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Pulp International - Editions+ERP
Vintage Pulp Aug 7 2023
DON'T STOP THE DANCE
My dream is actually to be a singer, so I interrupt this striptease to perform Verdi's aria, “Stride la vampa.”

This entry in Editions ERP's I Gialli dello Schedario's FBI series is a late one. It was number 259 and came in 1980, which is surprsing because we didn't realize ERP was still using painted cover art then. This one was the work of Mario Carìa, and Norman Forrest the author was actually—you guessed it—Renato Carocci, the guy who you could be forgiven for thinking wrote every Italian crime novel ever. You can check his output by clicking his keywords below, and you can see a small collection of FBI covers here

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Vintage Pulp May 7 2023
ON THE MARK
Anonymous Italian cover artist hits the target.


Above: a pretty nice cover with a bullseye motif for Angeli neri di Brooklyn by Thomas Wright, from Editions ERP, entry fifty-four in their I Gialli dello Schedario series, published in 1959. Wright was a pseudonym often used by author Aldo Crudo, who wrote more than four hundred books beginning in 1957. The cover artist is unknown to us. We thought it could be Mario Ferrari. Alternate option, there's a possible artist signature in red ink but we can't read it and it doesn't correspond to any we could find. It might be from the person who owned the book. We've run into book signers before. Anyway, we like the art. 

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Vintage Pulp May 11 2015
CAROSELLI GO ROUND
Where it stops looking good nobody knows.
 
Below, a selection of beautiful Benedetto Caroselli covers for ERP’s giallo series I Narratori Americani del Brivido, with various Italian authors such as Aldo Crudo and Mario Pinzauti writing under Anglicized pseudonyms. We have much more from Caroselli. Just click and scroll.
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Vintage Pulp Apr 2 2015
FEDERAL CASES
Need the FBI? Talk to ERP.

FBI Fichiers Secrets was a series of crime novels published in France by Rome-based Editions ERP during the early 1960s. The authors’ names are all pseudonyms—the books were really written by guys like Pino Belli, Aldo Crudo, Gualberto Titta, Nino Giannini, Gianfranco Parolini, and others. Above you see ten covers with top art from Mario Ferrari. You can see more masterworks from Ferrari here, here, and here

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Vintage Pulp Jul 16 2013
FILE IT AWAY
When is keeping a secret more trouble than it’s worth?

Above, a rather nice uncredited cover for Akeus Edwards’ Echec au F.B.I., number twelve in ERC’s series FBI Fichiers Secrets, aka Secret FBI Files, published in 1962. The series was originally published in Italy and, according to our friend over at Muller-Fokker, who helped us with info on this piece, "badly translated, like something out of Google translation." No surprise, then, that Akeus Edwards was a pseudonym for an Italian author named Rino Pele. Many pulp/sleaze authors used pen names, but the passage of time raises a question about such subterfuges. We get that they wanted to distance themselves from what they perceived to be low rent literature, but since the pen name thing makes it nearly impossible today to attribute certain books to their real authors, we wonder if any of them, if they were alive, would feel the entire practice was a bit self defeating. Just wondering. 

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Vintage Pulp Nov 21 2012
POLICE ESPECIALE
They’re on the case faster than you can say passer les beignets.

Above are some great covers for Editions ERP’s Super Policier series, which were published in France beginning around 1955. The authors here were all pseudonyms for guys like Mario Pinzauti, Pino Belli, Aldo Crudo, Franco Prattico, and a host of others. You may have noticed the distinctly Italian sounds of those names. Well, they were Italian, because ERP was based in Rome, but published in France. You may also notice, if you’re looking very closely, that the last cover is from ERP’s Super Détective series. We threw that in just because we liked it. The art on at least one of these covers is by Mario Carìa, and a few others are by Mario Ferrari, who we talked about here and here.

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Vintage Pulp Jan 22 2012
GETTING A GRIP
He really knows how to take a girl’s breath away.

Above, a cover for the thriller Où est le cavadre, which as you might guess means, Where Is the Corpse?, a question the man involved here seems to be asking with some urgency. Well, if you can’t find a corpse you might as well make one yourself. This book, which appeared in France in 1962, actually originated in Italy with Editions ERP, where in 1961 it was published as part of their I Gialle dello Schedario series. The writer, Joe Vivard, was really Pino Belli, and wrote under several names, including Ricky Lambert, Steve Cockrane, and others. The excellent is art by Mario Ferrari, whose work we showed you a while back when we did a post of eleven I Gialle dello Schedario covers. See those here, and see more from Ferrari later. 

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Vintage Pulp Mar 26 2010
YELLOW FEVER
Ferrari—style and performance.

Eleven giallo, or yellow, thrillers from Editions ERP's I Gialli dello Schedario FBI series, mostly illustrated by Italian artist Mario Ferrari. More on him later.

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History Rewind
The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
March 28
1910—First Seaplane Takes Flight
Frenchman Henri Fabre, who had studied airplane and propeller designs and had also patented a system of flotation devices, accomplishes the first take-off from water at Martinque, France, in a plane he called Le Canard, or "the duck."
1953—Jim Thorpe Dies
American athlete Jim Thorpe, who was one of the most prolific sportsmen ever and won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football at the collegiate and professional levels, and also played professional baseball and basketball, dies of a heart attack.
March 27
1958—Khrushchev Becomes Premier
Nikita Khrushchev becomes premier of the Soviet Union. During his time in power he is responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, and presides over the rise of the early Soviet space program, but his many policy failures lead to him being deposed in October 1964. After his removal he is pensioned off and lives quietly the rest of his life, eventually dying of heart disease in 1971.
March 26
1997—Heaven's Gate Cult Members Found Dead
In San Diego, thirty-nine members of a cult called Heaven's Gate are found dead after committing suicide in the belief that a UFO hidden in tail of the Hale-Bopp comet was a signal that it was time to leave Earth for a higher plane of existence. The cult members killed themselves by ingesting pudding and applesauce laced with poison.
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