Saturday 8 October 2016

Novels Inc !

Novels Inc .

A short run Digest Book series of only 6 known titles. Published by PDC this seems to be the remains of the defunct Knickerbocker Novels romance series from the late 40's and early 50's .

Novels Inc. ran these titles in 1952 and always had some superb artwork.

1 - Made For Loving - William Arthur (Neubauer)
Art by Fred Claude Rodewald.

2 - Sinner In Gingham - Gail Jordan (Peggy Gaddis)
Art by Walter Popp

3 - Percentage Girl - Wright Williams .
4 - Come Sin With Me - Gail Jordan (Peggy Gaddis)
5 - ?
6 - ?
7 - ?
8 - ?
9 - Stag Stripper - Gene Harvey .
Stag Stripper # 9 - Art by Walter Popp

10 - The Tigress - John Saxon.
The Tigress # 10

Monday 1 August 2016

Digest Covers meet Buffalo Bop !

The Buffalo Bop connection !               


Digest artwork has appeared on covers of Magazines, Posters, Postcards and now you can find them on CD compilation albums under the 'Buffalo Bop' titles.
Dee-Jay records were formed in Germany in 1978 and the Buffalo Bop CD series started in 1993. 
Not only Digest covers have been used but also plenty of JD and Pulp art has been borrowed to make startling and eye catching covers. See the link below for a full list with all the art .

http://www.dee-jay-records.de/html/buffalo_bop.html

These CD albums are crammed full of red hot Rockabilly and Wild Rock 'N' Roll and are highly sought after by collectors .

Now I know morally they are wrong to reprint the art without permission and I for one find it a little underhanded. But hey, it's great art and it fits in with style of the music so in the end it is the art that wins and people will love the music and the wonderful paintings.

Here are a twin covers for your delight.


Venus book 'No Time For Sleep' along side 'Trouble Doll'  Buffalo Bop -CD 55182 


Uni Book 'Mountain Woman' along side 'Rockabilly Boogie' Buffalo Bop -CD 55147


Carnival Book 'Girl Hungry' along side 'Steppin' Buffalo Bop -CD 55148


Carnival Book 'Farm Hussy' along side 'Rock-A-Billy Barnyard'  Buffalo Bop -CD 55171



Cameo Book 'Boarding House' along side 'Rockabilly Action'   Buffalo Bop -CD 55200


Carnival Book 'Boy-Chaser' along side 'Sugar Lamp' Buffalo Bop -CD 55061


Uni Book 'Hill Billy In High Heels' along side 'Rockabilly Wildfire' Buffalo Bop -CD 55186



Carnival Book 'Sinners Club' 
Cameo Book 'Shanty Boat Girl'
These two Digest covers above were also used in the Series but I do not own the books to compare .

Tuesday 8 March 2016

World Distributors Ltd UK

World Distributors Ltd .                                                                                         During 1950 they were reprinting various Digest books from the USA . Publications like Quarter, Exotic and Ecstasy were finding their way across the pond and being published in paperback form for the book loving Brits .
The artwork never suffered and the books are beautiful and show some UK class with bright cover art and decent quality paper being used throughout .

They have no numbering system (no suprise for a UK publication) so I have placed them order as they were printed in the US (this might not be correct but it's the best I can do for now)

I have only been able to make the list due mainly to the adverts on the back covers of each edition which shows in each case three more titles that you could purchase by WDL .

Here we go and it's off to Manchester in the good ol' UK !

1 - Bed Time Girl - James Clayford - 1st published 'Quarter Book' # 19 - 1949.
Art by Fred Claude Rodewald
Bed Time Girl (Back cover)

2 - Unfaithful - Luther Gordon - 1st published 'Quarter Book' # 22
Art by Fred Rodewald
Back Cover 'Unfaithful' 

3 - Passion's Mistress - Luther Gordon - 1st published 'Quarter Book' # 24.

4 - Respectable Harlot - James Clayford - 1st published 'Quarter Book' # 26
Art by Fred Rodewald
Back Cover 'Respectable Harlot'

5 - Lure For Love - James Clayford - 1st published 'Quarter Book' #28

6 - Naughty Virgin - Luther Gordon - 1st published 'Quarter Book' #33
7 - Pleasure Girl - Luther Gordon - 1st published 'Quarter Book' #34.


8 - Ecstasy - Luther Gordon - 1st Published 'Quarter Book' # 35.

Ecstasy - Art by Fred Claude Rodewald
Ecstasy ( Back cover)

9 - Wolf Trap Blonde - Luther Gordon - 1st Published 'Quarter Book' # 38.
Art by George Gross
Wolf Trap Blonde (Back Cover)

10 - Frenchy - Harmon Bellamy - 1st published 'Quarter Book' #39.
Art by Bill Wenzel
Back cover 'Frenchy' 

11 - Vera Is A Tramp - Gerald Foster - 1st published 'Quarter Book' #43

12 - Call Girl - Gail Jordan - 1st published 'Quarter Book' # 46

13 - Sin Child - Norman Bligh - 1st pulished 'Quarter Book' #47
14 - Burlesque Queen - Russell Higgins - 1st published 'Quarter Book' #49


15 - Wild Passion - Watkins E. Wright - 1st published 'Quarter Book' #51 - 1949


16 - Pushover - Joan Sherman - 1st published 'Quarter Book' #59 - 1950
Pushover
Back cover (Pushover)

17 - Room And Dame - Gerald Foster - 1st published 'Quarter Book' #60
Back cover 'Room & Dame'

18 - Careless Virgin - James Clayford - 1st Published 'Astro Book' # 17 then 'Quarter Book' #61
Art by Fred Claude Rodewald
Back cover ' Careless Virgin'

19 - Buy My Love - Perry Lindsay - 1st Published 'Exotic' # 12/1949.

20 - Paula Has A Price - Perry Lindsay - 1st published 'Ecstasy' # 01/1950

21 - Passion's Slave - Gene Harvey - 1st published 'Exotic' # 02/1950
Art by George Gross
Back cover (Passion's Slave)

22 - Harlot In Her Heart - Norman Bligh - 'Ecsatsy' #03/1950.

Back Cover 'Harlot In Her Heart'

23 - Three Men And A Mistress - Florence Stonebraker - 1st published 'Exotic' 06/1950.
Art by George Gross
Back Cover '3 Men & A Mistress'

24 - Thrill Girl - Gene Harvey - 1st Published 'Exotic' 10/1950.
Thrill Girl - Art by George Gross
Thrill Girl - Back Cover - 1950

25 - Pick-Up - Harmon Bellamy - 1st published 'Quarter' 41 - 1949
Pick-Up - Art George Gross
Pick-Up - Back cover - 1950



















Well that's all the info I have so far . If you have anymore titles or any more info please let me know.