FIRST RUN BOOK BONUS 24 THE BIG FRAME
W. J. Saber
Any number of hoods and underhanded politicos could have knocked off Walt Finster,
but somebody was out to make his bodyguard the patsy—with or without the
girls on his string. TRUE
8 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
A roundup of inside tips for men only.
14 LOVE LIFE OF A REAL MAN
Alan M. Young
The old rule about the male having to satisfy the female is a lot of bunk. If
he just acts like the aggressive animal he really is, she'll respond in every
way a woman can.
16 WHY SHOULD WE RIDE THE 1,800 M.P.H. "DEATH PLANE" NOBODY UNDERSTANDS
Peter Metcalf
What's the big rush to build the giant SST, an aircraft that's got more "bugs"
in it than it has room for its 300-plus passengers.
18 FOUND BY TWO YANKS: THE "FREE LOVE" KASHGAI TRIBE
Emile C. Schurmacher
The Americans knew it would be easy to make love to the seductive native girls,
but also knew. it meant risking a slit throat.
20 13/13 VIETNAM: SEARCH AND DESTROY
Gordon Baxter
We shOved off at midnight in what was supposed to be a "surprise" attack,
but the odds were lopsided that the Cong would be waiting to wipe out every last
man of I Co., 3rd Bn., 1st Marines.
26 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
28THE CRIME DOCTOR F. LEE BAILEY COULDN'T SCARE
Mark Cott
Even half a dozen Perry Masons would have trouble battling Dr. Milton Helpern,
New York City's "Commissioner of the Dead."
30 THE NEW COMPUTER-CHECKED JOY GIRL SPECIALISTS
Robert Laguardia
An expose of the electronic punch card call doll racket—more shocking than
the wife-swap scandals.
34 STAG PICKS THE BEST CAR FOR 1968: BARRACUDA!
John Bentley
It has the "class" of a European GT machine, and handles like one—and
the price is right.
38 FEDERAL GRANTS: UNBELIEVABLE, LUDICROUS WAYS THE GOVERNMENT THROWS AWAY MILLIONS
Leon Lazarus
Uncle Sam's right hand often doesn't know what the left hand is doing when it
comes to doling out money for "research."
40 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Behind-the-scenes report from around the world.
42 KING WALLY: EX-CON WHO RULES THE WILDEST ISLAND ON EARTH
Glenn Infield
Nothing moves on Grand Bahama without his OK—and playboys and playgirls
who've deserted Miami Beach like it that way. OFF-TRAIL
36 "DON'T PIN ME DOWN TO ANYTHING"
STAG Picture Feature DEPARTMENTS
13 LAST LAUGHS
52 OUT OF THIS WORLD
74 THAT'S THE LAW
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration Photographed by Mort Kunstler
New Computer-Checked Joy Girl Specialists
1967's Top Combat Best-Seller - 13/13 Vietnam: Search And Destroy
In Hiding For 50 Years, Found By 2 Yanks: The "Free Love" Kashgai Tribe
First Run Book Bonus: The Big Frame
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.
