Tuesday, 7 March 2023

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.

Sunday, 5 March 2023

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.

Friday, 3 March 2023

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.

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

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
Cover Artist:

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.