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    Action for Men [Vol. 4 No. 3, May 1960] ed. K. T. Meyer (Vista Publications, Inc., 25¢, 66pp, quarto) []
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    • 6 · Gag Line · [uncredited] · hu
    • 11 · The Squawk Box · The Readers · lc
    • 12 · Lucky Miller’s Women-of-All-Nations Spy Machine · Don Mooney · ts; illustrated by Jack Rickard; “He was perfect for the job—the girls liked him, the Allies needed him and the Japs hated him.”
    • 16 · Stand By to Scuttle Sub · William C. Chambliss · ts; “After Pearl Harbor, with the Pacific Fleet almost a myth, only a handful of subs stood between Australia and invasion from the Far East.”
    • 18 · “I Murdered Them All—but Can You Prove It?” · Carl Evans · ts; illustrated by Julian Paul; “Scotland Yard was completely roadblocked by the gentleman killer who left no corpses.”
    • 22 · Action for Men Final · [uncredited] · cl
    • 24 · “Death Before Capture” Escape of Lt. Clem Summersill · Clay Blair, Jr. · ex from Beyond Courage, David McKay, 1959; illustrated by Al Rossi; “Korea’s strangest behind-enemy-lines ordeal”.
    • 28 · She Was Only a General’s Daughter · [uncredited] · pi
    • 32 · The Two-Ocean Vice Fleet of Maria Cobham · Ken Jones · ts; illustrated by Frank Soltesz; “From the moment she walked aboard the Jolly Companions, every ship doubled its watches.”

    Action for Men [v5 #5, September 1961] (Vista Publications, Inc., 25¢, cover by Charles Copeland) []
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    • · Terror Camp Breakthrough of AWOL Seaman Hank Prescott · James Christopher · ts; “When the Japs Bombed Manila, Dec. 7, 1941, He Was Cut Off from All Allied Help and Driven Into One of the Most Desperate Survival Ordeals of the War.”
    • · L.A.’s Police Stakeout for the Lovers’ Lane Rapist · Don Dwiggins · ar; “Hollywood’s Top Make-Up Artists Changed a Bunch of Hard-Boiled Cops Into Luscious Bait for the West Coast’s Craziest Sex Trap.”
    • · Bailout to Hell · Bill Wharton · ts; “Shot Out of His Plane, the B-29 Pilot Became a Sitting-Duck Target for 20,000 Ft. Down to the Pacific.”
    • · Dr. Cream and the Nighttime Girls of London · Stan Bair · ts; “For 12 Months the Lambeth Road Terror Forced Every Streetwalker in Town to Double-Lock Her Door.”
    • · The Day the GI’s Beat the Red Army in Russia · Charles Whiting · ts; “This Fantastic American Combat Mission on Soviet Soil Still Has Khrushchev Raging.”
    • · “Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle” · Terry Higgins · ts
    • · The Great Plague · A. A. Hoehling · ar; “It Started with a Common Cold and Ended When the Victims Turned a Ghastly Dark-Blue.”

    Action for Men [v8 #2, March 1964] (Vista Publications, Inc., 25¢, cover by Mort Künstler) []
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    • · Seaman Joe Andrews and His Guerrilla Girls · George W. Hayes · ts; illustrated by James Bama; “The Only Yank at the Battle of Stalingrad, He Headed the Weirdest Vodka-And-Skirts Partisan Band to Fight on Any Front.”
    • · Sin Capital of all Vice-Cities · Jack Stewart · ar; “Teenage Girls Ask Men on Nude Swimming Dates and Sex Education Starts in the First Grade in the Pleasure-Mad Paradise of Sweden.”
    • · Fantastic Saboteur Who Held Off a Jap Division · Manley Anderson · ts; illustrated by Robert Powell; “Once the Young Officer Made His Escape, the Troops of the Rising Sun Faced a Mysterious Karate Terror Who Butchered Without Warning.”
    • · Vito Genovese: Crime King of the World · Jack Kaplan · ar; “He Started As a Cheap Hood and Wormed His Way Up Until He Was Giving the Executian Orders, and He Still Does—From Behind Bars.”
    • · Bed and Board Bachelor Blonde: Evelyne Lacroix · [uncredited] · pi
    • · 83 Days Drifting—U. S. Navy’s Greatest Raft Ordeal · Alvin Nizer · ts; illustrated by Bob Stanley; “They Turned Into Scavengers of the Ocean, Eating Snails, Birds and Shark Meat Raw. But They’d Soon Start Dying Wholesale.”
    • · “I’ll Take any Woman—Work for any Country” · Col. S. S. Packett · ts; illustrated by Ray Johnson; “Mystery Man Alf Reid Could Handle Any Spy Job in the World for the Right Price, But He Ended Up on Peiping’s Must-Die List.”

