ACTION-LOADED BOOK BONUS 22 PLANTATION OF EXOTIC WONEN
W. J. Saber
The VC tossed two lush and lovely spies at Capt. "Duke" Hamilton—and
wound up caught in their own trap. targets of a record Vietnam ambush. TRUE
8 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
A roundup of inside tips for men only.
12 THE BATTLE FOR 50,000 CALL GIRLS
Jay Sorkin
Thanks to a government vs syndicate tug-of-war over their "bodies,"
West Germany's hustlers never had it so good.
16 MY MOST DANGEROUS SAFARI
Armand Denis
The gigantic wounded gorilla was charging me from the front and behind me the
natives were getting ready to fire their antique muzzle-loaders—and probably
blow my head off.
20 U.S.A.—NOISIEST NATION ON EARTH!
Leon Lazarus
If the racket keeps growing, the "decibels" mounting, in '10 years you
may be deaf, crazy—or dead!
24 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
26 WE RAN AN ANTI-RED BALTIC SEA "ESCAPE RING"
Jim Henderson
Every time we went in for human "contraband." we took a chance on getting
sunk by Communist gunboats, or captured and thrown into the notorious interrogation
cells.
28 WHY EVERYONE HATES THE TELEPHONE COMPANY
Len Guttridge
Greedy "Ma Bell" has gotten so big and powerful it's hard to say who's
running the country sometimes; the Federal government or AT&T.
36 WHAT KIND OF A DRINKER ARE YOU?
Robert Archer
"Social," "problem," "beer only," "whiskey
only"—which bottoms-up category fits you and what does it mean?
38 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Behind-the-scenes reports from around the world.
40 INTIMATE SECRETS OF SEXUAL FOREPLAY
Richard Farrington
The right look, the right touch at the right time can mean the difference between
just another encounter—or the greatest excitement you'll ever know. EXTRA-LENGTH SPECIAL
32 HOW I BEAT THE MAFIA IN MY TOWN
Tommy Tomlin
I might never have had the guts to try, if they hadn't threatened my wife and
kids. Then I knew I had to take them on—even if it marked me for a "hit." OFF-TRAIL
30 "NOBODY ELSE SLEEPS WITH MY WIFE!"
Alex Austin
He got a kick out of Abbie's wanting to be treated like a slut in bed—until
he found out she wasn't just playing a part.
34 OPEN HOUSE FOR HILLARY
STAG'S Picture Feature DEPARTMENTS
11 LAST LAUGHS
54 OUT OF THIS WORLD
62 THAT'S THE LAW
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Illustration Photographed by Mort Kunstler
Government Vs. Syndicate: The Battle For 50,000 Call Girls
How I Beat The Mafia In My Town
We Ran An Anti-Red Baltic Sea "Escape Ring"
Plantation Of Exotic Women
About Stag
The first Stag magazine, published by Leeds Publishing Corp., beginning with vol. 1, #1 (June 1937), was a 25-cent, 96-page, digest subtitled "A Magazine for Men" and which included articles and stories by such writers as Carleton Beals, Elsa Maxwell, Bernard Sobel, and Hendrik Willem van Loon. It covered a range of topics, including literature, music, sports, and theater, along with stories on male-female relationships, sexual issues, and such topics as striptease.
A second volume, published by Official Com. Inc. and edited by Noah Sarlat, appeared circa 1951 as a 25-cent, 82-page, standard-sized men's adventure magazine. This version, containing ostensibly "true-life" fiction of men in wartime or in rugged adventure mode, continued through at least volume 22 in 1971, by which time it had published by Martin Goodman's related company, Atlas Magazines Inc., and Magazine Management Co., Inc., by which time the cover price had been raised to 50 cents.
Goodman also published the annual publication Stag Annual, starting in 1964.
Writer Dorothy Gallagher reminisced in 1998 that by the early 1960s, when Magazine Management occupied the second floor at 60th Street and Madison Avenue, "...magazines were produced the way Detroit produced cars. I worked on the fan-magazine line. On the other side of a five-foot partition was the romance-magazine line. And across a corridor were the financial staples of the organization, the men's magazines — Stag, For Men Only, Male — for which, at one time or another, Mario Puzo, Bruce Jay Friedman, David Markson, Mickey Spillane and Martin Cruz Smith wrote, until they became too exalted and rich to do it anymore." Cover illustrators included Frank Soltesz.
Stag transitioned to become a men's pornographic magazine, published by Goodman's son Charles "Chip" Goodman at Magazine Management's successor company, Swank Publications. The publishing group Magna bought Stag and its sister publication Swank from that company in 1993.
