CHARLES COPELAND MAGAZINES


MAGAZINES SECTION DIRECTORY

ACTION FOR MEN

Magazine Management (as Vista Publications) published the bimonthly ACTION FOR MEN for about twenty years from the late 1950s to around 1977.  It was usually published in the odd-numbered months, Jan March May July Sept & Nov.  This is one of the Diamond Group, all from Martin Goodman's magazine factory, advertised in ads like this one:

Traditionally, many of the other magazines in the Diamond Group had cover art by Mort Kunstler, but Charles Copeland did at least a dozen covers for ACTION FOR MEN.

Editor: Noah Sarlat. Art director: Larry Graber.  In its later years, ACTION FOR MEN was used  mainly to recycle stories and art from their other magazines.

< ACTION FOR MEN August 1959. Cover by Charles Copeland.

July 1961 - cover>

< September 1961 - cover

December 1961 -cover

Dec 1961 Want

September 1962 - cover

September 1963 - cover (this cover art was  previously used for FOR MEN ONLY November 1961) >

< May 1964 - "Airborne Vice Girls" 2-pg b&w interior illustration.

(all illustrations shown here are "interior illustrations" unless noted as "cover")

< July 1964 - cover

September 1964 - cover>

<November 1964 - cover

June 1965 - cover>

<September 1965 - cover and interior illustration "Ambush That Rescued the US 5th Army" reused from STAG October 1962.

January 1966 - cover.
Not shown.

July 1966 - cover>

<September 1966 - cover

March 1967 - cover and interior "The Spy Who Couldn't Leave Women Alone" reused from STAG April 1965. Same story, same art, different title.

May 1968 - two interiors: "Bra and Panty Girl Hideout of the 9 Bail-Out GIs" (reused from MALE June 1966)  & "Swim Party with a Bare-Skin Blonde" (reused from STAG March 1966) 

January 1969 - "The Girl Who Played Virgin" reused from MALE December 1967 (same story & art, now b&w, with new title)

March 1969 - two interiors

"The Woman Stalkers" by Day Keene & Leonard Pruyn (story retitled from FOR MEN ONLY March 1965, art redrawn from MEN May 1966)

 <detail

and "Love Lessons From a Blonde" (redrawn from MAN'S WORLD December 1966) not shown

 

July 1969 - two interiors: "The Yank Who Penetrated Moscow's Passion Cell 10" (redrawn from MALE November 1966) & "Naked on the Sand" (reused from STAG January 1967 & TRUE ACTION March 1968).

September 1969 - two interiors: second-page   illustration (reused from MEN February 1967) for "Assassin in my Bed" by Mario Puzo writing as Mario Cleri (first-page illustration by a different, uncredited artist); & "Nude on the Deck" (retitled from MALE August 1965). detail>

 

November 1969 - "The Girl in the Bar" reused from FOR MEN ONLY Jan 1966.

May 1970 - "Elsa's Special Game" reuses art & story from MAN'S WORLD April 1968 with different title & byline.

September 1970 - "The Passion Tramp" reuses Copeland's art for FOR MEN ONLY March 1968.

 

1971?

January 1972 - "The Nymph Next Door" repainted from MALE December 1970.

March 1972 - "Annie's Love Nest" reuses art from MALE Feb 1969 & FOR MEN ONLY ANNUAL, 1970.

 

July 1972 - interior. Want

<September 1972 - cover

& two interiors, all uncredited. "Bedroom Game with a Blonde Doctor" is from FOR MEN ONLY Sept 1970.

"The 'Scuba-Killer' of Treasure Key" uses the right half of the art from the Nov 1971 STAG, repainting the left half, changing skinny-dippers to the Scuba-Killer.

 

November 1972 - "One-Night Stand with a Topless Blonde" reuses art & re-titles story from MALE October 1970.

March 1973 (says March 1972 in error inside)  "Madeline's Afternoon Special" reuses STAG March 1971.

May 1973 -  "Barbara's Wildest Night">

September 1973 - third use of interior illustration, here called "Ellen's Special Treatment", from MALE September 1971 & TRUE ACTION August 1972.

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