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    Action for Men [v8 #2, March 1964] (Vista Publications, Inc., 25¢, cover by Mort Künstler)
    Details taken from eBay listing.
    • Seaman Joe Andrews and His Guerrilla Girls · George W. Hayes · ts; “The Only Yank at the Battle of Stalingrad, He Headed the Weirdest Vodka-And-Skirts Partisan Band to Fight on Any Front.”; illustrated by James Bama
    • Sin Capital of all Vice-Cities · Jack Stewart · ar; “Teenage Girls Ask Men on Nude Swimming Dates and Sex Education Starts in the First Grade in the Pleasure-Mad Paradise of Sweden.”
    • Fantastic Saboteur Who Held Off a Jap Division · Manley Anderson · ts; “Once the Young Officer Made His Escape, the Troops of the Rising Sun Faced a Mysterious Karate Terror Who Butchered Without Warning.”; illustrated by Robert Powell
    • Vito Genovese: Crime King of the World · Jack Kaplan · ar; “He Started As a Cheap Hood and Wormed His Way Up Until He Was Giving the Executian Orders, and He Still Does—From Behind Bars.”
    • Bed and Board Bachelor Blonde: Evelyne Lacroix · Anon. · pi
    • 83 Days Drifting—U. S. Navy’s Greatest Raft Ordeal · Alvin Nizer · ts; “They Turned Into Scavengers of the Ocean, Eating Snails, Birds and Shark Meat Raw. But They’d Soon Start Dying Wholesale.”; illustrated by Bob Stanley
    • "I’ll Take any Woman—Work for any Country" · Col. S. S. Packett · ts; “Mystery Man Alf Reid Could Handle Any Spy Job in the World for the Right Price, But He Ended Up on Peiping’s Must-Die List.”; illustrated by Ray Johnson

    Action for Men [v8 #6, November 1964] (Vista Publications, Inc., 35¢, cover by Charles Copeland)
    Details taken from eBay listing.
    • Leyte—Bloodiest Naval Battle of All Time · Hanson W. Baldwin · ts; “We Broke Japan’s Power at Sea, But Command Foul-Ups Almost Cost Us Our Invasion Forces and Military Experts Still Can’t Agree Who Was Wrong.”
    • Pvt. Proctor’s Nude Harem That Decoyed Rommel’s Afrika Korps · Edwin Johnson · ts; “He Mixed Gin and Dames with a One-Man War That Made Him the Nazis’ Most Hunted Target”.; illustrated by Bob Stanley
    • Sold by the U.S.: A Gun for Any Killer · S. David Pursglove · ts; “A National Scandal: Crooks Can Buy "Scrap” Arms for Peanuts—And Murder Unlimited."
    • Sex Life of the American Prostitute · Benjamin Morse, M.D. · ar; “She May Be Cold As Ice, But She Can Make Any Guy Feel He’s the Only Man in Her Life.”
    • Strip-and-Run Tease · Hank Warden · ss; “If He Didn’t Find the Key to Her Passions, She Would Drive Him Crazy.”; illustrated by Ray Johnson
    • Secret Return of the Nazi Terror · John Godfrey · ts; “1964’s Staggering Expose: Hitler’s Thugs Are Ready for Another Bloody Stab at World Rule.”
    • She’s a Gold Mine for A. T. & T.: Colleen O’Mara · Anon. · pi
    • "Pilot All Shot Up...How Do I Land This Crate?" · Ray Michaels · ts; “Green As Grass, He Had to Fly the Plane Home—To the Disastrous Nose Dive for the Runway.”; illustrated by George Wilson
    • Pleasure Pen Hideout of Paris’ Female Cons · Allan Rand · ts; “Police Had to Find the Underground Den of the Love-Sick Kidnapers and Their Male Victims.”; illustrated by Al Rossi

