TRASHY TUESDAY: FAVOURITE PAPERBACK COVER FINDS FROM 2022
After the COVID imposed restrictions of the previous two years, it was very nice to get and about in 2022 and do some vintage paperback hunting in the wild, rather than...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: JULY BOOK HAUL
My recent book hunts and gifts from friends have produced a real mix of trashy covers from the 1950s to the 1970s, including a popular television tie-in, some war and...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: POWS AND THE WAR AGAINST THE JAPANESE!
World War II left a heavy mark on society, and not surprisingly it featured prominently in popular fiction well into the 1960s and 70s. In Australia a lot of the...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: JAPANESE HORROR CAMPS – THE JOHN SLATER POW NOVELS
The Horror Camp by John Slater (Horwitz #1, 1961, 1965) World War II featured prominently in popular fiction well into the 1960s and 70s. In Australia there emerged in...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: AUSTRALIAN NAZI EXPLOITATION PULP – SWASTIKA CASTLE by John Slater (Horwitz, 1966)
Swastika Castle by John Slater (Horwitz, No. 29, 1966) The John Slater series (Horwitz Publications) of exploitation novels ran from 1962 to 1973. Most of them were...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: HORWITZ COVERS – THE PENGUIN SERIES
The Unorthodox Corpse by Carter Brown (Horwitz, 1965) Horwitz were arguably the prime Australian publishers of paperbacks and pulp fiction in the 1950s and 60s....
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