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Post by severance on Jun 16, 2009 17:22:44 GMT
I'll leave you to work out the theme of this thread... Come Night, Come Evil - Jonathan Craig - Gold Medal (1957) The Deadly Desire - Robert Colby - Gold Medal (1959) It's Bedtime, Baby! - Hank Janson - Gold Star (1964) The Last Cop Out - Mickey Spillane - Corgi (1974)
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Post by dem bones on Jun 17, 2009 19:40:19 GMT
damn! surely the thread that Vault was built for and come the prestigious day i've already exhausted my stash! Well, not quite exhausted. There's the Leisure Books 2007 reissue of Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin and Steve Weston's illustration for Gardner Dozois's Hamlyn SF non-nasty, Strangers (1980), but, honestly, they're so tasteful that i'm almost too ashamed to post them. See what i mean? Even the delish miss mammoth erotica looks frightfully respectable somehow, but of course, that's no reason not to remind ourselves that Robinson's are a very nice company and their Mammoth Book Of Wolf Man is scheduled for publication before the year's out!
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Post by bushwick on Jun 19, 2009 11:11:31 GMT
Pan, 1972 edition No, I haven't read it yet, it's a bit long. And what ethnicity is that woman supposed to be? That's the whitest looking black woman I've ever seen, very Jolson-esque.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 19, 2009 15:55:10 GMT
And what ethnicity is that woman supposed to be? That's the whitest looking black woman I've ever seen, very Jolson-esque. See what you mean! Adds a whole new level of offence when you figured the artist had already done his worst. Can't really see me ever being able to offer an opinion on the slavers, to be honest. There's something about them and the nazisploitation novels that makes me too uncomfortable to give 'em a fair try which, i realise, must sound pretty rich, some of the dodgy stuff i've embraced on here.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 10, 2009 8:41:42 GMT
I so give of myself for this board ... Chris Ashton - Strippers! (Star, 1986) Blurb: It's the oldest show in the business — and still the most bewitching. The simple act of a woman removing her clothes in public is guaranteed to set the pulses racing and to fill the till. But what are they really like, these girls who are prepared to bare all before an audience? Are they raving exhibitionists, inspired artistes or simply cynical mercenaries? And what is it like to strip for the first time before 300 men? How does a girl cope with the sniggers that follow her in everyday life? Or with the outrage of the father who has just witnessed his daughter prancing saucily before his work-mates? STRIPPERS! provides an astonishing peek behind the scenes of a booming business and a chance to meet the girls who make it all possible — from Dana the fire-eater, to Toni the snake-charmer, to Lola who once burst a punter's eardrum with her greatest assets...
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Post by Johnlprobert on Oct 10, 2009 12:12:23 GMT
I hadn't spotted this thread before and for some reason there's something about it that warms the old cockles
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Post by dem bones on Oct 10, 2009 13:15:22 GMT
I hadn't spotted this thread before .... Alas, your lordship, such is often the fate of our more thoughtful threads. In this instance, i blame Sev for not calling it "Covers with bird's arses on". "Down the back of the Vault"? indeed! Blimey, that's .... almost D*rk F*nt*sy!
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Post by severance on Oct 13, 2009 17:16:20 GMT
As usual, Dem does me a huge disservice - "Covers with bird's arses on" indeed - I was actually trying to show how publishers have used a back view to hint at nudity without showing much at all - the cover below is probably my favourite one so far:
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Post by dem bones on Oct 14, 2009 10:08:03 GMT
Oh, backs! Profuse apologies for so grotesquely misrepresenting your noble intentions, Sev. A nice pair from the Trisha Telep/ those-gorgeous-and-not-a-little-cheeky people at Robinson stable.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 15, 2009 10:40:56 GMT
From deep down of my hard drive Thanks to the original scanners; these are from the Net. You can bet that the novels itself don´t come even close to those covers and titles. (Okay, I guess the MacDonald is a good book. Read my share of MacDonald over the years, but never this.)
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Post by andydecker on Oct 18, 2009 13:04:56 GMT
Here is another one I hope photobucket doesn´t swallow This Cimiteria No29, one of those italian horror comics from the 70s. They had a colour cover and b/w art inside, 30 pages long in a digest format, one or two panels a page. There was a lot of nudity and sex from the begining, but it became horror-porn in the later years. And they had a level of violence still not reached in todays movies like Hostel or Saw. Over at Curt Purcell´s Groovy Age of Horror groovyageofhorror.blogspot.com/are a lot of scans of those fumetti, as they were called. Cimiteria was the adventures of a reanimated corpse - the blonde - hanging around with her friend Quasimodo - the dwarf - and having weird period piece adventures. And I mean weird. Not even a Moffett novel had such crazy concepts than these comics.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 19, 2009 10:17:42 GMT
Here is another one I hope photobucket doesn´t swallow Yeah, best of luck with that! luckily i downloaded a copy for research purposes, so will re-host it for you should r*p*way get back to their normal selves.
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Post by severance on Nov 18, 2009 22:01:44 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Nov 19, 2009 9:51:45 GMT
Nice ones!
The MacDonald is a McGinnis (I love his work), but the other two covers ...?
If you compare this level of craft and art to today´s photoshop monstrosities - different worlds.
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Post by severance on Nov 21, 2009 16:06:08 GMT
The artist on the Masur was Ron Lesser, but I don't know who did the Wormser cover. I, too, love the work of Robert McGinnis - here's another example of his work...
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