A beautifully bound set of the fifties men's adventure magazine, Real, The Exciting Magazine For Men. This bound volume collects half a year's worth of issues: Vol. 4 No. 1 thru No. 6, Apr. 1954 thru Sept. 1954.

From Bob Deis (menspulpmags.com):

The guys who read men's pulp mags in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s obviously liked amped-up, over-the-top "real" war, action, adventure and exposé stories. Along with cool pulp art, pulpy fiction yarns and cheesecake photos, those stories gave men's adventure magazines their own unique character and appeal.

That's one reason why many men's adventure magazines have the word "real" or "true" in their titles or subtitles.

For example, two of the best and longest-lasting postwar men's pulp magazines were REAL, published from 1952 to 1967, and REAL MEN, which ran from 1956 to 1974.

REAL -- subtitled "the exciting magazine FOR MEN" -- was initially published by Literary Enterprises (from 1952 to about 1959), then by Excellent Publications in the early 1960s, followed by PAR Publications and finally by Arizill Realty and Publishing.

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This is a bound collection of six complete original issues, including all the original covers (without any labels or marks).

The magazines themselves are in excellent condition and sharply and beautifully bound in buckram cloth with a gold stamped spine. There is no indication of who bound the set, however given the pristine condition of the individual issues, it is presumed to have been commissioned by and made for the publisher.