CriminOlly Concludes His GarbAugust With NYMPHOS!

CriminOlly has titled his latest round of book reviews, "One of these is the worst book I've read for ages..." So let's get this out of the way first: our Men's Adventure Library release of Walter Kaylin's He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos collection, which is reviewed in his current video, is NOT that book! Au contraire. Per Olly:

"As always, they (The Men's Adventure Library) did a fantastic job with it. This is a beautifully presented book."

Whew! And he doesn't stop there. In fact, he hits on something in Kaylin's work that I have long felt makes our Men's Adventure Library books so special: 

"Walter Kaylin is almost certainly an author you haven't heard of...he was an incredibly prolific writer of short stories for men's adventure magazines...he wrote hundreds of stories, and in this one you get a really nice selection of different styles. You get war stories, you get gangster stories, there's a Western, a couple of fake "true" stories... All really entertaining short stories of a kind that you just don't see anymore... They feel quite different from modern short stories which tend to be either a bit literary or twist-in-the-tale horror." 

Olly couldn't be more on target. What Walter Kaylin had, they're not making anymore. We are proud to play a part in preserving his work, and making it available to new readers.

We've cued Olly's video to his talk on Nymphos, but we encourage you to watch the whole video. His reviews are always worth watching:

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...Just get Nymphos!

Michael K. Vaughan Reads "Awesome" NYMPHOS for GarbAugust!

BookTuber and critic Michael K. Vaughan is back...and this time he's gotten his hands on Nymphos for GarbAugust!

That's our Walter Kaylin collection, He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos, which we recently upgraded from the old black-and-white to a new, expanded, full-color edition.

(What is GarbAugust? I refer you to the event's founder, CriminOlly.)

So how did Nymphos measure up?

"An ultimate GarbAugust book."

"Tremendously entertaining stories...over the top, very violent, probably not the kind of thing you can get away with these days."

"This particular book is great. Not just for the stories, but the illustrations -- great, great stuff."

"The stories live up to the illustrations."

"Fantastic book. Highly recommended -- particularly if you're looking for something for GarbAugust, you can't do better than this. It's just awesome."

Thank you, Michael! We are pleased our Nymphos has satisfied your requirements. We've cued his video to his review:

Get Nymphos as a deluxe color hardcover from Amazon HERE.

Get Nymphos as a color softcover from Amazon HERE.

Get Nymphos as a deluxe color hardcover from the New Texture Shop HERE.

Get Nymphos as a color softcover from the New Texture Shop HERE.

...Just get Nymphos!

Swipe File: "Surf Pack Assassins," "Hell Surfers," and CAPTAIN SAVAGE

First, there were the Surf Pack Assassins, in the August 1967 issue of Male magazine. Story by Walter Kaylin, writing under his frequent nom de plume Roland Empey. Male was published by Magazine Management Company.

"Mag Mang" was also the birthplace of Marvel Comics. So perhaps it's not too surprising that a little over a year later, Marvel swiped the idea of surfing savages for their war title, Captain Savage and His Leatherneck Raiders in October, 1968.

Both illos were predated in print by another group of savage surfers, this gang with significantly less firepower, but no shortage of outrageousness. Of course I'm talking about Mort Künstler's equally jaw-dropping illustration for "The Hell Surfers," published in For Men Only in July 1967.

And, good news for fans of surf gang pulp: Mort Künstler's website offers prints of Mort's classic illo in two different sizes. You can order from the Mort store HERE.

 "Surf Pack Assassins" and its unforgettable Norem illustrations are included in the Men's Adventure Library's Walter Kaylin collection, He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos, available now.

Get Nymphos as a deluxe color hardcover from Amazon HERE.

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Get Nymphos as a deluxe color hardcover from co-editor Bob Deis HERE.

Get Nymphos as a color softcover from co-editor Bob Deis HERE.

Kaylin's NYMPHOS: Now in Color, Expanded Hard- and Softcover Editions

He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos collects highlights of Walter Kaylin's work for MAMs. It is now back in print from The Men's Adventure Library in bold new color editions, expanded from the out-of-print monochrome first edition. We are proud to present the book for the first time in color and celebrate the book's deluxe hardcover debut. 

But who was Walter Kaylin? Simple. Walter Kaylin was the MAM writer other MAM writers wanted to be.

