These Greek magazine covers from 1951 and 1955 were hiding in one of our pulp art folders from two years ago. We didn’t post them back then because we had no idea what the magazine is, or even what Ohεaypoε means. In fact, we don’t even remember where these pieces came from, which means we can’t credit them—something we’re always very good about doing. But mysterious origins or not, looking at the art anew we realize it’s top notch and we should have shared it earlier. Anyone out there who reads Greek, feel free to step up to the plate and tell us what this magazine is. 

American actress Candice Bergen rides an ass called Anagnosti through the streets of Galaxidi, Greece during a break in filming 1966’s The Day the Fish Came Out. 

Above, a Midnight newspaper with an article on Aristotle Onassis and his wife of one year, former First Lady of the U.S. Jackie Kennedy, published today in 1969. Jackie O., as she was known, was a full time obsession for the American tabloid press, though she lived on Skorpios, a private Greek island that was inaccessible to just about anyone outside the Onassis inner circle. But Midnight made up all its stories anyway, so isolated isle or not, they claim here to have the inside scoop on her marriage. Interspersed among that and other celebrity content is a lot of gore—i.e., unflinching photos of people in varying stages of mutilation, dismemberment and decay. Most of the images come from police files, though some are Vietnam War shots. Either way, they’re not for the faint-hearted. We have several more Midnights we’ll show you the inside of soon, including the blood and guts. 

Various movie posters from Russia, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, and the former West Germany, circa ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.     

It almost looks like promo art for a forgotten Hitchcock movie but it isn’t. It’s the poster for Diamantia sto gymno sou soma, a Greek erotic thriller directed by Omiros Efstratiadis and starring Eleni Anousaki as a woman who convinces her boyfriend to run over a jewel thief so they can expropriate the haul from his diamond robbery. The movie premiered in 1972 at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, but hit Italy four long years later as Erotication. If it ever had a VHS or DVD release in North America, which we doubt, it was under the title Diamonds on Her Stolen Flesh. But even if you can’t see the film, we had to show you the dead-on-target art, with its Playboy-era Marilyn Monroe at the center of a fractured bullseye. Erotication premiered this month in Italy in 1976.