    Action for Men [v8 #6, November 1964] (Vista Publications, Inc., 35¢, cover by Charles Copeland) []
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    • · Leyte—Bloodiest Naval Battle of All Time · Hanson W. Baldwin · ts; “We Broke Japan’s Power at Sea, But Command Foul-Ups Almost Cost Us Our Invasion Forces and Military Experts Still Can’t Agree Who Was Wrong.”
    • · Pvt. Proctor’s Nude Harem That Decoyed Rommel’s Afrika Korps · Edwin Johnson · ts; illustrated by Bob Stanley; “He Mixed Gin and Dames with a One-Man War That Made Him the Nazis’ Most Hunted Target”.
    • · Sold by the U.S.: A Gun for Any Killer · S. David Pursglove · ts; “A National Scandal: Crooks Can Buy ”Scrap“ Arms for Peanuts—And Murder Unlimited.”
    • · Sex Life of the American Prostitute · Benjamin Morse, M.D. · ar; “She May Be Cold As Ice, But She Can Make Any Guy Feel He’s the Only Man in Her Life.”
    • · Strip-and-Run Tease · Hank Warden · ss; illustrated by Ray Johnson; “If He Didn’t Find the Key to Her Passions, She Would Drive Him Crazy.”
    • · Secret Return of the Nazi Terror · John Godfrey · ts; “1964’s Staggering Expose: Hitler’s Thugs Are Ready for Another Bloody Stab at World Rule.”
    • · She’s a Gold Mine for A. T. & T.: Colleen O’Mara · [uncredited] · pi
    • · “Pilot All Shot Up…How Do I Land This Crate?” · Ray Michaels · ts; illustrated by George Wilson; “Green As Grass, He Had to Fly the Plane Home—To the Disastrous Nose Dive for the Runway.”
    • · Pleasure Pen Hideout of Paris’ Female Cons · Allan Rand · ts; illustrated by Al Rossi; “Police Had to Find the Underground Den of the Love-Sick Kidnapers and Their Male Victims.”

    Action for Men [v10 #5, September 1966] (Vista Publications, Inc., 35¢, cover by Charles Copeland) []
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    • · Nymph Who Took Over Las Vegas [Tom Marco] · L. W. Blanco · ss; illustrated by Al Rossi; “The Superspy Had to Trap the Lush Blonde and Her Gang of Traitors Deep Inside Nevada—Before They Could Trigger Nuclear Ruin.”
    • · Wrong Men Behind Bars · Frank L. Remington · ar; “One Convict Out of Five Has to Go Through the Worst Penal Horror of All—Framed for Life, or Death Row.”
    • · “Mitch” Paige: Only Marine Alive on Suicide Ridge · Saul Braun · ts; illustrated by Mort Künstler; “Medal of Honor Epic on Guadalcanal: A Lone Sergeant Faced a Horde of Japs with One Round of Ammo Left in His Belt.”
    • · How to Be a Better Love Partner · Dr. A. Joseph Bursteln · ar; “From a Doctor’s Casebook: Any Man Can Turn His Mate Into a Raging Lover—And Their Intimacy Into Uninhibited Delight.”
    • · The Night Flight 629 Disappeared · Jack Stewart · ar; “When the Plane Blew Up, Crash Experts Had to Trace the Cause—Freak Accident or a Maniac’s Mass Murder Revenge.”
    • · The Hushed-Up Scandal of Russia’s Sin Stockades · Richard Gallagher · ts; illustrated by Samson Pollen; “Siberia’s ”Rehabilitation“ Compounds Have Become Vice Cities Primed to Explode with Their B-Girl Inmates’ Man-Mad Fury.”
    • · Are You One of America’s 150,000 Missing Heirs? · Richard Farrington · ar; “Today’s Hottest Hunt Is for People Who Don’t Even Know They Can Board the Gravy Train Special and Become Millionaires.”
    • · Cloud 9 Redhead: Sandy Novak · [uncredited] · pi
    • · Autopsy: Medical Miracle—or Nightmare? · Stanley Jacobs · ts; “The Men Who Cut Up Dead Bodies May Seem Like Born Butchers, But They’re Skilled MDs Dedicated to Saving Human Lives.”

