Recommended Reading

Robert Andrew Parker illustration on the August 1957 cover of Fortune

If a book is available from Washington University Libraries, the link will take you to the catalog record. If Wash U does not carry a book, the link goes to the Worldcat record. (These items can be requested through interlibrary loan.)

Bradbury, Ray. The Art of Playboy. Alfred Van Der Marck Editions: New York, 1985.

Duperray, Stephane, and Raphaele Vidaling. Front Page: Covers of the Twentieth Century. W&N: London, 2003.

Ellis, Douglas. Uncovered: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulps. Adventure House: Silver Spring, MD, 2003.

Hanson, Dian. History of Men's Magazines. Taschen: New York, 2004.

Heller, Steven. Mid Century Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men Era. Taschen: New York, 2005.

Lesser, Robert. Pulp Art. Sterling: New York, 2005.

Oberg, Rich, et al. Men's Adventure Magazines: In Postwar America. Taschen: New York, 2008.

Parfrey, Adam. It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps. Feral House: Los Angeles, 2003.

Robinson, Frank M., and Lawrence Davidson. Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines. Collectors Press: Portland, OR, 2007.