Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values? 26 26

[johnenock]

Read the first chapter. The cover is better than the writing so far!

[ThothAmon]

On 9/10/2024 at 8:40 PM, Darwination said:

Holy cow, that's maybe the most egregious needle cover ever

This one always pops to mind when I think how none of our problems are new. 
 

Edited Tuesday at 07:56 PM by ThothAmon

[Darwination]

egad

[ThothAmon]

On 9/17/2024 at 6:01 PM, Darwination said:

egad

 

[Black Cactus]

Trigger warning: Boobs

Figured I'd pop in to share some sleazy Saber Books with Bill Edwards covers. From the mid 1960's to early 1970's.

 

Edited yesterday at 04:28 AM by Black Cactus

[Darwination]

On 9/17/2024 at 11:26 PM, Black Cactus said:

Trigger warning: Boobs

Figured I'd pop in to share some sleazy Saber Books with Bill Edwards covers. From the mid 1960's to early 1970's.
 

What a line-up of covers.  I bid recently on the first edition of Sex Life of a Cop (having a crazy spot in U.S. obscenity law) and came up short

[Black Cactus]

On 9/17/2024 at 10:45 PM, Darwination said:

What a line-up of covers.  I bid recently on the first edition of Sex Life of a Cop (having a crazy spot in U.S. obscenity law) and came up short

Is that the one of the guy (in his PJs?) pointing at the officers? Always liked that cover! I think I recall seeing the auction you mentioned. 

Edited 21 hours ago by Black Cactus

[Darwination]

On 9/18/2024 at 7:15 AM, Black Cactus said:

Is that the one of the guy (in his PJs?) pointing at the officers? Always liked that cover! I think I recall seeing the auction you mentioned. 

Yeah, this one.  What a set of underwear:

A pal who recently read recommended it and says the ending makes it all worth it.  Guess I'll read the e-version but was hoping to read it in paper.

The notorious lowdown from the always enlightening Pulp International blog. Don't F with the police!

https://pulpinternational.com/pulp/keyword/oscar-peck/

Edited 10 hours ago by Darwination

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/18/2024 at 7:23 PM, Darwination said:

A pal who recently read recommended it and says the ending makes it all worth it.  Guess I'll read the e-version but was hoping to read it in paper.

I'll confess to having read quite a few of the various sleaze title lines and it's pretty funny how uniformly bad they are in various and mostly humorous ways They ain't no Gold Medal's   Edwards' covers are mostly great though

[frozentundraguy]

A few new acquisitions.

My oldest PB Thriller Novel Classic #4 1941, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu

The Chase (1953) by Richard Hubler. He had the distinction of being asked to write the biography of Walt Disney, unfortunately his effort was not accepted.

 

Last up is Gardener's The Case of the Buried Clock, is the first PB edition (February 1950). The original HB edition came out in 1943.

 

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by frozentundraguy

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/18/2024 at 10:13 PM, frozentundraguy said:

Thriller Novel Classic

[tth2]

On 9/19/2024 at 7:44 AM, Surfing Alien said:

I'll confess to having read quite a few of the various sleaze title lines and it's pretty funny how uniformly bad they are in various and mostly humorous ways They ain't no Gold Medal's

I'd always heard that quite a few were actually written by really top writers using pseudonyms when they were still struggling young writers trying to make ends meet.  Has anyone ever noticed any dirty PBs that seemed to be unusually well written? 

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/18/2024 at 11:36 PM, tth2 said:

I'd always heard that quite a few were actually written by really top writers using pseudonyms when they were still struggling young writers trying to make ends meet.  Has anyone ever noticed any dirty PBs that seemed to be unusually well written? 

That anecdote probably refers to the couple dozen (maybe 100 to 200)  that were written by Robert Silverberg, Lawrence Block, Harlan Ellison, Harry Whittington and a few other starving artists who cashed in on Nightstand Books and sundry others circa 1960.

The vast majority of sleaze titles were written by editors and/or submitters, and are often entertaining, although usually not high lit 

[OtherEric]

On 9/18/2024 at 8:36 PM, tth2 said:

I'd always heard that quite a few were actually written by really top writers using pseudonyms when they were still struggling young writers trying to make ends meet.  Has anyone ever noticed any dirty PBs that seemed to be unusually well written? 

Essex House actually turned out quite a bit of work by good writers.  But they were an oddball company by any standards, based on what little I know of them.

[Darwination]

On 9/19/2024 at 12:33 AM, OtherEric said:

Essex House actually turned out quite a bit of work by good writers.  But they were an oddball company by any standards, based on what little I know of them.

Now you got me looking around for the Essex House printing of Notes of a Dirty Old Man - too pricey for my blood.