Tag Archives: Bill Edwards

High Times Of The Pulp Era

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Artist Unknown

Drug abuse is not a new problem in the United States.  The pulp era wrestled with the problem too, with many publications and novels telling the story of young women and young me who fell afoul the pushers and were enticed into a life of sin.

Here’s just a sampling of the high times of the Pulp Era:

by Bill Edwards

by Bill Fleming

by Gerald Gregg

by Howell Dodd

by Rafael DeSoto

by Raymond Johnson

Unknown Artist

by Victor Seach

by Warren King

Artist Unknown

Artwork of the Day: Pay Off The Damned (by Bill Edwards)

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1965 Bill Edwards

by Bill Edwards

This is from 1965 and, like so many “adult” books of the time, the cover blurb is awfully judgmental.  Franie knew she was doing wrong but someone published a book about it and then someone else decided to read it so is anyone in a position to judge?  This cover was done by Bill Edwards, who has a definite skill when it came to capturing the sordidness of small town life.

Artwork of the Day: The Country School — A Teacher’s Delight (by Bill Edwards)

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by Bill Edwards

As you can guess from the fashion choices made by the teacher and the student on the cover of this book, The Country School was first published in 1970.  According to no less an authority than the Library of Congress Copyright Office, Sharon Gordon was a pseudonym.

The cover at was by Bill Edwards, a former Hollywood actor and model who found a second career as a cover artist and a third career as a licensed SCUBA instructor.  Teachers seducing their students was apparently a popular subject for pulp novels, especially the novels of the 60s and 70s.  Though the cover blurb suggests that the teacher is the one initiating the seduction, she’s seated in the cover while the student towers over her, which creates a skewed power dynamic.  Though his face is turned at an angle, what we can see actually makes the student look older than the teacher.  Maybe he’s had to repeat a grade or two.