Paperback Warrior Podcast Episode 34 explores the violent and sexy world of Men’s Adventure Magazines and the upstart publishing company  re...

There is sparse information available today about the life of mid 20th Century author Walt Grove. I speculate that he probably served as a...

With  The Executioner 's overwhelming retail success, it was just a matter of time before publisher Gold Eagle would expand the ...

Terry Harknett is a British author that specialized in writing violent, sometimes humorous  western novels. By using a variety of pseudon...

Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) was born in Kansas and served in the U.S. Army during World War 2. After the war, he became a mystery writer w...

During the 1950s and 1960s, Men’s Adventure Magazines like Stag and For Men Only told salacious stories - often masquerading as non-fict...

Louis L'Amour  remains the most popular and mainstream western author with sales exceeding 300 million books. With over 100 original n...

Jonathan Craig (real name: Frank Smith) was an excellent crime fiction novelist of the 1950s and 1960s who really deserves to be remember...

Nick Carter: Killmaster series was one of the post popular and enduring titles in men’s adventure fiction with 261 installments between 1...

After  Dashiell Hammett successful Continental Op series of 1920s detective stories, the publishing world was ablaze with private-eye no...

Paperback Warrior has covered a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction paperbacks of the 1980s. Series installments in the Deathlands , Out of t...

Clair Huffaker (1926-1990) was a WW2 veteran, screenwriter and author. While writing in a number of literary genres, Huffaker's...

Before he became a successful author of horror fiction, John Farris wrote crime and mystery paperback novels, including a 1958 release tit...

On our newest podcast episode, Paperback Warrior presents a feature on prolific crime-fiction author Frank Kane's popular series of John...

By the early 1970s, the team-based commando theme had become a popular market for men's action-adventure paperbacks to explore. The i...

The character of Travis McGee was the most successful creation of Florida crime fiction icon John D. MacDonald . The McGee series lasted f...

The publishing industry for men's action-adventure paperbacks in the 1970s was a fertile ground to create house names, marketable char...

By 1974, Australia’s sexy and violent Larry Kent series was reaching the end of its 800 installment run. In fairness, the first 500 or so ...

This week we are doing a deep-dive into the life and work of Richard Deming, including a review of his novel, “She’ll Hate Me Tomorrow.”  Th...

Special Operations Command  was a six-volume series of men's action-adventure novels authored by James N. Pruitt and published by Berk...