Download or read book The Trials of Hank Janson written by Steve Holland and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect storm of paper shortages and fly-by-night publishers in the years after World War II led to a boom in cheaply produced American-style hard-boiled crime fiction. Hank Janson, dubbed the 'Best of Tough Gangster Authors' - in truth a south London former shipping clerk turned publisher - sold five million copies of his novels to a public who craved excitement and escapism in Hank's violent, sexually charged world. The courts took a more damning view, destroying hundreds of thousands of paperbacks and magazines that were judged to be obscene. Janson's novels, with their voluptuous pin-up covers, were a regular target, but requests for guidance from authorities went unanswered. Then, Janson's publisher and distributor were arrested, tried and jailed. This is the story of Hank Janson, of his creator Stephen D. Frances, and how, out of the ashes of destruction orders levelled at cheap gangster novels, the Obscene Publications Act was reformed.
Download or read book The Trials of Hank Janson written by Stephen Holland and published by TELOS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as a biography of the author Hank Janson, this is an account of the early 1950s Home Office crackdown on so called 'obscene' paperbacks, of which the Janson novels were the prime example. This book also details the full publishing history of the Janson stories from 1946 to the present day.
Download or read book Accused written by Hank Janson and published by Telos Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telos Publishing is proud to bring back into print, after more than fifty years' absence, what most fans agree is one of the very best of the classic era Hank Janson novels. Accused was the most heavily scrutinised book of all in the infamous Hank Janson obscenity trials at the Old Bailey in the mid-1950s, and as a result was effectively banned from British bookshops. Now readers can judge for themselves whether or not this absorbing tale of sadistic cruelty, illicit passion and violent murder really was obscene! As usual, this Telos Publishing reissue comes unedited, and complete with legendary illustrator Reginald Heade's wonderful original artwork cover. With their erotic pin-up covers and hardboiled crime tales, the Hank Janson pulp paperback novels were a British publishing sensation in the 1940s and 1950s, selling millions of copies to readers craving escapism from post-war austerity. Includes an introduction by pulp historian and writer Steve Holland.
Download or read book When Dames Get Tough written by Hank Janson and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic pulp crime thrillers from the 1940s and 1950s. In their time, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! This anthology of ultra-rarities reprints the first three Hank Janson novellas - When Dames Get Tough, Scarred Faces and Kitty Takes The Rap - which initially appeared in 1946 over two volumes (with the latter two collected together under the Scarred Faces title). Literally only a handful of copies of the original editions now survive. Also included in this Telos anthology, as a bonus, are two Hank Janson short stories from the scarce Underworld magazine.
Download or read book Killer written by Hank Janson and published by TELOS. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Janson's chance meeting with a beautiful female hitchhiker, Cora Tanter, is just the start of a thrilling tale involving an elderly archaeologist, his rich but suicidal young wife, and a haul of valuable Roman artefacts. And just who is the mysterious figure making repeated attempts to assassinate Hank himself? Add to this the complications of his on-off relationship with Chicago Chronicle colleague Sheila Lang, and Hank really has his work cut out this time! This reissue from Telos Publishing, complete with Reginald Heade's stunning original cover artwork, brings back into print, for the first time in decades, one of the books that featured heavily in the infamous Hank Janson obscenity trials of the 1950s.
Download or read book 500 Essential Cult Books written by Gina McKinnon and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 500 essential cult books brings together some of the best cult books ever written, assembling an incredible list comprising fiction, memoirs, thrillers, sci-fi and fantasy epics, self-help tomes, graphic novels and children's books from across the ages.
Download or read book Sci Fi Art written by Stephen Holland and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Science fiction has always been about visions as much as ideas. Sci-Fi Art: A Pocket History surveys the visionary landmarks of this ever-evolving and popular art form, from the 19th century illustrations of the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, through the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, and on to the book and magazine covers of the 20th and 21st centuries. From J.J. Grandville to Frank R. Paul, Frank Kelly Freas to Chris Foss, and from Jim Burns to Vincent Di Fate, the grand masters of imaginative art are profiled, presented along with key examples of their work."--Back cover.
Download or read book Rick Random written by Stephen Holland and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Random, Space Detective, was a comic book character who appeared in Super Detective Library, published by Amalgamated Press, from 1954. His first appearance was in the Super Detective Library number 37 in a tale titled 'CrimeRides the Spaceways.' Random worked for the Interplanetary Bureau of Investigation, and among his arch-enemies was a futuristic bank robber, John Jolson, who used a matter transmitter in one story to steal gold from London's Interplanetary Bank. Random's female companion was Detective Superintendent Andi Andrews.
Download or read book Killer written by Hank Janson and published by Telos Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Janson's chance meeting with a beautiful female hitchhiker, Cora Tanter, is just the start of a thrilling tale involving an elderly archaeologist, his rich but suicidal young wife, and a haul of valuable Roman artefacts. And just who is the mysterious figure making repeated attempts to assassinate Hank himself? Add to this the complications of his on-off relationship with Chicago Chronicle colleague Sheila Lang, and Hank really has his work cut out this time! This reissue from Telos Publishing, complete with Reginald Heade's stunning original cover artwork, brings back into print, for the first time in decades, one of the books that featured heavily in the infamous Hank Janson obscenity trials of the 1950s. Includes an introduction by pulp historian and writer Steve Holland.