    Action for Men [v10 #5, September 1966] (Vista Publications, Inc., 35¢, cover by Charles Copeland)
    Details taken from eBay listing.
    • Nymph Who Took Over Las Vegas [Tom Marco] · L. W. Blanco · ss; “The Superspy Had to Trap the Lush Blonde and Her Gang of Traitors Deep Inside Nevada—Before They Could Trigger Nuclear Ruin.”; illustrated by Al Rossi
    • Wrong Men Behind Bars · Frank L. Remington · ar; “One Convict Out of Five Has to Go Through the Worst Penal Horror of All—Framed for Life, or Death Row.”
    • "Mitch" Paige: Only Marine Alive on Suicide Ridge · Saul Braun · ts; “Medal of Honor Epic on Guadalcanal: A Lone Sergeant Faced a Horde of Japs with One Round of Ammo Left in His Belt.”; illustrated by Mort Künstler
    • How to Be a Better Love Partner · Dr. A. Joseph Bursteln · ar; “From a Doctor’s Casebook: Any Man Can Turn His Mate Into a Raging Lover—And Their Intimacy Into Uninhibited Delight.”
    • The Night Flight 629 Disappeared · Jack Stewart · ar; “When the Plane Blew Up, Crash Experts Had to Trace the Cause—Freak Accident or a Maniac’s Mass Murder Revenge.”
    • The Hushed-Up Scandal of Russia’s Sin Stockades · Richard Gallagher · ts; “Siberia’s "Rehabilitation” Compounds Have Become Vice Cities Primed to Explode with Their B-Girl Inmates’ Man-Mad Fury."; illustrated by Samson Pollen
    • Are You One of America’s 150,000 Missing Heirs? · Richard Farrington · ar; “Today’s Hottest Hunt Is for People Who Don’t Even Know They Can Board the Gravy Train Special and Become Millionaires.”
    • Cloud 9 Redhead: Sandy Novak · Anon. · pi
    • Autopsy: Medical Miracle—or Nightmare? · Stanley Jacobs · ts; “The Men Who Cut Up Dead Bodies May Seem Like Born Butchers, But They’re Skilled MDs Dedicated to Saving Human Lives.”

    Action for Men [v12 #1, January 1968] (Vista Publications, Inc., 35¢, cover by Earl Norem)
    Details taken from eBay listing.
    • The Violent Women · John T. Matthews · ts; “"I Went Straight; I Exposed the Syndicate; I Expect to Be Murdered,” Said the Author. His Death Was Quick and Brutal."; illustrated by Earl Wilson
    • Michele Ray—"Mystery" Cover Girl the Cong Sent Back · Alexander Boswell · ts; “A Sleek Ex-Model Vanished in Vietnam’s Guerrilla-Hot Jungles and Walked Back Out in the Black-Pyjama Uniform of the Enemy.”
    • How to Get a Company to Bankroll You · Richard Gallagher · ar; “Tired of Punching a Time Clock, Goofing Off on a Dead-End Job? Here Are the Names of Outfits and How They Will Stake You to a Rich Future.”
    • "My 10 Nights in Sin Romp City" · John Godfrey · ts; “A Shocking, Inside Account of a City Where Orgies Are As Common As Picnics, Narcotics As Easy to Get As Aspirin—And Where the Law Keeps It That Way.”
    • 7,000-Man Wall-of-Flesh Cold-Steel Death Charge · Noel Kraft · ts; “A Bunch of Green Kids Turn Into Fighting Devils As They Take on an Army of Kill-Crazy Fanatics.”; illustrated by Bruce Minney
    • Smut Buttons: Social Protest or Pornography? · David Lloyd · ar
    • Cashing in on the “Sin Pin” Craze · Anon. · ar; “Money-Grubbing Manufacturers Are Piling Up Loot.”
    • Cross-Pacific Escape Run of Mike “Rammer” Hopkins · H. J. Warmdt · ts; “Sea Legend or the Last Victim of a Man-Hungry Traitor? Hopkins’ Answer Was at the End of a Bull-Like Breakout Cruise and in the Hold of His Leaking Freighter.”; illustrated by Mort Künstler
    • Weird Storms That Can Drive You to Rape, Kill and Loot · Stanley Jacobs · ts; “One Man Murders His Pal Because "The Wind Told Me To”...A Girl Is Ravaged by a Stranger Yelling “I Have To...It’s the Storm”...They May Have Been Telling the Truth."
    • Night School Tease · Allen Proctor · ss; “The Tight-Bloused Blonde’s Writhing, Hungry Body Told Farrow What He Wanted to Know About "Teacher”."; illustrated by Samson Pollen
    • What You Didn’t See at Expo 67: Sandi Frost · Anon. · pi

    Action for Men [v13 #5, September 1969]
    Details taken from Table of Contents.
    • 10 · Gag Lines · [Various] · hu
    • 13 · Letter Action · [The Readers] · lc
    • 14 · Girls Who Take Jobs for Sex Only · Stanley Jacobs · ar
    • 18 · Confessions of a Master Burglar—How I Can Rob Your Home · Robert Cokey · ar
    • 20 · Assassin in My Bed · Mario Cleri · na
    • 24 · Scrambled Heads · Anon. · ms
    • 26 · The Used Car Racket—They Sell You “Doctored-up” Death Traps · Frank E. Winters · ar
    • 28 · Nude on the Deck · Alex Austin · ss
    • 30 · They’ve Got a Worthless Land Plot for Every Sucker · Archer Scanlon · ar
    • 32 · The Dice Dolls and Dollars World of King Wally Groves · Glenn Infield · ts
    • 34 · Little French Bon Bon · Anon. · ms
    • 38 · Blast the Guns of the Reds’ Terror Tower · Richard Gallagher · ts
    • 40 · Action for Men Final · Anon. · cl
    • 42 · The New Love-Making · Robert Laguardia · ar

