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Post by dem bones on Apr 11, 2016 8:12:26 GMT
Because it's a slow news day here's me showing off some original Aus pulp art on the wall at home: These are lovely! Always did like the Fangs of the Vampire painting. Who are the artists?
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 11, 2016 10:57:15 GMT
I've no idea! That one is interesting because it has instructions to the photographer in the margin.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 6, 2016 23:47:28 GMT
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Post by severance on May 9, 2016 7:49:15 GMT
Wonderful covers, thanks for sharing them James. I've got a couple of these,undated, but I guess they're from the sixties as the price had doubled to two shillings! Must fire up the scanner later and see if I can get them on here.
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Post by andydecker on May 9, 2016 9:54:13 GMT
Indeed they were. I havn't seen these, but I I discovered that they were published as a Heftroman. From 1968 to I guess 1970. These translations were published at first in a series of random originally written weekly crime novels,the "Kriminal-Roman".
Then they changed the format to series fiction and published a few alternativly with another original crime series called Cliff Corner, one of those FBI series. I found a few scans. (Thanks to the original scanner.) The tagline is: He hates crime and loves beautiful woman.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 9, 2016 21:20:58 GMT
Would like to see those, Sev. These are covers from Graeme Flanagan's collection that I scanned for ebay sale - they were in great nick and sold really well.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 9, 2016 21:22:21 GMT
Thanks Andy - love the photographic covers!
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Post by pulphack on May 10, 2016 4:54:31 GMT
Absolutely lovely painted covers, which make me want to read them - more so the German photographic ones, as I have a real weakness for those; a little like the staged cheesecake photos that Bill Baker used on the inside of some of the fourth series SBL's for a short run; purporting to be characters from that months novel, they were really just an excuse to have a showgirl in scanties. Interestingly, a short lived experiment with SBL, which may say something about a Blake audience at that time.
James, I know nothing about Larry Kent - given that he's the hero of the piece, was this a Hank Janson first person narrative? And was it mostly one writer, or a stable?
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Post by jamesdoig on May 10, 2016 10:38:15 GMT
Here's a Norwegian version:
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 10, 2016 12:32:27 GMT
I think that is Finnish, actually.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 10, 2016 21:13:28 GMT
I think that is Finnish, actually. Quite right - published in Helsinki.
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Post by severance on May 16, 2016 12:13:30 GMT
As promised, here are a couple of later editions. The cover art is certainly below the quality of the ones displayed by James above, but they're still very nice in my opinion. Larry Kent - Crime Cutie Cleveland Publishing (1959) Larry Kent - Playgirl Patsy Cleveland Publishing (1960)
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Post by jamesdoig on May 2, 2017 9:30:04 GMT
Andrew Nette's book on pulp paperbacks, Girl Gangs, Biker Boys & Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction & Youth Culture, 1950-1980 will be out through PM Press in October. Here is the link to the book on the publishers website: secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=892Here is the pre-order page on Amazon:
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Post by helrunar on May 2, 2017 11:50:20 GMT
Great cover! I for one would find it difficult to resist such choice titles as The Hippy Cult Murders (an item of Mansoniana I would think?) or the charming Hippie Doctor (alternate title: Move over, Dr Kildare baby). Almost inevitably the actual texts never seem to live up to the promise of the cover art...
Thanks for this, James.
H.
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Post by Swampirella on May 2, 2017 17:07:29 GMT
Not sure if I've posted this one before, a novelisation of an Aussie horror flick, written by John Pinkney who now writes "unexplained mystery" books. Thirst, John Pinkney, Circus Books, 1979. From the blurb: 'Thirst' is a suspense thriller about a career lady named Kate Davis who is brainwashed by a blood lusting vampire cult. Kate is kidnapped and spirited away to the cult's remote farm headquarters where she is subjected to intense psychological conditioning in an attempt to convince her that she is a direct descendant of their founding high priestess. After numerous attempts she eventually submits to their evil wishes. When released back into society Kate attacks the people who are closest to her - her secretary Martha, and her boyfriend Derek. You won't be able to put the book down, and you will be dying to see the movie. If I may reply almost 8 years later, I didn't know John Pinkney used to do these sorts of things; good for him! His "Haunted: The Book of Australia's Ghosts" is one of my favorites, and I've read one or two unexplained ones too.
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