NEW JOE CABLE ACTION BOOK BONUS 24 THE MANHUNTER
W. J. Saber
The only thing certain was that Harry Place was dead. It looked like a cut-and-dried
case of suicide, but the cops' figured murder—and there were only two ways
Joe Cable could track down the killer: one brunette, one redhead... TRUE
8 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
A roundup of inside tips for men only.
18 MY 77-DAY ATLANTIC SURVIVAL ORDEAL
...as told to William R. Shelton
There were nine of us, nine human beings desperately short of food and water—and
floating helplessly in the middle of nowhere.
20 HOW TO BE A TIGER IN BED
Noel Kraft
Seven tested techniques guaranteed to help you get the woman" to say "Yes."
22 "NAVAL CHICKEN"—RUSSIA'S DEADLY WET WAR AGAINST THE U.S. FLEET
Glenn Infield
Soviet and American destroyers collide in Sea of Japan ... Red trawler harasses
7th Fleet off coast of Vietnam ... Russian and U.S. subs ram each other in mid-Atlantic
. . . the bold war battle for the high seas is on—and getting hotter and
hotter.
26 THE MEDICAL DISCOVERY THAT CAN TURN BLACK ... INTO WHITE
Len Guttridge
Today, 55 Negroes have accomplished "the impossible." Tomorrow, it can
be millions—using a pill that promises to wipe out the "color line"
for all time.
30 YEMEN'S YANK MYSTERY ACE OF THE "ARABIAN NIGHTS" WAR
Dan Stewart
Armed with nothing more than an old C-47 and a lot of nerve, Steve Smith's got
Mig-flying Egyptians chasing themselves—and lives it up like a royal sheik
when he's on the ground.
36 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Behind-the-scenes report from around the world.
38 WHY WE PAY MORE FOR DRUGS
Emile C. Schurmacher
Exposing the shocking "sock-it-to-them" pharmaceutical companies.
40 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
42 SEX HOLIDAYS FOR CONVICTS
C.W. Dawes
More and more states are realizing that conjugal "visits" are good insurance
against a parolee winding up back "inside" in six months. EXPLOSIVE EXTRA-LENGTHER
14 A Pilot's Frank Talk About
THE NOT-SO-SECRET LOVE LIFE OF AIRLINE STEWARDESSES
...as told to Richard Farrington
"The only thing these girls won't try once hasn't been invented yet." OFF-TRAIL
28 JILL—FROM 1 TO 5
STAG Picture Feature
34 HOUSE OF "BIZARRE MAIDENS"
James C. Marvin
Going AWOL into "no-man's-land" with a crate of C rations and a case
of beer didn't seem like the smartest thing to do—until they latched on
to four of the swingingest dolls in Vietnam. . DEPARTMENTS
13 LAST LAUGHS
52 OUT OF THIS WORLD
58 THAT'S THE LAW
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration Photographed by Mort Kunstler
A True Adventure Christmas Miracle: My 77-Day Atlantic Survival Ordeal
"How To Be A Tiger In Bed"
"Naval Chicken" - Russia's Dirty Wet War Against The U.S. Fleet
The Not-So-Secret Love Life Of Airline Stewardesses
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.
