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Post by severance on Jan 13, 2020 22:19:34 GMT
Paperback Fanatic #43, January 2020 GOLD MEDAL REVIEWSThe Paperback Warrior team raid their archives for some classic Gold Medal reviews. THE DARK INVADERPaul Bishop on Gil Brewer, once one of Gold Medal's greatest, but whose inability to drop the sex and kick the booze caused a fall from grace. BREWER'S DROOPJustin Marriott on Brewer's barren years on the 1970s. BREWER IN MAMsBob Deis showcases how Brewer's work was repackaged in the men's adventure magazines. THE OTHER MARLOWEPaul Bishop on Dan J. Marlowe, possibly the only crime novelist whose research led him to collude with a convicted bank-robber. A TOWN CALLED MALICEJustin jams in a review of one of Dan J. Marlowe's greatest noirs. CHARLES WILLIAMS AND HIS GIRLSRob Matthews profiles the lesser-known, but talented, Gold Medal novelist. A VISUAL GUIDE TO ROBERT MCGINNISJustin Marriott traces the career of Gold Medal's greatest cover artist. BRIGHTER THAN SALMON PINKJustin Marriott makes an obscure reference to the Travis McGee books in the title for his reviews of five John D. MacDonald books. SUPERMODELS AND GODFATHERSWyatt Doyle chats to The Fanatic about the latest books from New Texture. |
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Post by ditto on Jan 14, 2020 21:54:36 GMT
I luv the lurid covers.  John D MacDonald is that another name for Donald E Westlake? |
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Post by andydecker on Jan 15, 2020 8:37:42 GMT
I luv the lurid covers. John D MacDonald is that another name for Donald E Westlake? No. Westlake's other name was Richard Stark. The hard-boiled Parker series. And Tucker Coe. Among a dozen other.
But John D MacDonald had a problem with Kenneth Millar, who at first choose the pseudonym John Ross Macdonald. J.D. asked him to choose another. J.R. just shrugged, but when he became successful, i.e. sold his Archer novels as paperbacks - at first he was published in hardback at Knopf - he dropped the John to avoid confusion.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 15, 2020 9:02:34 GMT
GOLD MEDAL SPECIAL! 88 full-colour pages devoted to articles on the legendary publisher and its key authors. Pieces on classic noir authors Gil Brewer, John D MacDonald, Dan J Marlowe, Charles Williams. With a stunning visual gallery of the paperback art of Robert McGinnis and rare illustrations from Men's Adventure Magazines for Gil Brewer stories. Plus in-depth reviews of Gold Medal classics such as Black Wings Has My Angel. 125 colour illustrations of rare Gold Medal paperbacks and associated books and magazines.am*z*n.ukam*z*n
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Post by severance on Jan 15, 2020 14:51:21 GMT
Talking of Donald Westlake's pseudonym of Richard Stark, Gold Medal actually published a few of the Parker novels in the late 1960s, and this particular cover features in the Robert McGinnis cover gallery: Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake) - The Green Eagle Score Published by Gold Medal in 1967. |
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Post by dem bones on May 3, 2020 18:25:58 GMT
Justin Marriott [ed.] - Paperback Fanatic #43 (Jan 2020) As is often the case with issues of Justin's Men of Violence, leafing through this Paperback Fanatic: Gold Medal special, I had my doubts. Noir and hard-boiled crime are not my particular thing: customary abundance of gorgeous cover art apart (McGinnis and Barye Philips predominate), would there be anything here of much particular interest to wretched likes of self? Couple of pages into the Paperback Warrior's reviews, and I'm experiencing the same kick I get from, say, a Pulp Horror. "Pooser is one of the most vile, devious and reprehensible villains in crime fiction. In fact, this whole paperback is pretty crazy. Crazy sexual. Crazy tense. Crazy violent. Because it's Florida, deadly snakes and man-eating gators pay a key supporting role in the mayhem ...." (Harry Whittington's Backwood Tramp) and " ...a violent and shocking revenge story about a mild-mannered attorney forced to hunt and kill the motorcycle punks who raped his wife ..." (Basil Heatter, The Scarred Man). Move on to Paul Bishop's appreciation of Gil Brewer, whose "stories of window peepers, panty-sniffers, gropers and other sexual fetishists" not only "incensed the official moral censors" but earned the contempt of his publisher who nevertheless, accidentally kept printing his disgusting million-selling novels until the creative well succumbed to alcoholism, It Takes A Thief tie-ins and despair. Rob Matthews guides us through the treacherous bayous and swamplands of Charles Williams' grim (for want of a better term) Backwoods Noir novels and the deadly, desperate women who haunt them. Justin's new interview with Wyatt Doyle includes details of his latest book with Bob Deis, a celebration of Eva Lynd: Mens Adventure Supermodel. Bet I'm not the only one who would love something similar on the Arrow, Panther & Co paperback cover models of the 'sixties and 'seventies. Oh, and Dan J. Marlowe's callous killer, Earl Drake, is presumably included herein because his misanthropic streak is so unrelentingly hateful that even the men of violence won't speak to him. Finally, the editorial reports on the Paperback & Pulp fair of November last. Let's hope there's a rematch for us to attend/ write/ read about later this year, and that everyone is still around to enjoy it.
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John D MacDonald is that another name for Donald E Westlake?
