Pulp International - Gualberto+Titta

Jun 21 2017

TANGLED UP IN BLUE

Dylan—Rab Dylan, that is—plays in Hong Kong.

Above, a nice cover for Azzurro è l'inferno, aka Hell Is Blue, 1968, by Rab Dylan for the Italian publishers Silpe as part of its Giallo 70 line. This was Silpe's first publication of many. The story is espionage set in Hong Kong, with all the James Bond style trappings. The author Dylan was pseudonymous, in this case for Italian writer Gualberto Titta, who we assume was worried people would laugh at his last name. What's notable about this book, at least for us, is that the company was founded by genius illustrator Mario Ferrari, who we've featured several times. And once we knew that, it was suddenly obvious this was also Ferrari's work on the cover. He's top tier, and you can see plenty more from him here, here, and here.

Italy Hong Kong Silpe Rab Dylan Gualberto Titta Mario Ferrari cover art literature

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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.

France Italy Rome Editions ERP Pino Belli Aldo Crudo Gualberto Titta Nino Giannini Gianfranco Parolini Joe Vivard Mike Chandler Sten Cooper Janil Niggin Johnny West Simpson Greene cover art literature

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History Rewind

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

August 18

1920—U.S. Women Gain Right To Vote

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified despite heavy conservative opposition. It states that no U.S. citizen can be denied the right to vote because of their gender.

1958—Lolita is Published in the U.S.

Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita, about a man's sexual obsession with a pre-pubescent girl, is published in the United States. It had been originally published in Paris three years earlier.

August 17

1953—NA Launches Recovery Program

Narcotics Anonymous, a twelve-step program of drug addiction recovery modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, holds its first meeting in Los Angeles, California.

August 16

1942—Blimp Crew Disappears without a Trace

The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears on a routine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crashes in Daly City, California. The mystery of the crew's disappearance is never solved.

1977—Elvis Presley Dies

Music icon Elvis Presley is found unresponsive by his fiancée on the floor of his Graceland bedroom suite. Attempts to revive him fail and he's pronounced dead soon afterward. The cause of death is often cited as drug overdose, but toxicology tests have never found evidence this was the case. More likely, years of drug abuse contributed to generally frail health and an overtaxed heart that suddenly failed.

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