Kaylin had an innate understanding of the highly specific needs of MAM fiction, and his work in the field across decades would help define the unique genre. But that once-in-a-career symbiosis came at a price: For decades, those musty, obscure magazines—most now well over half a century old, with copies hard to come by—have provided the sole portal to the majority of Kaylin’s prodigious output. 

Our priorities for the He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos collection were to present a selection of some of Kaylin’s most memorable stories, while also covering as many MAM obsessions and sub-genres as could reasonably fit between covers. You’ll read Kaylin takes on hard-boiled crime, Westerns, dark historical fiction, tropical adventure, revolutionary battle, alarmist non-fiction, a WWII “death trek” saga, reality-based survival, varied approaches to international espionage and intrigue, bogus biography, gangsters, humorous tall tales with a wartime theme and a sexy bent, and, in the new expanded hardcover edition, a highly unconventional animal attack story.

Our initial edition of this collection suffered from spotty distribution, making it less accessible to readers of what would become our acclaimed, multi-volume Men’s Adventure Library series. We also didn’t previously issue a hardcover, as has since become standard for the Library. We’re glad to put those issues right with these new, color editions, which include supplementary illustrations and commentary that further illuminate the range and quantity of Kaylin’s work in MAMs.

Includes a reminiscence by Kaylin's editor at Magazine Management Company, Bruce Jay Friedman.

Excerpted from "The Right Man for the Job" by Wyatt Doyle in He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos

Get Nymphos as a deluxe color hardcover from Amazon HERE.

Get Nymphos as a color softcover from Amazon HERE.

Get Nymphos as a deluxe color hardcover from co-editor Bob Deis HERE.

Get Nymphos as a color softcover from co-editor Bob Deis HERE.

...Just get Nymphos!

Michael K. Vaughan Picks WEASELS and NYMPHOS for GarbAugust!

"One must read Weasels Ripped My Flesh! for GarbAugust. One simply must." 

Thanks to our friends at Paperback Warrior, popular book vlogger Michael K. Vaughan is now the very happy owner of two of two deluxe hardcover editions from The Men's Adventure Library: Walter Kaylin's He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos, and Weasels Ripped My Flesh!

As you'll see in his July Book Mail video post below (titled "Weasels Ate My Postman"!), Vaughan couldn't be happier to receive the books, and immediately adds them to his GarbAugust reading list.

(What is GarbAugust? I refer you to the event's founder, CriminOlly.)

Michael, we can't wait to hear what you think of the books once you've tackled them...presuming you make it out in one piece.

Big thanks to Michael and to Paperback Warrior! 

Weasels Ripped My Flesh! is available in full-color softcover and deluxe hardcover editions. Buy from The Men's Adventure Library's co-editor Bob Deis HERE (free domestic shipping). Or buy from Amazon HERE.

He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos by Walter Kaylin is available in full-color softcover and deluxe expanded hardcover editions. Buy from The Men's Adventure Library's co-editor Bob Deis HERE (free domestic shipping). Or buy from Amazon HERE.

WEASELS and NYMPHOS at the Vintage Paperback Collectors Show

The Mystery and Imagination table at the 35th Vintage Paperback Collectors Show, Glendale, CA

photo copyright © 2014 Wyatt Doyle

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WWWKD? HE-MEN, BAG MEN & NYMPHOS Released Today!

For decades, few knew if he was alive or dead … or perhaps living under a new identity (he’d often used aliases), enjoying a secret new life in one of the many exotic locales he wrote of so convincingly … As the years passed, his name remained known only among old friends, would-be rivals and the most dedicated archaeologists of hard-boiled fiction. But today, thanks to editors Bob Deis of MensPulpMags.com and Wyatt Doyle from New Texture, the great Walter Kaylin, lost master of pulp fiction and alive and well at 92 (!), returns with a bang: He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos, the first ever collection of Kaylin’s stories for the men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s is available now.

What Would Walter Kaylin Do? is a question that frequently rang in the heads of pulp scribes on deadline. After all, nobody wrote ’em like Kaylin, whose prodigious output over three decades in the men’s pulp mag trenches was only exceeded by the intensity, outrageousness and frequent savagery of his storytelling. Kaylin’s stories took no prisoners, setting the standard for the kind of excess and wild ingenuity that made men’s adventure magazines notorious, then and now.  

