Mort Künstler Covered: Volume 1

The wild, highly collectible covers of men's adventure magazines (aka MAMs) were absolutely crucial to a magazine's success. Competition on newsstands was fierce, and attention-grabbing cover art and headlines meant everything. Cover artists had to provide more than just great illustration art; their work had to rope in readers (and revenue) in a highly competitive and very crowded field.

MORT K NSTLER launched his career creating those illustrations. In those magazines' pages (and on those covers), his work brought the fantasies and daydreams of American males to vivid life with rich, explosive color and an enviable sense of scope and grandeur. He served up spectacular depictions of epic action, exotic adventure, hard-boiled crime, survival, and courage on the battlefield. The Men's Adventure Library's MORT K NSTLER COVERED VOLUME 1 collects an eye-popping array of K nstler's covers in full color.

The collection also includes a scene-setting new edit of co-editor Deis's historic 2011 interview with K nstler. This comprehensive conversation was one of very few occasions the artist spoke at length about his years working in MAM illustration.

MORT K NSTLER COVERED VOLUME 1 is available in softcover, and as a handsome casewrap hardcover with 20 additional pages of K nstler covers. Both editions measure 8.5" x 11".

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943444544
• ISBN13: 9781943444540
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: New Texture
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"