    Action for Men [v13 #6, November 1969] (Vista Publications, Inc., 40¢)
    Details taken from eBay listing.
    • Underground Terror Mission to Stop the Reds’ Atomic Plot · Martin Fass · ts; “The Hard-Bitten Yank Agent Had to Tunnel from a Brothel Into a Foreign Embassy to Rescue a Top Nuclear Scientist from His Commie Captors.”; illustrated by Earl Norem
    • The Travelling Salesladies—Sin for Sale...On the Road · Alex Austin · ts; “Smart Prostitutes from the Big City Have Learned to Multiply Their Income by Working One-Night Stands in the Sticks.”
    • Assignment: Shot Down Japan’s Deadliest Air Admiral · Richard Gallagher · ts; “They Handed Lt. Thomas Lanphier a Schedule Depending on Split-Second Timing, Barely Enough Fuel, a Wave-Skimming Flight Plan, and a Simple Order: Get Yamamoto.”; illustrated by Bob Schulz
    • The Girl in the Bar · Alex Guy · ss; “She Was the Impossibly Perfect Woman Every Man Dreams About, and Matt Could Have Her with No Strings Attached. But Every Dream Ends.”; illustrated by Charles Copeland
    • Suicidal Games American Men Play: Danger Every Weekend · Harrison Richards · ar; “From Friday Evening to Sunday Night, Thousands of American Males Gamble Against Fantastic Odds in the World’s Most Perilous "Sports”."
    • Money-Hungry Airlines...They Spend More on Food Than on Safety · Noel Kraft · ar; “Modern Rulers of the Skyways Spend Millions on New Movies, Fancy Meals, and "Free” Booze...But Hardly One Cent on Safety."
    • New York’s Honor Cop Who Tracked His Father’s Killers · Al Robbins · ts; “With No Clues, He Turned Himself Into a Ruthless Human Bloodhound Stalking Manhattan’s Most Dangerous Crime Jungles to Find the Slayers—Or Die!”
    • I Fought South America’s Brutal Harem Bandit King · Robert Scott (as told to Eugene Joseph) · ts; “He Knew That Even Sacrificing Himself Would Not Save the Two Gorgeous Women from Rape and Torture by the Vicious Renegade.”; illustrated by Earl Norem
    • Why Women Over 30 Turn on for Younger Men · Dr. Noel L. Russ · ar; “Case Histories from This Noted Psychologist’s Confidential Files Prove That These Females Prefer to Get Their Kicks with Fellows Under Thirty.”

    Action for Men [v15 #6, November 1971] (Vista Publications, Inc., 50¢)
    Details taken from eBay listing.
    • The Death Commandoes · Donald Honig · ts; “Two Yanks and Three German Killers...They Hated Each Other, But They Had to Pull Off World War II’s Strangest Mission.”; illustrated by Bruce Minney
    • What Every Man Must Know About Women’s Breasts · Ron Butler · ar; “A Noted Sexologist Tells the Secrets of the Opposite Sex’s Most Intriguing erotic Zone.”
    • Expedition to the Lost City of Gold · Bothwell Phillips · ts; “Our Mission Had Hardly Begun, and Two Men Already Lay Dead. Yet We Still Had to Face Some of the Most Savage Terrain on the Face of the Earth.”; illustrated by Emmett Kaye
    • Psycho Murderers Stalk Our Streets · Jay Levin · ar; “Knives, Guns, Bricks, or Clubs—These Deranged People Pick Up the Nearest Object When the Urge Hits Them and Attack Anyone Who Is Standing in Their Way.”
    • Swinging Vacations for Swap Couples · Bob Schiller · ar; “An Exclusive Inside Report on the Latest Passion Craze Sweeping Through the USA’s 8 Million Husband-And-Wife Traders.”
    • Credit Bureaus Can Wreck Your Life! · Ray Lunt · ar; “By 1973 They Expect to Have Extensive Computer Files on Everybody in the Country. But Here’s the Vital Information Needed to Protect Yourself.”
    • Forty-Second Street...Sex Supermarket U.S.A. · Alex Austin · ar; “It’s Only an Area a Few Blocks Long, But It’s the Hotest, Swingingest Place in the Country, Where You Can Get Anything for a Buck.”
    • "I Survived Alaska’s Sea of Ice" · John Godfrey · ts; “Some Men Just Refuse to Die Even When Swept Overboard by a Wall of Icy Water. Seaman Johnson Kept Swimming, Even Though Help Couldn’t Arrive in Time.”
    • Naked When You Want Me · Larry Powell · ss; “Jordan Blew Into Town Looking to Make a Few Dollars—Until He Ran Into a Wild Blonde with More Than Money on Her Mind.”
    • "I’m Going to Steal Your Car Tonight!" · Jack Ledbetter · ar; “Every Day One Car Is Stolen Every Thirty Nine Seconds. Now a Top Heistman Tells You What You Can Do to Protect Yourself.”

