Vintage Pulp | May 12 2018 |
Whew! Thanks to my diet I just barely made weight for this race.
Since it seems to be Triple Crown season in the U.S., we thought we'd share this cover for Murder Clear, Track Fast from the incredibly prolific U.S. author Judson Philips. He wrote more than one hundred mysteries as himself, Hugh Pentecost, and Philip Owen. This one is set in the horse racing town of Saratoga, New York, where a lawyer named Don Channing is hired by a local luminary to prove her sportsman son was murdered by his beautiful wife. Complications ensue when Channing falls for the widow, and the murder turns out to be tied up in the racing culture of the town. It was published in 1961, and this Penguin paperback came in 1967 with unusual but brilliant cover art by Bernard Lodge.
Modern Pulp | Vintage Pulp | Jul 22 2009 |
Ian Fleming’s sixth Bond book may be his most enduringly popular.
Our recent post of Dr. No promo art got us thinking about the popularity of the Ian Fleming novel, so today we’ve compiled a collection of Dr. No covers detailing their evolution through the years. At top is an original 1958 hardback with art by Pat Marriot, worth about $150 in mint condition, and at bottom is a 2007 hardback reprint from Penguin featuring art from Michael Gillette and Jon Gray. In between are thirteen more covers spanning the intervening forty-nine years.