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We mentioned the wave of rural sleaze fiction that hit the literary scene. Well, there were so many it seems they ran out of titles. Above you see the cover of another novel called Backwoods Shack, this time by Paul Daniels for Magnet Books. This one is a bit different from the last Backwoods Shack—the last featured a love triangle, but this is more like a sex polygon. Here the spoiled and entitled offspring of important figures in a hick town use a secluded shack for blowout parties, until discretion goes out the window and problems arise. 1960 copyright.
![NAME BRAND PULP](/images/headline/2768.png) What’s in a name? Everything, if it’s the title of a vintage paperback. ![](/images/postimg/name_brand_pulp_01.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/name_brand_pulp_02.jpg)
Above and below you will find a large collection of pulp, post-pulp, and sleaze paperback fronts that have as their titles a character’s first name. There are hundreds of examples of these but we stopped at thirty-two. The collection really highlights, more than others we’ve put together, how rarely vintage paperback art focuses on male characters. The prose is virtually all male-centered and male-driven, of course, but because the mid-century paperback market was male-driven too, that meant putting women on the covers to attract the male eye. We tell our girlfriends this all the time, but they still think we just don’t bother looking for male-oriented vintage art. But we do. For this collection we found two novels that have male characters’ names as their titles, and we looked pretty hard. If we had to guess, we’d say less than 5% of all pulp art is male-oriented. In any case, the illustrations come from the usual suspects—Barye Phillips, Robert McGinnis, Jef de Wulf, Paul Rader, et al., plus less recognized artists like Doug Weaver. Thanks to all the original uploaders for these.
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![ASIA SPECIFIC](/images/headline/2523.png) Mid-century fiction’s love affair with the East produced scores of virtuoso bookcovers. ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_01.jpg)
It seems time for another themed cover collection, so today we’re sharing some of the scores of Asian styled mid-century paperback fronts we’ve seen. Much of the fiction here is offensive on some level, but then quite a bit of the old literature falls into that category. The art, on the other hand, is somewhat easier to look at dispassionately. So we have thirty-two paperback covers revealing the mid-century fascination with—or exploitation of—Asian archetypes, with art by Denis McLoughlin, Robert Maguire (identically on Ne-San and The Transistor Girls), J. Oval, aka Ben Ostrick, and more. Four or five of these came from Flickr, so thanks to the original uploaders on those. ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_26.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_28.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_29.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_30.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_31.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_27.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_32.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/asia_specific_36.jpg)
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945. 1915—Ship Capsizes on Lake Michigan
During an outing arranged by Western Electric Co. for its employees and their families, the passenger ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan due to unequal weight distribution. 844 people die, including all the members of 22 different families. 1980—Peter Sellers Dies
British movie star Peter Sellers, whose roles in Dr. Strangelove, Being There and the Pink Panther films established him as the greatest comedic actor of his generation, dies of a heart attack at age fifty-four.
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