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Bruce Minney

An explosive World War II battle scene rages in this published Bruce Minney illustration. A Nazi submarine has crashed ashore and brought the fight to land in this lurid piece that is a quintessential example of the style coming out of men’s magazines of this period. With three U.S. Navy soldiers wounded and down for the […]

Man’s World Nazi Battle Scene

Artist: Bruce Minney

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, Bruce Minney, illustration, Men's Magazine, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2017

  An action packed, rough and tumble, large format illustration by Bruce Minney for the Michael Brett Book Bonus story The High Rollers, which graced the pages of Stag Magazine in August of 1967. A Las Vegas-based tale that promises to deliver “… motel shackups… Las Vegas goon-killers… girls with a top price on their bodies!…” […]

The High Rollers

Artist: Bruce Minney

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, Bruce Minney, lurid, Men's Magazine art, original interior illustration, sleaze
Added to Gallery: June 1, 2015

      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

    This provocative, subversive interior illustration by Bruce Minney for Male Annual #8, 1970 illustrates the interior story “I Fought A Desert Bullwhip Duel For A Fortune In Gems.” The S&M and fetish themes are foregrounded in the image as Minney shows Yank Pat Duncan armed with only the whip of his savagely murdered partner getting frontier justice in […]

Bullwhip Duel

Artist: Bruce Minney

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Bruce Minney, fetish, Men's Magazine art, menace, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp
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

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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1970s, Adventure for Men, american, Bruce Minney, nazi, original cover art, pulp, WWII
Added to Gallery: November 5, 2012

 

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