The Cool World Issue 10

 

THE COOL WORLD

ISSUE 10

Austria 2023

36 Pages in Colour

25 Copies

The 10th issue of our limited edition fanzine that is dedicated to vintage European cinema programmes from the 1930s to the 1990s had 1 printing with a total of 25 copies worldwide. The first 15 copies came with a hand printed linocut cover that featured a tribute to the film Hell’s Belles (pic 4) and came printed on different coloured paper, there were three other covers that were available in quantities of 9, 8 and 8 respectively. All editions are printed in full-colour to show the sepia tones of the original programmes. Issue 10 was a Juvenile Delinquent, Motorcycle Gang and Beatnik special and featured films such as Hell’s Belles, Hot Rod Girl, Satan’s Sadists, Teenage Bad Girl, The Young Savages, Rumble On The Docks, Motorpsycho, City Across The River, Riot On Sunset Strip, The Subterraneans, Les Tricheurs, The Beat Generation, Riot In Juvenile Prison and The Wild angels. It also has features on Progress Film Programmes and the youthploitation paperbacks of New English Library. There are only two copies of Issue 10 left.

Viper - Raymond Thorp

THE TRUE AND TERRIFYING STORY OF A DRUG ADDICT

WDL BOOKS T.S.891

FIRST PRINTING 1960

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ROBERT HALE 1956

The Confessions of a Drug Addict

For the first time in this country since de Quincey, a drug addict has written his astounding confessions; a documentary that horrifies yet compels the reader to walk with Thorp into the half-light of London's drug world.

The author, a young clerk from suburbia, haunts the jazz clubs of Soho and finally begins to smoke Indian hemp - or marijuana. It is the first step on the road to prison and to a living death. Soon he is a "pusher" - agent for a drug ring selling hemp and heroin. He tells how London's two big dealers obtain their supplies, how they are distributed and where they are sold. Thorp holds nothing back. He writes of clubs and cafes where addicts gathered until Scotland Yard's vice squad, by raiding them, split up the gatherings. At one time he is living in a luxury flat, bought from the proceeds of illegal sales, but slowly he begins to slide to degradation.

Speed Freaks - Peter Cave

To the Angels, class means speed

Publisher: New English Library (NEL)

Number: 450 02632 9

Publishing Year: March 1975

Printing: New Edition (Second)

Cover Price: 35p

Filming the Angel's life is different and more difficult than filming a pop festival. But Gerry Shipton manages to persuade his backers that this film will hit. But only as long as he includes other speeding thrills.

The speedway, the Wall of Death, open up new grounds for the Hell's Angels to show off their daredevil skills, prove their reckless courage. Dreams of stardom and the silver screen are new expeditions for them. So Gerry finds that things get out of control. Everything they touch turns sour; their mark of destruction.

Another great Hell's Angel story from Peter Cave, that is just too close to the truth to be ignored.

 

Pick - Up Girl - Roland Vane

She liked her men tough

Publisher: The Leisure Library

Number: 3

Publishing Year: 1952

Printing: First

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist: Reginald Heade

PICK - UP GIRL

Juvenile delinquency - especially where it concerns young girls who fall all too easily for the lure of a good time - has caused much public concern of late, and Roland Vane has chosen this subject as the theme for this thrilling true-to-life novel which will add to his already established reputation as a daring and realistic writer of present-day life.

Taking as his central character an impressionable young girl, seeking for an escape from her uneventful life, he tells how she takes the first step which places her virtue in jeopardy.

Her first timid approaches to the life of a gold-digger eventually embroil her in a web of circumstances that lead her deeper and deeper into a mire of deceit and disillusion until the final dramatic denoument. this tale is told with all the verve, skill and craftsmanship for which the author is justly famous.

Here is a story which every parent - should be sure to read.

Girl Gangs! - Men's Adventure Quarterly No. 7 - Robert Deis & Bill Cunningham

Publisher: Subtropic Productions

Number: 979-8375110202

Publishing Year: 2023

Cover Artist: Samson Pollen

Young Women Driven To Crime To Satisfy Their Wanton Desires!

Whether they were called Juvenile Delinquents (or JDs), Gun Molls, Prison Brides, Motorcycle Mamas, or Hot Rod Honeys, they were all “Gang Girls” and the tough-as-nails subject of this issue of MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY.

