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“Ranch Romances,” by far the most successful of the western romance pulps, enjoyed a 47-year run and over 860 issues published from September 1924 through November 1971. The magazine was a veritable lust in the dust, mixing romance novels with Western stories.
“Ranch Romances,” by far the most successful of the western romance pulps, enjoyed a 47-year run and over 860 issues published from September 1924 through November 1971. The magazine was a veritable lust in the dust, mixing romance novels with Western stories.
“A NOVEL WITH A HEART SEARCHING MORAL, OUTSTANDING IN ITS FRANKNESS.”
From the back cover:
“Now I know you for a vile creature, hardly worth the name of man at all – a vile seducer – a filthy lecher . . . ! And you’ve never loved anything in your life – except your vile and evil self . . . !”
These were the terrible words that brought Eyre Drummond’s world tumbling down about him. The one person that meant everything to him turned against him. At long last he was paying for the sins of his youth – not in money but in all that counted in his happiness.
Eyre, who in his youth used his great wealth to gain his desires with innocent young girls, felt that with money he had paid his full measure for these pleasures. It wasn’t until many years later that he found he really had to pay.
This is a tale told with realism and understanding by Pierre Flammeche, who understands fully the passions and desires of his characters.
“Into distant time we travel, where a unique civilization has arisen . . .
“Our time explorer walks blithely through the air over the city of the future in which he has suddenly found himself. On his feet are shoes holding the small turbines that compress the air beneath him, thus giving him a cushion on which to walk.”
{1930's version of Marty McFly's hoverboard in "Back to the Future, Part II")
The illustrations are in Bob Olsen’s story titled “Four Dimensional Transit” in “Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol. 1, No. 4 (Fall, 1928).
In the story, Professor Banning and three associates install rockets and a “four-dimensional rudder” on their airplane, the “Spirit of Youth,” which allow them to fly beyond the gravitational field of the earth, out into space and beyond. The story certainly impressed the magazine editor who has this to say:
“We have published many “Four Dimensional” stories both in the Quarterly and the Monthly, but we unhesitatingly state, that the present story is, without exception, the best one we have ever published along these lines.
“This is the sort of story you will read and re-read during the months to come, and you will never get quite enough of it. And what is more, this is a story that will make you think.
“Every high school and every physics teacher and professor will wish his class to read this story, due to the most excellent astronomical data contained in it. This story not only contains excellent astronomy, but excellent physics as well.
“The theme is as good or even better than Jules Verne’s famous classic, “Around the World in Eighty Days.” Indeed, it parallels that story in cleverness and in the same sort of unusual clever ending.
“In addition to all of this, it is an unusually good interplanetarian story, and we know that it will be joyfully received by every scientifiction fan.”
[Note: Nobody in this story travels into the fourth dimension or at warp speed, so why the obsession with four dimensions? There may be a reason for this, given when the story was written. Back in the 1920s, one of the world’s most famous people was Albert Einstein, and he did more than any other scientist to popularize the notion of “Four Dimensional” space, with time serving as the fourth dimension.]
This Charles Copeland "Good Girl Art" duotone from the May 1973 issue of MALE is one of the pop culture treasures featured in the latest post on the MensPulpMags.com blog. Here's a direct link to the post - www.menspulpmags.com/2012/05/male-magazine-may-1973-part-...
“Our cover this month depicts a scene from the story entitled 'The Beetle Experiment' by Russell Hays, in which the scientist is shown 'cornered' by the giant tiger beetle, which attained its enormous size through his own experimental efforts.”
“Lakh-Dal flashes his concentrated rays of isolated moonbeams, or ‘Lunacy Rays,’ straight in the face of the unfortunate Chinese victim. In five minutes, the man becomes a hopeless lunatic, whose vacuous and grotesque mouthings were fearful to behold. . .”
[Perhaps that accounts for the lunacy in our world?]
“That is for you and me to discover, if possible,” replied the General, “for I tell you frankly,” and there was no mistaking the gravity of his manner – “I tell you frankly, that unless we track this evil creature to his hiding place and crush him as we would a loathsome toad, our boasted Western civilization will collapse and we shall become a nation of raving maniacs.”
“I believe you really mean it,” said Errell, impressed in spite of himself by the other’s manner.
“Mean it? Of course I mean it!” exclaimed Gen. Humiston, at the same time bringing his fist down on the table with a bang. “Good God, man, don’t you read the papers? . . . Don’t you realize that insanity is increasing among us at a frightful rate, that our asylums are already overcrowded and the whole land overrun with morons?”
“Yes, to all three questions,” was the sober rejoinder.
“Vingie and Ron Sherman came down into the valley searching for her father. They found instead a terrible desolation, and an incredible menace. . . Death cut a grim swath across the blasted valley, making it a tomb of mummies.”
Charles Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. The first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of three of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues and The Woman Chaser. According to crime novelist Lawrence Block, "Willeford wrote quirky books about quirky characters and seems to have done so with a magnificent disregard for what anyone else thought."
The Belmont Book publishers commissioned "The Machine in Ward Eleven" as a paperback original. The manuscript -- even before it went to press -- had begun to scare the wits out of readers. In this collection of six related works of pulp fiction, Willeford tries his hand at psychological horror, weird fables and twist-ending stories popularized by The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock.
"The most eloquently brainy and exacting pulp fiction ever fabricated!" -- Village Voice
For more on this one, you could have a look at my blog: davewhatt.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/every-kind-of-hideous-...
A noire styled image of a model sitting on an old flight of steps smoking a cigarette.
Lighting: Speedlight from camera left (gelled), and octa softbox behind model.
