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Pulp International - Editorial+Tor

Jan 28 2015

WORLD WAR WELLS

Argentine edition of classic takes art in different direction.

This 1938 printing of H.G. Wells’ 1898 masterpiece La guerra de los mundos, aka The War of the Worlds, leaps right to the top rank of covers we’ve seen. It was published by Buenos Aires based Editorial Tor, a company founded in 1916 by Juan Carlos Torrendell. Despite the demented Mickey Mouse aspect of the fanged alien, and the fact that it’s a completely different vision from any other cover treatment we’ve seen for the book, we think the overall feel of the piece is very much on target. Unfortunately we have no artist info.

Argentina Buenos Aires Editorial Tor La Guerra de los mundos The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells Juan Carlos Torrendell cover art literature

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Jun 26 2013

IN GOOD CO.

Pretty fancy shooting.

This cover for Maurice Leblanc’s thriller La Agencia Barnett & Cia was printed in Argentina by Editorial Tor as entry #87 in their serie amarilla, or yellow series. Leblanc was a well known writer whose most famous creation was the thief and detective Arsène Lupin, a sort of French version of Sherlock Holmes. When La Agencia Barnett & Cia was originally published in France in 1941 it was called L’Agence Barnett & Cie, with both “Cia” and “Cie” meaning “Co.” The cover is signed but we can’t really read it. Is it Tenser? Teneer? Tenger? We get no hits on any of those names, which is too bad. But the art is brilliant and we have a feeling this particular illustrator will pop up again, hopefully with a more legible signature.

Argentina France Editorial Tor Maurice Leblanc cover art literature

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History Rewind

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

May 01

1945—Germany Announces Hitler's Death

German radio in Hamburg announces that Adolf Hitler was killed in Berlin, stating specifically that he had fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany. But in truth Hitler had committed suicide along with his mistress Eva Braun, and both bodies were immediately thereafter burned.

1960—Powers Is Shot Down over U.S.S.R.

Francis Gary Powers, flying in a Lockheed U-2 spy plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. denies the plane's purpose and mission, but is later forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produces its remains and reveals Powers, who had survived the shoot down. The incident triggers a major diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.

April 30

1927—First Prints Are Left at Grauman's

Hollywood power couple Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, who co-founded the movie studio United Artists with Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, become the first celebrities to leave their impressions in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, located along the stretch where the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame would later be established.

April 29

1945—Hitler Marries Braun

During the last days of the Third Reich, as Russia's Red Army closes in from the east, Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker during a brief civil ceremony witnessed by Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the next day, and their corpses are burned in the Reich Chancellery garden.

1967—Ali Is Stripped of His Title

After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before due to religious reasons, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight boxing title. He is found guilty of a felony in refusing to be drafted for service in Vietnam, but he does not serve prison time, and on June 28, 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court reverses his conviction. His stand against the war had made him a hated figure in mainstream America, but in the black community and the rest of the world he had become an icon.

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