Satan Was My Pimp

Title: Satan Was My Pimp (Playtime 660)
Author: Joe Castro
Artist: Robert Bonfils
Year: 1964

“This devil in lusting flesh dealt in bodies, not in souls.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA

Hellbox

Title: Hellbox (AVON 679)
Author: John O’Hara
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1955

“All of the passions, sacred and profane, etched in acid by one of the great virile authors of our time.”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Hot-Blooded Classics

Harlem Harlot

Title: Harlem Harlot (NIGHTSTAND BOOK NB 1619)
Author: Don Holliday; Andrew Shaw (Frequent pseudonyms of Lawrence Block)
Artist: Unknown (likely either Robert Bonfils or McCauley)
Year: 1962

“Gutter tramp was what Sarah became the day her mother died in a Harlem slum. . . . Harlem sin was a fast slide to moral rot with no stops in between. . . . That was Sarah Jackson’s life in the neon-blasted hellhole of Harlem’s streets and dark-choked alleys.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA

My Flag is Down: The Diary of a New York Taxi Driver

Title: My Flag is Down: The Diary of a New York Taxi Driver (BANTAM 419)
Author: James Maresca
Artist: Casey Jones
Year: 1949

Categories: 1940s Sleaze and GGA

Society Madness

Title: Society Madness (WEE HOURS WH 524)
Author: Bill Marshall
Artist: Bill Ward
Year: 1967

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

Stories of Scarlet Women

Title: Stories of Scarlet Women (AVON T-113)
Author: Henry Miller; Norman Mailer; et al
Artist: Photo
Year: 1956

“Each story in this collection is–let the reader be forewarned–about a woman condemned by her own folly. . . . The women no one envies–the betrayed, the bad, the weak and the wanton!”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Hot Rods and Delinquents