In post World War II America, teens were pushing the boundaries of what was considered acceptable behavior, and causing major concern amongst parents and the government. The Kefauver Commission in Congress held hearings to discover the root causes of juvenile delinquency, but this “problem” wasn’t only in America, as Teens around the globe pushed their boundaries. Of course, the men’s adventure magazines, paperbacks, and B-movies all saw yet another genre of crime, violence and sex to exploit for their hungry audiences. MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY takes on the Gang Girl genre in all its forms giving you a peek at the evolution of female outlaws in a variety of media who live beyond the polite boundaries of society. Joining us in this expose’ of female crime are retromedia expert Jules Burt, and pulp culture author Andrew Nette both of whom provide a comprehensive perspective on Gang Girls from the UK and the AU.

Get ready to enjoy the best in Gang Girl stories and articles ripped from the headlines and the pages of men’s adventure magazines.

Jailbait Street - Hal Ellson

TOUGH KIDS ON A TOUGH STREET, BRED WITH HATRED AND VIOLENCE

Publisher: Priory Books

Number: 1078

Publishing Year: No Date (1970s)

Printing: First

Cover Price: 25p

Cover Artist:

JAILBAIT STREET

Running wild from darkness till dawn - snatching at love in deserted alleys or lonely rooftops - today's tough juvenile punks have turned our city streets into asphalt jungles of terror and lawlessness.

This is the savagely realistic story of a teen-age gang - the Sultans - and their mixed-up leader, Silkie Meegan, whose desperate search for manhood drove him into frenzied excesses of violence and vice. . .

From the vengeance beating with bicycle chains of a rival gang. . .to the degraded sharing of sweet virginal Carol with the rest of his gang. And finally to the fateful family feud with his own father over Charlotte - his father's prostitute mistress - who first taught Silkie her own kind of Jailbait Street love, then hired him to dig up new "business" for her.

Street Of The Lost - David Goodis

RUXTON STREET WAS UGLY, VIOLENT AND MISERABLE, BUT IT HELD THEM, AS IF THEY WORE CHAINS

Publisher: Priory Books

Number: 1073

Publishing Year: No Date (1970s)

Printing: First

Cover Price: 25p

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STREET OF THE LOST

THIS IS RUXTON STREET

Fat, soiled Hagen rules this street of prostitutes, workers, dope-pushers - and lost souls.

Yet people love and live on Ruxton, as they do on any back street in your own home town.

A powerful new novel by DAVID GOODIS, author of CASSIDY'S GIRL and DOWN THERE.

Back Alley Jungle - Leo Margulies

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 631

Publishing Year: 1963

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 4'-

Cover Artist:

back alley jungle

TALES OF TODAY'S TERROR

They will shock you,

they will anger you,

they will make you wonder

...and they will scare

the hell out of you!

Read these devastating stories 

of teen-age hoods and tramps

who infest our streets

and schools, terrorize out towns

and turn our cities into a 

back alley jungle

College Confidential - Irving Shulman

A hotbed of scandal erupts on campus when a professor surveys his students' private lives

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 517

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 2/6

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WAS HIS SURVEY STRICTLY SCIENTIFIC?

DID THE PROFESSOR USE HIS OWN APARTMENT TO "STUDY" THE PRIVATE LIVES OF HIS STUDENTS?

COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL

A novel by Irving Shulman

Based on the screenplay Produced and Directed by Albert Zugsmith

A Famous Players Corp. Picture

Released by Universal-International

Starring STEVE ALLEN, JAYNE MEADOWS, WALTER WINCHELL and MAMIE VAN DOREN

 

Exterminator - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: o 552 10222 9

Publishing Year: 1976

Printing: First

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In dingy hotel rooms, in public places, in ordinary peoples' houses, the exterminator goes about his business: his quarry is vermin, the vermin of society. . .

Moving in space and time between the society we know, and the edge of another galaxy light years away, this savage study of violence, hypocrisy and the abuse of power is at once tragic and comic, satirical and pathetic. William Burroughs has created an incredible nightmare world, peopled by junkies, pimps, quack doctors and green adolescents - weird and disturbing characters like the Lemon Kid, basic J. Audrey the homosexual. . .and the EXTERMINATOR himself. . .

