Cavalier (September 1966) |
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Categories | Men's magazines |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Fawcett Publications, later DuGent Publishing Corporation, now Cavalier Publishing |
Year founded | 1952 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Cavalier is an American magazine that was launched by Fawcett Publications in 1952 and has continued for decades, eventually evolving into a Playboy-style men's magazine. It has no connection with the Frank Munsey pulp, The Cavalier, published in the early years of the 20th century.
In its original format, Cavalier was planned by Fawcett to feature novelettes and novels by Fawcett's Gold Medal authors, including Richard Prather and Mickey Spillane.
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During the 1950s, the magazine was edited by James B. O'Connell (1952-1958) and Bob Curran (1959). Editors in the 1960s included Frederic A. Birmingham (1962), Frank M. Robinson, Robert Shea (1966) and Alan R. LeMond (1967). Maurice DeWalt was the editor in 1973.
Authors in the 1950s included Jimmy Breslin, Henry Kuttner, Clyde Beatty ("Tigers on the Loose") and Stanley P. Friedman. During the 1960s, the magazine featured such writers as Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Coover, Leonard Feather, Richard Gehman, Nat Hentoff, John Clellon Holmes, William Bradford Huie, Garson Kanin, Paul Krassner, John D. MacDonald, Alberto Moravia, Robert Shelton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, Bruce Jay Friedman and Colin Wilson. Some stories were reprints, such as Roald Dahl's "Man from the South" in the June 1960 issue.
Film critic Manny Farber had a monthly column in the 1960s.[1] Stephen King was a contributor during the 1970s, and his stories were also featured in Cavalier Yearbook.
Deadbone and other graphic stories by Vaughn Bode were published in Cavalier along with comics by Art Spiegelman and Jay Lynch. Illustrators included the Boston-based painter Norman Baer.
Illustrator/painter Robert McGinnis whose long illustration career had just started to take off around the beginning of the 1960s, painted some female figures (some of them nudes) for some of the Cavalier Magazine issues. (Verified issue examples: June 1965, October 1965, December 1965.)
The magazine had several logo changes, and during the 1960s, it was taken over by the DuGent Publishing Corporation, which was located at 236 East 46th Street in New York. In the 1980s, Dugent Publishing relocated their offices to Coral Gables, Florida.
Cavalier is currently published by Cavalier Publishing, LLC in Tampa, Florida.