ACTION-CHARGED BOOK BONUS 24 "REDHEAD" SWINGER
Michael Brett
Racketeer Enrique Goshen's wife was missing, maybe kidnaped, maybe dead—and
Peter McGrath's job was to find her. Sorting through a bevy of turned-on dames
who kept cluttering up the "trail," he finally found her—and also
found himself facing the business end of a .38. TRUE
10 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
A roundup of i nside tips for men only.
14 BROTHEL GIRLS—AGAIN BIG BUSINESS
Alex Austin
Once again the kicks-for-cash dolls are "working" under a roof—
in every big city from coast to coast— setting off a new 20th-Century "Bordello
Boom."
18 EXPEDITION TO THE "STRANGE WOMEN" TRIBE OF NEW GUINEA
Carl Sherman
The two white men had been warned about the head-hunting Mogei, but they never
expected they'd have to live with the Stone Age savages who "carry"
the mysterious, hysteria-causing disease of "laughing death."
22 X RAY: MEDICAL MIRACLE THAT'S BECOME A KILLER
Emile C. Schurmacher
Because of outmoded equipment, untrained operators and less-than-adequate U.S.
control, what should be a boon to mankind is actually snuffing out the lives of
30,000 Americans every year.
26 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
28 Colonel "Ding Dong" Bell: THE CHAMP WHO SLUGGED THE CONG
Glenn Infield
If he fired on the ambushing VC holed up in the Buddhist shrine, it would mean
a court-martial — but if he didn't, every one of his men would die
32 THEY GRAB OUR AID BUT HATE OUR GUTS
Seymour Freidin
They're the so-called "friendly nations," the "free" countries
who take every dollar, every morsel of food, every drop of blood we give them
— then repay us with one back-stabbing anti-U.S. smear campaign after another.
36 MID-OCEAN DISASTERS ARE SINKING OUR NAVY
Len Guttridge
Collisions... fires ...goof-offs ...In a shocking, inside report, officers and
men speak out about the neglect, improper training and short-sightedness threatening
to "scuttle" the Fleet.
40 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Behind-the-scenes report from around the world.
42 MARRIED COUPLES WHO ADD A THIRD SEX PARTNER
Alan M. Young
Some do it to "save" their marriage, some "just for the experience."
Whatever the reason, the "menage a trois"—an intimate three-way
relationship — is the brand-new love game people are playing. OFF-TRAIL
30 WOULD YOU BELIEVE: LAILI?
STAG Picture Feature
34 PENTHOUSE TEASE
Jay Sorkin
On the terrace, under the sun, in the bikini, for the benefit of the construction
men across the street, she exhibited the body of a real woman — until one
of them came over and taught her how to use it. DEPARTMENTS
13 LAST LAUGHS
50 OUT OF THIS WORLD
58 THAT'S THE LAW
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration Photographed by Mort Kunstler
Expedition To 'Strange Women' Tribe Of New Guinea
"Our Foriegn Friends" They Grab Our Aid But Hate Our Guts
Married Couples Who Add A Third Sex Partner
Action-Charged Book Bonus: "Redhead" Swinger
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.
