FIRST-RUN BOOK FIND 28 "ESCAPE IMPOSSIBLE"
E C. Schurmacher
The situation was bad enough for the Yank and the Russian blonde stranded at a
Peking-Moscow railway stop in Mongolia—but it turned into a survival ordeal
when a gang of ransom-hungry bandits and a regiment of "spy happy" Red
Chinese got into the act... TRUE
6 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
A roundup of inside tips for men only.
12 I MARRIED A CALL GIRL
...as told to Alan M. Young
"I still have to be very careful with Libby ... her past experiences in 'the
life' continue to haunt her, inhibit her about many things. .
16 MAJOR KENNEDY'S "TERROR ALLEY" MIRACLE OF VIETNAM
Glenn Infield
The area where the Phantom jet and the lead rescue 'copter had gone down was crawling
with North Viet gunners, but he knew he had to go in and pick up any survivors—and
pray he was buying a round-trip ticket.
18 "MY MAN IS A TWO-WHEELED COWBOY"
... as told to Jimmy Lyon
"I've had nothing but trouble since I married Benny. I've seen more jails,
been in more courts ... in a year. But I can't leave him."
24 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
26 SEX BOOSTERS THAT WORK—AND DON'T
Carl Sherman
The truth about those liquids, foods and drugs that can—and can't—give
you "instant sexual power."
30 LET'S STOP SHAFTING THE POOR
Wes Porter
It's about time we did something about ghetto unrest and got rid of those "no
conscience" overcharging, produce-doctoring, short-weighing, "respectable"
slum merchants.
32 HOW WE BROKE THE U.S. DESERTERS SEDUCTION RING
Stuart Charles
The Reds were doing just fine with their "sex squad," girls who used
their bodies to "persuade" GIs to turn traitor—until the Army
"drafted" a jet-set playboy and sent him out to separate the bodies
from the "brains."
34 STAG PICKS THE BEST CAR FOR 1969
John Bentley
The sleek, clw-lined Javelin is the reason why next year will probably be the
biggest in American Motors' history.
36 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Behind-the-scenes report from around the world.
38 I RIDE THE DITCH AND RESCUE SEA PATROL
Capt. John M. Waters, Jr.
An inside look at what happens aboard every Coast Guard cutter on "station
duty" when the "Mayday" call comes in. OFF-TRAIL
22 WHO'S THE GUY IN JUDY'S BED?
Richard Gallagher
"I want to thank you for all you've done for me." she said as her robe
slipped open to expose her nakedness, "and this is the best way I know how..."
40 10% ARE GENTLEMEN
STAG Picture Feature DEPARTMENTS
11 LAST LAUGHS
48 OUT OF THIS WORLD
56 THAT'S THE LAW
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration Photographed by Mort Kunstler
"Sex Boosters" That Work-And Don't
My Man Is A Two-Wheeled Cowboy
I Married A Call Girl
First-Run Book Find "Escape Impossible"
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.
