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Vintage Pulp Mar 18 2024
TOTALLY TUBULAR
I've been enjoying these outings a lot less since I heard there's a fish called a slippery dick.


No, we didn't make it up, you non-fishers out there. There's a slippery dick. It's native to western Atlantic waters, for example the Carolina coast. This Technicolor lithograph, titled “Swimmin' Hole,” is native to the mid-1950s. The model here enjoying the use of an innertube is unknown to us, as they often are.

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Vintage Pulp Mar 17 2024
COLOMBIAN GOLD
Maybe if we were high we'd have bought it.


We ran across this on mercadolibre.com. It's Ian Fleming's Goldfinger from Ediciones Albon, out of Colombia, published in 1964. The vendor was asking 200 for this. Pesos? No—dollars. That's a lot of plata. We'd rather spend the money on actual Colombian gold, so we took a pass. But we love the cover. 

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Vintage Pulp Mar 16 2024
THE WOMAN KING
She could be Ursula Andress.


Above: one of many covers for H. Rider Haggard's all-time classic She, aka She: A History of Adventure, about the cruel, beautiful, and powerful ruler of a lost world. We chose this one because the art is based on the 1965 movie adaptation starring Ursula Andress, as you can discern at a glance. And if not, we added an Andress shot below from the film for comparison's sake. You wouldn't quite call this paperback edition from London based Hodder & Stoughton a tie-in—the movie came out in 1965 in Britain, whereas the paperback is from 1968. But Andress never goes out of style. You could probably put her on a book cover now and it would sell like potato chips. We're going to screen her version of She in a bit, and report back. We already checked out one of the other dozen versions, 1935's effort starring Helen Gahagan, which you can read about here if you're curious.

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Femmes Fatales Mar 16 2024
ALL ABOUT EVE
The exact opposite of buttoned up tight.


Eve Meyer, who was Eve Turner before marrying filmmaker Russ Meyer, is seen here in a photo made when she was a Playboy centerfold in 1955. A black and white version of the photo was included in that layout. After a few years modeling, Meyer appeared in several films, then produced fifteen movies, including Cherry, Harry & Raquel, Motorpsycho, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, all of which are schlock classics. We think this shot of her is classic too.

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Intl. Notebook Mar 8 2024
OPERATION PORTUGAL
Pulp Intl. and friends abroad. What's the worst that can happen?


It's intermission time. Yes, we just took a break, but it was unplanned due to our move and its many associated delays. The upcoming intermission has been planned for a while. We're going to stage a triple birthday celebration in Lisbon with some of our favorite globetrotters. The Pulp. Intl. girlfriends are coming too, but are bailing on day four. They say they want us to have boy time, but the truth is four days with this crowd is all they can endure.

Mixed into the days and nights (of sedate museum visits and early bedtimes, we swear, girls) will be serious pulp digging. We have no idea whether Portugal has such items, but we'll only learn the answer by looking. Hopefully we'll make it back home intact by March 16. That's the plan, anyway. But you know what they say about plans. To tide you over until our glorious return, let us direct you to some Pulp Intl. favorites.
 
A small collection of paperback covers by George Gross.
 
Fifteen covers of the pulp magazine Short Stories.
 
Modern pulp art by the amazing Owen Smith.
 
All our issues of the French art deco style magazine Paris Plaisirs.
 
All our issues of the Australian men's adventure magazine Adam.
 
Misty Ayers does her daily lingerie workout then cooks a meal.
  
The paperback cover art of Bill Edwards.
 
A look at historic cinemas from around world.
 
Beautiful covers from the Italian publishers Edizioni MA-GA.
 
All our write-ups on sexploitation queen Laura Gemser.

And finally, below you'll find our inexhaustible tabloid index, which used to reside somewhere in 2018, but which we've moved in case anyone wants to check out all the scandal sheets we've written about.
 
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Intl. Notebook Mar 8 2024
TABLOID WONDERLAND
You’ll be amazed at the things you see there.


We’ve made a half-assed alphabetical tabloid index with links below, and it will allow you to see posts without slogging though sixteen years of archive. Some of the entries are just the covers and brief commentary, while others feature detailed rundowns of the contents and multiple scans. All are worth visiting—if we say so ourselves. There are more than 500, which we’re pretty sure makes us the number one site for tabloids on the internet. We are well aware, after receiving many e-mails, that some of you would like us to upload larger scans. We've thought about it, but that would require a major redesign and it's beyond our abilities right now. We'll see what happens.

Bare: 1
Behind the Scene: 1, 2
Bravo: 1, 2
Broadway Tattler: 1, 2
Candid Press: 1, 2
Close-Up Extra: 1
Confidential: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
Daily News: 1
Dynamite: 1
El Caso: 1
Exclusive: 1
Exploiter: 1, 2
Exposed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Exposé for Men: 1
Final: 1
Flick: 1
He: 1
Hush-Hush: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Hush Hush News:  1
Inside: 1, 2
Inside News: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Inside Story: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
It's Happening: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Jour et Nuit: 1
Keyhole: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Keyhole Confidential: 1, 2
La Fouine: 1
Limelight: 1
Lowdown: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Midnight: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
Minuit: 1, 2, 3
National Bulletin: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
National Close-Up: 1, 2, 3
National Enquirer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38
National Examiner: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
National Free Press: 1
National Graphic: 1
National Informer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
National Informer Weekly Reader: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
National Insider: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
National Mirror: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
National Spotlite: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
National Star Chronicle: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
National Tattler: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
New Weekender: 1
Nouvelle et Police Judiciare: 1
Offbeat: 1
On the Q.T.: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Pic: 1, 2
Philadelphia Briefs: 1, 2, 3
Police Gazette: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79
Private Affairs: 1
Private Lives: 1, 2
Rampage: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Rendez-Vous: 1, 2, 3
Sepia: 1
Sensational Exposés: 1
Sir!: 1, 2, 3, 4
Spotlite Extra: 1
Suppressed: 1, 2, 3
Tab: 1
Top Secret: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Uncensored: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
V.I.P.: 1
Vice Squad: 1, 2
Whisper: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 ,1314, 15, 16, 17, 18
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Modern Pulp Mar 8 2024
TOKYO PAYBACK
In Japan business is war—complete with innocent bystanders.


