In addition to Steve Novak¹s recommendation of Geoffrey
O¹Brien¹s HARDBOILED AMERICA (which was re-published in an
expanded edition in 1997) I would strongly recommend Piet
Schreuders¹ THE BOOK OF PAPERBACKS (1981) which takes a
lovingly detailed look at the graphic styles of publishing
houses and individual artists, UNDERCOVER by Thomas L Bonn
(1982), OVER MY DEAD BODY (1994 ) and DANGER IS MY BUSINESS
(1993) both by Lee Server, and THE GREAT AMERICAN PAPERBACK
(2001) by Richard A Lupoff. Some of these deal more with
paperbacks than with the pulp magazines, and some privilege
the content of the stories over the style of their
illustration, but all are generously illustrated and worth
hunting down.
Nigel
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