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“Along with death trek and survival stories, yarns about tough cops who had embarked on county cleanups were surefire; also guaranteed to please were pieces that had anything to do with islands—storming them, hiding out on them, buying them at bargain rates, becoming GI king of them. (My favorite, written by the great Walter Kaylin, had to do with a seaman who took charge of one and went about ruling it while sitting on the shoulders of a weird little chum with whom he had washed ashore.)”
― Bruce Jay Friedman, Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s

“Tono Phul used to entertain his guests by having the Filipino break two by fours in half with his karate chops. I saw him break a desk apart that way. Once, Tono Phul put him in a cage with an orangutan. The Filipino broke the ape’s neck and then kicked it to death. He was the worst thing that ever came down the pike, and when Tono Phul had him tie me to a pool table and work me over, I was sure my time had come.”
― Walter Kaylin, He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Magazine Stories

“I’m asking about the kid,” Root said. “What does she get out of it?”
“My fist in her ear if she asks as many questions as you do,” Pennant said. “You worry too much. Well, what do you say, Sultan?”
― Walter Kaylin, He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Magazine Stories

“Her bosom filled the jacket like a pair of boxing gloves stuck inside it.”
― Walter Kaylin, He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Magazine Stories