5 OPENING UP Nora reads your mail and licks your problem 10 STAG SHOTS Bizarre bits from our sexual news desk 18 INSIDE SEKA Article by Martin Cassidy 24 MERLE HAGGARD
Interview by Lois Lazarus
30 STAG PARTIES AT NAKED CITY
43 38 NUDE TRUCKERS
Interview by John Tido
43 JENNIFER
Pictorial featuring Stagdate Jennifer Cummings
53 THE ULTIMATE INSIDER
Porn news by Marc Stevens
56 SPLITTING A PAIR
Fiction by Wayne Ulsh
59 GREAT GAMS PHOTO CONTEST
Home hot shots for leg lovers
64 EXECUTIVE NORTH
Article by Richard Milner
69 HOT CHAT
Readers discuss their wildest sex experiences
75 LAVERNE
Pictorial featuring Stagdate Laverne Bessel
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Seka Photographed by Producers Of Inside Seka
Chicago's Horniest Sex Club: Stag's Cameras Take You Inside
Jennifer Cummins
Executive North
Merle Haggard interviewed by Lois Lazarus
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.