The Wild Boys - William S. Burroughs

A Book of the Dead

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 0 552 09396 3

Publishing Year: 1973

Printing: First

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The year is 1988. Adolescent guerilla packs of specialised humanoids are routing the forces of civilised nations and ravaging the earth. From their small beginnings in 1969 as petrol gangs, dousing their victims with petrol and setting them on fire for kicks, they have grown to an army, dedicated to violence and death. When wholesale slaughter erupts, the battle continues underground where the survivors evolve into The Wild Boys, hordes of pitiless homosexual warriors who move in and destroy the cities - until civilisation collapses, revealing a future of horrifying dimensions. . .

The Ticket That Exploded - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 0 552 08617 7

Publishing Year: 1971

Printing: First

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THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED

utilises William Burroughs's now famous fold-in-method to give a fragmented and many-sided vision of modern reality. The result is at once an original work of fiction, an intensely poetical novel and a political and morale fable. the author's preoccupation is with the plethora of forces in the world that attempt to excercise 'conrol', and his fantastic imagination once again weaves extraordinary images and ideas into a world that is both personal and universal.

The authoR of THE NAKED LUNCH and THE SOFT MACHINE has now written a book that will take its place among the classics of our time.

The Soft Machine - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 552 08465 4

Publishing Year: 1970

Printing: First

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THE SOFT MACHINE

is the immediate successor to 'The Naked Lunch', a book which has, in a short time, established itself as one of the key works of post-war literature.

The author's principal preoccupations are still the juxtaposition of good and evil, human passion and sensuality and the power of the machine, the struggle of conflicting forces to control human environment; and with the awareness that nightmares have their counterparts in real life.

This is not a book for the casual reader; nor is it for the squeamish. the serious reader, however, will find a technical mastery, a courage with experimentation and a scientific eye for the new literary research that is unparalleled in modern writing.

The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 552 07938 3

Publishing Year: 1968

Printing: First

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THE NAKED LUNCH

"EXTRAORDINARY AND DEVASTATING,

FUNNY AND TERRIBLE,

HORRIBLE AND HAUNTING.

Like Genet turned into a Marx Brothers script, this is the real journey to the end of the night, a Big Dipper ride through the black underworld of the human soul.

To read it, it's like Ulysses put through a speeded-up projector onto a distorted cinema screen. It is a gruesome, tormented and a chillingly pessimistic view of the universe. But that is where Burroughs dwelt during the time of his addiction."

Kenneth Allsop - Daily Mail

"Mr. Burroughs joins a small body of writers who are willing to look at hell and report what they see.

I can think of only one other writer with whom he can be compared: Jonathan Swift. It demands to be read."

Anthony Burgess - The Guardian

"A furious apocalypse, splendid and exasperating."

The Sunday Times

Sexual Conduct of the Teen-Ager - Dr. S.U. Lawton M.D. and Jules Archer

A shocking, challenging study of modern youth.

Publisher: Berkley Books

Number: G-200

Publishing Year: 1959 (January)

Printing: Second (New Artwork)

Cover Price: 35¢

Cover Artist:

The real story behind the headlines - outspoken, authoritative, courageous

City Jungle - Joseph Hilton

Publisher: Brandon House

Number: 944

Publishing Year: 1966

Printing: First

Cover Price: 95¢

Cover Artist: 

Originally published as "Angels in the Gutter"

TRAPPED IN THE TEEMING JUNGLES OF THE CITY STREETS, RUTHIE FOUGHT WITH THE CUNNING OF A TIGER CAT TO GAIN HER FREEDOM

The Amboy Dukes - Irving Shulman

 A NOVEL OF WAYWARD YOUTH IN BROOKLYN

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: 300

Publishing Year: 1951

Printing: Eighth

Cover Price:

Cover Artist: Ann Cantor

"THIS BOOK IS EMPHATICALLY 

A READING 'MUST' FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. . ."

Edwin J. Lucas, Executive Director,

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME (NEW YORK)

This book is emphatically a reading "must" for young people as well as for the sociologist interested in the phenomena of gang warfare and neighborhood tensions. The saga of a conflict gang, told so powerfully in THE AMBOY DUKES, is really twice told: once, within the covers of this book: and again, in every city and town of the U.S.A. Rarely has a writer captured so faithfully and recorded so excitingly the poignant drama that is being daily unfolded for hundreds of thousands of our young people in the teeming pathways we call "streets."

