The Mini-Skirt Mob

DIE SATANS-ENGEL VON NEVADA (THE SATANIC ANGELS OF NEVADA)

aka THE MINI-SKIRT MOB

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM NR. 5251

AUSTRIA 1969

"They're hog straddling female animals on the prowl."

Starring Jeremy Slate, Diane McBain and Sherry Jackson 

Directed by Maury Dexter

American International Pictures (AIP)

U.S.A. 1968

When asked about this picture, Sherry Jackson said, "I hated that movie--what a piece of junk".

Motorpsycho

WIE WILDE HENGSTE (LIKE WILD STALLIONS)

aka MOTORPSYCHO

ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE NR. 7828

WEST GERMANY 1968

"Cyclemaniacs assaulting and killing for thrills! 

Bike riding Hoodlums Flat-Out on their Murder cycles."

Starring Haji, Alex Rocco and Steve Oliver 

Directed by Russ Meyer

Eve productions / Harlequin Pictures

U.S.A. 1965

Dragstrip Girl

BENZIN I BLODET (GASOLINE IN THE BLOOD)

AKA DRAGSTRIP GIRL

DENMARK 1957

 Car Crazy!...Speed Crazy!...Boy Crazy!

Starring Fay Spain, Steven Terrell and John Ashley 

Directed by Edward L. Cahn

Golden State Productions

U.S.A. 1957

Blackboard Jungle

DIE SAAT DER GEWALT (THE SEED OF VIOLENCE)

AKA BLACKBOARD JUNGLE

ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE  Nr. 3028

WEST GERMANY 1955

"A shock story of today's high school hoodlums!"

Starring Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier

Directed by Richard Brooks

Based on the novel by Evan Hunter

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

U.S.A. 1955

Blackboard Jungle was originally rejected in the UK for containing "unbridled, revolting hooliganism" and having a "damaging and harmful effect on teenagers". It was eventually released as an X certificate after around 5 minutes of footage was removed. When shown at a South London Cinema in Elephant and Castle in 1956 the teenage Teddy Boy audience began to riot, tearing up seats and dancing in the aisles. After that, riots took place around the country wherever the film was shown.

The Shiny Narrow Grin - Jane Gaskell

AN UNINHIBITED NOVEL OF TEENAGE MORALS, TOUGH, IRONIC AND PROFOUNDLY DISTURBING

Publisher: Hodder Books

Number: 743

Publishing Year: 1965

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 

Cover Artist:

I want him, Terry thinks. I want The Boy. Terry is a Mod. The Boy is something altogether more profoundly disturbing. He is not insane but there is a deeper terror in his relationship with the schoolgirl who is sure she can look after herself.

DAILY EXPRESS . . . 'precocious teenage world of pep-pills, parties and punch-ups, all vividly and waspishly observed'

SUNDY TELEGRAPH . . . 'as hip a description of the teenage scene as has appeared for some time'

SPECTATOR . . . ' a splendid piece of documentary writing'

EVENING STANDARD . . . ' Miss Gaskell's style is crisp, concise and lively, the dialogue waspish and with-it, the observationb of teenage morals and manners rings authentic'

HARPER'S BAZZAR

'A book not to give your aunt'

The Wasted Years - Jess Stearn

 SEX - SADISM AND MURDER 

- BRUTALITY AND PERVERSION 

- PROSTITUTION AND DRUG ADDICTION 

These are the trademarks of the teen-age gangs

Publisher: Hillman Macfadden Books

Number: 50-109

Publishing Year: 1961

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 50c

Cover Artist:

SEX-and-SADISM by teen-agers!

MURDER-and-MAYHEM by mere children!

You read about it every day in your newspaper but . . .

WHY did a pretty Texas teen-ager kill her brother "just for kicks?"

WHY did a boy say calmly, "I don't know why I killed him; I didn't even know him?

WHY did a seventeen-year old say, "I wanted to see how it felt for a knife to dig into bone?"

WHY did a clean-cut youngster stomp a total stranger to death because he didn't like the tune the man was humming?

Jess Stearn, top New York newspaperman, goes behind the scenes to search for the "why" in this carefully documented study of what happens before and after the headlines.

Call Me Duke - Harry Grey

Publisher: Graphic Books

Number: G-215

Publishing Year: 1956

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist: Samson Pollen

"Call me Duke . . . .

I'm the kid with the gun. And the gang.

And the dream. The dream of a bigger gun. Of money. Girls. Power!

A dream full of life - yet ending as it must, in killing -

All right, not a dream. A nightmare!"