    Action for Men [v12 #1, January 1968] (Vista Publications, Inc., 35¢, cover by Earl Norem) []
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    • · The Violent Women · John T. Matthews · ts; illustrated by Earl Wilson; “”I Went Straight; I Exposed the Syndicate; I Expect to Be Murdered,“ Said the Author. His Death Was Quick and Brutal.”
    • · Michele Ray—“Mystery” Cover Girl the Cong Sent Back · Alexander Boswell · ts; “A Sleek Ex-Model Vanished in Vietnam’s Guerrilla-Hot Jungles and Walked Back Out in the Black-Pyjama Uniform of the Enemy.”
    • · How to Get a Company to Bankroll You · Richard Gallagher · ar; “Tired of Punching a Time Clock, Goofing Off on a Dead-End Job? Here Are the Names of Outfits and How They Will Stake You to a Rich Future.”
    • · “My 10 Nights in Sin Romp City” · John Godfrey · ts; “A Shocking, Inside Account of a City Where Orgies Are As Common As Picnics, Narcotics As Easy to Get As Aspirin—And Where the Law Keeps It That Way.”
    • · 7,000-Man Wall-of-Flesh Cold-Steel Death Charge · Noel Kraft · ts; illustrated by Bruce Minney; “A Bunch of Green Kids Turn Into Fighting Devils As They Take on an Army of Kill-Crazy Fanatics.”
    • · Smut Buttons: Social Protest or Pornography? · David Lloyd · ar
    • · Cashing in on the “Sin Pin” Craze · [uncredited] · ar; “Money-Grubbing Manufacturers Are Piling Up Loot.”
    • · Cross-Pacific Escape Run of Mike “Rammer” Hopkins · H. J. Warmdt · ts; illustrated by Mort Künstler; “Sea Legend or the Last Victim of a Man-Hungry Traitor? Hopkins’ Answer Was at the End of a Bull-Like Breakout Cruise and in the Hold of His Leaking Freighter.”
    • · Weird Storms That Can Drive You to Rape, Kill and Loot · Stanley Jacobs · ts; “One Man Murders His Pal Because ”The Wind Told Me To“…A Girl Is Ravaged by a Stranger Yelling ”I Have To…It’s the Storm“…They May Have Been Telling the Truth.”
    • · Night School Tease · Allen Proctor · ss; illustrated by Samson Pollen; “The Tight-Bloused Blonde’s Writhing, Hungry Body Told Farrow What He Wanted to Know About ”Teacher“.”
    • · What You Didn’t See at Expo 67: Sandi Frost · [uncredited] · pi

