MAQ 13 - FATAL FEMMES!

 

MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY Issue # 13

Fatal Femmes Issue

Edited by Robert Deis & Bill Cunningham

Guest Contributors Terrance Layhew & Eric Compton

Subtropic Productions, LLC.

154 pgs

 

If you’re the superstitious type, then the number 13 might make you feel a wee bit cautious in regards to this issue of MAQ. Whereas if you are a genuine Men’s Adventure Magazine fanatic, it only portents a volume chock-full of literary and visual goodies. As always, editors Deis and Cunningham have assembled a wonderful collection of stories, this time featuring the deadlier of the species; dames. We’re given a half-dozen story gems showcasing these lethal ladies.  

All of these enjoyable, but the best is the novella “Vendetta on the Street of Lonely Frauleins,” written by Mario Puzo under the pen-name of Mario Cleri. The story totally captured those old 1960s spy melodrama ala TV’s “The Man From Uncle,” complete with unique hidden guns and poison tipped hypos. The protagonist, one sexy Scarlett Tracy should have had lots more adventures in our humble opinion. 

All in all, from the articles to the fiction, MAQ # 13 is another solid entry. It even has a little bit of “old” pulp history in regard to Paul Chadwick, the creator of the Golden Age hero, Secret Agent X. That, like the rest of the package was much fun indeed. Here’s hoping issue # 14 is just over the horizon.