A SAVAGE, searching novel of desperate youth in the teeming bowels of a big-city slum - corrupted while yet children, twisted in their teens, made mobsters and vice-girls before they are old enough to vote!

By HARRY GREY, author of THE HOODS

Fanny - Hank Janson

 She was rich and bored, and her search for new thrills led her to the sadistic beatnik artist

Publisher: Gold Star Books

Number: IL7-28 (Hank Janson Mystery Series No. 11)

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 

Cover Artist:

Fanny was rich, spoiled, bored with life. She had experienced just about everything and wanted new thrills. So not even Hank Janson could stop her from becoming the mistress and slave of a sadistic beatnik artist. But she got more than she bargained for when the "beatnik" turned out to be something other than just a phony down-and-out painter.

Angel's In The Gutter - Joseph Hilton

They roamed in gangs, these lost girls, women at fifteen - too old at twenty

GOLD MEDAL BOOKS (US) S913

CONNECTICUT, USA

2ND PRINTING AUGUST 1959

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED GOLD MEDAL BOOKS 1955

WALK DOWN ALL YOUR SIDE STREETS

through the raucous stone jungle of the city's backwash - and you'll meet her.

The delinquent. And hundreds like her, roaming the pavements in aggressive knots, schooled on reefers, zip guns, gutter rumbles.

At fifteen they are women, hard and cynical beyond their years, openly contemptuous of the law, eager for the glamour of the big-time ways of violence.

the lucky ones get caught, maybe in time.

Run, Chico, Run - Wenzell Brown

 "Sharply violent serious novel . . . of teen-age gangs and narcotic addiction . . ." 

Anthony Boucher -The New York Times

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 335

Publishing Year: 1959

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 2'-

Cover Artist:

THEY WERE SPAWNED IN THE SIDESTREETS OF HELL

IN VICE, IN POVERTY, IN DESPAIR they grow to womanhood and to manhood.

Walk northwest from this street sign, and you'll hit the district where they live. Spanish Harlem, a no man's land in neon, where the kids are weaned on reefer's, lead pipes and gang wars. None escape this concrete jungle.

Chico tried. Chico, who found tender love in its back alleys, who knew there was another life beyond the block's squalor and struggled to find it - until Spanish Harlem sucked him back to its depths.

RUN, CHICO, RUN

Gangs And Victims - John Foster

GATEWAY BOOKS 0174320531

MIDDLESEX, UK

4TH PRINTING 1978

FIRST PUBLISHED BY THOMAS NELSON & SONS 1974

COVER DESIGN BY JILL LEMAN

COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN RUTTER

The slug from Bert's air gun hit Harry in the back. Would Harry tell? And how would he get it out without telling?

len swerved to the right, past the car, then he tried to swerve the bike back in again to avoid the lorry. But he was going too fast! Was there time? Or room?

It was a Smith and Wesson •38 Police Special. Dave spun the cylinder. Who would have the last spin?

Just some of the things that happen to the Gangs . . . and to their Victims.

The Cool World - Warren Miller

All the savagery and frenzy of New York's teenage gang world

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1319

LONDON, UK

1ST PRINTING 1965

ORIGINALLY  PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY SECKER & WARBURG 1959

"WHEN I COME WALKING DOWN THE STREET PEOPLE SAY 'HERE COME DUKE. HE COOL, HE GOT HEART.' WHEN THEY SEE ME STRUT THEY KNOW A RUMBLE IS ON."

'Here is a small masterpiece; the interior life of a teenage Harlem gangster whose fright and misery are expressed by going down in a rival gang on a fury of zip-guns and knives.'

-DAILY MAIL

'The sex life of the Crocodiles, and Duke's proprietorship of Lu Ann, the gang's fifteen year old tart, is the authentic slum jungle pattern.'

-NEW STATESMAN

'A tour-de-force in which a Negro boy, Duke Custis, tells in his own words . . . what it is like to lead a gang in Harlem. He spends the days he is describing by one means or another, selling reefers, a little light whoring in Central Park, to scrape together the money for a gun.'

-THE OBSERVER

Savage Streets - William McGivern

FONTANA BOOKS 683

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

1ST PRINTING 1962

ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN HARDBACK 1959

What would you do if your street was invaded by teenage thugs?

THESE ARE THE SYMPTOMS

A boy is caught stealing.

Another is caught out in a clumsy lie.

A third steals an automatic.

MUST YOU REVERT TO THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE TO PRESERVE YOUR WAY OF LIFE?

