Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: The Illustrated Men's Adventure Anthology (Men's Adventure Library)

Bigger, tougher, and more weaselly than ever, Weasels Ripped My Flesh! returns in new full-color editions (including its first-ever hardcover publication), with additional content and commentary, sensational illustrations by masters of pulp art, and outrageous, over-the-top vintage advertising of the men’s adventure era. If you’ve only seen the previous edition, you really haven’t seen Weasels at all.

Over a decade ago, MensPulpMags.com’s Robert Deis and New Texture’s Wyatt Doyle teamed up with Josh Alan Friedman (Black Cracker) to blow the lid of hard-boiled fiction’s best-kept secret: Vintage men’s adventure magazines, aka MAMs. The resulting anthology, Weasels Ripped My Flesh!, was an instant success, inaugurating the acclaimed multi-volume Men’s Adventure Library series and sparking fresh interest in some of the wildest pulp fiction and illustration art ever published, most unseen since their original publication decades ago.

From the jungles to the deserts to the mean city streets, MAMs of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s left no male fantasy of the era unexplored, offering "true, first-hand" accounts of frontline battlefield action, white-knuckle clashes between man and beast, and spicy tales of sadistic frauleins, black widows, and tropical she-goddesses hungry for companionship. Plus salacious-if mostly bogus-exposés of then-shocking subjects like free love, the Beat Generation, homosexuality, LSD, and the secret horniness hidden in calypso lyrics.

Now available in big (450+ color pages!), full-color hardcover and softcover editions, this book is your pulp passport to a more savage time, when adventure was everywhere, every dame was a femme fatale, and manly men battled small mammals bare-handed.

ROBERT DEIS owns one of the world's largest collections of vintage men's adventure magazines (MAMs) published in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In 2009, he created a popular blog about the genre, MensPulpMags.com. A few years later, Bob and Wyatt Doyle of New Texture launched The Men's Adventure Library, a series of books that feature classic MAM pulp fiction stories and artwork. That series now includes nearly 20 lushly illustrated story anthologies and art books. In recent years, Bob and Wyatt have been featured speakers at PulpFest, and Bob was listed in the book WHO'S WHO IN NEW PULP. Starting in 2021, Bob began working with Bill Cunningham, head of Pulp 2.0 Press, to publish a magazine that features MAM stories and artwork, called the MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY. He has contributed articles about MAMs to various magazines and fanzines and also writes two blogs about famous quotations, ThisDayinQuotes.com and QuoteCounterquote.com. Bob lives near Key West, Florida with his wife BJ (who graciously tolerates his fascination with vintage MAMs), their three dogs, and four cats.

WYATT DOYLE is ringmaster of New Texture, and he edits and designs most releases. His own books include STOP REQUESTED (illustrated by Stanley J. Zappa), DOLLAR HALLOWEEN, I NEED REAL TUXEDO AND A TOP HAT!, BUTY-WAVE IS NOW CLOSED FOREVER, and JORGE AMAYA DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. A retrospective of his photography was presented by Gallery 30 South in Pasadena, CA. With Robert Deis, he edits The Men's Adventure Library series, exploring vintage pulp fiction, illustration art, and history. With Jimmy Angelina, he created THE LAST COLORING BOOK and THE LAST COLORING BOOK ON THE LEFT, as well as BE ITALIAN. Together with Hal Glatzer and Norman von Holtzendorff, he produced THINGS THAT WERE MADE FOR LOVE, collecting the Jazz Age songsheet art of Sydney Leff. He assisted in the publication of Georgina Spelvin's memoir, THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT, and published Josh Alan Friedman's BLACK CRACKER and TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED via his Wyatt Doyle Books imprint. He administers the creative estate of Rev. Raymond Branch, and curates RevBranch.com. His screenplay with Jason Cuadrado, I'M HERE FOR YOU, was produced as DEVIL MAY CALL. A member of The Stanley J. Zappa Quartet, a recording, THE STANLEY J. ZAPPA QUARTET PLAYS FOR THE SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS, has been released.

Writer-guitarist Josh Alan Friedman sold his soul at the Crossroads of the World-42nd Street and Broadway-and moved to Texas in 1987. He is the author of TALES OF TIMES SQUARE, TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED, WHEN SEX WAS DIRTY, and I, GOLDSTEIN (with Al Goldstein). Featuring the art of his brother, Drew Friedman, he wrote the comix collected in two anthologies: ANY SIMILARITY TO PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL, and WARTS AND ALL. As "Josh Alan," he barnstormed the Republic of Texas for 30 years, winning three Dallas Observer Music Awards for Best Acoustic Act. He released five albums: FAMOUS & POOR, THE WORST!, BLACKS 'N' JEWS, JOSH ALAN BAND, and SIXTY, GODDAMMIT. BLACK CRACKER was his first novel, and he is working on a second, ALL ROADS LEAD TO GREAT NECK. Visit BlackCracker.fm