    Action for Men [v13 #6, November 1969] (Vista Publications, Inc., 40¢) []
    Details taken from eBay listing.
    • · Underground Terror Mission to Stop the Reds’ Atomic Plot · Martin Fass · ts; illustrated by Earl Norem; “The Hard-Bitten Yank Agent Had to Tunnel from a Brothel Into a Foreign Embassy to Rescue a Top Nuclear Scientist from His Commie Captors.”
    • · The Travelling Salesladies—Sin for Sale…On the Road · Alex Austin · ts; “Smart Prostitutes from the Big City Have Learned to Multiply Their Income by Working One-Night Stands in the Sticks.”
    • · Assignment: Shot Down Japan’s Deadliest Air Admiral · Richard Gallagher · ts; illustrated by Bob Schulz; “They Handed Lt. Thomas Lanphier a Schedule Depending on Split-Second Timing, Barely Enough Fuel, a Wave-Skimming Flight Plan, and a Simple Order: Get Yamamoto.”
    • · The Girl in the Bar · Alex Guy · ss; illustrated by Charles Copeland; “She Was the Impossibly Perfect Woman Every Man Dreams About, and Matt Could Have Her with No Strings Attached. But Every Dream Ends.”
    • · Suicidal Games American Men Play: Danger Every Weekend · Harrison Richards · ar; “From Friday Evening to Sunday Night, Thousands of American Males Gamble Against Fantastic Odds in the World’s Most Perilous ”Sports“.”
    • · Money-Hungry Airlines…They Spend More on Food Than on Safety · Noel Kraft · ar; “Modern Rulers of the Skyways Spend Millions on New Movies, Fancy Meals, and ”Free“ Booze…But Hardly One Cent on Safety.”
    • · New York’s Honor Cop Who Tracked His Father’s Killers · Al Robbins · ts; “With No Clues, He Turned Himself Into a Ruthless Human Bloodhound Stalking Manhattan’s Most Dangerous Crime Jungles to Find the Slayers—Or Die!”
    • · I Fought South America’s Brutal Harem Bandit King · Robert Scott; as told to Eugene Joseph · ts; illustrated by Earl Norem; “He Knew That Even Sacrificing Himself Would Not Save the Two Gorgeous Women from Rape and Torture by the Vicious Renegade.”
    • · Why Women Over 30 Turn on for Younger Men · Dr. Noel L. Russ · ar; “Case Histories from This Noted Psychologist’s Confidential Files Prove That These Females Prefer to Get Their Kicks with Fellows Under Thirty.”

    Action for Men [v15 #6, November 1971] (Vista Publications, Inc., 50¢) []
    Details taken from eBay listing.
    • · The Death Commandoes · Donald Honig · ts; illustrated by Bruce Minney; “Two Yanks and Three German Killers…They Hated Each Other, But They Had to Pull Off World War II’s Strangest Mission.”
    • · What Every Man Must Know About Women’s Breasts · Ron Butler · ar; “A Noted Sexologist Tells the Secrets of the Opposite Sex’s Most Intriguing erotic Zone.”
    • · Expedition to the Lost City of Gold · Bothwell Phillips · ts; illustrated by Emmett Kaye; “Our Mission Had Hardly Begun, and Two Men Already Lay Dead. Yet We Still Had to Face Some of the Most Savage Terrain on the Face of the Earth.”
    • · Psycho Murderers Stalk Our Streets · Jay Levin · ar; “Knives, Guns, Bricks, or Clubs—These Deranged People Pick Up the Nearest Object When the Urge Hits Them and Attack Anyone Who Is Standing in Their Way.”
    • · Swinging Vacations for Swap Couples · Bob Schiller · ar; “An Exclusive Inside Report on the Latest Passion Craze Sweeping Through the USA’s 8 Million Husband-And-Wife Traders.”
    • · Credit Bureaus Can Wreck Your Life! · Ray Lunt · ar; “By 1973 They Expect to Have Extensive Computer Files on Everybody in the Country. But Here’s the Vital Information Needed to Protect Yourself.”
    • · Forty-Second Street…Sex Supermarket U.S.A. · Alex Austin · ar; “It’s Only an Area a Few Blocks Long, But It’s the Hotest, Swingingest Place in the Country, Where You Can Get Anything for a Buck.”
    • · “I Survived Alaska’s Sea of Ice” · John Godfrey · ts; “Some Men Just Refuse to Die Even When Swept Overboard by a Wall of Icy Water. Seaman Johnson Kept Swimming, Even Though Help Couldn’t Arrive in Time.”
    • · Naked When You Want Me · Larry Powell · ss; “Jordan Blew Into Town Looking to Make a Few Dollars—Until He Ran Into a Wild Blonde with More Than Money on Her Mind.”
    • · “I’m Going to Steal Your Car Tonight!” · Jack Ledbetter · ar; “Every Day One Car Is Stolen Every Thirty Nine Seconds. Now a Top Heistman Tells You What You Can Do to Protect Yourself.”

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