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Lakeside Zero - Douglas Enfer

A crime novel of stark realism and razor-edged tension

FLEETWAY THRILLER LIBRARY No. 5

LONDON, UK

1ST PRINTING 1977

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY ROBERT HALE & Co. 1973

He was Sam Bawtry, detective at war with violence

He was Sam Bawtry, not convinced by a clear case of murder

He was Sam Bawtry, and when a teenage gang gate-crashed a private party . . .

He was Sam Bawtry, with the power to dig deep, exposing the raw drive which shapes the actions of criminals - of either sex

Start reading him now

Teen Temptress - Bart Michaels

 She had the experience of an older woman, the morals of a she-wolf - and a whole high school for her wanton playground.

DOMINO BOOKS 72-743

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1964

MOST LIKELY TO SEX-CEED

At Dorset High, the student body didn't do much studying - but the girl with the best body could go a long way. Patty Neilson - 15 years old, but built like a young Sophia Loren - didn't rate the Honor Society . . . but she knew she had the best, bustiest, most beautiful body available . . .

And she made it available . . . 

To the right boy - or teacher . . . at the right time . . . for the right price . . . Until every male in the school wanted her - and the result was an explosion of passion that rocked not only the school itself, but the entire town.

Light The Dark Streets - C. Kilmer Myers

DOLPHIN BOOKS C193

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1961

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE SEABURY PRESS 1957

COVER DESIGN BY GEORGE GIUSTI

COVER PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF LOOK MAGAZINE

"Light the Dark Streets is written by the [Episcopalian] Vicar of St. Augustine's Chapel, on Henry Street in the heart of New York's Lower East Side. The story Father Myers tells often is not a pleasant one, but it is a compelling one nevertheless. It is the story of a great love of mankind bringing light to an area filled with the darkness of human misery of every kind. It is, of necessity, a personal story, for he has lived and worked closely with those he and his associates are trying to help.

"Henry Street is a slum area, overcrowded, poverty-ridden, and a breeding ground for tensions of all kinds. Yet it is home for nearly a quarter of a million people of all colors, races, and creeds - among them a gang of Negro boys who called themselves the Knights.

"Father Myers tells the individual stories of some of the members of the gang, what they felt, what influences were turning them into lawless rebels, what was done to try to help them, and the measure of success or failure. Among the problems that had to be combated were racial prejudice, sex, dope, poverty, broken homes, fear, and loneliness. He also tells the story of the gang as a unit, what brought it into existence, and the forces which motivated its actions."

-Law and Order

The Cool World Issue 5

THE COOL WORLD

ISSUE 5

AUSTRIA

2020

30 Copies

A limited printing 32-page A5 fanzine from Austria that features vintage European film programmes from the 1930's to 1990's and sometimes beyond. Text is in English (with film titles in the original country's language as well). Issue 5 came with 2 covers, a Clockwork Orange linocut and a Jayne Mansfield one (pictured) both limited to 15 copies. Heavily leaning to the exploitation genre, it's packed with images from the original programmes and printed in colour! This issue's films include The Leather Boys, Straw Dogs, Tower Of Evil, A Clockwork Orange, Man Bait, Emmanuelle and Lux Interior & Poison Ivy of The Cramps 5 favourite movies! Grab a copy while you can!

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Corner Boy - Herbert Simmons

Out of today's screaming headlines, here is the world of jazz and pool halls, crap games and gang warfare, dope pushers and prostitutes - the violent jungle of today's lost youth - the world of Jake Adams

 

DELL BOOKS D245

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING OCTOBER 1958

COVER ART BY JAMES HILL

THIS 

IS

JAKE ADAMS

He is eighteen years old.

He has a closet full of custom-made suits, a Buick Dynaflow, and all the women he wants.

He pushes dope for The Organization.

He is the "Hero" of this book.

The Cool World - Warren Miller

 "Astonishing . . . a bitter, terrifying tale of our New York jungle."
-N.Y. HERALD TRIBUNE

CREST BOOKS s386

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING JULY 1960

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY 1959

THE JUNGLE

In this shockingly authentic novel, warren Miller has caught the strangeness and wildness of the hopped-up, frenzied world of teenage street gangs. He lets Duke, War Lord of the Crocodiles, tell in his own words how they talk, think, live: what makes them fight . . . what makes them kill.

"When I come walking down the street people say 'Here come Duke. He cool. He got heart.' When they see me strut they know a rumble is on. I swinging with the gang tonight."

"Compared with Duke's 'cool world,' Studs Lonigan's Chicago or Tom Joad's Oklahoma are playgrounds for clergymen's children . . ."

