#13: Mel Shestack: Magazine Management Trickster
AN EDITOR’S EDITOR
A legend among his peers at the old men’s adventure magazines, Mel Shestack made people believe the impossible. And anyone who fell for his “gentle cons” felt privileged afterward.
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True Action, one of the many magazines published each month by Magazine Management
Mel Shestack presenting a fake mock-up cover to Bruce Jay Friedman at Bruce’s Magazine Management retirement in 1966.
(photo: Jules Siegel)
A Mel Shestack cartoon on a letter to Josh