Download or read book Yesterday s Bestsellers written by Brian M. Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the popluar fiction of the past.
Download or read book Death Or Glory written by Steve Holland and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to telling stories about the Second World War few did it better than the authors of BATTLE PICTURE LIBRARY. Here at last is the collection you've been waiting for, gathering together 12 of the toughest tales of war ever told. From the bomb-shattered roads of Europe to the stifling jungles of the Far East, below the crashing waves of the Atlantic or in the war-torn skies over England's green fields - these stories of courage and comradeship stirred the imaginations of generations of children whose parents and grandparents struggled against the Axis powers bent on enslaving nations. The stories you'll find in this volume have an incredible range, from action with the Desert Rats to top-secret missions for Military Intelligence via the nightmare dreams of a Captain in the airborne division and the heroic rise of Jack Charlton (not that Jack Charlton) to the head of Baker Company. It's not just rattling good history ... it's explosive! Attracting some of the finest talent from across Europe, these visceral pocket novels are reproduced 25 per cent bigger than the originals so you can revel in every glorious detail. If you remember these books from your schooldays, get ready to relive the excitement. If you're new to them ... have we got an experience for you!
Download or read book A Matter of Obscenity written by Christopher Hilliard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.
Download or read book The Art of Reginald Heade written by Stephen James Walker and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reginald Heade is renowned amongst vintage paperback fans and collectors as the pre- eminent British pulp fiction cover artist of the 1940s and 1950s. His beautifully-realised, erotically-charged depictions of a parade of sexy, scantily-clad young virgins and vixens - the so-called 'Heade women', for some of whom he is rumoured to have used local ladies-of-the-night as models - are near-legendary amongst lovers of classic pin-up art; and the original books on which they appeared are now highly-sought-after rarities - in some cases, only a handful of copies are known still to survive. In the lavishly-illustrated The Art of Reginald Heade, packed with hundreds of superb colour and black-and-white images, noted researcher Stephen James Walker presents the most comprehensive overview ever published of Heade's life and work. This encompasses not only all of his iconic paintings for the famous Hank Janson range, but also dozens of other outstanding pulp fiction covers, plus his less-well-known but equally exceptional work for adult hardback fiction dustjackets, children's books and periodicals, and even the pieces he produced at the end of his life under the alternative name Cy Webb. The Art of Reginald Heade is a glorious celebration of the artist's work, and an absolutely essential addition to the bookshelves of anyone with a taste for classic pin-up and book cover artwork. This deluxe special edition of the book is extensively revised and greatly expanded. With almost double the page-count of the standard edition, it features over 400 additional, ultra-rare Heade artwork images, and presents many others in larger size than before.
Download or read book The Mushroom Jungle written by Stephen Holland and published by Zardoz Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for a Bouchercon Anthony Award. The definitive story of the emergence of the post war publishers, with an introduction to pre-war publishers. Extensive coverage of: the emergence of Panther, Corgi, Pan and others from the fly by night post war publishing world; the mystery surrounding publishers such as Scion, Gannet, Muir Watson, Brown Watson, R&L Locker, Harborough and many, many more; the search for the origins of those many pseudonyms and house names, such as Griff, Hank Janson, Ben Sarto, Vector Magroon, Volsted Gridban, Roland Vane, Dale Bogar. The story of the entanglement of publishing with a sleazy underworld and the complete low down on the Hank Janson Obscenity Trials. Also a run down on the 1950s comics purge, the superb artists of the period -- Reginald Heade, Ron Turner, Denis McLoughlin, James McConnell, Perl -- with prime examples of their work, and interviews and comments from the authors and publishers of the era. A superb book that documents Steve Holland's many years of research in a one well-illustrated authoritative volume. All the information is illustrated by many black and white and colour illustrations of those great paperback covers.
Download or read book The Uses of Literacy written by Richard Hoggart and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frank Bellamy s King Arthur and His Knights written by Frank Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected in one volume for the first time since it's initial publication in 1956, all of Frank Bellamy's legendary and elusive King Arthur strips from the Swift. The artwork has been digitally scanned and restored and the reproduction presents Bellamy's stunning art to best effect. Frank Bellamy was one of the greatest if not the greatest comic strip artists of his time. Following his amazing pen and ink work on King Arthur he went on to illustrate Robin Hood, Heros the Spartan, Marco Polo, Garth and many other superb strips. This brings together all 80 pages (the complete story) of King Arthur and His Knights, uncut as it first appeared over 50 years ago. Also included is his complete 40 page story strip of Swiss Family Robinson. The book will appeal to both fans of Bellamy's art, collectors of classic British comic strips, adults and children of all ages.
Download or read book Wikinomics written by Don Tapscott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed bestseller that's teaching the world about the power of mass collaboration. Translated into more than twenty languages and named one of the best business books of the year by reviewers around the world, Wikinomics has become essential reading for business people everywhere. It explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies that have embraced technology to breathe new life into their enterprises. This national bestseller reveals the nuances that drive wikinomics, and share fascinating stories of how masses of people (both paid and volunteer) are now creating TV news stories, sequencing the human gnome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding cures for diseases, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.
