A Handful of Hell

"Robert F. Dorr sets the standard for writing about aviation and adventure."
- Walter J. Boyne,
author and former director,
National Air and Space Museum

Robert F. Dorr is an author (since 1955), an Air Force veteran (1957-60) and a retired American diplomat (1964-89). His latest book is the novel CRIME SCENE: FAIRFAX COUNTY, and features characters introduced in his 2014 alternate-history novel, HITLER'S TIME MACHINE. Author of more than 70 books on military and aviation history, Dorr has served as a columnist for Air Force Times and Aerospace America. Many of his early published writings were in men's adventure magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Bob and his wife Young Soon are the parents of two grown sons with families and live in Oakton, Virginia with their Labrador retriever, Autumn. In his younger days, Robert Deis explored various options for making a living. Among other things, he worked as a teacher, an artist, a musician, a logger in the Maine woods, a magazine writer and a state government bureaucrat. Eventually (by accident rather than design) he fell into a long-lasting career as a political consultant.

Nowadays, he blogs and writes about things that interest him, such as famous quotations and men's adventure magazines. Bob grew up in the decades when men's adventure magazines were flourishing, but he didn't take much notice of them until he read the 2004 book MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES IN POSTWAR AMERICA, which features the amazing art and magazine collection of Rich Oberg. That inspired him to start collecting and studying men's adventure magazines.

In 2009, he created the MensPulpMags.com blog. Through that, he met other fans of the genre, including Rich Oberg, Wyatt Doyle and Josh Alan Friedman, who all agree that what the world needs now is greater exposure to the wild, weird world of men's adventure pulp fiction and pulp art. Wyatt Doyle is co-founder of New Texture, and launched their publishing imprint in 2006. He assisted Georgina Spelvin in the publication of her memoir, THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT, and served as editor and publisher of BLACK CRACKER by Josh Alan Friedman for his own imprint, Wyatt Doyle Books. He is co-editor and designer of The Men's Adventure Library series of pulp fiction anthologies. A collection of his stories illustrated by Stanley J. Zappa, STOP REQUESTED, is available from New Texture, as are his photography collections, DOLLAR HALLOWEEN and I NEED REAL TUXEDO AND A TOP HAT! A collaboration with Jimmy Angelina, THE LAST COLORING BOOK, was released in 2016.

He edits and designs most New Texture releases. He curates the New Texture website, as well as Josh Alan Friedman's Black Cracker Online and Rev. Raymond Branch's RevBranch.com. His original screenplay with Jason Cuadrado, I'M HERE FOR YOU, was filmed as DEVIL MAY CALL in 2013. He performs in the Stanley J. Zappa Quartet. A recording, THE STANLEY J. ZAPPA QUARTET PLAYS FOR THE SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS, will be released in 2017.

Robert Deis
Preface

Robert F. Dorr
"My Plan Was To Be a Writer and an Adventurer . . . ."

"Handful of Hell" [Climax, October 1962]

"The Bloodiest Single Mission in Air Force History"
[Bluebook, November 1962]

"Rammed Over Berlin" [Stag, August 1963]

"Yank Ace Who Battled the Japs Over Pearl Harbor"
[Stag, December 1965]

"The 'Impossible' Raid" [Stag, January 1966]

"The POW General Who Tried to Kill Himself"
[Man's, November 1965]

"I'm Going to Ram That Nazi Plane!"
[Man's, November 1966]

"Fish Him Out-Or Else!"
[Man's, December 1966]

"5 Downed GIs Who Gutted Ambush Alley"
[Men, June 1967]

"Yank Ace Who Saved the Anzio Invasion"
[Man's, December 1967]

"The Day the Boondocks Ran With Yankee Blood"
[Bluebook, August 1969]

"Borneo Longshot"
[Male, March 1970]

"I Fought Castro's Cutthroat Guerrilla Squad"
[For Men Only, April 1970]

"The Incredible Glory Saga of the Boondock Padre"
[Man's Illustrated, October 1970]

"I Fought Burma's 'Red Flag' Terrorist Killers"
[Bluebook, March 1972]