Vintage Biker Pulp Magazine Art Collection
BARBARIANS ON BIKES compiles three decades of biker pulp magazine covers and interior illustrations from the 1950s through early 1970s, most unseen since original publication. This deluxe hardcover edition preserves the raw, untamed artwork that defined men's adventure magazines during their peak era.
What's Inside This Collection
The book features original pulp magazine covers with headlines like "Sex Rampage of the Cycle Savages," "Big Mama's Killer Cycle Army," "Cross-Country Blast With 'Satan's Riders'," and "Cycle Queens of Violence." Each piece represents the distinctive illustration style that characterized mid-century men's adventure publishing.
This hardcover edition includes 20 bonus pages of additional biker pulp art, showcasing belted and booted motorcycle gang imagery. Editors Robert Deis (MensPulpMags.com) and Wyatt Doyle (CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY) provide historical context and analysis of the artwork and cultural period. Crime novelist and former LAPD detective Paul Bishop contributes an afterword examining the reality behind the pulp fiction narratives.
Editorial Team
Robert Deis, creator of MensPulpMags.com, has extensively researched and collected men's adventure magazines since reading MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES IN POSTWAR AMERICA in 2004. His blog and collecting work preserves this unique period of American illustration and publishing history.
Wyatt Doyle co-founded New Texture and serves as co-editor and designer of The Men's Adventure Library series. His editorial work includes BLACK CRACKER by Josh Alan Friedman and THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT with Georgina Spelvin. He curates most New Texture releases and designs their distinctive visual presentation.
Paul Bishop spent 35 years with the Los Angeles Police Department, honored twice as Detective of the Year. His fifteen novels include the LAPD Homicide Detective Fey Croaker series and LIE CATCHERS, featuring LAPD interrogators Ray Pagan and Calamity Jane Randall. His law enforcement background provides authentic perspective on the motorcycle gang culture depicted in these pulp magazines.
Format and Presentation
This hardcover edition from New Texture presents the artwork in high-quality reproduction, preserving the vivid colors and dramatic compositions of the original magazine covers and interior illustrations. The book documents a specific era of American popular culture when motorcycle gangs captured public imagination through sensationalized storytelling and bold graphic art.
BARBARIANS ON BIKES serves as both an art book and cultural archive, documenting the intersection of motorcycle culture, pulp fiction, and mid-century commercial illustration. The collection appeals to enthusiasts of vintage illustration, motorcycle history, and American popular culture from the 1950s-1970s period.
