We get an interview with Lawrence Abbott, who wrote a bio, Jane Dolinger: The Adventurous Life of an American Travel Writer in 2010. How much was true or not in her writing? Who knows. They both used pictures of Jane, sometimes (often?) in various levels of undress in their articles. She was married to fellow author and documentarian Ken Krippene, though this was kept out of their articles. She was in her time a well-known adventure-travel author who wrote books and articles on her travel adventures in exotic and remote parts of the world. Now, the focus on this issue is “jungle girls,” with a particular focus on Jane Dolinger and Marion Michael. These magazines ran from the 1940s until the ’70s, and I view the numbered men’s adventure paperback series, such as Mack Bolan and The Destroyer, as one of the replacements of them. Many claimed to be “true life” adventures, but probably most were not, or were heavily exaggerated. Others were paperback books and digest magazines.įocus was on what interested men: pinups of girls and stories of lurid adventure, as well as non-fiction. So MAMs are not pulps, but a replacement of them in popular literature. So, again, for those new, let’s make a few things clear on men’s adventure magazines (or MAMs): These were an outgrowth of the pulps, with many of the first ones being former pulp magazines that changed their focus and format. This rounds out the first year of this magazine.įull disclosure, I was sent a copy to review. It comes in at about 150 pages, and is 8.5- x 11-inches in size, like all the rest. This is another well-designed issue, with both color and black-&-white artwork, articles, and reprints that include fiction, non-fiction, cartoons, ads, and pictorals. Think stuff like hot jungle girls of various ethnicities who may either threaten the men or be a possible love interest, or a female version of Tarzan, such as Sheena, Queen of the Jungle and the like.Īs before, publisher Bob Deis ( Men’s Adventure Library) and graphic designer Bill Cunningham ( Pulp 2.0 Press) have put out an excellent issue. This article will discuss a dozen of the most ridiculously revealing superheroine costumes in comic books.Here we have the fourth issue of this excellent fanzine devoted to “men’s adventure magazines”: Men’s Adventure Quarterly. Of course, there are characters whose durability is such that they don't necessarily need to wear full body armour in battle but, even so, revealing 90% of their body is still unnecessary. For instance, why would a female character with no superhuman durability to speak of go into battle with heavily armoured and massively powered opponents wearing what is essentially a bikini? It shouldn't happen, but it does happen in comic books - and it happens a lot. Not only are they unnecessarily sexualised, they are also extremely impractical in most cases. While the aim of this is obviously to appeal to male fans, the fact is that females make up a huge percentage of comic book audiences and, as a result, quite a lot of controversy has arisen about the topic of superheroine costumes. While the majority of male characters in comic books are muscle-bound individuals whose costumes cover a large portion of their bodies, females are often presented as slim, with disproportionately enormous breasts and, most noticeably, wearing very little. A fundamental complaint about comic books, which has been made by certain sections of society over the years, is that they can be quite sexist - particularly when it comes to the depictions of their female characters.
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