Mort Künstler Covered V1 Available Now!

The wild, much admired covers of men's adventure magazines (aka MAMs) were absolutely crucial to a magazine's success. Competition on newsstands was fierce, and attention-grabbing cover art and headlines meant everything when it came to persuading readers which MAM would deliver the thrills and excitement they were shopping for. Cover artists had to provide more than just great illustration art; under direction from some of the sharpest art directors in the business, their work had to rise above the visual noise of competing titles displayed side-by-side on store shelves, to rope in readers (and revenue) in a highly competitive and very crowded field. 

Often called "America's Artist" for the historically themed paintings and bestselling art prints that defined the latter part of his career, Mort Künstler began his illustration career working in a quite different—but no less American—area of commercial art: MAM covers and interior spreads. During the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Künstler numbered among the leading creators of artwork for MAMs. In those magazines' pages (and perhaps most importantly, on those covers), his work brought the fantasies and daydreams of mid-century American males to vivid life with rich, explosive color and an enviable sense of scope and grandeur, serving up spectacular depictions of epic action, exotic adventure, hard-boiled crime, survival, and courage on the battlefield. 

Collecting an eye-popping array of Künstler's covers for legendary magazines such as Action For Men, Battlefield, and For Men Only, The Men's Adventure Library proudly presents Mort Künstler Covered Volume 1, in full color. 

As a bonus, the collection also includes a scene-setting new edit of co-editor Robert Deis's historic 2011 interview with Künstler. This comprehensive conversation marked one of the first and very few occasions the artist spoke at length about his years working in MAM illustration. 

Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle for The Men's Adventure Library, Mort Künstler Covered Volume 1 is now available in softcover, and as a handsome casewrap hardcover with 20 additional pages of Künstler covers. Both editions measure 8.5" x 11" and are available now.

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