EXCLUSIVE BOOK BONUS 12 Vance Reid's Airdrop Mission:
FIND AND KIDNAP THE ORIENT'S PROMISCUOUS VICE QUEEN
Carl Sherman
If he hadn't gotten Burma's most notorious woman to Formosa, we might be fighting
a new war in the East today. TRUE
16 180 IMPOSSIBLE DAYS OF AMERICA'S 8 HOTTEST PILOTS
Martin Caidin
With no radio, no radar, they pushed their clumsy flying tanks through everything
nature could throw—to be the first men to circle the globe by air.
20 THE 22 WOMEN WHO JOINED LT. CARDLE'S SUB CREW
Stan Smith
Six months after the X-15 vanished, her crew turned up in Malaya fighting the
war's hottest guerrilla campaign—complete with gun-toting harem
24 THESE YANKS WERE EXECUTED BY CASTRO
Henry Durling and Felix Painter
This is the story of three Americans and their fatal adventure that began in a
Miami bar and ended in front of a Cuban firing squad.
26 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
28 THE CAMP FOLLOWER IN GEN. FORREST'S COMMAND TENT
H H. Kroll
With a pretty slave girl as bait he set out to pull the biggest bluff of the war.
32 THREE WHO ESCAPED FROM THE CITY OF THE DEAD
Leon Lazarus
Bailing out over revolt-torn Warsaw, Lt. Garner was handed a gun by two Poles
and told to shoot his way out with them.
36 THE TERRIBLE BLIZZARD OF '88
Irving Werstein
Before the worst storm in this nation's history was over, the damage totaled $20,000,000—and
the death count still isn't complete. OFF-TRAIL
34 DON'T CALL ME "RED" A STAG
Picture Feature DEPARTMENTS
6 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
8 OUT OF THIS WORLD
11 LAST LAUGHS
84 OUT OF THE STAG BAG
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration
22 Women Who Joined Lt. Cardle's Cave-Dweller Sub Crew
Three Who Escaped From The City Of The Dead: An Untold Chapter Of WWII
Don't Call Me "Red"
About Stag
The first Stag magazine, published by Leeds Publishing Corp., beginning with vol. 1, #1 (June 1937), was a 25-cent, 96-page, digest subtitled "A Magazine for Men" and which included articles and stories by such writers as Carleton Beals, Elsa Maxwell, Bernard Sobel, and Hendrik Willem van Loon. It covered a range of topics, including literature, music, sports, and theater, along with stories on male-female relationships, sexual issues, and such topics as striptease.
A second volume, published by Official Com. Inc. and edited by Noah Sarlat, appeared circa 1951 as a 25-cent, 82-page, standard-sized men's adventure magazine. This version, containing ostensibly "true-life" fiction of men in wartime or in rugged adventure mode, continued through at least volume 22 in 1971, by which time it had published by Martin Goodman's related company, Atlas Magazines Inc., and Magazine Management Co., Inc., by which time the cover price had been raised to 50 cents.
Goodman also published the annual publication Stag Annual, starting in 1964.
Writer Dorothy Gallagher reminisced in 1998 that by the early 1960s, when Magazine Management occupied the second floor at 60th Street and Madison Avenue, "...magazines were produced the way Detroit produced cars. I worked on the fan-magazine line. On the other side of a five-foot partition was the romance-magazine line. And across a corridor were the financial staples of the organization, the men's magazines — Stag, For Men Only, Male — for which, at one time or another, Mario Puzo, Bruce Jay Friedman, David Markson, Mickey Spillane and Martin Cruz Smith wrote, until they became too exalted and rich to do it anymore." Cover illustrators included Frank Soltesz.
Stag transitioned to become a men's pornographic magazine, published by Goodman's son Charles "Chip" Goodman at Magazine Management's successor company, Swank Publications. The publishing group Magna bought Stag and its sister publication Swank from that company in 1993.
