TWIN BOOK BONUS GREATS 18 DEATH COMES NAKED
John Masters
Too beautiful to be good, she plunged Hammond into a global game of murder, money
and man-hungry desire.
34 THE HELL PLUNGERS
Delano Stagg
They were a bunch of brutal ex-cons who hit the silk—and saved their WW
II battalion from a Nazi wipe-out. DOUBLE FICTION SPECIALS
26 BACKSEAT TEASE
Alex Austin
Sultry looks and stunning body, she knew what she wanted—and got what she
deserved.
44 THE BEDROOM LESSON
Jay Sorkin
Long blonde hair—she had a thirst for a special kind of knowledge. TRUE
12 HOW TO MAKE OUT WITH THE "INSTANT SEX" GIRLS
Barry Jamieson
It's a fun revolution in which every Joe can take part.
16 WHAT'S YOUR BREAKING POINT
C C. Troebst
Heat, cold, fire, water—dedicated researchers have discovered how much you
can stand.
22 CRASH-OUT FROM THE WORST OF THE CHAIN GANGS
Mark Sufrin
It was 10 years of hell for Hanlon—where the only salvation was death or
escape.
24 SGT. TOM McCALL—GREATEST SHOOTOUT GI OF THEM ALL
Len Guttridge
He left a wake of Nazi corpses in his path and earned the Congressional Medal.
28 THE MONEY SHARKS
Jack Stewart
Bleeding you dry is the business of these no-conscience money gougers.
37 BE YOUR OWN BOSS: GET RICH IN THE FRANCHISE BOOM
Richard Gallagher
It's the free enterprise system gone wild—and everyone's cashing in.
38 YOU CAN SATISFY THE MOST PASSIONATE WOMAN
Dr. Efrem Schonhild
A guide to mutual satisfaction—tha binding force in today's marriages.
42 LET'S GET RID OF AMERICA'S SLUMS NOW!
Robert Phillips
Rat and disease infested ghettos are killing too many of our citizens. OFF-TRAIL FEATURES
8 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
11 LAST LAUGHS
30 YVONNE'S SECRET PIPE DREAM—A Photo Essay for Men
40 GAG BUSTERS—A Cartoon Special
49 YOU AND THE LAW
92 PUSSYCAT—Humor in the Bond Tradition
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration
Book Bonus By John Masters: Death Comes Naked
Fiction Special: Backseat Tease
Be Your Own Boss: Get Rich In The Franchise Boom
How To Make Out With The "Instant Sex" Girls
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.