-SATURDAY REVIEW

The Temple Of Gold - William Goldman

 A stunning novel of a lost generation - angry, rootless, defiant young men and women in a frantic search for fulfilment.

CORGI BOOKS GN969

LONDON, UK

1ST PRINTING 1961

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY KNOPF, USA 1957

William Goldman's THE TEMPLE OF GOLD

An angry library trustee wrote to the publishers that THE TEMPLE OF GOLD is a "blue-print for juvenile delinquency", and should be denied space on library shelves. We think he missed the point.

Actually, this enormously exciting, passionate, violent and touching book - - though it admittedly talks about sex with no holds barred, and is packed with scenes that shock and even horrify - - became an overnight, surprise bestseller because it is the truth - - the truth about the most controversial generation, told by one of them.

THE TEMPLE OF GOLD is a whale of a book. It can make you laugh. It can break your heart. It may make you shudder. You may not have the guts to like it. But you'd better read it.

THE EDITORS

The Amboy Dukes - Irving Shulman

A searing novel of New York's East Side drenched with the truth of real emotions.

CONSUL BOOKS 1088

LONDON, UK

1ST PRINTING 1962

THE AMBOY DUKES

Over two million copies of this novel have been sold in the United States. Of the novel, this has been said, "The Amboy Dukes represent a small minority among boy gangs, but because of over-crowded schools and tired teachers, racial and religious tensions, that small minority is becoming alarmingly less small. That is why Mr. Shulman's book is important and timely." With its slashing realism it is one of the best novels on juvenile delinquency ever written.

Cycle Fury - Reggie Carr

What happens when a gang of frenzied motorcycle outlaws takes over a small town? . . . with all the local girls as personal prisoners of war?

CHEVRON BOOKS WWNC 124

CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA

1ST PRINTING 1967

. . LUST-CRAZED MOTORCYCLE GANG THREATENS SMALL TOWN . . .

This could be a headline from today's newspaper. And what are the ingredients for this explosive situation?

The Devil Cats, rapacious motorcycle gang, roar into the peaceful village of Sanford to take over a lakeside beach . . . and threaten to add the local high school girls to their collection of anything-goes chicks.

Who are these sociopaths?

Zipper Hardy, their red-bearded Chief, rules his mob and his women - with an iron fist.

Lil Adams, his depraved girlfriend, who uses every weapon to hold on to Zip.

Ham, a giant Negro, delights in torturing the teen-followers who worship the Cats.

Terrible, Itchy and Joe. Their only laws are Take and Survive.

These and other members of their crew are pitted against the high schoolers:

Darcy Williams, the school temptress. Her desires for Zip hardy leaves her unsatisfied with . . .

Rod Baker, Darcy's ex-boyfriend, whose main desire is to re-establish his relationship with Darcy.

Kenneth Masters, school assistant-principal. His interest in Darcy is more passionate than pedagogical.

These groups must clash, and the situation boils on toward a gut-wrenching climax!

Teen-Age Vice - Courtney Ryley Cooper

Revealed - The Shocking Truth!
Inspired by J. Edgar Hoover
Written in co-operation with the F.B.I.

DIGIT BOOKS R288

LONDON, UK

1ST PRINTING - NO DATE

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK AS 'DESIGNS IN SCARLET' BY LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, USA 1939

TEEN-AGE VICE

By

COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER

They hold orgies in cellar clubs, go on juke-joint and motel 'honeymoons'. They get hopped up on liquor and dope, then rob and rape and murder. They are the young people under twenty-one who commit more than half of the major crimes in the U.S.A.

A DIGIT BOOK

Satori In Paris - Jack Kerouac

EVERGREEN BLACK CAT BOOKS BC-135

GROVE PRESS

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1966

JACK KEROUAC'S 

SATORI IN PARIS

TAKES YOU ON A JET-AGE ODYSSEY INTO ANCIENT FRANCE

"SATORI" IS THE JAPANESE WORD FOR "SUDDEN ILLUMINATION." "SUDDEN AWAKENING." OR SIMPLY "KICK IN THE EYE." KEROUAC TRAVELS WITH DAZZLING SPEED THROUGH DOZENS OF ADVENTURES ON THIS JOURNEY TO TRACE HIS SURNAME - ANY ONE OF WHICH, IN RETROSPECT, MAY BE HIS "SATORI."

