EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 30 © 2020 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

36 ABOVE: Shoot Out , gouache on board. Men’s Peril , July 1964. Painting by Canadian Norm Eastman (1931-2007). Eastman’s pictures of bondage, torture and Nazis were “hidden under the bed or closet,” his wife Jane once said, “[and] were done to afford a loaf of bread and peanut butter to eat.” FACING PAGE: The Last Battle of the Joy Girl Brigade , gouache on board. New Man, October 1966. Painting by Norm Eastman (1931-2007), another prolific artist for the men’s adventure magazines who did covers for what are now among the most sought after ‘sweat mag’ issues. and most sought after were the Nazi covers. These gen‐ erally showNazi officers and their underlings torment‐ ing scantily clad women or sexy women in Nazi uniforms abusing male prisoners of war (providing in‐ spiration for Nazisploitation movies like ‘Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS’) . Since men’s adventure magazines flourished during the ColdWar years, evil Commies were also commonly shown as the torturers on ‘B&T’-themed covers. Some‐ times the bad guys (or girls) were evil ‘Japs’, Amazonian