SUSPENSE BOOK BONUS 20 RENDEZVOUS WITH CAROLINE
Sam Porter
All four of the men had slept with her—both in and out of marriage—under
the strangest circumstances. All four had received her "invitation."
All four accepted, because they couldn't afford not to. And all four were time-bombed
for violence... TRUE
6 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
A roundup of inside tips for men only
12 SEX LIFE OF THE LOVE SEEKERS
D. Bogen
Like an alcoholic "on the wagon," she'll go for months without even
looking at a man. But — when the "hunger" hits — anyone
who comes along is fair game.
16 "To-The-Last-Marine" Stand Of SGT. JIMMIE HOWARD'S "LOST PLATOON"
HEROES
Emile C. Schurmacher
With five men dead,.six wounded, ammo low and a battalion of North Viet Regulars
set to wipe them out, he, made the decision: call in the F8s, start tossing rocks—and
pray!
22 "EASY PAY" AUTO GYPS WHO ROB OUR GIs
Robert Laguardia
The toughest, most combatwise serviceman can get taken by this home-front "army"
of con men who'll bleed him for every cent he's got — and maybe get him
dishonorably booted out of the Armed Forces as well.
24 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Behind-the-scenes report from around the world.
26 MR. TERROR: BOSS OF THE K.G.B.
Seymour Freidin
Once a part-time Soviet "diplomat" who specialized in "eliminating"
troublemakers, Yuri Andropov is now No. 3 man in the USSR — with enough
power to start WW III.
28 DIARY OF A BAHAMAS CALL GIRL
Charles Waldron
An intimate report from "Sin Island."
30 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
34 ONE RAT FOR EVERY AMERICAN— AND CONGRESS DOES LITTLE
Donald King
While U.S. Representatives were laughing down the "rat control bill,"
200,000,000 "jokers" were busy spreading disease and contamination across
the nation.
38 MIRACLE WEAPONS
Richard Gallagher
In operation: radar that spots radar, a do-it-yourself airfield kit and a "B.O."
detector. In the works: a space cannon, a flying belt" and a "shrinking"
tank... OFF-TRAIL
32 SWAMP "WIDOW'
Nick Talz
An escaped con from a Georgia prison camp, he should have kept running. But Carla
was enough woman to stop a whole chain gang.
36 SWINGING WORLD OF MISS STEVEY STAG
Picture Feature DEPARTMENTS
8 OUT OF THIS WORLD
11 LAST LAUGHS
58 THAT'S THE LAW
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration Photographed by Gil Cohen
Actual Case Histories Of Man-Hungry Women: Sex Life Of Love Seekers
Yuri Andropov - World's Most Terrifying Red Boss Of The K.G.B.
An Intimate Report From Sin Island: Diary Of A Bahamas Call Girl
Booklength Suspense Bonus: Rendezvous With Caroline "...Raw...Passion...Violence" Ledger Dispatch
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.
