12 WE ARE THE MIDWEST'S LEGENDARY "PIMP PATROL"
To infiltrate and bust up the vicious flesh market running wide open, she had
to play hooker, while I was her "daddy"
14 THE MAFIA STOLE MY BRIDE
He was between two kill-crazy Mafia factions—one had his girl; the other
wanted her...
16 FIRST-NIGHT SEX TECHNIQUES THAT WORK BEST
"That first time, I'll knock myself out to let him know I'm doing something
I don't do with every guy who comes down the pike."
18 MY LIFE WITH HEADHUNTERS
"Fifteen of us began the journey, only half walked out months later—wasted
by malaria, starved to the point of eating our own clothing and haunted by the
terrifying Dyak blood rituals."
21 STAGMATE NO. 1: MARTHA REDFORD
"It was nothing but beautiful," says Texas-born Viet Vet, Torry Wakelin,
now. He's talking about the week he spent last year with model Martha Redford.
28 "I'M A LOVE TEACHER AT L.A.'S ACADEMY OF SEX"
"I get a kick out of playing 'professor' and showing a man how to master
any sex techniqne he's interested in."
30 WHAT IF A TERRORIST HIJACKED AN A-BOMB?
"With terrorist fringe groups better and better organized, it's no longer
a question of whether the big rip-off is coming, but when."
34 I BOSSED INDIANAPOLIS' TERROR GANG: THE "SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIALS"
War-scarred and battle-hardened, they were Viet vets explosive with an anger that
cared for nothing and no one.
38 NIGHT OF THE RATTLERS
We'd spent the whole fishing trip at each other's throats until torrential rains
turned the Tugaloo into a flooded-out snake-pit, forcing us to forget everything
else but survival.
40 THE OVER-HEATED LANDLADY
To get to Eunice's waiting bed, he had to bypass his lusty landlady or find himself
on a wild, sexual merry-gorogind. PLUS:
6 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
8 YOU ASKED ABOUT SEX
11 LAST LAUGHS
26 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
31 STAGMATE NO. 2: SILKIE TANNER
36 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
52 THAT'S THE LAW
62 MAN'S WORLD MEMO
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Martha Redford (Not Nude)
True Bestselling Book Bonus "My Life With The Headhunters"
First-Night Sex Techniques That Work Best
Mafia Kidnap: A Don's Daughter Held By A Rival Mob
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.
