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Category Archives: Pulp fiction in the 70s and 80s
Pulp Friday: more adventures behind the bamboo screen
One of the most successful pulp fiction related posts to date on this site was a selection of Asian themed pulp fiction paperback covers I put up in 2011, Behind the bamboo screen: Asian pulp covers of the sixties and … Continue reading
Posted in Crime fiction and film from Cambodia, Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Pulp, Pulp fiction in the 70s and 80s, Pulp fiction set in Asia, Pulp paperback cover art, Vintage pulp paperback covers
Tagged Asian themed pulp fiction, Dan Cushman, Fu Manchu, James Eastwood, James Hadley Chase, Lawrence Block, Sax Rohmer
Pulp Friday: The Deadly Prey
“A sadistic maniac was developing a deadly virus by using children as guinea pigs.” Vigilantes were one of the key themes of the muscular over the top world of seventies pulp fiction. And one of the biggest, meanest and weirdest of … Continue reading
Pulp Friday: Black Samurai
“The Black Samurai tangles with a human Satan in a hellish den of torrid sex and deadly violence.” Today’s Pulp Friday is a series of covers featuring one of the best characters of US seventies pulp, Robert Sand aka Black … Continue reading
Pulp Friday: Mafia pulp fiction
The Mafia, Cosa Nostra, the Mob, the Family, the Outfit, the Syndicate, call them whatever you like, it’s hard to overstate the influence organised crime had over pulp fiction. My post on the Andrew Dominik movie Killing Them Softly earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Belmont Tower Books, Crime fiction, Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Mafia, Pulp, Pulp fiction in the 70s and 80s, Pulp Friday, Pulp paperback cover art, True crime, Vintage pulp paperback covers
Tagged Albert Conroy, Fawcett Gold Medal, Francis Ford Coppola, Mafia pulp, Mario Puzo, Peter McCurin. Mack Bolan, The Executioner, The Godfather (1972)
Pulp Friday: spy pulp part 2, Assignment Asia
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of James Bond, last week’s Pulp Friday was a selection of spy themed pulp covers. This week’s post takes us to one of the main battlegrounds for pulp spies in the sixties and seventies – … Continue reading
Posted in Coronet Books, Crime fiction and film from China, Crime fiction and film from India, Crime fiction and film from Japan, Crime fiction and film from Singapore, Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Pulp, Pulp fiction in the 70s and 80s, Pulp fiction set in Asia, Pulp Friday, Pulp paperback cover art, Spies, Vintage pulp paperback covers
Tagged death Merchant, Edward S Aarons, James Bond, James Dark, Philip Atlee, pulp fiction set in Asia, Robert Mcginnis, Sam Durell, Scott S Stone