HERE IS HIS ENCOUNTER WITH A FADED FRENCH BEAUTY IN A MONT-PARNASSE GANGSTER BAR . . . HIS SURREALISTIC CONVERSATION WITH HIS BRETON NAMESAKE. A MAN WITH A NOSE "AS GLEEFUL AS A RAZOR" . . . HIS NIGHT IN THE BAR OF THE GENTLE LADY . . . HIS EXPERIENCES WITH PARISIAN BOOKIES AND CAB DRIVERS.

THIS IS A BRIGHT ADDITION TO THE KEROUAC CANON.

The Ton Boys - Ken Leary

BUDGET BOOKS 0 7105 0170 6

BRIDLINGTON, ENGLAND

1ST PRINTING 1980

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY DIGIT BOOKS 1961

They were smart young kids with souped up motor cycles, ornamented black leather jackets and skid-lids.

They larked around and took big risks; but, in the main, they were harmless enough.

Until, that is, crime came unbidden into their midst . . .

Junkie - Barbara Quinn

 DRUG ADDICT, PROSTITUTE, MUGGER, THIEF - THE TRUE STORY OF A YOUNG WOMAN'S LIFE IN HELL

BELMONT TOWER BOOKS 508 50854 159

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING - NO DATE

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK UNDER THE TITLE 'COOKIE' BARTHOLOMEW HOUSE 1971

COOKIE

"At thirteen," says Barbara Quinn, "I was a gang leader in Yonkers, N.Y. At fourteen, I was arrested for sexual assault. At sixteen, I was married (the marriage didn't last long), at seventeen, I was a mother.

"At nineteen, I was a prostitute, mugger and thief. I drifted in and out of institutions  for three years . . . and attempted suicide by knife, gas and pills."

Today Barbara is a Senior Addiction Specialist in the Human Resources Administration of the City of New York. Synanon was the turning point. She dropped the nickname "Cookie" and became Barbara once again.

After intense self-examination, she has written this courageous, explosive account of her youth. Those who are not repelled by the horror of this gripping history will be rewarded with the heartening story of a young girl's struggle for identity.

Dungaree Sin - Frederick Lorenz

They carried acid bombs in their purses and knives under their clothing. They were the roughest, toughest girls on the waterfront.

CHARIOT BOOKS CB151

USA

1ST PRINTING 1960

BINNIE -

knew how to handle a mugging: or even a killing . . . 

Out to be top deb on "The Butt", she made it, with the help of:

SUGAR FERNANDEZ -

the little hot-blooded torpedo of the back streets . . .

MIDGE DALY - 

who defied the gang laws and took the consequences, and . . .

VERONICA FERENC - 

she had a crazy lust for violence but Binnie knew she was "chicken".

Long Night In Hell - James Henderson

 A LOVE-HUNGRY YOUNG GIRL LOOKED FOR EXCITEMENT AMONG THE BEAT AND FOUND DEGRADATION AND TERROR

BRANDON HOUSE 1041

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, USA

1ST PRINTING 1966

When Evvie sought the rich experience of life and sex she felt her talent needed among the 

neo-Beatniks of Venice beach, there she learned that death could be kinder than life at the ugly corridor's end.

Crazy Mixed-Up Kids - William Hodapp

BERKLEY BOOKS G-12

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING NOVEMBER 1955

COVER ART BY GARDNER LEAVER

SHOCKINGLY DIFFERENT

CRAZY MIXED-UP KIDS is a shockingly different collection of modern short stories by some of the best names in current fiction. These stories have a common theme - the "crazy mixed-up" behavior of the young. Everyone is aware today of the terrible problems of juvenile delinquency - here are stories that face these problems with as much force and urgency as THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE.

In this collection you'll find startling examples of teen-age problems, handled by such writers as William Faulkner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dylan Thomas, Glenway Wescott, Charles Jackson, and many others.

 

The Leather Girls - Rae Coffey

Behind those bike-gang scenes . . . . The boys are hot-blooded and hairy - and their chicks know all the tricks of high-powered, hell-raising sex!

BEE-LINE BOOKS 388-Z

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1969

PASSION TRAIL

Wendie had a warm body, a torrid itch . . . and a frigid boy friend. Bill might be ideal husband material, but until the knot was tied he wasn't going to touch her. And she wanted to be a lot more than touched!

Mickey was - something else! He knew how to get the most out of a bike . . . . or a girl. He lived at top speed, and plunged into sex to the hilt. And Mickey and Wendie slaked all their desires by plunging together . . . 

Wendie joined the leather girls. She followed the lawless trail wherever it led: into gang fights, into robberies, into orgies, into oddball sex . . . and into a tempestuous, lascivious climax that blew the bike gangs and Wendie's wanton world to smithereens!