Pulp International - Robert+Turner

Jul 1 2016

HOT PURSUIT

Hard to get and impossible to get rid of.

Above, a cover from Beacon Books for Robert Turner's Woman Chaser, 1962. Turner was a prolific author of hard boiled fiction. Writing as Turner, as well as Eric Calhoun, K.K. Klein, Parker Lee, Lisa Roberts, et al, he produced titles such as She Devil, Cheater, The Night Is for Screaming, and The Girl in the Cop's Pocket. In this one a serial cheater gets involved with much a younger woman, and as his wife descends into alcoholism, he discovers his lover is way too uncaring and wild to handle. With cover art by Jack Thurston.

Beacon Signal Robert Turner Jack Thurston cover art literature

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Sep 20 2013

SELFISH JEANS

It’s not their fault—it’s a jean-etic disorder.

In pulp and sleaze fiction there are many types of bad women—vamps, golddiggers, black widows, you name it—but women who wear jeans, or even jean shorts, are destined for a special brand of trouble. Some of these women are already corrupt while others are merely at the gateway, but they all end up in the same place—Calamity City, daddy-o.

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History Rewind

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

October 18

1968—Olympic Committee Suspends Carlos and Smith

The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends African-American track & field athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos for saluting the crowd with raised, gloved fists during a medal ceremony at the Mexico City games. The salutes represented the black power and civil rights movements in the United States. Both athletes also received their medals shoeless to represent black poverty.

October 17

1933—Capone Sentenced to Prison

Chicago organized crime boss Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion after all other attempts to tie him to an assortment of crimes, from the mass murder of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre to widespread violations of the Volstead Act, fail. He is sentenced to eleven years in federal prison and, cut off from the outside world while on Alcatraz Island, his power is finally broken.

October 16

1964—China Detonates Nuke

At the Lop Nur test site located between the Taklamakan and Kuruktag deserts, the People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon, codenamed 596 after the month of June 1959, which is when the program was initiated.

1996—Handgun Ban in the UK

In response to a mass shooting in Dunblane, Scotland that kills 16 children, the British Conservative government announces a law to ban all handguns, with the exception .22 caliber target pistols. When Labor takes power several months later, they extend the ban to all handguns.

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