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.

本作は、二十世紀半ばの米国で隆盛を極めた「メンズ・アドベンチャー」誌の狂騒を凝縮した、圧巻の文化人類学的アンソロジーです。過激な筆致で描かれるのは、猛獣との死闘や欲望渦巻く都市の裏側。当時の男性が抱いた剥き出しの幻想と、社会の禁忌を抉る毒気が充満しており、文字から溢れ出す野蛮なエネルギーは、洗練された現代の物語では決して味わえない鮮烈な衝撃を読者に与えます。 誇張された英雄譚と挿絵が織りなす世界には、戦後社会の歪みや文明の影に潜む根源的な恐怖が克明に刻まれています。本書は単なる懐古趣味ではなく、言葉が持つ本来の「野性」を呼び覚ます刺激的な体験です。紙面を埋め尽くす不条理なまでの情熱に触れれば、読者は忘れ去られたハードボイルドの深淵に、強烈な知的好奇心とともに引きずり込まれることでしょう。