp.")

James Lileks has scanned a representative sampling.

Bing! I'm right back there: the pale green walls, the (historically ludicrous) lithograph of Custer's Last Stand, and copies of magazines like Sir!.

1 comment:

dr. hypercube said...

Love those covers! There are some books that collect pulp covers - I have a copy of It's a Man's World (http://www.amazon.com/Its-Mans-World-Adventure-Magazines/dp/0922915814/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-9873953-3739068?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194084511&sr=8-1) - good stuff.