"There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The bourbon kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thin gray ghosts, in a good cause; the mortality rate was terrible."
~ Cornell Woolrich, The Penny-A-Worder
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“If one were to ask us for the names of the five greatest scientific stories that have been written so far, one of the five would unquestionably be, ‘WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES.’
“Few stories of the scientifiction type are as absorbing or grip your imagination with such intensity as does this story. The theme of a man waking up after a 200-year sleep may not be so novel in itself, but under Wells’ treatment it certainly becomes the outstanding story of its class of all times. It is crammed full with adventure and surprises and there is hardly a page that does not retain your full interest. While this story was written years ago, before the advent of the aeroplane, it still remains true in practically every way. Mr. Wells not only anticipated the aeroplane and to a good extent, broadcasting, as it has come to pass, but he anticipated many other inventions, some of which we are still ignorant of, though they are certain to be realized. If you want to know what the world will very likely look like 200 years from now, read this masterpiece.
“Of added interest is the fact that we have preserved the original illustrations conceived by an English artist (actually, a French artist – Henri Lanos) which will go far toward a better understanding of the story.” [Editor’s Note]
Farley's "The Radio Planet" was originally serialized in Argosy from June 26 - July 24, 1926. It is part of "The Radio Man" series consisting of five novels: "The Radio Man," "The Radio Beasts," "The Radio Planet," "The Radio Menace," and "The Radio Mind." They are interplanetary and inner-world adventure yarns in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The novels chiefly center around electrical engineer Myles Cabot, who disappears from his home in Boston while performing an experiment. He finds himself transported to the planet Venus where he embarks on various adventures.
Illustrated with 17 posed B&W photos.
SEX WAS HER WEAPON!
From the Introduction:
When a girl from a street like Margrove Street determines to travel with Park Avenue's elite, nothing can stop her. Especially if the girl is fiery, seductive Hazel Appleby. Men and women alike were but stepping stones to her success, an upward path that wound up with Hazel as the superbly kept mistress of the town's influential publisher, Ralph Hegel. And what happened to Ralph didn't happen to Don, the only man who failed to fall under the spell of the glamorous and completely heartless vixen!
As I've noted in some previous posts on MensPulpMags.com (like those at this link bit.ly/1vg9c1X), bodybuilder and entrepreneur Joe Weider published some unusual men's adventure magazines in the 1950s and 1960s. One was titled TRUE STRANGE. It focused on stories about the supernatural, monsters and UFOs and it featured excellent collage-style cover paintings by artist Thomas Beecham. Here's my favorite TRUE STRANGE cover: the August 1957 issue, starring Marilyn Monroe.
Fox Force Five!
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AAW June 19 -26: Movie Stills
WIT: Well, one of my favourite films is Pulp Fiction. I love the dance scene between Uma Thurman and John Travolta. Here is my take on John Travolta's move - with Uma's white shirt.
Took several pics to get the right look with my arms - after several poses with my arms I felt the diagonal worked best, as well as looking into the camera. In post cropped a bit, and tweaked the colours.
Read my interview with former men's pulp mag artist Bruce Minney here - www.menspulpmags.com/2011/11/bruce-minney-interview-part-...
Panda as Mia Wallace
Porque eu tô muito Tarantino.
Cartaz original: aram.free.fr/audio/images/pulp_fiction_front.jpg
"The Not-So-Pure-Girl." From MEN, July 1965. Story by Alex Austin. Art by Charles Copeland. Via my Men's Adventure Magazines Facebook group - bit.ly/mensadventureFB
I've had this on the back burner for a couple months and finally got around to making a clean background plate. Who knew that Boromir was a slack-off drug dealer in his spare time?
“The clouds continued to scatter until several fiery balls varying in red, blue and yellow light, were visible through the rift. Might it be that the inhabitants of Pleasantown were celebrating the cessation of the deluge in a most extraordinary manner?
“In this unusual story, the author has woven a most entrancing idea, and has literally studded it with any amount of interesting features that will keep you guessing to the final page. It is a different Mars story than the many that have been published before, and it will not fail to hold your interest throughout. The science contained in the story is excellent, and coupled with this goes Mrs. Harris’ mysticism, always an added attraction in her stories.”
At left is one of the amazing recreations of a men's pulp magazine cover done by photographer/artist/model Mala Mastroberte. At right is the actual cover. That's Mala herself as all of the women in the recreated cover. See more about her and her new book MALALAND MAGAZINES in the latest post on MensPulpMags.com - bit.ly/T6aaN6
“The Skylark darted forward and crashed completely through the great airship . . . She was an embodied thunderbolt; a huge, irresistible, indestructible projectile, directed by a keen brain inside . . .”
Part III, the final installment of the story:
“By the time you finish reading the final installment of “The Skylark of Space,” we are certain that you will agree with us that it is one of the outstanding scientifiction stories of the decade; an interplanetarian story that will not be eclipsed soon. It will be referred to by all scientifiction fans for years to come. It will be read and reread. This is not a mere prophecy of ours, because we have been deluged with letters since we began publishing this story.
“In the closing chapters, you will follow the adventures with bated breath, and you will find that though the two preceding installments were hair-raising and thought absorbing, the final installment eclipses the others a good deal. Plots, counterplots, hair-raising and hair-breadth escapes, mixed with love, adventure and good science seem to fairly tumble all over the pages. By the time you finish this installment, you will wish to go back to the beginning of the story and read it more carefully and thrill all over again.”
(“The Skylark of Space” has since become a classic in science fiction. It is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and the first example of space opera. A scientist discovers a space-drive, builds a starship, and flies off with three companions to encounter alien civilizations and fight a larger-than-life villain.)