5 OPENING UP
Nora chews your fat
12 STAG SHOTS
Bizarre bits from the sexual news desk
16 STAG PARTIES AT "LE TRAPEZE"
24 JAILHOUSE HEROES
Article by Lois Lazarus
30 UGLY GEORGE'S GUIDE 30 TO GETTING GIRLS
Article by Ugly George
36 ORGY ETIQUETTE
Humor by Dan Gutman
46 ROLLING DOUBLES
Pictorial featuring Stagdates Donna Leff and Jill Atlas
53 THE ULTIMATE INSIDER
Porn news by Marc Stevens
56 TEACHER'S PETS
Fiction by Lance Madrid
61 GREAT GAMS PHOTO CONTEST
Home hot shots for leg lovers
69 HOT CHAT
69 Readers discuss their wildest sex experiences
KNOCK, KNOCK!
75 Pictorial featuring Stagdates Helen and Carolyn Clark
Features in This Issue
A Photo Giude To Handling Big Boob Babes
Stag Parties At "Le Trapeze" The Hottest Photos Of America's Newest Swing Club
America's Superstar Ex-Cons The Outlaw Kings Of County Music
Be A Porn Star! Stag Will Put You In The Picture!
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.
