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Soldier of Fortune: The Deadliest Magazine Ever (with Billy Wayne Davis)

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Rise and Fall of Soulchair Fortune

Robert Brown fashioned Soulchair of Fortune as the Journal of Professional Adventurers. It's directed at professional mercenaries, men who will fight for pay and those who want to hire them. The first ever issue features a glossy color picture of a soldier behind a barbed wire fence with a red sun setting in the background. Here's how Mike Royco of the Chicago Tribune described the magazine in 1984.

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