7 OPENING UP Anna opens your mail and her heart
19 STAG SHOTS
As Bizarre bits from the sexual news desk
16 "MY BEST LAY"
Interviews by Richard Milner
19 ERICA
Pictorial featuring Stagdate Erica Emory
26 SHORT-CHANGE SCAMS
Article By Carl Sherwood 9
32 A DAY WITH UGLY GEORGE
Interview by Ugly George
38 MEMOIRS OF A V MASSAGE PARLOR MADAM
Article by Perri Blair
43 SIOUX CITY SUE
Pictorial featuring Sue Putnam
54 HOW TO DRIVE YOUR WOMAN NUTS
Humor by Dan Gutman
58 HANDLING A HANGOVER
Article by John Robert Burns
62 BIKER BABY
Fiction by Brad Austin
66 GREAT GAMS PHOTO CONTEST
Home hot shots for leg lovers
71 HOT CHAT
Readers discuss their wildest sex adventures
77 BEST FRIENDS
Pictorial featuring Stagdates Diane Tanner and Pam Cole
84 COUPLES' CLINIC
Intimate advice from Eric and Mary Lou Wagner
Features in This Issue
Donna interviewed by Ugly George
Top Starlets: Vanessa Del Rio, Gloria Leonard, & Annie Sprinkle Share Their Hottest Scenes With You
Video Sidewalk Stud Ugly George Makes Nasty Movies With Nice Girls
Greatest Gams Ever: Top Cash Winners In Our Amazing Amateur Contest
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.