He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos serves up 15 of Kaylin’s greatest stories, lost and unseen for decades, encompassing everything from Westerns to Crime to Exotic Adventure; war, sexy humor, mobster confessions, an introduction to the “real” James Bond - even surfing and science fiction! All packed with plenty of two-fisted action in the inimitable Kaylin style and accompanied by the spectacular artwork and illustrations that accompanied their original publication. Additional contributions by Kaylin’s former men’s magazine editor Bruce Jay Friedman, Kaylin’s family and former colleagues like The Godfather’s Mario Puzo are anchored by a wide-ranging conversation with Kaylin himself.

He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos is more than just a killer collection of jaw-dropping pulp by one man; it’s a celebration of an entire breed of writers who sweated over Smith-Coronas to forge an unforgettable era of hard-boiled pulp fiction that has yet to be equaled.

So … What Would Walter Kaylin Do? The answers are in the book – if you’ve got the steel to handle them!

Buy your copy of He-Men, Bag Men Nymphos by Walter Kaylin here .

Biscontini, Doyle and Danley at Mystery and Imagination This Thursday!

New Texture writers Andrew Biscontini (nu luna) and Wyatt Doyle (Stop Requested, Weasels Ripped My Flesh!) join novelist Kate Danley (The Woodcutter, Maggie For Hire) for a free-form, open conversation about genre fiction, creative writing and independent publishing — and a generous helping of no-nonsense advice on seeing your creative work through to completion and putting it into print.

A limited number of pre-release copies of Wyatt's new release as editor — Walter Kaylin's He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos — will be available at the event, and via mail order from the shop.

Pre-order signed books from Mystery and Imagination; purchases will ship to mail order customers following the event. Plenty of parking on Brand or in the lot behind the shop. Event starts at 7 pm; admission is free.

Mystery and Imagination Bookshop 

238 North Brand Blvd. Glendale, CA 91203

Tel.(818) 545-0121 

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New Texture and Friends at Comic Fest 2013!

New Texture returns to San Diego Comic Fest - and we're bringing reinforcements!

The day after our Mystery & Imagination event in Glendale, we'll be in San Diego with George Clayton Johnson et cie for San Diego Comic Fest 2013.

Wyatt Doyle is back to premiere our latest release of vintage pulp fiction, He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos by Walter Kaylin.

Andrew Biscontini points the covered wagon west from NYC to make his first Comic Fest appearance and beat the drum for his visionary novel nu luna.

They're joined by novelist and musician Henry Baum (Oscar Caliber Gun, The American Book of Dead series) and writer Kate Danley (The Woodcutter, Maggie For Hire).

We had a blast last year, and 2013 promises to be even better. Check out Comic Fest's website for full details of the event.

Join us in San Diego!

Arrival of HE-MEN, BAG MEN & NYMPHOS Imminent ...

First bound proofs of Walter Kaylin's slam-bang collection of long-lost pulp fiction, He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos (edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle) were delivered today from our printer . . .



Fear not, those distressed-looking pages are by design; we meant to do that.

For more information, click here - and stay tuned.

HE-MEN, BAG MEN & NYMPHOS - Next from New Texture

From the men who brought you Weasels Ripped My Flesh! comes . . .



He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos, a collection of hi-test vintage men's adventure magazine pulp fiction by the legendary Walter Kaylin, hits bookshelves like a clenched fist this October!

Kaylin, a "writer's writer" whose contributions to men's adventure pulps spanned all three decades of the mags' colorful history, will be known to readers of our Weasels Ripped My Flesh! anthology from the pair of unforgettable Kaylin yarns included there. (And if you're not already a Weasels reader, what are you waiting for?)

He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos delivers hundreds of pages of classic Kaylin, stories that set the standard for excess, ingenuity and outrageousness in men's pulps and made him both a readers' favorite and the envy of fellow men's adventure scribes like Mario Puzo, John Bowers and Bruce Jay Friedman.

The great Walter Kaylin is finally given his due in this rich, eclectic collection of his most memorable work, presented by MensPulpMags.com's Robert Deis and New Texture's Wyatt Doyle.

There is more to say about Walter Kaylin — much more. But for now, we'll let the cover do the talking.

Watch this space.