    Action for Men [v16 #1, January 1972]
    Details taken from Table of Contents.
    • 6 · Sex Confidential · Anon. · cl
    • 8 · Letter Action · [The Readers] · lc
    • Action for Men Final · Anon. · cl
    • Who’ll Marry Barri? · Anon. · ms
    • 12 · Those “Singles” Apartments for Swingers Only · Archer Scanlon · ar
    • 16 · “We Survived 18 Days in the ‘Sea of the Damned’” · Tom Watson (as told to Todd Cross) · ts
    • 18 · How You Can Solve the 15 Most Basic Sexual Problems · Dr. A. R. Fowler · ar
    • 20 · Blood Vendetta with the “Black Skull” Car Heisters · John Harris · ts
    • 22 · “I Joined a Nurses’ Call-Doll Ring!” · Lori Bowman · ts
    • The Blood-Crazed Buffalo of the Tana River · Bud Cottar · ts
    • "9-to-5" Crooks Who Can Cost You Your Job · Ned Turner · ar
    • The Nymph Next Door · Alex Austin · ss
    • Now—U.S. Railroads Are Worse Than Ever! · Noel Kraft · ar
    • The Art of Seducing the “Reluctant” Female · Lionel Crane, Ph.D. · ar
    • 34 · Action in Focus · Anon. · ms

    Action for Men [v16 #5, September 1972] (Vista Publications, Inc., 50¢)
    Details taken from eBay listing.
    • Breck’s Bastards · Grant Freeling · ts; “The Stolen Tank Was a Perfect Protection Against the Nazis-But They Hadn’t Counted on the Blonde Hooker Who Was Out to Blow Their Cover!”; illustrated by Mort Künstler
    • Year-Round ’Sun-and-Sin’ Paradise · C. K. Winston · ar; “Acapulco Girls Are the Most Willing and Luscious of All Travel Spots-Both East and West...And Anyone Can Score!”
    • "Our Death Race with the Snake-Worshipping Headhunters of New Guinea!" · Roland Empey · ts; “The Film Crew Had Stumbled Into the Natives’ Forbidden Valley—And Now They Had to Pay the Grisly Consequences for Their Mistake!”; illustrated by Samson Pollen
    • The “Underground” Sex Tigress · Charles Blackrock, M.D. · ar; “For the Wildest Lovemaking Action Ever, Hip Guys Pick the Almost-Beautiful Girl—And She’s Yours for the Taking Once You Spot Her!”
    • Color TV Repair—America’s Fastest Growing Racket · Al Lowe · ar; “Any Crook Can Set Himself Up As a TV Repairman in Most States—And Take You for Every Cent You’ve Got If Stronger Laws Aren’t Passed!”
    • Attack of the Giant Mandrills · Pete Hollister (as told to Tom Christopher) · ts; “Hundreds Had Died from the Steel Jaws of the Hideous Troop of Baboons, Who Attacked with the Cunning of a Human Army!”
    • Imported “Minicars”: Our Highways’ No. 1 Death-Trap · Wes Porter · ar; “Immune to Detroit’s Safety Standards, Foreign Manufacturers Dump Their Worst Junk on Us, Killing Thousands of Drivers Every Year!”
    • Bedroom Game with a Blonde Doctor · Alex Austin · ss; “Steve Was Anxious to Recover in a Hurry—But One Taste of Dr. Keaton’s "Special” Bedside Manner Changed His Mind Fast!"
    • The “Scuba-Killer” of Treasure Key · Will Storm · ts; “A Greed-Crazed Madman Had Marooned the Three Men and Three Girls on a Tiny Remote Island, Leaving Them to Starve!”
    • What’s Your Girlfriend’s “Bedroom Profile”? · Donald Bogen · ar; “Which of the Five Basic Types Is Your Lover? The Answers to This Test May Surprise You Even More Than You Think!”

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