I note the two covers with the most impressive cleavage have their own publisher logo which in itself suggests what youre getting for your money! any more info on this publisher CoolHand?
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,754Chief of Staff
It’s very easy to see why these would have sold well 👀
The publisher was Playtime Books also using the name Neva Paperbacks. They were based in Las Vegas, Nevada, hence the Neva name. They published pulp paperbacks like the ones shown above and also Doctor Kildare type hospital dramas. They were sued by another publisher for plagiarism at one point. Their covers were always good, I will post some more this weekend.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Honestly, these books sold so fast it was like lightning! My only problem was getting enough of them. As I have written elsewhere, I had a great source from the States, but I could have sold 3 or 4 more times the volume I was able to get hold of, with ease
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Thanks CHB! I've read all of Hammett (like Chandler, he wasn't prolific), some MacDonald, and none of the others (though I have seen one Michael Shayne film "Time To Kill" since it was based on "The High Window", a Philip Marlowe novel by Chandler).
I've always thought of Rinehart as a gothic romance writer. From the cover above it appears I've been wrong.
I read two or three - just standard, but enjoyable pulp fare.
M.E. Chaber was a pseudonym for Kendell Foster Crossen who wrote over 400 radio and television dramas, some 300 short stories, 250 non-fiction articles and around forty-five novels.
There is a Bond link to the series - this set of covers was drawn by Robert McGinnis (long time artist for Bond posters) and a Milo March movie was produced by Cubby Broccoli under his Warwick Films banner, starring Jack Palance.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,754Chief of Staff
I've never really been into science fiction. It's a bit too fantastical for me. I don't mind elements of it in spy stories such as the fight with the giant squid in the Dr. No novel or the film version of Moonraker but that's about as far as I go with it. Kind of the spy-fi sub-genre I suppose.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
The story goes that the Soviet Union planned to show the movie "The grapes of wrath" in cinemas because it showed how poor people were in the capitalist West. But they decided not to when they realised that the movie showed that even the poorest of the poor in the USA had a car.
I've seen far more scifi movies than I've read scifi books. maybe its just more inherently visual? a scifi film can usually be counted on to have great visuals, taking advantage of the potential of the medium.
I have read a lot of Jules Verne and H G Wells, and should probably read some of Burroughs's scifi one day. and more "recent" writers, most everything Philip K Dick wrote, maybe half of J G Ballard, the first couple books by William Gibson. Those three authors all had a hipster reputation, people who didnt usually care about scifi were always quoting their books so wannabes like me had to read them to hang out with the cool kids.
When I was a kid I had this coffee table book:
The illustrated Book of Science Fiction Ideas and Dreams by David Kyle. compiling painted covers and interior illustrations from the prewar scifi pulp magazines, lots of optimistic visions of the future in which technology would solve all. wheres our moving sidewalks? we were promised gleaming cities with moving sidewalks!
anyway, this particular book is one reason I've always thought of scifi as being primarily visual
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I note the two covers with the most impressive cleavage have their own publisher logo which in itself suggests what youre getting for your money! any more info on this publisher CoolHand?
It’s very easy to see why these would have sold well 👀
The publisher was Playtime Books also using the name Neva Paperbacks. They were based in Las Vegas, Nevada, hence the Neva name. They published pulp paperbacks like the ones shown above and also Doctor Kildare type hospital dramas. They were sued by another publisher for plagiarism at one point. Their covers were always good, I will post some more this weekend.
Honestly, these books sold so fast it was like lightning! My only problem was getting enough of them. As I have written elsewhere, I had a great source from the States, but I could have sold 3 or 4 more times the volume I was able to get hold of, with ease
Not that more wouldn't be appreciated, of course, but as you know I like
private eye stories, film noir style. Could you show us more of the less famous ones if possible please?
Requests welcomed, and I’m working on it, Barbel 🙂
@Barbel wanted some private eye covers, so…
Thanks CHB! I've read all of Hammett (like Chandler, he wasn't prolific), some MacDonald, and none of the others (though I have seen one Michael Shayne film "Time To Kill" since it was based on "The High Window", a Philip Marlowe novel by Chandler).
I've always thought of Rinehart as a gothic romance writer. From the cover above it appears I've been wrong.
Rinehart was very much into murder mysteries, she had even been called the American Agatha Christie.
These Milo March mystery covers seem to portray James Coburn…
Agreed, that's Coburn all right!
I hope he sued 👀
The covers are great…was the writing any good?
I read two or three - just standard, but enjoyable pulp fare.
M.E. Chaber was a pseudonym for Kendell Foster Crossen who wrote over 400 radio and television dramas, some 300 short stories, 250 non-fiction articles and around forty-five novels.
There is a Bond link to the series - this set of covers was drawn by Robert McGinnis (long time artist for Bond posters) and a Milo March movie was produced by Cubby Broccoli under his Warwick Films banner, starring Jack Palance.
Must keep an eye out for that 🙂
Always good to look at this Robert McGinnis cover…
Four covers that define the word pulp…
And a great movie tie-in…
Adult reading…👀
this looks like the style of cartoonist Bill Ward (Torchy, Cracked's Nanny Dickering)
try a google image search of cartoonist Bill Ward to compare!
Away from the salaciousness, "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" is a brilliant movie.
Back to it, those are splendid covers CHB!
That’s certainly a pleasant way to spend a Sunday 🤗
Sci-fi selection…
This Time For The Stars cover is a cheat, there are no dinosaur style monsters in the novel…
Some tasty looking books there.
I’ve never really read much sci-fi…not really sure why though 🤷🏻♂️
I was very keen on sci-fi when I was younger but I read virtually nothing in that genre nowadays apart from re-reading a few favourites.
Saturday selection…
I've never really been into science fiction. It's a bit too fantastical for me. I don't mind elements of it in spy stories such as the fight with the giant squid in the Dr. No novel or the film version of Moonraker but that's about as far as I go with it. Kind of the spy-fi sub-genre I suppose.
John Steinbeck!? You're not the man I thought you were, CHB! 😲
😂 I like the cover, I haven’t read it. I did read The Red Pony at school, and Grapes of Wrath about 30 years ago, though 🙂
It's about the same with me.
The story goes that the Soviet Union planned to show the movie "The grapes of wrath" in cinemas because it showed how poor people were in the capitalist West. But they decided not to when they realised that the movie showed that even the poorest of the poor in the USA had a car.
I've seen far more scifi movies than I've read scifi books. maybe its just more inherently visual? a scifi film can usually be counted on to have great visuals, taking advantage of the potential of the medium.
I have read a lot of Jules Verne and H G Wells, and should probably read some of Burroughs's scifi one day. and more "recent" writers, most everything Philip K Dick wrote, maybe half of J G Ballard, the first couple books by William Gibson. Those three authors all had a hipster reputation, people who didnt usually care about scifi were always quoting their books so wannabes like me had to read them to hang out with the cool kids.
When I was a kid I had this coffee table book:
The illustrated Book of Science Fiction Ideas and Dreams by David Kyle. compiling painted covers and interior illustrations from the prewar scifi pulp magazines, lots of optimistic visions of the future in which technology would solve all. wheres our moving sidewalks? we were promised gleaming cities with moving sidewalks!
anyway, this particular book is one reason I've always thought of scifi as being primarily visual
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by the way, this author, Eando Binder, we've encountered recently in another thread!
Eando Binder is the pen name for brothers Earl and Otto Binder. Otto was a prolific comics writer, and for example wrote the secret origin of Krypto the SuperDog!