Within the compass of every city street are found eloquent evidence of all society's strengths and weaknesses - from the towering air-conditioned edifices of industry to the filthy dwelling places provided for man to lay his weary body at day's end; from youth's craving for understanding, sympathy and affection, to the community's indifference to those needs. The street bears the tokens of all our ambitions, hopes and capacity to love and be loved. But there are also the scars of our fears, hates, envy, thirst for revenge, and the deep, tortured feelings of guilt which arise our of long forgotten as well as remembered episodes.

When and how can we bring these forces under control? It will, or should be, clear to the readers of THE AMBOY DUKES that they have it within their power to strike a telling blow against the continuance of the conditions - economic, social and psychological - which breed and foster crime.

Edwin J. Lucas, Executive Director,

Society for the Prevention of Crime

A Matter Of Conviction - Evan Hunter

EVAN HUNTER examines juvenile delinquency and race hatred in New York's jungle. . .

an explosive novel by the author of STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: GN912

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First

Cover Price: 3'6

Cover Artist:

" I stabbed him four times. . . . ."

The backstreet killer kids of New York; their gangs, their girls, their passions and their hates vividly brought to life by EVAN HUNTER, author of "The Blackboard Jungle" and "Strangers When We Meet" - one of the great novelists of our time.

"High drama - a powerful, swift-moving story..."

-Press & Journal

Cry Tough! - Irving Shulman

"As much a case history of juvenile delinquency and organised crime as it is a novel" - by the author of THE AMBOY DUKES

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: T-303

Publishing Year: 1958

Printing: Eleventh (Movie Tie-in)

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist: Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

A great, mature and moving novel of

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

that no parent of a growing boy or girl, and no adult can afford not to read. . .

"APPALLED BY VIOLENCE,

he found himself employed as a professional rougher-up. . .Engaged to a girl he respected, he found himself drawn to a beautiful tramp. . .

"CRY TOUGH! is a striking, compassionate and unsentimental treatment of a romanticized subject."

-N.Y. Herald Tribune

"CRY TOUGH!"

-now a great motion picture starring

John Saxon & Linda Cristal

A United Artists Release

The Holy Barbarians - Lawrence Lipton

The first complete inside story of the Beat Generation

Who they are / What they believe / How they live

Publisher: Black Cat Books

Number: BC-17

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 75c

Cover Artist: 

What does it mean to be "Beat?"

What effect have the "Beats" had on the American Way of Life?

What are their beliefs regarding sex, jazz, the use of drugs? Is the "Beat Generation" a passing fad or a deep-seated revolt? These and many other questions are answered in this book, which uses conversations, personal interviews, and tape recordings to delve beneath the surface and show the real world of the "Beats."

"The Holy Barbarians is replete with the frank autobiographical reminisces of a group of young Americans of extremely varied backgrounds, who hold in common only a complete rejection of the values of bourgeois society. . . .

No One is going to be able to assess the depth and breadth of this rebellion without referring to Lipton's humane and sensitive book."

- Harvey Swados

Nightmare Street - Hal Ellson

The big, brutal story of a nightmare world where passion is a pastime and pain a pleasure

Publisher: Belmont Books

Number: 9o-316

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: First

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"SHOCKING"

is what the Saturday Review has said of Hal Ellson's writing

"FASCINATING"

is what the New York Herald Tribune said of Hal Ellson's smash bestseller, DUKE

TREMENDOUS

is what they'll say about NIGHTMARE STREET, the story of a man who looked for the easy life, only to find that he'd made a pact with a diabolical, deadly stranger who led him into a life of sex, sin and sadism - a life of torture and torment from which there was no escape.

Hot Rod - Henry Gregor Felsen

Speed. . .Danger. . .DEATH!

Publisher: Bantam Books

Number: 923

Publishing Year: 1951

Printing: First

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WHAT THE REVIEWERS SAY OF THIS MNOVEL:

". . .PUNCH, DRAMA, SUSPENSE, SWIFT ACTION, SHREWD CHARACTERIZATION. . ."

-Dallas TIMES

"Full of thrills and excitement, hard to put down. . ."

-Wichita EAGLE

"DRAMA-PACKED, PLENTY OF SUSPENSE. . ."