This brilliant promo was painted for Hana to hebi: Shiiku-hen, known in English as Flower and Snake 3: Punishment. It starred Minako Ogawa of Dan Oniroku ikenie shimai, aka Sisters To Be Sacrificed, and in fact the same painter must have produced both posters. Have a look. The central figure is almost identical, no? Right down to her hairy armpits. Since there's no official info on who the artist is we'll throw in our two cents. It was bondage painter Kaname Ozuma. He painted at least one other poster for the Flower and Snake series, which you can see here. In the meantime this piece is literally nowhere else to be found in the quality you see here. At least, as far as we can tell.

We watched the film and it's a typically perverse roman porno tale about a powerful businessman married to Minako Ogawa, who he stole from a subordinate who was helpless to prevent it. When he later declines to help a business associate out of a jam that person has Ogawa kidnapped—literally thrown into a giant bag—taken to an isolated house, sexually assaulted, and coercively trained using bondage, a kielbasa, and other esoterica in order to turn her into a performer for live sex shows. That's a hell of a twisted retaliation for being refused financial help, but twisted is what roman porno is all about.

Of technical note is the fact that, though it was illegal to show pubic hair in Japanese movies, the ever clever roman porno filmmakers found a loophole. They have Ogawa's captors, as part of her torment, cut off her pubic hair with scissors. Though it couldn't be shown attached to her body without bringing down the wrath of censors, they got away with showing it falling into bathwater. You gotta give the pervs credit. They were always thinking outside the—er—box. Hana to hebi: Shiiku-hen premiered in Japan today in 1986.

After a long day on the set filming sex and bondage...

 

I'm very happy to spend the evening doing this.

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Vintage Pulp Mar 7 2024
SAFETY FIRST
She never has unprotected sex.

Above: an alternate cover for Milton K. Ozaki's 1952 thriller The Deadly Pick-Up. We use “thriller” loosely, because it wasn't a very involving book. But both covers are excellent. This one is by Rudy Nappi. You can see the other, by an uncredited artist, here

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Vintage Pulp Mar 6 2024
SHAHARR HER WISDOM
The Princess sees all and knows all.


Above are the front and rear covers of another dream book from the Wholesale Book Corporation, featuirng art from the one and only Gene Bilbrew. He's unique in the annals of paperback cover art, as you can see here and here, and while these dream books don't showcase him at his best, they still demonstrate his unusual style. This one is also interesting because it's bilingual. The copyright is 1972. If you don't know what a dream book is, it's for gambling. We explain the book's purpose in detail here, and the numbers gambling associated with it here

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Femmes Fatales Mar 6 2024
PRIVATE SHOWING
I chose the stage name Busty, but I think you'll agree I have other assets.


Here's a nice photo of U.S. burlesque star Donna Mae Brown, aka Busty Brown. We had some fun with a 1960 photo of her in divorce court, but wanted to bring her back. Old photos of burlesque performers are often hard to date, but Brown was very popular for most of the 1950s, so if you split the difference this shot might have been made around 1955.

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History Rewind
The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
March 19
1931—Nevada Approves Gambling
In the U.S., the state of Nevada passes a resolution allowing for legalized gambling. Unregulated gambling had been commonplace in the early Nevada mining towns, but was outlawed in 1909 as part of a nationwide anti-gaming crusade. The leading proponents of re-legalization expected that gambling would be a short term fix until the state's economic base widened to include less cyclical industries. However, gaming proved over time to be one of the least cyclical industries ever conceived.
1941—Tuskegee Airmen Take Flight
During World War II, the 99th Pursuit Squadron, aka the Tuskegee Airmen, is activated. The group is the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, and serves with distinction in Africa, Italy, Germany and other areas. In March 2007 the surviving airmen and the widows of those who had died received Congressional Gold Medals for their service.
March 18
1906—First Airplane Flight in Europe
Romanian designer Traian Vuia flies twelve meters outside Paris in a self-propelled airplane, taking off without the aid of tractors or cables, and thus becomes the first person to fly a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Because his craft was not a glider, and did not need to be pulled, catapulted or otherwise assisted, it is considered by some historians to be the first true airplane.
1965—Leonov Walks in Space
Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov leaves his spacecraft the Voskhod 2 for twelve minutes. At the end of that time Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter Voskhod's airlock. He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off, was barely able to get back inside the capsule, and in so doing became the first person to complete a spacewalk.
March 17
1966—Missing Nuke Found
Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the deep submergence vehicle Alvin locates a missing American hydrogen bomb. The 1.45-megaton nuke had been lost by the U.S. Air Force during a midair accident over Palomares, Spain. It was found resting in nearly three-thousand feet of water and was raised intact on 7 April.
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