EXCLUSIVE BOOK BONUS 12THE YANK WHO FOULED UP ROMMEL'S DESERT ASSAULT
Warren J. Shanahan
Screened out of basic training by the Pentagon, he was dropped info the desert
as a one-man outpost to stop a link-up between the Nazis and Africa's most savage
tribe. TRUE
16 56TH DAY ... THEY MUST BE DEAD ... SEARCH CONTINUES....
Walter Clint
After one month all Canada was betting against any chance of survivors. But a
bush pilot and a backwoodsman refused to give up what turned into the Yukon's
biggest manhunt.
18 GI COMMANDO RAID THAT SAVED THE WEST COAST
Dean W. Ballenger
If the three men failed in their mission on Japanese-held Attu, enemy assault
craft would grind ashore from Portland to San Diego.
20 JOY DOLL DECOY FOR RED CHINA'S $40,000,000 SPY RACKET
Emile C. Schurmacher
First break in U.S. fight to stop illegal entry of Chinese Reds came in 1960,
when an ex-GI followed an exotic Eurasian into Hong Kong to nail the operation's
kingpin.
24 LAST SURVIVORS OF WARSAW'S BLOODY GHETTO BUNKERS
Cywia Lubetkin
May 1943 ... "We will die, but the Nazis will pay hard for victory. They
will fight for every house, every stone, every life.. . ." An exclusive eyewitness
account.
30 HOW I BECAME AN "ACCIDENTAL MILLIONAIRE"
Robert Page
For 15 years I had them all fooled—cops, judges, doctors and fraud investigators.
And then, because of one lousy phone call, I drew a 4 to 8 stretch in Sing Sing.
32 THE SOCIETY NYMPH WHO SEDUCED GEN. PERSHING'S 17TH PHILIPPINE SCOUTS
W. J. Saber
She was the loveliest—and most willing—woman in the islands. And if
their C.O. hadn't been kidnaped from her bed, the Americans might never have caught
the "Phantom Bandit."
34 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
36 NISHIZAWA: JAPAN'S DEADLIEST COMBAT PILOT-102 AIR FORCE KILLS
Martin Caidin
Leading ace of the Imperial Navy, he made the Pacific his private battleground
and any Allied plane that flew into it his personal target. OFF-TRAIL
28 WANTED: 1 BLINTZ-LOVER
A STAG Picture Feature DEPARTMENTS
6 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
11 LAST LAUGHS
52 OUT OF THIS WORLD
84 OUT OF THE STAG BAG
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration
The Yank Who Fouled Up Rommel's Desert Assault
"I Led The Greatest Kamikaze Raid"
The Society Nymph Who Seduced The 17th. Philippine Scouts
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.
