Men Of Violence #10

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Further to yesterday's post, the TOC:

Justin Marriott (ed.) - Men Of Violence #10 (May, 2018)

Rik Rawling

Editorial
The Book Safari; The recent finds of Mr. Violence.
The Paperback Warrior: The MOV debut of a trio of quick-on-the-draw paperback reviewers (who prefer to remain anonymous)
Searching For The DC Man: Tom Simon always gets his man in the hunt for the author of the obscure DC series.
Killing In The Name Of: Down and dirty WW2 series The Killers reviewed by Justin Marriott.
Highway To Hell: Eric Compton blasts The Road Blaster post-nuke trilogy.
Fistful of Dynamit: Andreas Decker hands in an explosive dossier on this German men's adventure series.
Pollen's Women: A look at the gorgeous new book devoted to the sumptuous females of Samson Pollen.

I gather it should be available from Am*z*n very shortly.

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"A literary monstrosity"

"A tenth issue seems like something of a landmark for what I had always considered the most idiosyncratic and least-polished fanzine I put out" writes Mr. Violence by way of introduction. This is certainly true of the early, pre-create space incarnation, but House of Fanatic publications have achieved a uniform look over recent issues. Fond as I am of the ramshackle, speed-written numbers, there's no denying the cover reproductions benefit hugely from a glossy full-colour treatment as is evident when the editor shares the supernaturally tasteless spoils of his latest Book Safari. Another significant development: where once MOV was the work of a lone vigilante, our friend has since assembled a crack team of fellow enthusiasts, literary detectives and similar trouble-makers to share the load. Cases in point:

• The mystery trio known as Paperback Warrior who here dish the dirt on the likes of Ian Ludlow's 357 Vigilante, veteran pulpster Chet Cunningham's grim and bloody revenge western, Pony Soldiers #1: Slaughter at Buffalo Creek and The Hunter #1: Scavenger Kill by Ralph Hayes' (as in Ralph E. Hayes, author of grisly Startling Mystery short, A Matter Of Breeding?), this latter, incidentally, from the synopsis provided, may well have Pulp Horror crossover appeal.
• "Was it possible that a Roman Catholic priest was secretly writing sexy spy novels on the side under a fake name during the 1970's?" Were James P Cody, author of the four novel 'D.C. Man' man series (Berkley-Medallion 1974-75), and Rev. Father Peter Thomas Rohrbach, Catholic priest, one and the same person? It seems too wonderful to be true until a persistent Tom Simon hunts down both the author's widow, and Brother Bryan of the Carmelite publishing arm responsible for the Reverend Father's religious titles ...
• Eric Compton's ghoulish dissection of Paul Hofrichter's Roadblasters trilogy, evidently the post-apocalypse pseudo-biker equivalent of Pierce Nace's immortal praying-mantis-on-the-rampage classic, Eat Them Alive - in triplicate. Suddenly this pressing need to hunt down Roadblasters #3: Blood Ride (there is some ambiguity as to whether or not radioactive seawater makes for a viable lubricant in times of crisis).
• Andreas Decker on C. H. Guenter (Karl-Heinz Günther)'s 305-novel 'Mister Dynamit' series (Pabel, 1965-1992), the titular hero evidently a German issue James Bond with the sadistic edges sawn off: "Bob Urban had no licence to kill and he seldom shot anyone, but he was of course a ladies' man." Fans of Firuz Askin's work for the Seawolves series will surely appreciate his sexy cover paintings for the early novels in the series.

Justin's own contribution include an overview of 'Klaus Netzen's Killers series for Mayflower - Laurence James grabbing a piece of the Sven Hassell action while it was hot - and the revenge thrillers of actor turned author Iain Blair, (later the prolific and hugely successful romance novelist, 'Emma Blair'), one of which, Hooligan's Rant (Nel, 1979), I vaguely recall as a tidy variation on Get Carter reset in Glasgow with IRA involvement.

To see us out, an interview with Bob Deis & Wyatt Doyle, joint editors and publishers of, among other titles, Weasels Ripped My Flesh! Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines (2013), He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Stories by Walter Kaylin (2014), Barbarians on Bikes: Bikers and Motorcycle Gangs in Men's Pulp Adventure Magazines (2016), I Watched Them Eat Me Alive: Killer Creatures in Men's Adventure Magazines (2017) and, most recently Pollen's Women: The Art of Samson Pollen (2018), the first book in an ongoing collaboration with the veteran illustrator. I'm thinking that if anyone can claim to be an authority on their subject it's these guys. "[There are] roughly 6,000 individual issues of the roughly 160 different men's adventure magazines published during the genre's lifespan, from the late 1940's to the late '70's," estimates Bob Deis. "Now I have over 5,000,"

Samson Pollen The Passionate Pushover, Men, Sept. 1962)

Men of Violence #10 now available via;

Amazon UK

Amazon

Paperback Warrior

Bob Deis & Wyatt Doyle: Men's Pulp mags

[Jojo Lapin X]

Samson Pollen. What a great name.

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Sept 15, 2018 14:54:58 GMT Jojo Lapin X said:

Samson Pollen. What a great name.

Sensational artist, too. Mostly raunchy stuff for sure, but his work for the likes of For Men Only is often proper horrific.

It's weird. Of all the novels and mags featured throughout the ten issues to date, have probably read less than 1% and chances of significantly improving on that are remote. But, as with the titles featured in Sleazy Reader, and especially, the German pulps, I get such a kick reading about them. Having said that, the Roadblaster novels sound ..... classy. Or something.