12 "MY MOST EROTIC ADVENTURE IN ADULTERY" "The last time I just groaned and twisted, it was so great." "I
told him, 'Make it dirty, anything you want, that's what we're here for'."
14 A MOB TORCH IS BURNING OUT THE GHETTO
There were a lot of things McKay didn't know, but one thing he did know—his
best friend had died in one of those killer infernos and someone was damn well
going to pay...
16 SEX CLINIC "NURSES" WHO IMPROVE YOUR BEDROOM TECHNIQUES
The kind of kicky far-out loving they can give a man, there's just no way he can
ge on the outside.
18 25 STORE-BOUGHT BOOBY TRAPS THAT CAN KILL YOU
Shattering blasts, lethal fumes, crippling blows - even the most familiar things
you own can turn into nightmares right in your home... a lamp, a stove, a small
book of safety matches
19 STAGDATE NO. 1 MANDY KUYPERS
A budding track star, she stopped competing when she discovered boys were put
on earth for other reasons than to beat her in a foot race...
24 THE TRAIN THEY DYNAMITED INTO THE CROC-FILLED CONGO
When the explosive shredded the train trestle it dumped two carloads of Yank construction
men into a sea of gaping jaws and left the three remaining cars to dangle helplessly
in limbo.
26 I WAS A SEX SPY FOR THE MAFIA
"The job was a groove. There was nothing I would do to get a man talking.
On a 'wild sex' scale of 10. I figured I was blowing the needle right off the
dial."
28 FRENCH CONNECTION II
It was a duel of wits between two very deadly men. Popeye Doyle, the tough New
York cop prowling Marseilles, and Charnier, powerful, untouchable, moving invisibly
behind the machinery of an immense heroin trade.
36 THE TYPHOON THAT WRECKED THE U.S. NAVY
When the worst storm ever to hit the Pacific ran into the greatest naval armada
ever assembled, Admiral "Bull" Halsey's 3rd Fleet faced total wipeout...
40 DIARY OF A LESBIAN HOUSEWIFE
"It may take a woman's touch to really unhinge me, but I'm not selfish when
it comes to loving. Jack knows when I'm onto a really dynamite chick, he's free
to move right in to get his share of the action." PLUS:
6 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
8 YOU ASKED ABOUT SEX
11 LAST LAUGHS
31 STAGDATE NO. 2: CLEMENTINE
34 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
38 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
54 THAT'S THE LAW
64 MAN'S WORLD MEMO
Features in This Issue
I Was A Sex Spy For The Mafia
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.
