Vintage Pulp | Aug 23 2016 |
This next drink is going right to his head.
Above, a cover for Un Cinzano pour l'ange noir, aka A Cinzano for the Black Angel, written by Frédéric Dard in 1953 for Éditions de la Pensée Moderne's collection Les confessions de l'ange noir. The series comprised four books, with this one being the last. Plotwise, the Black Angel gets involved with an heiress who is intent on robbing her industrialist father's vault, which is presumably filled with riches. He does actually get hit over the head with a bottle of Cinzano, which makes for a hell of a hangover. You may not know Frédéric Dard, but he was one of France's most successful authors, publishing more than 300 novels and selling 250 million copies. 173 of those books starred his signature creation Detective Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio. The above novel is not considered one of his best, but when you write books faster than Taco Bell churns out crunchy cheese core burritos there will be a few duds. The cover art is by the always reliable Jef de Wulf.
Vintage Pulp | Aug 16 2011 |
Up late in the city that never sleeps.
Published in the mid-1950s by Editions de la Pensée Moderne as part of their Collection Tropiques, Call Girl Central: 08~022 pretends to be the musings of an anonymous NYC call girl. Some Tropiques editions were written by French author Frédéric Dard, but this one is uncredited, as is the Ava Gardner-inspired art (though it could be Jef de Wulf). In any case, this cover is one of our new favorites.