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Dutch pulp

A beautiful collection of dutch, american, french pulp book covers from Twincollector


via Au Carrefour Etrange

Adam and Evil

Uploaded to Flickr by Boy de Haas.

"Adam and Evil" by John Carlova. Cover by Charles Copeland.

L.A. Babylon.

I don't care what the haters say, I love Los Angeles. Especially mid-20th century Los Angeles, the seedier the better. That's why I love today's post at Pulp International with a treasure trove of photos of the noir side of the City of (Fallen) Angels, circa 1930-1950. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch "The Blue Dahlia" and read "Day of the Locust."

It's a Man's Man's Man's World: The Cruel Cocks and The Hardboiled Dicks

'The Cruel Cocks' and 'The Hardboiled Dicks'.
(uploaded to Flickr by retro-space and severance_23.)

No pussying around here.

SEX is a four letter word ... and so is KILL!

Attitude and suave-ness make this. Education makes this. And you'll order?
(via Percy)

Badass Men With Knives.

Our love for Pulp International is pretty well documented here at PCL, mostly for the great mid-20th century sleaze they love to share. But every once in a while there's a gem like this, about the secret serial killing tendencies of pioneering British medical researchers William Hunter and William Smellie.

It's especially interesting since William Hunter and his brother John (another medical pioneer) are Desuko ancestors. Now that I have a serial killer in the family, I finally feel like my life is complete.

George of the Jungle?

Pulp International does the best Confidential Magazine breakdowns - I'm addicted. Of course, hell no, he didn't go.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

It's a good thing I found this magazine, because I always wanted to become a nudist, but had no idea how to begin. I'll let you know about "Organized Confusion." See more at the always wonderful Pulp International.

The Battle of the Century.

Forget "Ulysses." This is the great novel of the 20th century. (Of course, I haven't read it yet, but with a cover like that, how can it be anything but the most awesome thing ever?)



[via Pulp of the Day.]

Glen Orbik

'Silver Fox' (in the Marvel Comics gallery) & 'The Max' (in the Dangerous Dames & Pulp Noir gallery)
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Glen Orbik, illustrator. Here's the galleries.

Fantastic Novels

Golden Age Comic Book Stories shares 25 Fantastic Novels covers.

Astounding Illustrations to Lovecraft

From 'Shadow Out of Time', Astounding Stories, 1936
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"Lovecraft had 2 stories published in Astounding Stories in 1936
At the Mountains of Madness and Shadow Out of Time.
The covers and interior illustrations are by Howard V. Brown"
Astounding Illustrations to Lovecraft at Golden Age Comic Book Stories (via Monster Brains)

Cut up prose from pulp paperback covers

"... For ten years or more I collected sleaze/trash/pulp paperbacks published in the 1950s to '70s, mainly for the lurid cover art and cover blurbs. I ended up with almost a thousand, a few of the covers can be seen on flickr . The bulk of the collection went when I moved on to the boat, but one day late last century I had the idea to work the cover blurbs into some form of text piece. "Bonnie", my second attempt, came from the covers of various publishers' books, and I juggled them around until I was happy, keeping the individual quotes intact.

Thirty Books - Except Their Secrets... This was the first attempt at building prose/poetry from trashy paperback cover blurb. These all came from the same publisher, Softcover Library. The distinguishing traits of their books seemed to be a colour photo of a topless woman on the front cover but no sexual content in the actual text. I sat at the pc with all my Softcover Library copies in a box, pulling them out one by one and keying in the cover text, with the intention of shaping them into something later. There was no need. "Thirty Books" is the text in exactly the order the books came out of the box. I saw it made poetic sense with no intervention from me. It was thrilling. ..."

Scorzonera / Words

Note: I am forwarding this message from Scorzonera to this site's visitors:
"It would be fun if someone with the skills and material could knock up a Flash movie marrying the text with images of book covers, don't you think?"

David Russell Talbott

The cast and crew of Howard Hughes' movie, "The Conqueror", are exposed to radiation while filming in the Utah desert. Twenty five years later, over half of them had contracted cancer.

Red Rape

"Red Rape is that rare sleazy pulp novel that actually lives up to its lurid cover illustration and alarmist subtitle (IT CAN HAPPEN HERE!) within the first two pages. It was a canny choice on the part of the publisher to use the popular - and in this case suggestive - civil defense rallying cry for the book's jacket slogan because it no doubt appealed to the patriotic and prurient interests of the anti-Communist pervs who purchased the book back in 1960. Indeed, the prolific author Connie Sellers* (who is a man) seems to have taken the subtitle as something of an editorial mandate and produced an "anything goes" Soviet invasion fantasy that eclipses anything in John Milius's wildest RED DAWN wet dreams. ..."

Read the full story of this sleazy anti-commie pulp novel over at Conelrad.

50´s spanish sci fi paperbacks

'El experimento del Dr. Kellman' & '¡¡Entropía!!'
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50´s spanish sci-fi novels, a nice set at flickr. (via Coudal Partners)

datajunkie is back! Now in 3-D!

datajunkie is back. That is great news in many ways. One good thing is that we get to know the finest in obscure pulps!. Another good thing is that we get to use the super-sight goggles again so that we can hang out with Captain 3-D in the third dimension.
But - most importantly - hyperdave is back with a vengeance. I've missed him.

Yoo Hoo, Paperbacks!

I'm Learning To Share! shares some of his friends' paperbacks. A very nice and and imaginative collection.
Some vintage paperpacks.

Cambodia Pulp

In case you're not up on the literary scene in Cambodia, follow this link to some deliciously lurid and garish pulp paperback covers from Webbed Feet, Web Log.