Mort Kunstler: Adventure Artist

Mort Kunstler is now famous for his romantic, stylized Civil War paintings. Early in his career he did lots of illustrations and covers for magazines like For Men Only and Stag. Here's some of those illustrations.

Trash!

Campus Call Girl, 1964. Unknown artist.

"Sergeant Gregory's Escape from Red Chinese Captivity," cover for Stag magazine, October 1960. Art by Mort Kunstler.

By Love Depraved, 1961. Art by Ernest Chiriacka.

Women's Doctor, 1952. Art by Rudy Nappi.

Swamp Kill, 1952. Unknown artist.

"Nazi Standoff," cover for Cavalcade magazine, November 1959. Unknown artist.

Hitler's No. 1 Sex Castle

Here's a nice one by Mort Kunstler. It is from Stag Annual #12, April 1972.

FIGHT!

Fight Comics #36, February 1945.




Fight the Enemy #2, October 1966.




The Fight For the Gunboat, Mort Kunstler, c1962.




The Fight at Minowa, Dean Cornwel, 1947.




Custer's Last Fight, 1950.

Mort Kunstler Fun

It's been awhile since I've posted some Mort Kunstler...



"Attacking the Stockade." Illustration for either Male or Stag magazine, circa 1968.




Unknown adventure illustration, c.1966.




"Fight for the Mine Shaft." Cover for Male magazine, January 1963.




"I Fought the Sea Killer." Cover for Adventure magazine, August 1956.

Two Fight Paintings by Kunstler

Here's two pretty cool paintings by Mort Kunstler:




"Shootout With Russians in the Barn," Male or Stag cover, c1965.




"Holding Them Off at the Cantina," For Men Only cover, c1965.

Adventure Art Sunday

Illustration by Mort Kunstler for "The Luftwaffe Lair" from Men magazine, March 1960. I don't have a clue what the guy on the right is doing.




Cover by Gil Cohen for Men magazine, April 1967.




Cover art by Earl Norem for Stag Annual, 1968.

More Adventure Art!

Cover art by Earl Norem for True Men magazine, July 1965.




Illustration by Earl Norem, c. 1968.




"Incredible Escape from the Nazi Nightmare." Cover painting by Will Hulsey for True Men Stories, February 1960.




"The Sea of Rats." Illustration by Mort Kunstler for Male magazine, July 1973.

He-Man Adventure Art II

"Breakout From the All-Girl Stalag 1140," cover for Man's Life magazine, May 1961. Art by Will Hulsey.





"Lucky Laycock's Raid That Won Salerno," cover for Male magazine, March, 1963. Art by Mort Kunstler.





Story illustration for Man's Conquest magazine, Oct. 1960. Art by George Gross.

He-Man Adventure Art

Seems like its been all horror and all monster all the time here the last week or so. For a change of pace, here's some nice adventure art.





Attack On the Red Army's Female Barracks by Mort Kunstler. Cover for Men Only, Oct. 1962.





Magazine story illustration by Al Kortner, c.1945.




"Dashing through the Northern lines under fire, Belle gave the Confederate troops the signal to charge - indicating the weak spot in the union lines."


Illustration for Belle Boyd's Love Story by Al Kortner. American Weekly, Aug. 6, 1940.





"Dynamite. That was his name and no trucker ever dared to cross him -- until now."


Illustration for Dynamite by Robert McCall. The Saturday Evening Post, 1961.