BOMBSHELL BOOK BONUS 34 THE PRESIDENT'S PLANE IS MISSING!
Robert J. Serling
One minute Air Force One—the Chief on board—was there, a blip on the
radar screen. The next, it suddenly vanished... TRUE
10 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
A roundup of inside tips for men only.
18 KILLER KANE'S "RAIN OF BULLETS" VIETNAM BREAKOUT
Glenn Infield
The pinned down six-man 1st Marine Div. patrol had had it—until the Lieutenant
came up with a never-been-done-before "tactical" brainstorm.
20 "DON'T-GIVE-A-DAMN" DIPLOMATS WHO ABUSE U.S. HOSPITALITY
Ron Kravath
Some of the "friendliest" foreign representatives will spy, chisel on
debts, commit blackmail , even murder, then beg off claiming "diplomatic
immunity."
22 I SURVIVED THE EARTHQUAKE DEATH OF TUGUAN ISLAND
Stephen K. Trainer
For 50 days we drifted on our palm tree raft—the two Minahase girls and
I—clinging to a faint hope of rescue I didn't really believe would come.
26 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
30 HOW TO BEAT THE HOME BUILDING VULTURES
S.T. Anthony
Corrupt from the foundation up, the construction industry leeches will bleed you
for every cent you've saved—but it doesn't have to be that way.
36 10 MONEY CRISES—A PLAN TO SOLVE THEM
Ray Lunt
Anything from an emergency operation to a strike at the plant where you work could
clean you out, put you in hock for the rest of your life. Here's how to handle
any "dollar blockbuster" that comes along.
38 "STALKER" OF THE HOT ROD DROPOUTS
John Peel
The labor Day Weekend invaders it¦ their hopped up cars had total control
of the most exclusive island hideaway off Florida's Gulf Coast—and no opposition
except a Vietnam vet with a crazy idea of fighting a one-man guerrilla war.
40 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Behind-the-scenes report from around the world.
42 TAIPEI: WORLD'S MOST EXOTIC CITY OF SEX
Tom Shaw
One night in the "Paradise of the East," with a girl picked just to
please you in every way, and your only regret will be that it can't go on forever. SENSATIONAL EXTRA-LENGTHER
14 MY WIFE RUNS A CALL GIRL RING
Ed Carpenter
The kind of high-class operation she has, Linda's got to be ready for anything
. . and surrounded by some of the most gorgeous—and unpredictable—hookers
in the world, so do I. OFF-TRAIL
28 EVERYBODY'S MAKE-OUT DATE
Alex Austin
Charlie had a good thing going—with his own wife—when the kid house
guest came with her miniskirts, "sex-should-be-fun" pitch and nude parades.
32 TWO THINGS A WOMAN SHOULD ALWAYS BE
STAG Picture Feature DEPARTMENTS
13 LAST LAUGHS
50 THAT'S THE LAW
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration Photographed by Mort Kunstler
True Account Of A Strange Relationship: My Wife Runs A Call Girl Ring
2 Native Girls - A Yank - 50 Days On A Raft: I Survived The Earthquake Death Of Tuguan Island
Everybody's Make-Out Date
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.
