It?s no secret the sexy and racy cover art of femme fatales from the golden age of paperbacks and magazines exalts the female form in all its sexy and sultry allure. Still today, these lustful, and sometimes lurid images are enticing and artistically inspiring. In this book, from the founder and editor of Paperback Parade magazine, you will encounter an amazing assortment of nearly 700 full-color cover images of sexy, semi-dressed pin-up dolls, dangerous bad girls and deadly dames, not to mention lust, violence and passion expressed in fights and conflicts of all types. In addition this reference to renegade literature features details to help with identification, including title, author, cover artist, publisher, date, and values for three grades of condition.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Some rats have two legs!,
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This review is from: Dames, Dolls and Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks (Paperback)
With titles like that, you're in for a lurid treat of dangerous dames, wanton wenches, swamp sirens, hayseed honeys, Mob molls, killer cuties and teenage temptresses from the reckless, untamed age of paperbacks, the 1950s and '60s. This was a pop-cult era when women were either good girls or whores. The paperback world was definitely infatuated with the latter. For the uninitiated, these covers are real eye-openers on the supposedly button-down world of Eisenhower America. The primary audience was mostly returning war vets, who were infused with violence and exotic women. The no-nonsense titles have the rat-tat-tat crack-pop of gunfire: Stone Cold Blonde, They Kill To Live, Hell Strip, Hard-Boiled!, Shack Woman, Pillow Tramp, Don't Cross Me, Honey, Sweet Savage! Author Gary Lovisi has long been the East Coast king of vintage paperbacks, publishing the hobby's best fanzine, Paperback Parade. With this book he's compiled 200+ pages of the wildest covers in the history of publishing, featuring bad, bad women in overheated passions and primary colors. This is a great book for the novice collector. Lovisi presents not only the most notorious covers and renown artists, but also some rare gems from obscure publishers. He's categorized them into the following chapters: Sexy Pin-Up Dolls; Sultry Streetwalkers; Bad Girl Delinquents; Deadly Femme Fatales; Women In Peril; Women And Violence; Luscious Lesbians; Fetish Covers; and Heated Embraces. Every cover is annotated with title, author, cover artist (if known), publisher, year, and collector value according to condition. He also includes some British paperbacks, which were often even more lurid than their American counterparts. My only complaint would be the exclusion of sexy space babes from science fiction paperbacks. These floating femmes, their Earthly lust catapulted into zero-gravitational space, definitely deserve their own extended chapter.
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This review is from: Dames, Dolls and Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks (Paperback)
One of my favorite titles in this book.
"Never Trust a Rich Bitch" is another. And there are so many more classics here to savor. This is not a comprehensive Overstreet style guide. This is more like a gallery of lurid, sexy, socially inappropriate and hilariously over-the-top paperback covers you might have found on the spinner rack at your local drug store or men's smoke shop from the late 40's to the early 60's. And there are selected men's magazine and pulp digest covers thrown in for good measure. As the previous reviewer has noted, Gary Lovisi knows his subject and includes many collector favorites along with some rare obscurities. I don't want to mislead anyone to think that this is just an art book. This generous volume is packed with great information. Under each cover is noted publisher, artist (if known) and rough value scale for anyone who might want to search for these books. In the back of the book is a terrific list of resources, dealers and websites dealing with vintage paperbacks. I was glad to add "Dames, Dolls and Delinquents" to my library. I recommend it.
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Covering those dangerous curves,
This review is from: Dames, Dolls and Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks (Paperback)
I was pleasantly surprised at how good this book looked. Usually titles for collectors, from my experience, tend to look very dull and unimaginative (Schiffer books in particular) probably on the basis that they are only a visual checklist of what is available and presentation doesn't matter. Fortunately Krause think book buyers deserve something better and it showed when I looked through these interesting pages.
The seven hundred covers get a good showing with none of them angled or arranged in contrived graphic presentations. They all have nice drop shadows which lifts them off the page and the nine chapter opening spreads get a pleasant graphic treatment, too. This all looks a lot better than the comparable Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties, which features many of the same covers. As with any down-market product individually they tend to look like trash but collect lots of them together and visually they come alive. Virtually none of these covers have any design potential and why should they. The publishers clearly knew their market and pitched to it with gusto. Artists like Bilbrew, Avati, Edwards, Maguire, Popp or Bill Ward made a living (sometimes rather precariously) churning out the same female form but concentrating on the bits that caught the male imagination. The first sixteen pages have an interesting essay about the artists and how the paintings were used on covers. My only real criticism of the contents is that there are far too many British covers. Their extremely tacky art and crude title lettering make them stand out even from the few dull American titles. Perhaps it was an editorial mistake to have so many covers (the highest number of any artist) by British illustrator Reginald Heade. I thought his work was really second-rate when compared to many of the American illustrators in the book. Though the book's title relates to paperbacks I was surprised to see a few pulp men's magazine covers included. If these interest you check out the stunning Men's Adventure Magazines, with over a thousand covers in color. 'Dames, Dolls & Delinquents' is an affectionate look back at a slice of mass-market pop culture that sold in the millions. ***SEE SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
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