-Montgomery (Ala.) ADVERTISER

All The Way Down - Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum

THE VIOLENT UNDERWORLD OF STREET GANGS

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Number: F 712

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 50c

Cover Artist: 

ALL THE WAY DOWN

is the story of five years spent in the vicious, appalling underworld of the juvenile street gangs. Vincent Riccio, ex-boxer with an M.A. degree from Columbia, was a street worker with the New York City Youth Board. The life he describes makes "West Side Story" sound like a kindergarten fairy tale.

This is the brutal, unadorned truth about a world where rival gangs fight "wars" with tire-chains, knives and guns; where the teen-age date is replaced by mass rape in the back seat of a stolen car; where murder is a status symbol and kids of 14 are hopelessly hooked on dope.

"Juvenile delinquency is going to be unbeatable in ten years," the Attorney General of the United States said recently. Vincent Riccio writes bitterly: "I hope it's not unbeatable now."

Blood On My Shadow - A. J. Merak

The Pick-up order was out: Get Johnny Merak, dead or alive . . . .

Publisher: Badger Books 

Number: Mystery Series No. 3

Publishing Year: 1956

Printing: First

Cover Price: 2'-

Cover Artist: Ray Theobald

Introducing

Blood on My Shoulder

by

A. J. MERAK

Johnny Merak was determined to get Maxie Temple, who'd framed him for a three-year-stretch in San Quentin. But the Big Men of the Los Angeles Underworld wanted both Temple and Johnny Merak and decided that by killing Temple they could do both with the same shot.

But Merak wasn't having any of the deal and when Dawn Grahame showed up, he was more than ready to take on the whole of the Organisation. Bit first he had to meet the suspects. the unknown hoodlum who knew too much. Madden who might have been the killer and his girl-friend who had to be fed with heroin to keep her from talking to the wrong people.

Finally there were Clancy Snow and Dutch McKnight, the bosses of the Underworld who sat like black spiders in the web of treachery and vice that made up the Dark Side of Los Angeles.

And at the end of the play, when the chips were down and all the cards on the table. Death stepped in to reap the winnings.

Pablo's Mountain - Albert Johnston

 A BOY EXPLODES INTO MANHOOD IN THIS CLASSIC OF "DEPRAVITY VIEWED THROUGH THE EYES OF INNOCENCE"

Publisher: Award Books

Number: A164 X K

Publishing Year: 1966 (January)

Printing: First

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"Moving . . . Disturbing"

-N.Y. Times

You have just come to New York City looking for a home, a job, and (yes, Miguel would soon admit this to himself) love.

But in El Barrio, the heart of this city, you find only corruption: prostitutes for neighbors, hoodlums for the children to play with. In El Barrio you live with fear by day and violence by night.

This is the background for the book that shocked New Yorkers, and readers across the nation, when it became the fiction "sleeper" of the year. This is story behind New York City's explosive headlines.

"MR. JOHNSTON IS TO BE CONGRATULATED"

-San Francisco Chronicle

Juvenile Hoods - Joseph Shallit

When marijuana means murder!

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: T-170

Publishing Year: 1959

Printing: First

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist:

Originally published as 'Kiss The Killer'

a rotten racket

narcotics

Some punk is selling marijuana to teen-agers. A heel who ought to be killed.

Someone is - and Dan Morrison is right in the middle of it because . . .

he runs the athletic center where the teen-age addicts hang out

he gets involved with a trio of gals who show him you can't mix murder with a kiss - unless it's a kiss of death.

Scum - Roy Minton

  A NOVEL BASED ON THE TV PLAY BANNED BY THE BBC

Publisher: Arrow Books

Number: 0099192705

Publishing Year: 1979

Printing: First

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BANNED

Rox Minton's controversial television play SCUM was commissioned by the BBC, filmed, advertised, then suddenly withdrawn a short time before it was due to be screened.

The decision to veto caused violent reactions - from those who supported the censorship as well as those who felt outraged by the Establishment's ban.

Now Roy Minton has re-written the plays as a novel: and, for the first time, the public has the chance to make up its own mind.

It is an uncompromising, often shocking and outspoken comment on the bleak, brutal world of a Borstal: a powerful story that tells the truth about the boys labelled 'Scum' - and the men they call 'Screws'!

A Major film of SCUM is planned for the near future.