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American Pickers

      An explosive, apocalyptic WWII battle scene rages in this lurid large format illustration painting by Bruce Minney which appeared as the cover for the October 1963 edition of For Men Only magazine. With its strong jawed GIs and busty damsels with dynamite, the cover slug line of “playgirls turned killers…” sexploitive narrative is on full display, […]

Fräulein Raiders

Artist: Bruce Minney

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, lurid, Men's Magazine art, pulp, The Golden Gallery, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

With a human sacrifice as the central conflict, a high octane tribal fight scene, and lurid bondage damsel in distress subject matter, this Bruce Minney artwork–which appeared as the cover for the June 1970 edition of New Man Magazine–captures all of the subversive allure of the Men’s magazine genre. Loosely illustrating the interior story, “Smash the Latins’ Jungle Combine […]

New Man Cover

Artist: Bruce Minney

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, damsel in distress, lurid, Men's Magazine art, sweats
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

    An action packed Cold War-era interior illustration by Bruce Minney for the October, 1965 edition of For Men Only. Illustrating the special book bonus story by Bill S. Ballinger, Nude Of The China Seas, an excerpt from The Spy in the Jungle, book three in the Joaquin Hawks thriller series.  The story itself focuses on Hawks’s James […]

Nude of the China Seas

Artist: Bruce Minney

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, Men's Magazine art, menace, original illustration art, original interior illustration, risque
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

    A daring gang of female POWs rappel down a wall of a secret “Nazi Sex Stalag” atop the perilous heights provided by Germany’s notorious Liecht castle, with the help of the “G.I. master escaper” Sergeant Howard Lester. This tense and taut hyper dramatic interior illustration scene by Bruce Minney is a classic example of men’s […]

Breakout Girls Of The Sex Stalag

Artist: Bruce Minney

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, lurid, menace, nazi, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, sweats, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

 

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