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Post by dem bones on May 30, 2023 17:16:29 GMT
Tom Roberts [ed.] - Windy City Pulp Stories #9 (Black Dog, April 2009) Back cover montage: Tom Roberts: Front: H.J. Ward THE SPICY MAGAZINES
Will Murray - An Informal History of the the Spicy Pulp Alfred Jan - From Spicy to Bland Will Murray - The Spicy Adventurers. Morgan Holmes - The Saga of Wild Bill Clanton and Two Gun Bob Will Murray - The Spicy Westerners Will Murray - The Spicy Sleuths
THE SPICY ARTISTS
David Saunders - A Profile of Alan Anderson Neil Mechem - Damsels in Distress: The Art of H.J. Ward; including a gallery of pulp cover art by H.J. Ward Wilton E. Matthews - A Profile of Howard Parkhurst: reprinted from Super Detective, April 1935. Tom Roberts - A Short Look at the Career of Howard Parkhurst; including a gallery of art by H. Parkhurst Of Other Interest
2008 Lamont Award Recognition 1939 Letter from Frank Armer to Howard Wandrei Anonymous - Close Up: Frank Armer - Pulp Potentate; reprinted from Independent News, vol.1, 1944 Frank Armer - The Five C's of Detective Writing: reprinted from Writer's Review, June 1934 O. Foerster Schully - Markets in False Face: reprinted from Author & Journalist, Nov. 1935 and Jan. 1936; an article complaining about the Spicy chain of magazines with a response by the editor of Spicy Detective, and subsequent responses from three Spicy authors. Gene Christie - More from Writer's magazines - Spicy tips
Guest of Honour Focus
Robert Weinberg - Hubert Rogers: A Brief Appreciation John Bell - Hubert Rogers in the Pulps, 1926-1956. Tom Roberts - A Bibliography of Pulp Illustrations by Hubert Rogers: including a gallery of pulp cover art by Hubert Rogers
Film Focus
Ed Hulse - Pulp to the Silver Screen. A Spicy special affording 100+ pages to the joys of Culture-Trojan's "sexy" publications. Includes Alfred Jan on the self-censorship of Spicy Detective and Spicy Adventure under threat of prosecution from the mayor of New York and clean-up campaigners. Will Murray ponders Spicy Western's late arrival to the party, the adventures of E. Hoffman Price's "coffin-faced" Simon Bolivar Grimes, and an unhealthy obsession with Mexican bandits cattle-branding the buxom breasts of hog-tied dancehall gals. Neil Mechem lauds the "racy" cover art of nice-girls-in-peril specialist, H.J. Ward, while David Saunders of Pulp Artist repute contributes a short biography of Ward's equally gifted Spicy/ Speed Western equivalent, Alan Anderson. Morgan Holmes documents Robert E. Howard's relatively well-paid surrogate career as pseudonymous spicy western author, and his attempt to persuade a name pen-pal to follow suit. The non-Spicy content sees Rob Weinberg, John Bell and Tom Roberts pay tribute to Hubert Rogers, whom they regard "one of the most important science fiction artists of the 40s," and Ed Satan Lives for My Love! Hulse on the movies they'll be screening at that year's Windy City Pulp fest. The only slight disappointment - at least, it is for we wretched ones who crave only the morbid, the macabre, the miserable - no single article devoted to Spicy Mystery
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