Pulp International

Our little vacations are piling up, aren’t they? Well, when we moved to the unspoiled Atlantic coast of Spain we felt we’d get a lot of visitors. It’s worked, which has led to more time away from the website. One friend has been here six times already, another one five times. Today yet another pair arrives, but this time they’re PI-1’s high school pals, staying for nine d...

Originally published in 1937, with this Fontana edition appearing in 1960 fronted by Eileen Walton cover art, Death on the Nile was Agatha Christie’s twenty-fifth novel (if we counted correctly). It stars her quirky franchise sleuth Hercule Poirot, and we blazed though it. More than anything it’s exhibit A for why Christie was so popular. Not only are her charact...

Mario Ferrari, who we learned a while back was also the porno-centered illustrator who called himself Mafé, was the creator of this cool cover for Simpson Greene’s Un’adolescente bellissima, published by Editrice Romana Periodici for its I Gialli dello Schedario  FBI series. We don’t have a date on this one, but it’s probably from...

This photo shows British actress Diana Rigg on the set of the 1969 James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, according to many the most underrated entry in the canon. But it’s because of her role as a government operative on the television show The Avengers that there are many photos of Rigg armed. This is a rather good one.

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Sugar makes everything better, so for bush lovers, you now can add sugarbush to your vocabulary (but just in your brain—you probably shouldn’t let it actually come out of your mouth). We’d actually never heard the term before but that’s what sleazy tabloids are for. Some words from this issue published today in 1973 include “poto-stick” and “meatsnake.” If you don’t know ...