POWERFUL BOOK BONUS 32 THE HUNTED
W. J. Saber
When Localla Silks' top designer, John Biasi, wound up a bandaged mummy in the
hospital, Joe Cable was called in to track down the hoods who'd worked him over.
He found them, all right. The only trouble was: he was on the wrong side of the
gun barrel. TRUE
6 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
A roundup of inside tips for men only.
12 MONIQUE: QUEEN OF NEWARK'S SEX TORTURE PALACE
Archer Scanlon
She'd still be doling out her special brand of perverted "kicks" to
a strange cult of "sick" weirdos—if-it hadn't been for a New Jersey
detective who laid his body on the line to invade her "temple" and beg
for a "treatment."
16 NO-RETREAT SUPER-HERO WHO STOPPED THE CONG COLD
L. B. Taylor, Jr.
They don't hand out Air Force Crosses for putting in time. Here's the incredible
saga of the first enlisted man to earn one: Airman First Class Bill "Pits"
Pitsenbarger, who chose to stick with a sitting duck group of 1st Div. GIs trapped
by the VC.
18 DOCTORS WHO KILL 200,000 PATIENTS A YEAR
William Harrell
It's time we put an end to our national disgrace: senile, alcoholic, drug-addicted,
insane, clumsy and just plain dumb MDs—unprofessional professional men with
"licenses to murder."
20 CYCLE GIRL GANGS
Alex Austin
Living for speed, sex and violence in a "world" where the bike is king,
California's hellions-on-wheels are outlaws even among their own kind.
24 OIL TANKER HORROR THAT CAN WIPE OUT BOTH COASTS!
John Godfrey
They look innocent enough, but let just one 100,000,000-gallon super-tanker break
up offshore—and you can forget all about riots, the Middle East and Vietnam.
30 HOW TO PAY $1,000 LESS FOR YOUR NEW CAR
Stuart Terra
An expert's "inside" tips on how to drive out of the showroom $$$$$
ahead of the game.
34 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
36 HE DREAMS UP HOLLYWOOD'S HOTTEST MOVIE SCENES
Alexander Boswell
His name is Harold Robbins, and he types with only three fingers—but he's
already pecked out seven sizzling, frankly intimate box office smashes that have
earned him millions.
38 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Behind-the-scenes report from around the world.
40 E: THE VITAMIN THAT GIVES YOU A BETTER LOVE LIFE
Ron Fuller
Doctors plagued with a 'weak sex drive use it themselves, but they hesitate to
prescribe it for patients with a similar problem. The reason: fear of contributing
to a major increase in sexual promiscuity. OFF-TRAIL
28 SECRETS OF A BIG TIME MODEL
STAG Picture Feature DEPARTMENTS
8 OUT OF THIS WORLD
11 LAST LAUGHS
52 THAT'S THE LAW
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration Photographed by Gil Cohen
Monique: Queen Of Newark's Sex Torture Palace
California's Hell-On-Wheels: Cycle Girl Gangs
How To Pay $1,000 Less For Your New Car
Powerful Book Bonus: The Hunted
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.
