MID-YEARBOOK AWARD 32 BRING ON THE GIRLS
Lawrence Block
Free-agent Tanner had three objectives: track down his girl, a king's jewels
and a kidnapped American jazz quartet. Simple. All he had to do was bribe his
way out of an executioner's "birdcage," swipe a Soviet tank .. .and
stay out of the way of bullets tossed at him by both "friendlies" and
the enemy... TRUE
8 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
A roundup of inside tips for men only.
12 I LIVED WITH THE AMAZON HEADHUNTERS
Victor G.C. Norwood
We were cared for by Stone Age savages, looked on as "gods" because
of our flash camera, given our choice of "wives" and allowed to witness
the strangest, most primitive rites ever practiced.
16 "...SURROUNDED AND ON FIRE... BOMB OUR POSITION..."
Glenn Infield
With NVs all around their downed "Dragonship," Sgt. Jim Turner realized
that calling in the skyraiders was the only move they had—besides praying.
"I AM A MARRIED HUSTLER"
Jay Webb 18
Some need extra cash, some are just plain "nympho," but whatever their
motives, more and more housewives are playing the two-timing game of "daytime
love."
22 THE KILL-CRAZY LIFE OF JOHN DILLINGER
W.J. Saber
"Move in fast, take what you want" was his credo, and that's the way
he lived—until G men filled him full of lead one day in Chicago.
26 MEET RUSSIA'S POWERFUL NO. 1 U.S. HATER
Fred Sparks
You probably never heard of Mikhail Suslov, but behind the scenes he carefully
plots Kremlin strategy, his computer-smart brain "programmed" for a
Free World holocaust.
30 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
36 THE NEW SECRET OF SEXUAL ENJOYMENT
Alan M. Young
Authorized medical surveys have revealed the most important breakthrough in love-making
techniques ever made.
34 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Behind-the-scenes report from around the world.
38 THE SCANDAL OF CONVICTS WHO BUY THEIR WAY OUT
Rod Ackerman
Thanks to "on-the-take" parole board members. hundreds of "repeaters"—including
arsonists, rapists and murderers—walk out of our prisons every year, free
to strike again. OFF-TRAIL
28 NUDIST CAMP DOCTOR
Richard Gallagher
Even a dedicated man like David Sloane wasn't prepared for what happened the day
he made a "house call" to Hillside Sun Ranch.
40 HAVE MERCY!
STAG Picture Feature DEPARTMENTS
11 LAST LAUGHS
56 OUT OF THIS WORLD
62 THAT'S THE LAW
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration Photographed by Mort Kunstler
An Amazing Jungle Survival Saga: I Lived With Amazon Headhunters
From Authorized Medical Surveys: New Sevret Of Sexual Enjoyment
The Kill-Crazy Life Of John Dillinger
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.
