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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

Adventure for Men

Original cover art from a story by Ed Harbarcher from the pages of the July 1973 Adventure for Men . Story is titled I Nailed The Nazis From A Galloping Goose. Artwork is a gouache on illustration boardby the listed illustrator Bruce Minney. Men’s adventure is a genre of magazines that had its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. Catering to a male audience, these magazines featured pin-up photography and lurid tales of adventure that typically featured wartime feats of daring, exotic travel, or conflict with wild animals.

From A Galloping Goose

Artist: Bruce Minney

Original cover art from a story by Private Robert Ross Carney from the pages of the July 1972 Adventure for Men. Story is titled The Battle The Big Brass Bungled. Artwork is a gouache on illustration board and nicely matted and framed. A genre defining noir World War II daring rescue depiction with the required damsel in distress and the menacing SS officers getting foiled by sheer tenacity and by the element of suprise. ( Not unlike a vintage Hogan’s Heroes T.V. episode…) By the well listed illustrator and pulp cover artist George Gross.

Battle The Big Brass Bungled

Artist: George Gross

 

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